An inside look at the five lost commandments
I have been smoked out of my home and wrote this in the midst of the California fires. I sent it to friends but not yet to readers. It has been a difficult time. Now we are back home. I pray for the safety of all who live on the edge of fire and smoke.
Dear friends,
Betty and I live in the middle of just one part of the great California fire that has burned an area bigger than Long Island.
We were one of the 250,000 people who had to evacuate our home.
The evacuation was hard. I took nothing but my laptop.
Stuff means very little to me now and I did not realize it.
I might have taken my golf clubs but I left them behind. Maybe I left them because stuff does not matter or maybe I left them because I wanted to buy a new set. Not sure.
Finally tonight, the Santa Anna winds are dying down, but the fire is still burning in Malibu and the hills are mostly all burned there.
Most of the homes in the Malibu hills are gone. Up north the town of Paradise is all gone. Forty people are dead there.
Down here we are trying to comfort friends who have lost everything and who are trying to believe what they say about being lucky to be alive.
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