Losses and a few small victories

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Our friends’ holiday wish clarified the way in which disasters can be simultaneously crushing and affirming. They leave us lost and bewildered. And they remind us what really matters.

Postfire logistics can overwhelm

The family home where I grew up in Malibu, which we still own, also burned a year ago. Our old ranch house, built in 1948 and bought by my parents in 1969, had survived too many fires to remember. But the monster of 2025 finally took it down, leaving a void in place of the house where my mom had died just months earlier.

We already had taken much of what we wanted from the old place. But some photos and my mom’s artwork went up with the flames.