An inside look at the five lost commandments
Our house and our daughter Mara's house are OK, but everything smells like smoke. Everything.
I may be smoking chicken for dinner by just letting it sit out on the counter top.
The Fire came to our back porch and was stopped by some firefighters from Utah. They were kids but somehow they knew that eventually the fire would lie down before them.
They certainly had no idea what their courage meant to those of us driving away into the clouds of embers and smoke.
There are singed animals wandering around the burned-out areas looking for some soft place they remembered
There are llamas and horses and a zoo of animals tied up to life guard towers on Zuma Beach.
On the property of a burned vineyard in Malibu lives a giraffe named Stanley who made it through the fire.
Stanley is crying constantly.
They say it is from his burned eyelashes and the smoke in the air.
I have other ideas.
Love from the place of burned bits and hope and thanks be to God.
Marc
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