Recently here in Victoria we have been experiencing the worst bush fires ever. There is much sorrow with many people either dead or missing and hundreds left homeless, and yet within this our lives go on. We live an hour away from where the fires are, safe at home, and yet we all know people who have died and those who have lost everything. I feel silly going on with my everyday life; doing the shopping, taking the kids to playgroup, swimming with the kids, when so many people are hurting and have been changed forever.

Wrigglebot and Squirm have been seeing some of the images on TV, at first I worried about the effect these images might have on them, but where I see death, destruction, sorrow and fear they see fire engines and sirens and they laugh in delight. They are young, they don’t yet know tragedy or sorrow and I thought about explaining what had happened to them, but life will be long enough to teach them that. And so I let them laugh because I wish I could see sirens instead of death and I wish I could find joy from seeing a fire engine. And I need to hear them laugh because right now nobody else can.

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