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A “Go” Bag Isn’t Just for Conspiracy Theorists

There are lots of survival shows on TV these days, and many of the people on them probably look crazy,

Do they have a go bag? — Wonder if they have a “go” bag?

with their plans for getting out of town fast in the event of a variety of disasters. I’ve learned from these shows though that a “go bag” isn’t just for conspiracy theorists. Living in Florida, I deal with torrential downpours, tornados, hurricanes, wild fires, and highways shut down due to major wrecks. In 1997, I was working the night shift and wasn’t able to get home because all routes were closed due to wild fires. Fortunately, I was working for a hotel at the time and was able to get a room for the night. We wore uniforms so I didn’t have to worry about fresh clothes, but sitting up that night, watching the news coverage of the fires burning, inching closer to homes and threatening to keep the roads closed for days, I vowed that I would never make my commute without at least an overnight bag from then on.

Building my go bag has taken years. It started with a basic change of clothes and a blanket, in case my car broke down somewhere. After a particularly good session working with my technical guru

Musician and Photographer — Mike Thomas My Technical Guru

on the video trailer for Summer Storms, I was too tired to make the drive home and had to be back in to work in only five hours any way, so I crashed in a hotel with my trusty go bag. When I got in the room, though, I found out my bag wasn’t as trusty as I thought. The pants I had didn’t match my dress shoes, I didn’t have any toiletries, contact lens case or solution, not even a hair brush. Fortunately the hotel gift shop was still open and I was able to buy the few things not provided complimentary. When I got home the next night, I made a list of the things I needed to add to my bag.

Now, I feel confident that my bag will get me through just about any spontaneous situation, well, except an invitation to a formal event. I haven’t figured out how to cram an evening gown in the bag. I guess I’ll have to depend on my fairy godmother for that.

Every girl needs a fairy godmothr — Just in Case!

When You Blog Which Do You Favor?

I worked on blogs and such yesterday and today gave my work in progress, the final book of The Florida Springs Trilogy, Clear Spring some attention. I don’t know why it takes years to get into good routines, but that’s one of the reasons I’m much in favor of routines, they help me streamline my life. It looks as if it will work to spend a two hour block one day doing marketing, answering emails, writing blogs, etc. and the next day concentrate on the novel. That would be a very loose plan for me. If a blog was insisting on being written right that minute, of course I would write it then.

How about you? Do you favor routine or are you a free spirit?

Letters

I have re-read the letters Bill wrote me while he was stationed aboard ship in the Navy in 1958. They are pretty much the same as the ones Dad sent Mother in 1945 during World War II. I suppose a service person’s life can be full of monotony even in wartime.

Receiving messages from home or from loved ones far away is by far the most wonderful, the most exciting, and the most fulfilling thing that can happen for most people in a day or a week. Nowadays it is easier and takes less time than it ever has. I love paper letters, but even more, I love modern technology that makes communicating so quick and easy. Besides being where you can hold hands, what’s your favorite style of communication these days?

I enjoy letters so much I designed some note cards.

Worries-A Poem

This poem is called “Worries” I read my Streams in the Desert Journal every day for the uplifting of my spirit it brings. It’s fun to find things I’d forgotten about. On Jun 3, of this year, I found a poem I wrote on May 25, 2011. At one time I was writing in it just a night when I couldn’t sleep so the dates are mixed. I don’t care. Do you?

Worry is such a sin that right away when I begin, I shut down all my mind and strength and go to such an awful length to deny my worries, oh, and not to ask that they will go, but to bury them where they’ll most do harm and cause my soul a high alarm. Lately though, I start to think, if I’ll admit, I will not sink. So now I say, I’m worried Lord, please throw my worries overboard. He comes, He does, as I have asked, and soon my worries all have passed.

Admit it daughter and come to me . I’ll deal with pain and set you free.

“Let us pass away over unto the other side.”

Mark 4:35

How do you deal with worry?