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I’ve been watching / listening to the La Palma volcano. Fascinating. When one hears a dog barking or a cock crowing, it like normal daily life goes on, there’s just a great big fire in the background, that’s all!

Having been to La Palma three times long ago in the 1970s for both work and hiking/camping, having arrived there by both plane and ferry from neighboring islands, I’m very captivated by it, as well. To think that all of that ferocious, fiery potential was lurking beneath the surface! Of course, I knew the Canarias were all volcanic islands - the clear evidence of that is all around everywhere, even though each island has its own distinctly different character - and even though I knew there’d been an eruption on La Palma seven years before my first visit, it didn’t quite leave the same impression as watching this does. Yes, it’s quite fascinating, indeed!

I feel sad for the people who have lost everything. I wonder what will emerge as the most reliable, direct way of donating to them.

There was a brief time when I was in my 20s that I had a strong fantasy/obsession about buying a small property in a village in the hills of Tenerife for my eventual retirement. I just revealed this to my husband the other day. He answered, “What could possibly go wrong?” LOL