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I am feeling a combination of sad, violated and angry. Our storage space in Emeryville was broken into. It probably happened two weeks ago. It may or may not have had anything to do with the recent calls B received from his bank and credit card company.

They broke the lock and then replaced it with another. They took mostly stuff that we had bought since coming back to California. Mostly books and housewares. They got my framed print that I splurged on for my birthday. They got some Christmas ornaments and stuff like that. They got my set of Kellogg red rooster tea cups.They got clothes and a suitcase and Mister Bunn's dump truck.

One of the ornaments they got was a limited edition from Smith & Hawken. I was so happy they brought them back.

Part of me says that these are all just things. And it doesn't matter. We are okay. No one was hurt.

Still, it feels like our number is up or something. The last few weeks have been filled with just bad things. I nicked a woman's car in the parking lot. I just want the bad to stop.

I will leave you with this quote from Superhero (who I randomly bumped into yesterday):

It makes me of think of that quote from Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies:

“Carolyn Myss, the medical intuitive who writes and lectures about why people don’t heal, flew to Russia a few years ago to give some lectures. Everything that could go wrong did-flights were cancelled or overbooked, connections missed, her reserved room at the hotel given to someone else. She kept trying to be a good sport, but finally, two mornings later, on the train to her conference on healing, she began to whine at the man sitting beside her about how infuriating her journey had been thus far.

It turned out that this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And he said-gently-that they believe when a lot of things are going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”

The above is from here.