The whole world is my back yard, and I hope that someday a back yard will be my back yard too.
There are 1032 wildfires licking away at California right now, but none near me. Yesterday the sun was hot pink and the shadows glowed a warm color. Two mornings ago when there were only 700-800, Tessa swung open her door and orange poured out into the hall. It looked like a sunshine shop in there. Lightning is supposed to have started most of them.
It's diffuse and colorless in Oakland today, though; the kind of weather that's supposed to surprise-attack you with a sunburn when you least expect it, unless you are too tan for sunburns, like me.
I have Thursdays aka today off, and this morning I used up every drop of my crazy plethora of change buying coffee, feeding a tip jar, and buying a zine in that order. A HUGE weight has been LIFTED. This humble, feel-good extravaganza pretty much stands for the state of my entire life at this time. Although... I've been reading the newspaper, and grasping how the world's problems (ie: bees/food/gas/environmental destruction/storms/back to bees) are really becoming a) one multi-faceted problem, like a huge and terrible diamond, and b) my own. It's just better to avoid downers, though, so I may start checking in with the world a little less often, however bad that sounds. In this vein, I think I had my best birthday ever this year! It's also the year that both my Grandparents completely forgot all about it, both for the first time ever. It's like I'm zapping the previous generation or two's powers in order to generate my own extra-strength positive outlook. And meanwhile, of course, the Golden State burns to the ground.
It's diffuse and colorless in Oakland today, though; the kind of weather that's supposed to surprise-attack you with a sunburn when you least expect it, unless you are too tan for sunburns, like me.
I have Thursdays aka today off, and this morning I used up every drop of my crazy plethora of change buying coffee, feeding a tip jar, and buying a zine in that order. A HUGE weight has been LIFTED. This humble, feel-good extravaganza pretty much stands for the state of my entire life at this time. Although... I've been reading the newspaper, and grasping how the world's problems (ie: bees/food/gas/environmental destruction/storms/back to bees) are really becoming a) one multi-faceted problem, like a huge and terrible diamond, and b) my own. It's just better to avoid downers, though, so I may start checking in with the world a little less often, however bad that sounds. In this vein, I think I had my best birthday ever this year! It's also the year that both my Grandparents completely forgot all about it, both for the first time ever. It's like I'm zapping the previous generation or two's powers in order to generate my own extra-strength positive outlook. And meanwhile, of course, the Golden State burns to the ground.