So what WOULD you take with you, if you had to evacuate?
At Rest, originally uploaded by graphicartepsi. From my summer 2007 journal...
Funny, I think about that on occasion...it helps me to know what's important to me, among the material aspects of my world. (Naturally I'd want to save my sweetheart and my animals first!)
Sometimes, it's been necessary to think along these lines--when we've moved, when we might lose everything, when we were so broke we thought we might have to take to the road in a bread truck, when the tornado warnings sound, when I smell smoke--so I know pretty much what's really most important to me.
My sketchbook/journals are at the top of the list, after the sentient beings.
This picture is both--a journal entry and my Scout, whom I lost last fall... I used to take her to the basement in case of tornados...
Then a few of the paintings I've done that mean a lot to me--portraits, mostly, naturally, of people and of the cats I've shared my life with. I've dragged this one to the basement with me more than once...
All the art supplies I could manage, of course--but at least one good set of watercolors, a couple of mechanical pencils, an ink pen, and my favorite 4 brushes--a big round one, like a #12, a medium and a small round, and a 3/4" flat. (If I can take more, then the 1" flat, too.*G*)
So, just say my field kit, mostly that stuff is in there, along with my credit card and checkbook.That's what I take to the basement when the tornado sirens go off! :-)
The wonderful old natural bristle hairbrush my love gave to me, and a wide-toothed faux tortoise shell comb I've had since I was a little hippie chick. (Long hair DOES need special goodies!)
Two of the kitchen knives I don't want to keep house without--one chef's knife, one thin-bladed butcher knife, both old, neither stainless. They sharpen well--who needs a Cuisinart or blender?!
My broom. So laugh, already, I am NOT talking about the one I fly off on! They don't make 'em like this any more, I don't think--it's kind of shaped like a push broom and it's got nylon bristles haired at the end. Works as a broom and a dustmop, and it's QUIET. I don't have carpets and I don't like vacuum cleaners...
My feather pillow and down comforter, for winter, and the oh so wonderful all-cotton sheets for summer.
My maple pennywhistle in C, and the ebony and sterling key of D one...must have music...
There are a few very special books I'd want to take--a couple my love gave me, my mom's Bible, Hannah Hinchman's A Life in Hand; Creating the Illuminated Journal...but mostly the library will have to go. There's just too much.
And of course when the sirens sound, it's cats, field kit, journal, and MAYBE a painting!
Of course I'd like to take my computer, my camera, my scanner, but we're getting out of hand here. The above list is my basic of basics...
...what's yours? (Dang, did I just make a MEME??)