The Reb says hello

Got a call from the Reb today. She seems to be doing well, though she’s been terribly busy and has endured the continuation of her odd run of tragedies close to home.

But she and Limber Lou and Red Emma are well and are enjoying the mountains. Especially Lou. In these mountains, says Reb, Lou experiences the kind of idyllic childhood "that all of us should." (Reb co-directs the "writers' workshop" of The Community of Writers. It is held in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe.)

She says that smoke from the many Northern California fires still comes and goes, but it’s OK. The poets just write about it.

For a seriously cool (er, appalling) video of the carbon monoxide produced over the last month or so, click on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory link below:

JPL video of Carbon Monoxide from California’s Wildfires

According to the JPL site, “In this animation created with data retrieved by NASA's spaceborne instrument called the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, on NASA's Aqua spacecraft, we visualize the rapid increases in carbon monoxide (CO) emitted by fires burning in California in June and July 2008.”