Calm...

Tonight there is an eerie calm in Santa Clarita Valley where I'm located. I went for a walk on the bike path about 9PM--not a single siren tonight, no flames on hillsides in view, clear skies overhead...a sharp contrast to last night's horrific scene of visual and auditory devastation. Over a million are displaced in SoCal, yet tonight in my area, just ironically calm. The gentle desert winds were warm and soothing--deceptive--last night they were fierce. It is so warm tonight you could lay by the pool in a swim suit and be comfortable. I can't imagine what my neighbors are going through that lost their homes...it's depressing...what has happened to the California I knew and loved as a child...thankful tonight for safety, Coach RJ