A Long and Winding Road

...is my Monday morning perspective. This is part of the Fountaingrove Parkway which goes over the hill from our house to the highway. The Tubbs fire burned through the entire neighborhood in 2017 just as the Palisades fire burned through an upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles earlier this month. The extra is a picture of the community at the foot of the parkway showing the aftermath. The parkway is the only exit for a large area and I remember waiting for an hour at an intersection for people fleeing the fire to drive off the hill.

We take this road every time we go to see Kathy, to the airport, or for certain medical appointments so we see it regularly. Seven years later, many houses have been rebuilt, a lot of the trees have either recovered or been removed and they are just finishing up a project to repave and relandscape the parkway itself. There are few reminders left of the terrible devastation that occurred here. But we will never forget it. 

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and I couldn't possibly say it any better than Mima did in her journal today.  But I can't help wondering if one has to live through a disaster in order for it to be burned indelibly into memory. Or how to explain  that the white supremacist extremists in this country are seeing their opportunity to take control here. That certainly looked like a Nazi salute by Musk at the inauguration last week.