Editorial by Gwyn Lurie
Having Montecito’s Back
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hese days, there’s no shortage of things to get emotional about. Like most of us, other than essential workers for whom I feel deep gratitude, I’ve been home for almost six weeks. Reading and watching the nightly news is painful, but I do it. I worry about my elderly mother. I feel horrible for my friends, my neighbors, and those across the world who cannot work and don’t have a safety net. I feel badly for those who have worked so hard to build businesses they could lose. And my heart goes out to those who don’t have enough food and/or shelter. I feel bad for my daughters who have spent their 13th and 16th birthdays in quarantine and I worry about how all of this is affecting them. And mostly, I feel such sorrow for those who have lost their lives, or a loved one, to this insidious virus that has upended… everything. And so it is that this past Wednesday afternoon when I stood on my driveway to catch a glimpse of the MUS Staff Parade planned by teachers and staff who mapped out a route through Montecito so they could drive by the homes of their students, I must confess… I completely lost it! As car after car of teachers and administrators passed my home, bedecked with homemade signs and streaming with balloons, honking and waving and smiling, I burst into tears. There is so much to cry about these days and yet, this was the thing that made it happen. There was something about the basic sweetness and loving intention at the core of this beautiful gesture that wrecked me. As I stood in front of my home waving to so many of the wonderful teachers and staff with whom I had the honor of working during my eight years on the school board, watching them drive around town simply to let their students know, “We’re still here, even though we can’t assemble in your physical school, and we care and we miss you.” I felt the purest sense of gratitude to live in a place where people spontaneously do something like that. That’s Montecito. Okay, no place is perfect. But Montecito’s pretty darn special.
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