Breathing, who needs it

[ysobel]

It's wildfire season, which means horrible air quality. It is low-key snowing ash right now.

And ... cw for holocaust stuff

...

I keep having semi traumatic flashbacks to some Holocaust something -- probably film rather than book, don't know which, may be more than one -- about snowing ash *from the crematoriums*. So it's not just breathing in particulate matter, but particulate matter that had once been people.

This happened with my brain the last time fires were bad. It's not new. But I wish ... I don't know. I wish I could not have that memory, but I also know there are/were people who probably had the real thing as a memory, and that shouldn't be forgotten, they shouldn't be forgotten, only the US is practically turning into Nazi Germany and

I don't know



Also one of my cats (Monkey, the older one) has been peeing on the couch and it doesn't seem likely that it's a UTI (I took her to vet yesterday and they did a culture) but possibly interstitial cystitis. And I don't want to have to deal with this. I know cats get older and this sort of thing comes with the territory, but why can't she stay six years old forever.

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