This morning, at 5:00, I went for my usual walk. With the heat wave that's been in Arizona the past few days, you go early or you don't go at all. On the way back, around 6:30, I saw some firefighters headed out of town. The insignia on the side of the vehicles read "Granite Mountain Hot Shots." They were going out of Prescott on Iron Springs Road, headed south.
 
Tonight, while surfing the net and perusing my Twitter feed, I noticed a hashtag reading #yarnellfire. I'd heard nothing about a fire in Yarnell (about 35 miles south of where I live) so I clicked on to find out what was happening. Within minutes this horrible news flashed on the screen.
 
 
Most likely, these were the same people I saw driving out of town this morning. They were profiled in the local paper just this last week.





Tears. Tears. 

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Words To Live By

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. ~Emily Dickinson

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. ~Neil Gaiman

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ~Mark Twain

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ~Walter Tevis

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. ~George R.R. Martin

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