Typical MO weather: right after I posted about it being too cold to walk or garden, we got a warmish day, and I did both!  I walked to and from A’s (spending a sleepless night in between), and I started the process of removing the old cardboard and cultivating the empty rows.  I’ll remove the dead summer plants but leave the cool-weather greens for now.  Eventually the garden will be empty, mostly weedless, and ready to add homemade organic material and compost to be tilled in.  At least that’s the current plan.

I think this is how I deal psychologically with the apocalypse brewing around us: I continue to live life in the most productive, helpful way I know how, where I live, and hope it creates continuity and beauty for my extended family going into the coming four years.  I don’t have money or mobility to donate or volunteer, so I contribute what few skills I have (and free food) to the immediate needs in front of me.  If writing about my mundane efforts encourages anyone else, then all the better.