WILD FIRE

I am watching the coverage of the wild fires, which happen to burn south of the California border, but the US media doesn't cover that portion of the fires....

and I am sad about it. I am amazed at the swift spread of the fire. The images are haunting and impending, yet they are also beautiful. Nature is beautiful even when it burns.

I am on-call with several disaster relief organizations and I regret tonight that my new full-time status keeps me from heading west. This is one of those iffy times when I wonder if I have made the right decisions. I called to voluntarily check myself out of deployment. After years of training and preparing to help during disaster, I scratched.

I don't really know what to feel right now; except that I might be on the wrong side of what is truly important