The Fire in Marfa, Texas

A decade ago, i traveled to the border town of marfa, texas. It's a beautiful place surrounded by the kind of wild scrub brush desert that outsiders assume most texans live in. The rock house fire would eventually burn more than 314 thousand acres in two counties. Ten years later, almost to the month, my new home state of oregon was hit by an unprecedented heat dome. Temperatures in the state capital neared a hundred and 19 degrees, seven degrees hotter than it has ever been in dalas.