Friday was the seventh anniversary of the Carr Fire, and as it has been all the years I’ve lived here, a vegetation fire ignited close by. It’s as if the land remembers and its memories become hot embers which ignite a fire all over again. It happens for us, why couldn’t it happen for theContinue reading “The Horse Fire or Migratory Patterns”
Category Archives: who by fire
Why We Will Always Quote Joan Didion When LA Is On Fire
The morning the fires started, a Turkey Vulture carrying a big rat in its beak flew right by me almost hitting me. The rat was so heavy in the vulture’s mouth, the vulture was having trouble keeping altitude and that’s when it almost collided with me. It flew a little further past me and droppedContinue reading “Why We Will Always Quote Joan Didion When LA Is On Fire”
In that tiny kinda scary house by the woods, by the woods, by the woods…
She never let on how insane it was in that tiny kinda scary house by the woods, by the woods, by the woods, by the woods. You don’t need a spaceship they don’t know you’ve already lived on the other side of the galaxy. ~T.Amos I have gotten no more real interest on my houseContinue reading “In that tiny kinda scary house by the woods, by the woods, by the woods…”
The Lower Fire
Honey, tell me how your love runs true and I can always count on you to be there when the bullets fly I’d run across the river just to hold you tonight You had eleven minutes to grab what’s most important in your life and get the fuck out, and as you hung out inContinue reading “The Lower Fire”
A casual match in a very dry field
My mother hadn’t forgotten. So when I showed up with my animals in the middle of the night, having driven ten hours to get away from the fire, she didn’t question it. She said, “fire has always been your biggest fear.” And it’s not just that one thing which makes a fire burn in suchContinue reading “A casual match in a very dry field”
KRCR Interview
And who by fire
Just last week, I was on the 6:30 news interviewed on what the effects of wildfire smoke are on birds in Northern California, then the Park Fire broke and I’m a hot mess. Watching everyone around me get evacuated, losing their homes is too much to bare. To see those trees I’ve birded and owledContinue reading “And who by fire”
My Love is for the Birds - Sketches 