The human need for shelter is real and lasting no matter how it manifests itself in us. In California, squatters, gold miners, and émigrés settled and adapted the law of the land, creating an expansive and often confusing definition of home. This process applies today, as new residents continue to migrate and settle in the West.
People live on the edge here in California, and it's dangerous to look down from a place built of dreams. But risk creates possibility. That's why these dreams have built our homes and paved our roads. That's also why, from time to time, they turn sour and dim.
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