2017 Google Year In Search Is Their Most Moving Yet.

I never cry at the Google annual “Year In Search” videos. That is, until this year. 2017 was packed with emotional highs and lows for most everyone. Mother Nature pummeled the globe, Politics made friends pummel each other and Women stood up to RESIST. But much of what people chose to “search” this year was “how to help”. (more…)

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Beauty In Tragedy: Photos of The California Wildfires

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A malfunctioning sign in Santa Rosa spells out an eerie message one day after the Tubbs Fire devastated the Wine Country. photo: Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group

A malfunctioning sign in Santa Rosa spells out an eerie message one day after the Tubbs Fire devastated the Wine Country. photo: Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group

You can’t get away from the photographs of the wildfires that have been decimating areas of Northern California. They’re everywhere; images of burning hills, billowing smoke, destroyed homes, frightened animals and exhausted firefighters. Although they are non-discriminatingly narrating California’s most tragic natural disaster to date, there’s a certain beauty to be found within them. (more…)

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Facts and Help For NorCal Fire Evacuees : What To Do, Where To Stay

As of this midday today, the death toll from the tragic Northern California Fires has reached 15 and will only climb. The destruction to businesses, homes, barns, animals, numerous vineyards and wineries are immeasurable. The videos posted by residents as they fled are incredulous and the photographs of the aftermath will bring tears to anyone’s eyes. Where will they stay? what will they do with their animals? They can’t drink the water, they have no beds, clothes, cell service. Here are some resources that can help. Please share. (more…)

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