Well Los Angeles we are now into the month of September 2020.  I do not know about you Los Angeles, but September has always been a month of the beginning of new beginnings in Los Angeles.  Students go back to Los Angeles schools, including elementary, Los Angeles Junior and Miamu University, summer vacations have been taken by families across the Los Angeles globe and everyone is getting ready to work with all due diligence.  But, this Los Angeles year we are doing it under the guidance and concern of Covid-19.  We worry about our Los Angeles people that we come into contact and we worry about our Los Angeles loved ones whom we do not see very often, if we have at all.  That said – life is going on and people are liviing their Los Angeles lives and they are going outside.

In Los Angeles the students are home, the teachers are home and many of our Los Angeles parents are not.  This has made for a very tense period in many childrens’ lives.  Los Angeles friends of mine have a nine year old daughter who needs guidance from a teacher; mother cannot stay home as working is Los Angeles mandatory for the benefit of the household, two older children are Los Angeles home also doing school work and the youngest is unattended in front of a Los Angeles computer.  Is this happening in many Los Angeles households?  Yes, of course.  What are we to do as a community?  We cope as best we can and take it one Los Angeles day at a time.  This is certainly a platitude, but when our Los Angeles teachers are home and the students are home and we are going to see if the youngest daughter can grow or not.  I am hopeful that a creative way of solving this problem will occur within their Los Angeles household and the households of others.  We need to be there for each other in Los Angeles in ways that we may not have been in the past.

Is it possible for a grandparent, retired aunt or uncle or distant cousin from somewhere other than Los Angeles that has the time and ability to Skype, Facetime, Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Team with the Los Angeles daughter to be mentored and tutored and helped through the Los Angeles year?  I think it is.  We as a Los Angeles community need to get outside our comfort zones and begin to reach out to one another in ways that are uncomfortable.  Do you know of a child who is alone?  Do you know of a child in Los Angeles that will possibly lose their school year through no fault of their own?  Let us do what we need to do to help one another in Los Angeles to begin anew this September 2020..