Atop most of the mansions about Westlake, there are tall rods that shoot through the peaks. Chris says they are lightening rods, and that they collect the lightening and run it through plastic rods that carry it to the ground. ‘It is where lightening wants to go.’
“Where it wants to go?” I ask, like an eight year old in science class.

What he tells me is that lightening is a release. That when the sky has too much of a positive charge, it has to discharge through lightening. This positive charge runs for the negatively charged ground to balance and neutralize.

What he tells me makes me feel better about things. That the sky finds relief from the positive by unburdening itself in the negative grounding.

And I remembered that nature isn’t perfect, and neither can I be.