She Also Brakes for Butterflies
Jan. 3rd, 2009 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
create_destinyWhen world events get me down and I think there is no compassion left on earth, I remind myself of this:
There is a woman in Fresno, who, after it rains, dresses her young children (ages 3 & 5) in coats, hats and galoshes. Outside, she retrieves a bucket from her garden shed and puts two scoops of loose dirt in it. She and her children then walk around their financially-challenged neighborhood with the bucket, searching for worms washed up on the sidewalk, whom they gently pick up and place in the bucket. Her kids squeal with delight for every worm they find and they count them up as they go. They rescued 18 worms last Tuesday and 22 the day before. Other kids in the neighborhood get curious and come out of their homes and soon she is leading a brigade of children on a worm rescuing mission.
There is a woman in Fresno, who, after it rains, dresses her young children (ages 3 & 5) in coats, hats and galoshes. Outside, she retrieves a bucket from her garden shed and puts two scoops of loose dirt in it. She and her children then walk around their financially-challenged neighborhood with the bucket, searching for worms washed up on the sidewalk, whom they gently pick up and place in the bucket. Her kids squeal with delight for every worm they find and they count them up as they go. They rescued 18 worms last Tuesday and 22 the day before. Other kids in the neighborhood get curious and come out of their homes and soon she is leading a brigade of children on a worm rescuing mission.
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:02 pm (UTC)I think in her mind, she's already lost the house and so it would be stupid to dig in with things like chicken coops and such.
What she doesn't realize is that the huge collapse of society is on the way, and that in all likelihood she'll have this house forever because it will be too hard to take millions of houses away from people in the midst of rioting and chaos. :p
At that point, I will remind her how great it would be to have our own cow and chickens and vegetable garden!