Letter From The Desert: Ridgecrest, 7.1

What you have to remember is that none of this would be here were it not for the slow, aching caress of one crustal plate against another raising shivers beneath us. These mountains, this desert, the forests to the west and north and the sea cliffs at the end of all things: none of them here without temblors. Or at least without the tectonic gavotte of …