Well, howdy do. It's October. I don't know where September got off to. So here comes Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas. I went in a craft store a couple of days ago and there was the whole season assaulting my eyes. I was buying scrapbooks for my granddaughter's pictures, and it took a firm grip on my mind to not veer in the holiday isles. And I don't even WANT to buy that stuff. It's hypnotic.
What I do want to do today is get an LED lantern and more flashlights and a battery radio, because on Saturday we lost power for one hour two separate times, and it made me realize all my emergency stuff has migrated to the cabin, which is good, the power often goes out up there, but I am ill prepared here for an earthquake. Sitting in a dark room my flashlight was NOT a romantic way to have our dinner. And my husband had to drive out to get our meal in an area with electricity, or otherwise we would have had cold sandwiches.
My lack of preparation reminds me that I think like the herds. We borrow with no ability to repay if things go south, we don't plan sensibly, then get angry at officials for not having the water and food and things we need to survive. We're like helpless babies. I like to think of myself as sensible, but I do not have tucked away cash in the house, or extra toliet paper etc. I used to, then got blaise. No more. I'm going to stock up today, not out of negativity, but knowing I'm not helpless and should not act that way, and because it is so easy, and I will not think well of myself if something happens and I have not at least done these few preparations that are wise. Mother nature does not promise us the unalienable right to electricity and clean water and food and shelter. She's got other things on her mind.
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