Tuesday.

On Tuesday I carried more things, we put walls of sheds together (but I didn't do much on that again), we put together some bunk bed frames, and Allison and I helped carry some heavy grills out of shed. Some others cleaned them later.
That evening we drove around Joplin, saw some of the wreckage, and then ate a delicious dinner of rice and vegetables and crazy good bread and awesome dessert. The elderly couple who hosted us for the dinner had a racquetball court that was just like a big room basement thing and it was chilly and echoey and if it was my house it would definitely have been a dance room rather than a room to throw balls at a wall and hit them. And they had old movie posters which were cool. They talked to us a bit about how disasters affected them... Here's what I learned from that.

"Anything that can be shaken will be shaken so that the things that cannot be shaken remain and things that can do not"
I've kind of had this attitude that less stuff=less possessiveness. But I realized that I do have some things that I would really be upset if I lost. While I may not have a lot of little things, the things that I do have are very important to me. I need to realize that they are only things, after all. Whether one has few things or many, it can still all be gone in an instant.