dispatches from Los Angeles

i am safe, i am lucky. but so much has been lost.

let me preface this by saying: my family is safe. i am safe. our family home is safe. but so many in Los Angeles are not so lucky. homes have been pulverized by flames. whole lives and histories, gone. retirement plans. inheritances. multi-generational residences. past, present, futures: gone.

but as someone who grew up in Pasadena, i can’t help but feel…