History in the MakingSeptember 14, 2020 My kids are all at school full time. After 18 years of mothering, it’s the first in a new season of independence for all of us.  It’s Monday morning and I have spent some time this morning gathering: gathering my thoughts, gathering my task list, gathering my breakfast, gathering my peace. I am grateful for this time to reflect and prepare for the week. I vacillate in wanting to write publicly. It fulfills a deep purpose in my heart to share my faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. It also serves to witness of the living history. I also feel fear at the vulnerability. Last week (and continuing this week) California and Oregon are on fire. Millions of people have been evacuated and the latest count I believe 500 million acres have burnt. Idaho was under a blanket of snow and Utah had Hurricane-force winds rip through SLC and northern Utah. Over 1,000 trees were ripped up out for the ground. Schools were canceled, included the University of Utah, SLCC and Salt Lake City school district had to push its open date back an additional week, not starting until today. My sister in law’s house was out of power for 5 days. Friends in Willard just received their power this morning after six days. My 17-year-old has been quarantined for two weeks for possible exposure to COVID at school. She is on day 13 out of 14 and can go back to school on Wednesday. We are grateful for every day that they can attend school in person. (Right now there are five confirmed cases at their highschool. If that number rises to 15 they have to close the school. A neighboring high school has 25 cases and went to half capacity at school). The school is giving all students free lunch and breakfast through December from a special government grant. Between the change in barometric pressure because of the storms and the ash in the air from the Mountain West’s blaze have wreaked havoc on my poor husband’s brain injury. He is a new state of remembering acute chronic pain. (Translated, really bad, all the time headache mixed with bouts of migraines.) Right now we are living through an unprecedented time of vilification. Right and left, are at each other’s throats, and...