Update: the LA Fires AND Ways to Take Care of yourself
TRIGGER WARNING: This story mentions difficult and potentially triggering content such as wide-spread wildfires. If this will trigger or harm you in any way, please do not read. Hello, everyone! Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. As some of you may know, wildfires are raging like beasts across California, which is my home. And between evacuation orders and anxiety for the towns and people I’ve known my whole life, it’s been hard to find space just to write, to just write something that feels good. And so, while red flames lick the air and toxic smoke unfurls across the gray sky, I will try. I evacuated to Santa Barbara where the sky is calm and the ocean rushes in a sea of white to the shore. It’s beautiful here, the absolute small seaside town escape. And it feels wrong, in a way, to be so far away, to be so safe and distanced while people I care about are losing houses and possessions every day. And if some of you are in similar positions or know people who are, know that my who...