Welcome chicks!
I leave for a week in Texas tonight and, to tell you the truth, I’m dreading it. Not being there so much as getting there. And maybe a tiny bit being there. It’s weird because I used to love to travel and now it feels like I’m being punished for something. Flying is just so dispiriting and exhausting. I always forget to request a good seat when I book my ticket and I really resent paying an extra $25 to check a bag.
I also hate being so far away from the farm for so long. It’s silly, I know, but I really feel so very at home here at Juniper Moon. It’s a very special, comforting, nurturing place and I know I’ll be homesick before too long. Not being able to drop everything and come home in case of an emergency makes me anxious.
I also know I’m going to have a great time with all my mama, my friends and all of you who are coming for the meet-ups we’re having. I’m just in a fussy mood, I guess.
Feeling sorry for one’s self is never particularly attractive, but it’s even less so this week when so many people have lost so much in Haiti. I was thinking that, if it’s okay with y’all, we might divert some of the money we’ve been raising for the Heifer Institute to the Red Cross for Haiti. Please let me know what you think. It seems such a tiny thing to do in the face of that kind of catastrophe…
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I vote for Operation Divert.
ditto – divert away!
Sounds good to me, see you Thursday, we’ll cheer you up.
I also vote that you have a wonderful time.
I’m not a huge fan of flying either. The last time I did I got called aside for the whole wanding procedure, shoes off, the whole bit. I hated it. I want the security, but it seems the bad guys still get through.
I think raising money for Haiti is a great idea.
Seems like we have a lot in common. Maybe we are sisters from different mothers? I was born in Ft. Worth, have a culinary degree and live in VA. Pretty weird, huh? I hate to fly. We usually drive to Texas to visit family for that very reason. Two days in the car of on again, off again knitting beats being frisk in the airport, having my needles taken away and paying to have my clothes get there the same time I do. I am completely agree with you!! Despite the aggravation of it all, you will have the best time being home with your family and all the fiber friends. I really wish I was going. I haven’t been to a good cattle auction in years and years. I do love them! I hope you posts lots of pictures!
Although I’m sure you’ll have a great time, there’s no place like home.
Operation divert definitely!
I vote for diverting away. I love going to new places but hate the packing and the getting-there part. Unless its by train. You’re going to have a great time!
Divert.
Susan, I know what you mean by the “getting there”, I also dread being away from home. Every once in a while a horrific situation like what happened in Haiti will remind us of what we have lost or what has changed in our lives and it makes us sad. Don’t worry about it, once you get to Big Texas, you will have a ball, your mom will hug you and call you by your childhood endearment and all things will be okay. And you have some very capable hands at Jupiter Moon… have fun girl… you deserve it!
Safe travels to Texas!!:) Enjoy your time there and relax knowing that waiting for you on the other end is your loving, nuturing comfort zone.
I vote to divert the money. Every extra penny will make a difference.
I also think it’s a worthy fund divert-ion.
Flying is a. drag. There is nothing fun about it; the “fun” only starts when you leave the airport and get to your destination.
Now, TRAIN travel, OTH, is all about the travel as well. Susan, I know you had a miserable experience…but for me, once I am on the train, the vacation has started. Sooner or (more likely) later we’ll get there. The journey is part of the adventure. I LOVE train travel (well, except for the bathrooms: UGH!).
Heifer dot org also has a Haiti relief fund …
Heiffer takes care of getting people back on their feet. Emergency groups (I prefer MSF to Red Cross, but my idea still applies) help people *keep* their feet. Both are important, but Haiti needs the emergency stuff now.
I was pretty sure that Heifer would have something too – but I would think it might be several months before they will really be able to begin service again – and to me, the Red Cross/Doctors Without Borders needs are so immediate, urgent and overwhelming….
I think that there are lots of funds being donated for the immediate needs, and the fact that Heifer will help with long-term needs makes me think that Heifer could really use the money. I made a donation to Doctors Without Borders to help for now, but a year from now there will still be hell in Haiti while the world focusing on a current crisis elsewhere.
Maybe a year from now we can have another fundraiser.