Los Angeles, California -I wrote this from a fire concert held in Los Angeles. LIVE NATION's friend handed a ticket to the Music -Comprehensive Pacific Parisards, which had lost their homes and were affected by the fire. (Our house is still standing, but we can't go home. It's not for years.)
I am a cheperon tonight, but I still do not manage the storm of emotions.
My eldest daughter is sitting next to me. She loves rock and roll -she plays several instruments -she is amazed at her hero and incorporates a surprising sight of all cameo actions.
I took her to the fire area on Monday. They ultimately put a civilian. Thanks to President Donald Trump, the mayor of Karen Bus alone just applied to the residents, even if we just sad our losses.
She shouted to see the destruction, but smiled again and saw our neighbors returned, and two photos of some ceramic animals, children's school projects, and two photos.
We are sitting in three rows behind Steve Barmer, one of the most wealthy men in the world, which matches all the contributions tonight. I am wearing a donated coat. My own coat was damaged by smoke and was blown into my house through smoke or windows, and after avoiding the row of ficus trees, I maintained the remaining remaining from our house. Was blown away.
A few days before the fire, I put some clothes bags on my private road to collect with a local philosophy. A few days later, I hardly knew that I had to defeat someone's hand.
Yes, I still have room to buy a coat -If I was thinking about it, I would probably have it. But I didn't have much time to think, much less to go shopping. I barely slept in three weeks.
One day, there was a coat on the rack, outside the chabad house next to Malibu's Farafel Stand, where I took Israeli firefighters for meals.
I left it on the rack at first. Perhaps someone else thought it might be more needed than me. But on the way home, it was still there. So I took it.
I am wearing this charity. In a sense, all of us are so.
I took the coat. However, even if half of the clients are scattered in Southern California, I have some weights from my intact garage on my personal trainer, and the equipment needs to keep the facilities and continue to work. I gave some weight.
Another woman who lost her house knew that we could not go to the store easily, so we bought food from the Santa Monica Formers Market for us. -5 The bedroom Airbnb and Instacart suddenly became luxurious instead of the bedroom house.
Everyone is helping everyone.
BREITBART NEWS is covered. However, I have also helped people take pictures of their property, search for lost pets, and drive their cars from the fire zone. I helped the police search for a missing person, and I helped the firefighters to understand where the relics from the local parish churches are. last week I helped the US President to understand what happened here and what needed to happen. He helped to open the town again.
And everyone has helped everyone, and I have never felt so connected to my neighbor before. And really, the rest of LA and the United States.
Charity is interesting. We tend to consider it as a kind of wealth, probably “social justice”, a kind of wealth that gives the poor.
I don't know what “justice” means in this context. When my house is standing and almost everything around it is gone. That's not because I'm a better person -trust me, I'm not. And if it was for the scriptures of my shelf, or Meszotto Please tell me why the rabbi's house was burned out in my door and my thing did not burn out.
No, this is not about justice.
Life can be random. Some people don't have some people -and sometimes lose everything. Parisade is full of suddenly poor rich. Many lost fire insurance a few days before the fire.
There is a concept of a Jewish that charitable organizations must be given by even the poorest. It is a way to help the poor to see their value, but it is also a statement about what charity is.
Charity is not just generous. It is about the connection between us and the perception that we need each other. The rich also need the poor.
Rabbi, standing in the abandoned INS with me, observed that the person who received charity did more for the gifts than the person who received it.
Music is also interesting. Even when you are sad, we need to sing. And laugh. Billy Crystal was once the honorary mayor of Parisades, holding a firefighter show, telling us how he lost his house, and then made some jokes.
We Americans handle sadness through these collective events -and I think so, but I also deal with difficult times by writing.
So I have to sit here, write down my column on my donated coat, sing pink songs and explain to my daughter, and I think it will be a little rough this year. I think the day, but I think the future looks incredible.
I don't know why.
Joel B. Polak is an advanced editor of Brightbart News BREITBART NEWS SUNDAY Sirius XM Patriot is from 7 pm to 10 pm on Sunday (from 4:00 pm to 7 pm). He is the author Agenda: Trump should take his first 100 daysYou can order on Amazon. He is also the author Trump's virtue: Lessons and heritage of President Donald TrumpAudible is now available. He is the winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Association Fellowship. Please follow him on Twitter @joelpollak。
