Morning…i looked up, into the visor mirror     emrie is very good at Noticing.  She saw how people were taking buckets here and there and went off to find a bucket for her own     put scraps of stuff from the floor in it and then carried it up and down the corridor,…

      this so needs the Telling. We are at the Gridley California Fairgrounds,   a designated EvacuationSite.   About 20 miles from the Hill.   This is day 2.   So much to Tell. We left the Hill yesterday because i am no good at night driving.   And it was/is so ify.…

Yesterday, 5PM Just arrived. Gridley fairgrounds. Waiting to get checked in.I'll be staying here with them.Big love  

the Fire seemed where it was and so they left.  Around 12 midnight,  a call….Chico had Evac Warnings.   Nothing here, yet. But Paradise was gone.  the Dragon was moving,  propelled by Santa Ana winds.  Ok.  So.  Get ready.  I packed one of those grocery tote bags.  Tea bags.  charger cords,  laptop that wasn't working…

    i oh so much miss my Wall in the ROOM.  but i don't have that.   it's How it Is.  and so….how to go forward?   How to figure out what's going on in my head that i am so stuck.   and how to work with the lack of space,  like that…

  the road there wound through curving,  asxending, descending  winding through beautiful country,  homes all just Fine on many acres.  Further out from Olive Highway,  the beginning of large ranches and then,  the Olive ranches….HUGE sprawling holdings of miles of Olive trees.  Towering Gateways of rock and wrought iron.  One,  a sign for oil tasings…

and i did.

they're getting ready to go home and i am listening for the hot water heater to finish heating water and say alould…i am goin to get ready to go.  Julian says for what?   and just then  there's a thing in the In Box of Email from Climate Reality Project: " it starts with V…

i gave one of the cloth baskets over for Emrie's toy basket.   The smaller one inside,  her birthday present from the Farmer's Market.  By next spring, she'll be able to go to the Market with me.  Walk,  carrying her basket.   For now,  Bear and Rabbit get carried around.  She practices Love with them…