balm

After all this oppressive smoke and gray ash, this sounds like an easy and excellent balm for many local communities.

I’m talking about denial, a convenient balm in a living laboratory of natural disaster.

Its promise of a new life proved balm for trying times.

Amid firestorms and extended red flag warnings, the idea of a weekend rainstorm is a balm for Southern California’s soul.

That is the balm to so much of the chaos and the difficulty of war and greed and all of these things that become our daily messages.