this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
this was my house. our neighborhood. our families. our friends. our beautiful community. the wildlife…those precious animals and crawly things… so many…this is devastating loss. we will heal and build/create new. moment by moment. breath by breath. one step at a time. 🙏💔♥️ #eatonfires #eaton #altadena #altadenafire #california #californiawildfires #wildfires
don’t have a lot of words right now. but my gratitude for all who have reached out is infinite. it is medicine to my heart. i’ll continue to share different ways we can help each other through this. there are some posts in my stories you can share and contribute to if you can. this city needs all the help we can offer. with deep love & gratitude..♥️ #altadena #eaton #eatoncanyon #eatonfire #palisades #pacificpalisades #losangeles #sylmar #california #strongertogether #weneedeachother #love
@epiccons had me feeling festive today!!! 🎄🎉🎈💫 thank you for having me. it was beyond epic being able to rejoin my girl @lifeofrileyv —heart of pure sunshine—✨✨ i love Freelin! always & forever ❤️🔥 #theoriginals fans are the absolute best. ever. #iwff2 #alwaysandforever
went to my property last week for the first time since that first night i went back when the last of fires were slowly putting themselves out. like the last straggles at a party they didn’t want to end. tonight i miss my home. my neighborhood. my neighbors. the mountains and woods and creeks..essentially my back yard. i miss those damn raucous parrots and the peacocks. loud and unapologetic waking the neighborhood whenever they feel like it. i miss my soft rugs. my couch. it’s really fucking comfortable. i miss how bowie would run through the bushes in my yard and come back in smelling like lavender, rosemary and sage. i miss the owls calling out in the night. i miss the park with our dog crew. i miss bowie running back and forth along my fence every time we came back from a walk or at night while i was cooking dinner letting the possums and raccoons know who ran the joint. i miss… #eatonfire #californiawildfires #altadenastrong #onealtadena #strongertogether #rise #werise
if you have clothing and or goods to offer those impacted by the fires, please consider using SIBS. a buy sell trade app that is being used for LA Fire Relief. it’s a streamlined way to offer those in need. if you decide to list your goods there, please consider sharing that here on your account to help spread the word faster. those in need can search on the app as well as post for what they need. you can download the app wherever you get your apps. or go to co founder of SIBS @kaplanaaron the link is in his bio. 🙏🏽♥️ #lafirerelief #lawildfires #southerncaliforniawildfires #eatonfire #palisadesfire
yesterday was the 8th. one month ago Altadena burned. the first few photos are the transition from what i bought to what i created. (🙏🏽 @studiojohnsharp @nogapools @serapio_rangel @green_line_gardening) 🔥 tuesday jan 7th. the wind. the embers. the flames. the ash. the birds. the trees. pine and jasper tree branches flying across my front yard terrifyingly fast. telephone polls like broken limbs or toothpicks scattered. entire palm and oak trees ripped out at the root through concrete laying like fallen giants in the middle of major city streets. i’ve never seen anything like this in LA. 🔥 the night my house burned, jan 8th driving through the streets i saw a coyote pacing back and forth before trotting onto a lawn disappearing behind the house that was still standing. surrounded by other houses still standing. too with green grass. refuge. 🔥 LA. my home. our. home. this city. as much as i have complained about los angeles. i was born here. raised here. i will always love her. and how fortunate i was to have found this gem that is altadena. to be welcomed with such open arms and to have felt more home here than anywhere i have ever lived in los angeles… to have been able to build my sanctuary here…such blessings i cherish deeply. 🔥 altadena you are golden. rare. the most diverse and eclectic in all of los angeles with history of integrity and grit. of art. creativity. innovation and power. this town is mighty. and will rise. higher stronger deeper than ever before. the possibilities are endless. the vision is vast. 🔥 thank you @mytriberise and @altanot4sale and the other altadena organizations who put on the rally yesterday, for your tireless work to help protect altadena. yesterday was hard, but being there with my community was/is everything. 🙏🏽♥️ #altadena #werise #altadenastrong #strongertogether #eatonfire #losangeles #californiawildfires #onealtadena first 📷 @sasha_darling poet: @artistshelleybruce
this woman. ana. is an incredible human, body worker, my friend. her home burned down. let’s help her rebuild her home practice and what she has lost. anything helps. even just passing the info along to anyone who can spare some change. thank you ♥️ https://gofund.me/26c7d562
Feeling the goodness when the walls close in tight threatening breath and reason… the coolness of stone against skin burnt and bleeding, peeling. Yet within the weight the pressure there are moments where I feel calm and held in stillness and the water rushes the scent of mustard flowers and white sage and my darling girl chasing lizards… sometimes feeling all this beauty under all the sludge and ash feels so damn tender so excruciating and vulnerable… because what happens If I say yes to this? Give me the courage to soak in this moment this one fleeting fragile moment. And then the next. This breath. Her amber eyes who only know right now. Let the ache of the right now crack my heart open to all its infinite possibilities. To the weight and to the unbearable lightness of yes. The pain the pleasure and everything in between. The greenness of green. The vivid stories and the pages that turn to smoke.
