05/04/2025 | tate-abrahamson | #from_life

Lately I’ve been looking at photographs of the Tillamook Burn.

https://digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/assets/display/1345161-max?u=09b49f0b467d32f1bcc6febc33ce71e8

https://digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/assets/display/1345053-max?u=1e828752035dddfb470e1e7ee68b7fcf

Today I talked to my grandparents. Their voices made me cry.

My mom is helping them pack their memories away.

Beloved objects from the house that I spent so much time in, being groped at by strangers, people who see a chip in a plate instead of a mark from when my sister laughed so hard that her fork took a piece of the plate with it.

Black and white photos of flames licking at trees that have stood for centuries.