it's just now over. Repeat of yesterday but not quite so much intense. And this time, i'd covered the Alfalfa.
i watch the feeds about Texas. it's ok, because it's what is Real in Real Time. and what always has me on my knees is the animals. There was one pic of a man in chest deep water, walking his blow up mattress, his Raft, walking it along and on it was a cat carrier and a dog crate. i guess a back pack. His world. Them and him.
today, just another Storm. A BIG storm, but nothing like that, 6 days now, but it brings me into that zone of Empathy. How it feels to be wet and muddy, no reprieve. defenseless. at the Mercy of.
i put these scraps here. They are nothing special. scraps of clothing from Thrift Shop, the pieces from Deb...thrift shop. Nothing beauty Full or Grand, just scraps and i thought about that, how way back in the beginning of Spirit Cloth, Jude Hill, i was so ecstatic that just "nothing cloth" could Become anything. So i was driven today to find a way for these scraps of nothing much really.
and watching the people in Texas, i remembered the Bug Out Bag. This was before i found Spirit Cloth and i was adrift and i found Sharon Astyk, Depletion and Abundance. Sustainability. The first "blog" i ever
knew. Now she is i guess The Chatelaine's Keys, but i went there to look and she's not blogging with regularity.
Her book: Depletion and Abundance....Life on the New Home Front. One Woman's Solutions to Finding Abundance for your Family while Coming to Terms with Peak Oil, Climate Change and Hard Times.
so bug out bag. Talk of that then, 2008, talk of that now. What would you take?????
I couldn't take my baskets of cloth, or my pyrex collection. I would need to rely on Tay being able to hold her own. Tazmeena, not so much....she's old. What about the Goats? They don't swim.
but, paring it down, down to me, what i might take?
in this moment, i would take my spool of silk thread....a light camel....color...neutral that works with the invisible baste of Everything. a needle or two. a pencil. graphite. 2B and i would take Deb's dirty thread. From there, i could Go.
