I’m sitting on the deck outside the only cafe in town in Occidental, California. It’s a one street town about 20 minutes from the coast. It sits in a bowl of redwoods and Douglas firs. The air feels clean and there is no cell service. It’s an early February 2022 morning and the sun is baking my skin. It hasn’t rained in almost a month despite it being the middle of rain season. I can’t complain though, I’m in a t-shirt in the dead of winter and my face is tan. A young woman who works at the c...