Happy Birthday Little One!

So she's 5 now. I don't know how it happened, but she's officially not a toddler, nor just a "preschooler" anymore. She's a 5 year old. What a trip it's been.

In Tears

I'm sitting here with children laughing and playing, a fire in the hearth and the knowledge that my partner is safe at work. I'm in tears after hearing the news of James Kim's death. I don't know this family. I never knew them when we lived in SF. But I lived in their neighborhood in SF. I still work at Natural Resources in Noe Valley in SF near one of their stores. I don't know what the deep feeling of connection is about, whether it's similarities in age, age of children, place or just the heroic efforts of this family, but I am so very sad right now.

My thoughts and wishes go out to the Kim family in their time of loss and of finding. I know it is not much solace finding James, but I am so grateful that they found him, so that his family can know what happened to him and start healing.

Sending out good thoughts

Sending out all the good thoughts we can to the Kim Family.

Mom and kids were found safe,
here's hoping we wake to find dad safe and sound.