Who I am kidding?

“California is often compared to a lodestone, or a magnet, or the moon drawing the tides,” wrote Dora Polk. “On occasion, California is fancifully described as an enchantress—Circe, or one of the Sirens or the Lorelei. Every utopian name imaginable has been applied at some time—Atlantis, Arcadia, Avalon, the Garden of Eden, El Dorado, the Elysian Fields, the Garden of the Golden Apples, the Happy Valley, the Isle of the Blest, the Land of Milk and Honey, the Land of Prester John, Mecca, the New Jerusalem, the Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, the Promised Land, the Terrestrial Paradise, and Treasure Island.”

A chimera.

Listen to an hour of radio, scroll through any list of movies. Gather a pile of common dreams. California is everywhere. California is everyone’s.

It has never been only mine.