Hey team—
So that city where I used to live has been on fire from so many directions for so many days :( Help is needed on so many fronts, so I’m listing a few places you can donate rn. This is by no means an exhaustive list, there are tons of individual fundraisers and lists compiled by great organizations around LA—if you are someone who has the ability to focus long enough to go that route, DO IT. But decision paralysis is real and it can be overwhelming to sift through lots of great lists and social posts and recs!! So if I can give you, those whom it may concern but overwhelm, the easy one-click link to do something, then I’ve done my job.
Can you pls click literally just one of these and give $5 or $25 or $100 real quick?
As most of you know, I lived in LA for a couple years. And some of my oldest friends have lived there for more than a decade. It’s got a special place in my heart, and the loss going on there right now from these fires is straight up insane. Whole neighborhoods are just… gone. In the northeast, we get things like hurricanes and blizzards—water damage and power outages and cars crushed by falling trees. It’s “oh god everything is soaked and damaged and we have to throw out all the furniture and rugs and clothes and everything in the fridge and get a sump pump and do mold remediation and…” But fire is fucking different.
Like, can you even imagine? Every item you once owned is now a pile of ashes?? You have no socks, you have no light bulbs, or anything that lightbulbs go into, you have no photos of your grandma who died before iPhones were invented, you have no Advil. And you have no home base anymore, so you have no established neighbors anymore?? No person who you always wave to as you’re taking the trash out, no one’s ugly new front gate to joke about with your boo, like, straight up none of the things from normal every day life. How fucking devastating. I have no more words. So instead, I dug into my camera roll to share some of my favorite views from around LA <3
So pretty, right?! If you missed it up top, time to donate now:
kthanksbye!