Weather

For a few days now fire has been raging only a few miles away from my condo. Yes, the condo I only just got to move back into because of the flood incident. Worry and trying to get my place back into shape hasn't left much time, at least while I'm awake, to think about spiritual matters.

Still, two nights before the fire broke out a had a larger-than-life style dream about a massive storm system sweeping through the library where I happened to work in the dream. It caused six or seven tornadoes to head through the town where the library was built, and then the gray clouds sweeping through obscured everything but the tornadoes and the bolts of lightning striking the ground. People were running for their lives in the library, but only the elite employees were allowed to go into the underground bunkers that I found out existed beneath the library. I spent the rest of the dream trying to round up friends and loved ones, but I only recall finding one or two, then I lost them. One was my best guy friend from high school and afterward, and the other was Alex. I don't remember how the dream ended.

The next day, and because I had been sharing the hotel TVs with Anna so I haven't been watching the news, I found out that the trend called "derecho" had been sweeping through the OK to GA areas of the South since the previous Friday. It is marked by the rapid spurning of multiple tornadoes and lightning storms. Needless to say, I was slightly taken aback by the realization.

Night-before-last I only remember dreaming about fire. But then, I had spent much of the evening watching flames eating at the hillsides by way of the camera on an helicopter flying above SB. In my dream, the flames were more like embers, but they were in my bed and I spent a lot of time trying to put them out. Last night, I don't remember dreaming about anything. I was just too tired I think, between the condo, the fires, and knowing I had two papers to write this weekend.

My mom called about my sister yesterday, but I let her know I was done with that relationship. It's been no relationship at all for years anyway, and when my sister does talk to us, all she does is lie. These things happen, and I am done.

When I got up this morning, it was to find out that my job place was closed due to the air conditions outside, and so was my daughter's school. Instead of returning to bed, I started watching about the fire on television, worked on cleaning up a bit more of the items that were taken out of the cabinets after the flood, going to the grocery store to buy donation items, dropping those off at the animal shelter, cleaning again, finishing one paper, adding eight pages to the next paper, visiting my neighbor repeatedly, feeding my daughter and the two girls visiting, letting the three of them plus the little boy that lives upstairs hang out in our place for two hours, and now finally, catching up here.

I'm tired.