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Thank you for this update Miranda, I am glad you are safe. Sorry about the Covid tho- I find that virus really brings up feelings of depression for me. It’s a particular Covid thing I’ve noticed. Sending love x

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Hotel covid no tea kettle and your child...erk thanks goodness for shock. Can't believe the scale. Dresden was 8-12 square miles, Hiroshima 5 ...last I checked this one is 56 and not yet out. Did you see that the Lake Shrine over near the Getty Villa survived. One of the elders stood at the border with his arms in the air chanting AUM for hours, Everything around it is gone. This is a great telling of that, [https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10236317175893751&set=pcb.10236317182773923] Aside from the size this one has so much reach because of all the known storytellers and actors who lost their house and are a figure in people's life. Makes a difference if people can put a face on it, let alone a hundred and more added everyday. Feel so bad for you sick and cooped up. A friend's house escaped the flames and she is trying to balance staying so her young daughter can keep up with her friends over against impossible rents and living in a hellscape. Hope the covid is mild. I only had it once but long covid knocked out my ability to spell. Since I write everyday this is humbling; there is no word so common or simple that it doesn't stumps me. Was grasping for the the third way to spell "to" I knew it wasn't 'too'...after a struggle that nuisance, the silent W appeared...what's that doing there? I'm keeping it together and tamping down the queasiness of the election by watching non-verbal autistic children being telepathic. I have always classified the fact that my son who is profoundly deaf was able to pass as hearing but spacey for over two years until he blew his cover by imitating me talking and gesturing without making a sound...I always classified it as an enduring mystery. I must have thought telepathy was for grownups or something. I'll leave you this..I'm pro-distraction these days: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGOpHdHSjTE] hang in there xox

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Sounds like an incredibly complex and surreal situation. Yes, solidarity is key, this becomes more and more clear, setting differences aside in more and more challenging situations where survival changes multiple angles of views into one faceted perception. Hope it untangles soon and sending much love

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Ugh sorry to hear about the evacuation, glad you are safe, sorry you are sick ... what a jumble/jungle.

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