Wild Fires

So there are wildfires happening here in good ol' Arizona. They're really common this time of year because of how hot and dry it is here, but these are worse than normal. There have been about five separate ones started just this passed week. The state doesn't have enough money for a long term effort to put them out so everyone is hoping for rain. I thought about Kokopelli today so I must have wanted rain today too.

This is one of the bigger fires

Anyway, the fires haven't reached any of the urban areas (Of which there are two), but there's a haze of smoke on the horizon. Yesterday I was driving back to my apartment and the city was covered in smoke that the wind blew in from a new fire. The smoke looked like fog and as day turned to night, I had moments where I felt like I was in a different city. Sometimes I was in a city in Alabama to get off of the fog covered freeway. Sometimes I was in LA or San Diego when the fog from the sea rushes in and leaves everything in a haze. And in those pin pricks from of feeling like I wasn't in the town I loved, I felt excited. Like I was somebody, somewhere, doing something. And I hope that the feeling I felt yesterday was not something that I repressed, if only because I know that it has already seeped through the cracks and is about to flood out.

Also, I sang Katie Perry with the window down while the smoke was everywhere. Not my best idea, but damnit, I'm a firework that makes people go "Ah". ;P

Ciao