cursed block?

MOMMY, SOME PEOPLE EAT ANIMALS!!! SOME PEOPLE EAT, DEAD,ANIMAAAALLLLS!!!
maya came running into the bedroom this morning to tell me this, which she learned from some cartoon character on PBS kids.

i am beginning to think our block is cursed. two nights ago i heard a commotion outside and looked out the window. about 25 very excited police officers and a car completely turned around and on the sidewalk right in front of my house. then a flurry of confused looking cops grabbed a woman and shoved her into the backseat of a cop car. this didn't go over well with me, even though i found out later that no one was hurt. the cops had chased the woman, driving a stolen unmarked police car, all the way from daly city to end at 1107 potrero avenue. boom, into a spot where we often park.

more upsetting to the kids, the top portion of a nice tree on our block, you know, the part with branches and leaves and sometime fluffy pink flowers, disappeared. poof. maya has been talking about it for days.

and for the second time someone stole the nice bright green succulent we planted in the cinder block outside. miles noted with disgust that someone had thrown a dirty tissue in it.

even so, today was a beautiful day off work. maya and i made a dollhouse, muffins, and did a little gardening. we split our weekly dynamo donut (meyer lemon with huckleberry icing) and after school walked miles and friends to soccer practice under a blue sky. on the walk home my kids both held my hands with no major meltdowns and we found a secret little block between 22nd and 23rd and wisconsin and carolina, funky old and new houses, one with a shady front garden with a stone lion head.

we watched looney tunes and then at bedtime miles asked lots of questions about what we were going to do with his body when he died.

it was a kinda strange, good day. my friend suggested that all the bad things that happened on our block make the chance of more bad things happening unlikely.

i know this is not how it works, but i will try to believe it.

bye