ジェシカ・シーバさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジェシカ・シーバInstagram)「We almost bought our first home last month. It was our dream home. Truth is, I hadn’t seen Justin so convicted since his dental board exams, and so when it fell through, I was leveled. It would have been a move closer to the ocean and away from the community we both grew up in. We were ready. I’ve found myself longing for the cyclical comfort of the thunderstorms from my Midwest childhood. The soggy, still atmosphere just before a raucous in the skies. Counting the moments between lightning bolts and sheet-pan thunder cracks. And then, the crisp air that brings a stench of wet asphalt. A freak storm came to us last week. The intense heat wave brought a flurry of lightning, starting close to 400 fires in California. The rain never came. Today Jack woke up at 5am, his lungs pulling and whistling, the skin on his arms, legs and chest covered in itchy hives. Asthma is sinister; Sometimes we don’t know what is causing his body to react. Sometimes it’s food allergies or environmental exposures, other times it’s stress. The fire is all around us. How do I talk to a child about the smoke, or his grandparent’s home, or the concurrent pandemic that has altered their life immeasurably? The emotional fallout from all of this will be incalculable. The irony that the home we wanted is in the evacuation zone with our family and friend’s homes. Maybe, if it all burns down we can start anew. Destiny wasn’t written, it manifests in real time. Scorched but still standing.」8月22日 5時36分