Santa Cruz, CA Fire Loss
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Hello friends and family,
It has been a hard year as many many people are experiencing. My heart goes out to so many people who are struggling and it feels hard to ask for support.
Saturday August 15th we moved to Bonny Doon to live with friends to lessen our expenses. I have been working mostly online since March teaching yoga and doing energy healing work. Along with a wee bit of in person bodywork. It has been supplemented with a PPP loan but not enough for what our expenses were before March 13th. I have been shifting my work online and my expenses.
There was a lightening storm the night we moved in on August 15th and we lost power. Tuesday we got our power back but were evacuated in the middle of that night. The house was burned in the fast moving fire that was started by the storm by the following evening . We are safe and Kitty is a little traumatized but with us. We have some clothes and our computers and phone, but the rest of our belongings are gone.
I have gone through bouts of grieving my stuff. Most of it is replaceable but there are things that are not. That will just take time. All of our photos, especially photos of my mom. Things I had of hers that kept me feeling close to her and reminded me of our family, her history, my history. I learned about her by having her stuff around me. I had left home early and she died before I got to know her as an adult.
Intense times these are.
We need to replace our belongings, but first we need a place to live.
We are looking for a modest place where I can continue to focus on building an online business and where my son can be in school online. We need enough space so we can sleep separately. My son's school is in Corralitos so between Aptos and Corralitos would be great. We have an awesome kitty. He doesn't need much. Just us.
I am also sound sensitive so nature is helpful for me and my son,
as well as not sharing walls. I will try not to be too picky for short term but would love a somewhat long term place. We moved here to SC in 02/2018 and it has been challenging to find a homey home.
My ideal is to eventually buy a small house. Even land to place a container home would be awesome.
Any help, even information or kindness.
I am really quite inspired by this community and glad to be a part of it. Bonny Doon folk have been beyond inspiring.
Thank you,
Padma
If you prefer venmo @Patricia-Borrego-1
or paypal
It has been a hard year as many many people are experiencing. My heart goes out to so many people who are struggling and it feels hard to ask for support.
Saturday August 15th we moved to Bonny Doon to live with friends to lessen our expenses. I have been working mostly online since March teaching yoga and doing energy healing work. Along with a wee bit of in person bodywork. It has been supplemented with a PPP loan but not enough for what our expenses were before March 13th. I have been shifting my work online and my expenses.
There was a lightening storm the night we moved in on August 15th and we lost power. Tuesday we got our power back but were evacuated in the middle of that night. The house was burned in the fast moving fire that was started by the storm by the following evening . We are safe and Kitty is a little traumatized but with us. We have some clothes and our computers and phone, but the rest of our belongings are gone.
I have gone through bouts of grieving my stuff. Most of it is replaceable but there are things that are not. That will just take time. All of our photos, especially photos of my mom. Things I had of hers that kept me feeling close to her and reminded me of our family, her history, my history. I learned about her by having her stuff around me. I had left home early and she died before I got to know her as an adult.
Intense times these are.
We need to replace our belongings, but first we need a place to live.
We are looking for a modest place where I can continue to focus on building an online business and where my son can be in school online. We need enough space so we can sleep separately. My son's school is in Corralitos so between Aptos and Corralitos would be great. We have an awesome kitty. He doesn't need much. Just us.
I am also sound sensitive so nature is helpful for me and my son,
as well as not sharing walls. I will try not to be too picky for short term but would love a somewhat long term place. We moved here to SC in 02/2018 and it has been challenging to find a homey home.
My ideal is to eventually buy a small house. Even land to place a container home would be awesome.
Any help, even information or kindness.
I am really quite inspired by this community and glad to be a part of it. Bonny Doon folk have been beyond inspiring.
Thank you,
Padma
If you prefer venmo @Patricia-Borrego-1
or paypal
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Padma Patricia Borrego
Organizer
Watsonville, CA