All week, I’ve been reassuring family and friends internationally checking in over texts, DMs and WhatsApp messages with this: We’re secure <3. However presently in Los Angeles, protection is a provisional state.
At house in Highland Park, my husband and I deliberate the place we may refuge and packed our move bag — a number of move luggage. We stashed passports, some jewellery, stacks of circle of relatives pictures from the overdue Nineties nonetheless of their crimson Kmart sleeves, diapers and wipes for the newborn, and dietary supplements for our aged canine. We checked our places in opposition to Watch Accountability, glanced at team texts and shook off the entire false alarms.
On Friday, I got here house to seek out my husband placing away some gear. He’d been busy putting in somewhat coat rack close to the entrance door, proper at my daughter’s top. We’d mentioned doing this weeks in the past, so she may just succeed in her jacket and the bag she takes to day care along with her lunch and snacks within. Her day care in Pasadena is closed. We’re now not positive but when it is going to reopen. However all week my husband tinkered round the home, caring for it, the newborn and me. He did laundry and cooked dinner and repaired a cupboard and dropped off provides for a mutual-aid team locally.
I wrote We’re secure as a result of that used to be all that mattered and as it used to be arduous to provide an explanation for the heartache of loving Los Angeles this week and calling it house. Should you have been fortunate to nonetheless be at house, to nonetheless have a house, then it used to be the heartache of packing a move bag, but in addition placing up new coat hooks. It used to be the heartache of on the point of move, and on the identical time, on the point of keep.
