What do you pack when you don't know where you are going or how long you will be? If I can't do that for my purse right now, in this moment, what can it be like to be in the path of a deadly storm and trying to choose what to bring? What can it be like to not know if your home will be home anymore?
I want to help. I just want to just help... fix IT. Turning off the news doesn't help.
Did you ever just get in a car or a plane or train or bus so you could get there NOW? Get to your loved one, get to a stranger alone, find a way to do something, anything?
I have run toward things like that, but not in a long time. Never too late, right?
And no, I am not driving to the southeastern US right now. I am having lunch and packing a purse full of practical things. I will figure out what to pack for the longer journey later. For now I will just be. Stillness is a hard thing to practice, and it is going to take a mammoth effort. It is temporary, this stillness, but it serves a purpose.
I am up to the task.
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