Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

You see the fish swimming through the water. You try and adapt to that environment,

It can affect the ground water and can affect the environment, so there are several different impacts.

It's a better commuting bike. It's got everything for the urban environment: fenders to keep water from your clothes, a suspension T-post, suspension fork for comfort, a back-rack, integrated urban lock, front and rear lights, and 24 gears. And the handlebars are raised to sit you upright, which means you lose some leverage, but you see traffic better and it gives you exercise without horrible pain.

[Until the Salvation Army came, Alvarez and Perez had used water from a lake behind their mobile home community to shower and fend off the heat, even after receiving a warning from the state's Department of Health that the lake is contaminated.] We're desperate, ... No one has come out to help us. We're poor, but we're still human beings.

I alternate between hope and despair,