Hiking after a miscarriage, grief walks with me Kiana Butler Jabangwe © (Dani Choi / For The Times) (Dani Choi / For The Times)
Grief walks with me now in the mountains. Sometimes it hangs back, letting me forget it’s even there. Other days, it rests on my shoulders, reminding me of everything I lost last year.
I’ve hiked on weekends since 2018. My husband wakes me before the sun rises. We make the hourlong trek from our Inglewood apartment to one of the many trails snaking through the Santa Monica Mountains.
There’s scarce Wi-Fi in the woods. I welcome the time untethered, even when my hips and thighs burn on steep hills. There’s something about the trails in Southern California that makes me feel seen. Nature isn’t always safe or accessible for everyone, but as a Black woman rarely am I not acknowledged by other hikers people look me in the eye and speak.
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‘Our Ticket’
Toward the end of Health Officer Ian Hoffman’s April 6 briefing to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, First District Supervisor Rex Bohn asked a question. Nationally, he noted, 25 to 30 percent of those eligible are declining the COVID-19 vaccine. He asked Hoffman whether that trend has held locally.
“I think what I can say about the demand for vaccine in Humboldt is it has continued to be extraordinarily high,” Hoffman answered before quickly noting there have been “many more” people eligible to receive the vaccine locally than there have been available doses, making it hard to figure what percentage of the local population may decline a dose if offered one.