Ten.Eight Hundred & Forty-Seven

1. He’s up before me. The glow from the phone wakes me up.

2. I had a dream that it rained.

3. I can’t hear the wind like I did yesterday. That feels comforting.

4. She says he left at 2 am last Thursday and could be gone until November 8th. That they had a break today but the winds are supposed to return tomorrow,

5. The time goes by just as fast even when you work from home.

6. I overhear him say he had to evacuate in the middle of the night but that they are back home and everything was okay. He must have been part of the Oakley evacuation.

7. For a brief moment, I wonder if we made a mistake. But then I step outside into the sunshine and I see Mt. Diablo in the distance, the horizon hazy with smoke, and I know that we didn’t. We definitely didn’t. This is just our new normal.

8. I drag the hammock back into the middle of the yard, straight into the sunshine, to read a little bit before I have to get him from school.

9. We both decide that this town is already too crowded and that we’d vote no on L too, even though we haven’t lived here that long.

10. Great British Baking Show all cuddled together in the bed.