Because I am recovering from cataract surgery, I couldn’t accompany my daughter, who drove with my friend and Palisades homeowner from the townhouse where I now live - to the house I lived in for a year, which still stands in Pacific Palisades, having survived the fire.
Carol, this piece made me feel the tragedy of the LA wildfires in a way no news account has, or could. So glad Cookie Monster, and the constellation of memories it conjures, survived.
Gorgeous piece. I'm so happy Cookie Monster survived.
Carol, this piece made me feel the tragedy of the LA wildfires in a way no news account has, or could. So glad Cookie Monster, and the constellation of memories it conjures, survived.
Carol, this is such a poignant and intimate account of PTSD from the fires. Thank you for humanizing an inconceivable tragedy.
Sympathy and applause, Carol. Nodding with tears (for Dana, too).
Beautiful and moving, as ever. Also such a haunting image of the fire stopping at the door of your place. Glad the Cookie Monster is safe, and you.
Beautiful, Carol.
So happy your home was spared, Carol. Ours was too though air quality was iffy and we evacuated. But we have a house.