Random comments abt the Lake County CA Valley fire - as a former evacuee (Just got home!!)

[truedelphi]

20. I am gonna confess something.

Several friends commented last Sunday on how poised I was -- but it was all an act.

On Monday,while going through my purse I found a small Ziplock baggy containing three separate little tubes of moisturizer.

I almost cried as I gazed at that Ziplock bag. Over moisturizer!

And I am not even really into moisturizers.

But those tubes represented everything that was still inside my home. The fact that the breakfast shelves have the granola that is the brand that our family likes.

The pictures on the wall, both those "worth something" and those not worth a dime, financially speaking. The couch with its throw pillows, the windows with their wonderful view.

Every thing in my home environment now seems sacred and holy. Spending few days in a situation where your home could possibly go up in flames is enough to bring about a total connection of Dorothy as she clicked her heels and said "There is no place like home."

Now back at home, every item I encounter is like a miracle.

On the one hand I know that the home is an illusion, and that what truly mattered was my life and my spouse's life and that of our critters. But we humans and critters have an innate "gene" for nesting and are quite forlorn if that nest gets burned up or shredded.

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