Out in the world, not trying to turn things around so much as document what went terribly, and the alerts start coming in, a drill, a let’s-pretend. Sobering to see what we were preparing for, overlaid with what was: the open doorways, pedestrians, cars, our workaday Wednesday no worse for wear.

The Guerrero Market and Deli corner store (with a Progress Pride flag hanging down from a second floor window above it) next to the Java Supreme coffee shop both have open doors to the Guerrero Street sidewalk in San Francisco's Mission District.

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