My mother is everything. #mothersday
“drink all damage into love.” – @nayyirahwaheedwords my darling @katie.with.a.fan thank you ♥️ healing from #eatonfire #californiawildfires #altadenastrong #altadena
there is grace. thank you jo.♥️ @the.body.talks #wendellberry #altadenastrong #eatonfire #poetry #poetrylovers #strongertogether
started writing this a few mornings ago. work in progress… WE RISE from death & scorched earth we rise. build new. hearts and palms lifted toward sky we praise the life we’ve been given. with humble hearts & trembling hands we lock arms. grief stricken and tear stained rage tethered to each beat we come as we are. holding each others gaze. breath by breath. in this moment. and then the next. we find our footing as we walk toward the horizon we envision revealed by each step we take by each courageous turn toward the wise unknown. the promise becomes the light when we can learn to feel in the dark. traversing the inner landscape alone seeds the strength we need to regenerate. together. the strength we need to co create with earth, her creatures, the elements, each other. please, with. each. other. we can create something new. sustainable. impermeable within the reality of impermanence. while not escaping the truth: there is nothing outside of ourselves that we can hold on to. our safety doesn’t come from what can burn. we are intimate friends with this now. bone deep knowledge. building inner sanctuary is our foundation community is our wealth our currency and we can create a universe in our communities beyond what we ever thought possible. may we be brave. may we be honest. may we be kind. may we be love. may we be love. #eatonfire #altadena #altadenastrong #californiawildfires #onealtadena #faith #prayer #strongertogether #community #love #mytriberise #poetry #poem #palisadesfire
Egypt…you are utterly breathtaking. Life changing. I left you in tears because I wasn’t ready to leave. I felt a deep love for this country that took me wholly by surprise I came back to LA December 24th 2024. Two weeks later, in the early hours on January 8th, my house burned down. So much of what I experienced in Egypt is carrying me through this. Or prepared me in some way. Not directly. It’s not linear. It’s not clear. Not much is right now. Messages still unraveling or becoming. But echos of things felt and heard on those warm sands under those massive otherworldly structures and statues, comfort me. Guide me. Sometimes confuse me. But I can feel them as something beautiful and new yet ancient and strong to live into. And things revealed to let go. I can’t rush this process. Bones have to set. Ash still covers my town. My heart. But I’m slowly starting to feel like the yarrow & wild flowers in my yard finding sun out of the charred soil.
iPhones are really annoying. 🙄 Been missing my boy like crazy lately so iPhone decided to make this video without my permission.
The city has to pay for testing. End of story. #eatonfire #altadenastrong #palisadesfire #firerecovery #cleansoil #cleanair #protectourenvironment #healthfirst
Life. People. The natural world. The vastly different lives and experiences, perspectives…continually humble me. Kenya you are beautiful. #nairobinationalpark #massai #amboselinationalpark #kenya
This land. These animals. 🖤❤️💚 @gunghoeco 🙏🏽 #sheldrickelephantorphanage #nairobinationalpark #amboselinationalpark
