My heart goes out to all those in Butte County and Southern California that are enduring these horrific fires. The loss of property and tragic loss of life is unfathomable. For tunately a lot of people are doing a lot of good. Our church, Vintage Grace, and others are sending up water and blankets. Our contractor, Todd Bolger is going up with his food truck and cooking for a couple of days. His barbecue is amazing. I am donating 30 percent of all of my framed fine art black and white; and hand tinted black and whtite photography to the Camp Fire Recovery. I know there are countless others that are doing good works during this most difficult time.
Weathered Barn near Homewood, CA
I have come to find the fires/poor air quality are really hard on my prosthetic eye. It is not really the prosthetic eye but the eye socket. It drains all the time and gets really irritated. I leave the eye in virtually all the time but have taken it out several times over the last few days to rinse it and my eye socket due to the discharge from my eye socket.
I have recently found a Facebook page, Lost Eye, which is self explanatory. I have found a couple of posts where people will wear an eye patch over their prosthetic eye during extreme cold, really high winds or poor air quality. So if you see me with an eye patch I am not playing pirate unless of course Mela decides she likes that.
It was not more than a couple of days before the fires that I had my appointment with Eric Lindsey, my prosthetic eye artist. He cleaned and polished my eye. Apparently, I will do this about every six months. I would like to going to your jeweler and having your ring cleaned or maybe it is more like seeing your dentist. I will go with the jeweler comparison since I am not a good dental patient.
This past weekend Mela and I went to go see Free Solo. It is a movie about Alex Honnold free climbing El Capitan in Yosemite. I used to work out with Alex’s aunt and have followed his climbing career as well as that of Jimmy Chin, a renowned “adventure” photographer and cinematographer who filmed the movie. It was a great film. Talk about mindset. Every move Alex makes on the mountain is literally life and death. This one eyed wonder needs to step it up a notch. I am getting there.
God Bless!