Letter From the Desert: Hackberry

The future might not be horrible. If we're lucky.

We are time travelers, each of us. Our abilities are limited: one direction only, and we can only travel into the future at a rate of one second per second. Still, it’s something. Play your cards right, and eventually you wind up in the distant future.

Not a bad way to pass the time, you might say.

In 2005, a lightning fire — the Hackberry Fire — burned 7…