Thursday, October 25, 2007
Fires
The fires continue to rage and it's awfully sad. I just saw an interview with a woman who was ordered to leave her house just in time to watch it burn to the ground. Only a chimney is left. She has no more photos of her son as a baby and young child. And there was the family whose horses and dogs had to be put down because they were so burned. Yes, I know about optimism because where there's life there's hope, but it's heart-breaking to think about what it must be like to have absolutely everything vanish from your physical world. The basement flooding that we had in the spring was scary and hard to cope with - and wasn't even close to this kind of devastation. The fire is gorgeous and so are the communities, but it's like watching a famished monster march through the countryside.
It's hard to understand the unbelievable inhumanity and brutality of whoever set (at least one of) the fires. What kind of destructive and dreadfully unkind person must it be?
It's hard to understand the unbelievable inhumanity and brutality of whoever set (at least one of) the fires. What kind of destructive and dreadfully unkind person must it be?
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