In this “picturesque New England coastal village” that happens to be perched on a California bluff above the Pacific Ocean instead of in a snug harbor in Connecticut or Maine, it’s not easy to focus on socioeconomic disparity, earthquakes and avalanches, or even global warming. All seems right with the world when Tilly and I go out in the morning to the end of Warner Lane to get the paper… and if we didn’t read that paper or turn on the television, we could almost forget that the whole world isn’t like Mendocino. Alas, the troubles are still there in Baltimore and Kathmandu and the town of Ensenada, Chile.