My world was a simpler place with him at its centre. There is some part of me that misses still the serenity of those days: dark rooms and light and the comfort of routine. I have lost what little sense I ever possessed of who I was before Lancaster found me, and I have no interest in who I could have been without him. Because he also needs to believe I am not Lancaster’s creature. And I let him pay me for it because he needs to. Taken pain for his pleasure, both being equally meaningless to me.
Who, in turn, gave me to counsellors, therapists, psychoanalysts. I wonder if he still has it, though me, of course, he gave to Caspian. He taught me how to tend it-how to offer care without mercy-and I am not insensible of the irony. Here’s what we found.In the room where Lancaster Steyne trained me, he kept a bonsai tree. The Washington Post traveled the state, interviewing botanists and flower lovers, to document what some have said is the best super bloom in years.
“Nature is screaming through a megaphone, ‘Look how amazing I am, come and connect with me!’ And it’s important that people connect to this, because if you don’t have a connection, you’re not going to care when it gets destroyed.” “We have a culture that is disconnected from the natural world, and this is an entry point,” said Evan Meyer, executive director of the Theodore Payne Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes native plants. Today, the super blooms are a reminder of how much of California once looked - and they are multicolored beacons of hope for those trying to preserve the natural areas that remain. And sprawling human development has already paved over many habitats that used to reliably burst into spectacular shades of yellow, purple and blazing orange.
A changing climate regularly plunges the state into prolonged droughts, depriving plants of necessary rain.
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