Ash Wednesday

Not being religious, I never give up anything for Lent. But presently am under a water boil notice. Which doesn’t seem bad — I spent many days in Mexico City in the later 1970s, and there we boiled water every morning as a matter of course. We still have a trickle of water, which is better than many here who have none. Many of those now without power have no way to make heat, which might make a boil notice seem double insult. And Spectrum still isn’t providing us internet, so I’m burning data on my cell service.