I took a risk last Tuesday. I stayed, I packed up what’s important.  Computer, papers, clothes, and my dogs. I packed the car with needed things to live and I stayed… I watched and waited, prepared but ready.

Tonight the wildfires have grown to 14,000 acres, it is eating its way now into Wayne and Glynn county. My home place is still in tact, untouched. I am mentally exhausted from a week of anxiety, panic, and worry. But I am okay. I am fortunate to have made it through so far. I had no where to go but I would have left,  was prepared to, still am. But for now… I am good. The risk paid off, the wind changed direction. Why I am unsure, but thankful and grateful and a bit weary I sit tonight, praying for those who are in the path of the wildfires.