Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Talking To Helicopters


Folsom Reservoir is filling rapidly. They are now releasing water at a greater rate in order to have room for later snow melt. Air One, the Sac PD helicopter, recently went up and down the American River Parkway warning homeless campers there to beware, and they even had to send rescuers to pull people out who found themselves suddenly surrounded by water.

I remember a trip to the Grand Canyon in 1975. A helicopter came down to ask us whether we had seen lost hikers. There is something distinctly disturbing about having a conversation with a helicopter. From the landscape of dreams....

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