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At the same time, I confess I’m not exactly sure who this geezer is who shows up in the mirror every morning — or where he came from. The thing is he keeps writing notes like this and leaving them where I can’t help finding them: Light locked in the marrow, And memory melded to images only….. AFTER A SERIES OF DARK AND RAIN SPLATTERED DAYS TOPPED OFF BY A SLOPPY STORM ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Christmas dawned clear and golden from first. rehabilitation hospital on the eastern city limits of Chico; out near where the firestorm of November flowed down from the ridge and tried He came back on Christmas morning and found her doing much better than on the days before. Outside the bright day beckoned and so put on her warm coat and scarf and took her out into the courtyard. There they sat in the unseasonably warm sunshine under a sky washed at last clean of ash and smoke and soot; in air smelling faintly like freshly laundered sheets hung on the line to dry. Even the breeze when it came and went and came back again was gentle and almost warm. They had coffee and remarked what a fine fine Christmas day it was. Once again she regretted that she had “ruined Christmas.” Once again he reminded her of the fact that in October one of her sons had a motorcycle accident and a concussion and yet survived and was feeling fairly good again. Once again he reminded her that in November another of her three sons had had his house in Paradise burned to ashes along with the whole town.  And then he pointed out that in December she, in the 104th year of her age, had fallen and sustained a concussion and yet here she was again on the mend. “It’s Christmas Day and all three of us are still here and still standing. I don’t know about you, but I’d call that a very merry She laughed and allowed how that had to be the case. Then they had some more coffee in the courtyard next to the ravines from Paradise where the burns still scarred the hillside with charred soil and scorched trees; looking like vast pools of shadow with no source of