Best practice in linkblogging is not to recommend the same author or publication over and over. Unfortunately, my partner Lisa just published another great essay—this time a sprawling, intense, intimate account of our evacuation from the L.A. fires one year ago. I don’t want to quote any section out of context, so I’ll just share this picture she includes, one that our friend David took of us on Ocean Beach just a few days after our panicked evacuation:
I’m too close to the author and the story to be an impartial reader. So go read Lisa’s essay for yourself, see if it’s as powerful as I think it is.