It sounds like a new meme, but it's the question I'm asking myself as I plot my new post apocalyptic YA book. It's grim fun to decide what's fallen apart and what's survived. I also find myself looking at my own world with new eyes. I have a lot of stuff, and if I lost most of it, I'd still be okay. Lamps, sofas, garden tools, that concrete gargoyle that lives under the blueberry bushes - all if it could vanish (okay, not Phred the Gargoyle, but everything else) and I'd be fine.
Here's another question that I've asked myself for this book: If I had to flee tomorrow with just a backpack, what would be in it? And given that the backpack now represents everything I have in the world, what would I do to keep it?
Monday, June 29, 2009
What will your neighborhood look like in 100 years?
Posted by Berta Platas at 7:01 PM
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I doubt much would remain of my neighborhood. I've often thought of that backpack for "disaster" situations. For me, medical supplies would sadly be a large part of it. Losing it would mean my life, literally!
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you'll find we donta gotta nother
100 years, kapiche?
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