01/11/2025
Thousands of people fled in a panic.
Filled with fear, adrenaline, sadness, and confusion.
"Where do I go?
What will I come back to?
What will I come back to?
Am I coming back?"
Memories.
Things aren't simply things.
One of those things is something that belonged to your friend, your grandparent or your child who passed away.
Another is from that crazy night with your friends, it became an inside joke, and it still makes you smile when you look at it a decade later.
Photos that were on film. Childhood videos from before we had digital cameras.
The
You get the evacuation orders.
Someone is in a wheelchair.
Someone is in palliative care.
Someone has mobility issues.
Someone has Alzheimer's.
Someone is in dialysis..
Someone is receiving chemo
Someone has a child with developmental disabilities.
What happens to their treatments?
How do you move them?
How do you help them?
Where do they go?
You have dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, these members of your family who love you unconditionally no matter where you live, how much money you have, how much you weigh or what you look like. You are their everything.
How does everyone fit in the car?
How will you get to safety carrying your belongings, your kids, and your pets?
You're tired.
You're hungry.
You need a shower.
But now you're living, camped out with hundreds if not thousands of others who are also tired and hungry.
Or you have to travel for hours to reach someone who's willing and able to house you and your family.
There's limited food, limited water.
Limited everything.
You have to rely on the kindness of others.
You have to rely on aid.
You have to rely on donations.
You have to rely on a government to decide what to give, how much and when to help.
They never give enough though.
But they do seem to have unlimited resources for weapons.
From LA to Palestine to Flint, Michigan to the 618 indigenous communities in Canada without safe drinking water, to the DRC, to Sudan.
We are all connected.
