Crazy Burning Dramatic High Point, and other things like points

Sep 26th, 2009 by admin in Diary, High Point of the Day, Running

So I went running at the middle school yesterday and as I trotted off, Tom Petty in my ears, I saw a fire. I thought well, it must be a controlled burn. The out house behind the tennis courts was on fire. Then the banners. Then the trees. The outhouse melted away, completely gone.  No one was around. This all took place in about half a second. I ran over to the fire. I banged on the school. I looked and looked for someone. The wind picked up. The trees were burning. I heard sirens. I found a woman in the parking lot. Call 911! I said. She mused. Then she saw dark thick smoke over the school. Fire trucks came–maybe two minutes had passed, maybe five. Not many minutes.  I wondered if I could keep running…..if it was okay to run around the track while fireman put out trees on fire in a field behind a school on Friday evening in Michigan. The sky was faux-mackeral, actively mackeral. I ran and Tom was good. The police asked me questions. No one was hurt but it’s strange: any kind of drama like that and I am nervous, going back home, nervous that night, jumpy getting out of the car.

High points: dinner with T, laughing so hard with her. My salad recognition skills (not so great after all!).  And today, working on the Nightime Novelist which I accidentally called the Nightmare Novelist.  Sleeping in. Clearer, stronger, writing hard. Multiple Scrabble bingos. New running shoes. An excellent letter from Jacob, on his fourth cold in boot camp, and the letter was filled with lots of ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZs. As in bored. As in wants to be done.

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2 Comments

  • Running is always right…

    Cycling is great. I live for it. But there’s nothing like running. Running is like having a superpower.

    Heather Sellers 8/12/08

  • Hey Heather. I think an experience with fire would shake anyone up, as you describe. The difference with writers, of course, is that eventually we get to put the experience to use. I can only second David’s running comment. I training for a marathon and working on a novel at the same time. It just works.