We're really in it now. Deep in the masked summer of social unrest- waking up to infections and deaths rising every day. 'Black Lives Matter' yard signs outside homes and 'For Lease' signs outside local businesses. Emails informing us that yoga studios are closing for good. Mums in the local Facebook group announcing their new wash & fold laundry services, or their granola delivery to make a few extra bucks. I wake up to texts from friends that they are separating from their husbands. It's strange to see on Twitter 'Actor Wilford Brimley dies at 85' or 'NYC Journalist Pete Hamill dies at 85' when we are losing the number of people who died on 9/11 every two days. Whose death matters? An Instagram post reads "What's really going on in Turkey?" and another asks for the cops who killed Breonna Taylor to be arrested. A text I'm sending auto-corrects 'hello' to 'help'. And I remind myself, "we are lucky", but of course it doesn't always feel like it.
LAX departures
LAX departures
LAX departures
We're really in it now. Deep in the masked summer of social unrest- waking up to infections and deaths rising every day. 'Black Lives Matter' yard signs outside homes and 'For Lease' signs outside local businesses. Emails informing us that yoga studios are closing for good. Mums in the local Facebook group announcing their new wash & fold laundry services, or their granola delivery to make a few extra bucks. I wake up to texts from friends that they are separating from their husbands. It's strange to see on Twitter 'Actor Wilford Brimley dies at 85' or 'NYC Journalist Pete Hamill dies at 85' when we are losing the number of people who died on 9/11 every two days. Whose death matters? An Instagram post reads "What's really going on in Turkey?" and another asks for the cops who killed Breonna Taylor to be arrested. A text I'm sending auto-corrects 'hello' to 'help'. And I remind myself, "we are lucky", but of course it doesn't always feel like it.