this so needs the Telling.
We are at the Gridley California Fairgrounds, a designated EvacuationSite. About 20 miles from the Hill. This is day 2. So much to Tell.
We left the Hill yesterday because i am no good at night driving. And it was/is so ify. The wish was that it wouldn't be necessary, but we found ourselves watching the sky, watching the sky, knowing how fast this Fire can move, knowing we would have so many minutes, less than an hour to leave, maybe even not that...they didn't in Paradise.....and it is/was maybe 10 miles away, so we left.
Some info said Gridley was full. We arrived and were welcomed.
I want to tell this right because it is so Beauty Full. So really beyond anything i have ever known of Beauty.
one might wonder. Why would anyone in their right mind live in a place like this?????, that can be eaten by a dragon? Consumed. Why? Maybe everyone should move from California....go somewhere else? This is a question.
but, they do. Live here. Live WITH. And they go.
it's kind of Primal. I don't know what to think yet. But what i am seeing here is so incredible....is so much of what the Spirit of Existing in Circumstance is about....i am transfixed.
this is Flow. the flow IN of people, animals the flow in of Help. All day all night. Flow. How it can go, this flow.
There are so many horses, burned, not burned. On their fence is a form telling of their circumstance. Some were brought here because of evacuation, but many were brought by Rescue. No known information. And that is also down the way where we are, where we take up a whole row of 3 animals to a pen. Many are rescues. Pigs. Chickens. Turkeys, Sheep. Ducks. Ponys
this alpaca. He is at the end. There is an info sheet zip tied to each pen. His...rescue. Which means no known owner. Some of the rescues are never claimed. Who ever was their Person, often too overwhelmed by their own circumstance to imagine being able to care for the animal. His info sheet records that he has not been eating. It records the Vet ing that he is being given by the two UC Davis mobile Vet trucks....the medication, the care. But that he is not eating. We visit him a few times a day. Stand some respectful distance, not to frighten him. His ears twitch as we speak to him.
i want to tell you the extraordinary THING that is happening here. All VOLUNTEER...it is like a bee hive, so many, caring for the sentient beings, feeding watering, ministering to needs of any and all kinds...even a surgery tonight for a pig that was so burned. Food. Care. a table for the human ones with an endless flow of food saying Help Yourself. Trucks come in, all day hauling feed and plywood to create warmth for the pens, all these from individuals...volunteer...RESPONSE.
because people here KNOW this, live with this, they Respond. it's astounding, really, and why i want to stay right here, witnessing it.
i am sleeping in the honda car. Me and Tay. Tonight Alyssia took Tazmeena to her place in Chico. Tazmeena peed on my purse last night. to say: I COULD GO TO ALYSSIA"S IN CHICO, but i don't want to. I want to KNOW what's happening here, want to watch this oh so Kind and Loving Phenomenon. So, here i am. in the light of a little battery lamp and the aid of the beloved Charger for the Inet juice. We go. The Vet techs stitched a cut above Tenzen's eye tonight...Nogal had hit him hard. They've been seperated. Talkie has been set up with nice heat lamp in the poultry section...her name there and to keep her egg, owner will come for it. The Fire is hovering. Burning but not moving. In this moment the Hill stands. We will be here until that Dragon moves on. have no idea how long.
to say. I am not afraid or distressed. I am LEARNING and grateful for the opportunity. I would not choose it, of course, but i am standing facing things as is. And it's all fine, in some odd way. it's all fine. DO NOt WORrY. Just see your own world clearly and love what you can, try to fix what you cannot, but love that too. And THANK YOU ALL so much, so deeply
all the new people...i LOVE so much, thank you andthankyouandthankyou
