Re: [gardeners] Wildfires
Ronald Hay (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:29:51 -0800 (PST)
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Hello, Marc,
I am so sorry to be so late in responding to your very sad news, as I have been up to my ears with family and closing a real estate deal.
My heart really goes out to you, and can empathize to some small extent as to how your lives have been turned upside down.
Back in the early 80's, when I was in graduate school at UCLA, two of our dearest friends lost their home to a canyon wildfire, and I spent days helping him dig out, amazed at what survived, moved to tears at what they had lost.
In their case, it was not nursery stock that caused the greatest grief, but professional items. Scott is a pathologist and lost 25 years of unique slides; Nina, his wife, at that time, was an opera singer in Europe (now the number one voice coach at the Santa Fe Opera), lost her lifetime's collection of carefully annotated sheet music. Although the loss was different in kind, it was not very different in degree. Both careers were profoundly affected.
I can still remember the smell of smoke in my hair and my clothes, a smell which seemingly did not come out for weeks, despite repeated washings.
I send you my heartfelt condolences at your great loss, and we will remember you and all of your fellow countrymen at Mass. We in California know what wildfires are, all too well.
Ron,
Van Nuys, CA
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<P>Hello, Marc,</P>
<P>I am so sorry to be so late in responding to your very sad news, as I have been up to my ears with family and closing a real estate deal.</P>
<P>My heart really goes out to you, and can empathize to some small extent as to how your lives have been turned upside down.</P>
<P>Back in the early 80's, when I was in graduate school at UCLA, two of our dearest friends lost their home to a canyon wildfire, and I spent days helping him dig out, amazed at what survived, moved to tears at what they had lost.</P>
<P>In their case, it was not nursery stock that caused the greatest grief, but professional items. Scott is a pathologist and lost 25 years of unique slides; Nina, his wife, at that time, was an opera singer in Europe (now the number one voice coach at the Santa Fe Opera), lost her lifetime's collection of carefully annotated sheet music. Although the loss was different in kind, it was not very different in degree. Both careers were profoundly affected.</P>
<P>I can still remember the smell of smoke in my hair and my clothes, a smell which seemingly did not come out for weeks, despite repeated washings.</P>
<P>I send you my heartfelt condolences at your great loss, and we will remember you and all of your fellow countrymen at Mass. We in California know what wildfires are, all too well.</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Ron,</P>
<P>Van Nuys, CA</P>
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