Fires, Masking and Taking Back Your Power

Share thisRecently, I had my chiropractor and her partner, let’s call him Aaron, over for dinner. Among other topics, we discussed what happened during the California CZU “August Lightning Complex” fires that began August 16, 2020, in the small mountain towns near Santa Cruz, California. I lived in Saratoga, CA at the time, and took the photo above on August 19, 2020, from Saratoga. The photo is pointed at the Los Gatos / Santa Cruz mountains. You can see the heavy smoke in the air that afternoon. Aaron and his partner live in Bonny Doon, a small town with around 2700 residents. Bonny Doon and Boulder Creek are two towns that sustained the most fire damage in the Santa Cruz mountains area. Aaron said that rather than evacuating the area, as all residents were instructed by local officials to do, he stayed behind to make sure his home would not…