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["Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>]

My thought is if city people are starving and come to rural areas 
looking for food, then they could be housed and put to work farming for 
everyone's benefit. Even my small place could house another family. 
During the Depression when my grandfather was out of work my mother's 
large family was housed in a relative's barn. In the two back-to-back 
500 year floods I've been through here I was amazed at how well 
community worked together for common good in a crisis, when they don't 
necessarily do that on a day to day basis. I am hearing the same from 
friends in their ice storms. I think there will be a lot of compassion 
if things get really bad.

There will also be lessons of humility. I came from a very poor family, 
put myself through college, and worked my way up the corporate ladder. 
When I left to start my own business, I decided to work a couple days a 
week for a year at a local paint manufacturer that needed help 
organizing and filling orders. I drove through seven often flowing low 
water crossings just to get there, same seven back. The warehouse was 
exceedingly cold (for me) in the winter and sometimes 104 degrees in the 
summer. The paint orders weighed 60 lbs, and I lifted over a ton each 
day. Some people might think I was crazy, but it covered my car payment 
while I built up my business, and helped some good folks out. It was 
like getting paid to go to the gym, and I could dress however I pleased. 
I had no problem with doing something like this because I learned 
humility a long time ago, you do what you have to do. Remember those 
great scenes from Cold Mountain of those ladies learning to cope?

Bob, you often talk about all of us tough, hard homesteading ladies. I 
think most women possess this spirit whether they know it yet or not. 
But I think our hardness does not come from guns, it comes from 
perseverance and determination as much as it does compassion, humility, 
and love.

--Sage

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > Lynn, I was making a point, not exactly being literal.  I was talking the 
> > ridiculous mad max scenarios where only Darwinian rules count.  But, I 
> > accept your response, and understand how my comment could have sounded 
> > like I enjoy the idea of violent behavior - when I actually hope to never 
> > again have to act violently toward anyone.  Part of the world is very ugly 
> > Lynn, and we all live in the world; but, that comment was toward a silly 
> > apocalyptic future.  I apologize for upsetting your morning ....bobf
> >
> >     
> You are the one who keeps bringing up the "apocalyptic future". Your posts 
> often speak of guns and violence, full of anger and fear. I've never seen 
> the world that way. I lived in a ghetto and went to graduate school in north 
> Philadelphia (Temple University), the worst neighborhood in the city. I had 
> night classes and took public transportation alone. In 53 years, I've never 
> owned a gun and never felt the need for one. To me, the world has never been 
> a scary place.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA 
>
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