on sunday, we drove through napa, california, just hours before the fires took hold to ravage one of the loveliest areas of our new state. i’ve been grieving all week as this historic firestorm has raged, uncontrolled. i can’t forget the faces of the people i have met there, can’t wrap my heart around the kind of destruction that leaves a mama with two minutes to choose what to bring with her as she flees, the terror and the displacement thousands of people now feel having been forced from their homes, the kind of disaster that can make hundreds of people disappear. i’m “looking for the helpers” this week, praying for miracles, but it’s going to be years before this area recovers. venues are gone. whole communities have been burned to the ground, livelihoods are gone, and lives have been snuffed out or changed forever. we saw the smoke as we drove home on sunday. we breathed it in our air too as the wind sent it down the valley into our area. my heart hurts. it feels like the whole world is on fire. pray for this place and these people. there has been so much loss, and it’s not over yet. . . . . . . . . . . #bykellēsauer #prayfornapa #california #fires #personal #liveauthentic #vineyard #napavalley #winecountry #mybackyard #explorecalifornia #huffpostgram #testshoot #morningslikethese #viewmylight #travel #benovia #winery #heartbreak #reallife #vines #rebeginning #wildfire #fire #home #loss #sonoma #help #withthosewhoweep #grief (at Benovia Winery)
