The skies are clear now but just a few days ago, our skies were filled with toxic smoke from the many fires that have been burning throughout California and Oregon. It made for eerie, apocalyptic looking days, which added more stress to the covid shelter in place. We could not go out for more than a minute or so because we could not breath the air. I feel that we humans are not walking in balance on mama earth and as a result, the world is reflecting this in so many impactful ways.
The first photo above captures the ash falling from the sky. In all my life, I have never witnessed such a day as the one we did when the sky was orange from dawn to dusk, leaving it difficult to sense the time of day. I felt out of sorts, confused and deeply, deeply sad that we have been experiencing such things.
Mama Earth is burning. We are in a pandemic. The centuries of racial divide in this country are boiling over. I have had to talk to the girls multiple times that these are not normal times. That these are things we have never experienced before. I don't want them to grow up thinking that this life is so full of chaos and such dramatic change. But then again, maybe it is. Maybe we are in a new normal.
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| Havana moving joyfully from classroom to house. |
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