#emergencies

All other humans and animals are safe and don't need to be considered in this scenario (i.e. you don't need to catch your skittish cat or bring your lizard's terrarium), but nobody else can help you (you must gather and carry everything yourself).

Saint Expeditus

Died: 303

Feast Day: April 19

Patronage: emergencies, deadlines, expeditious solutions, against procrastination, merchants, navigators, sailors, students, programmers, hackers, lawsuits, those in need of haste

Not much is known about Saint Expeditus (Expedite). We do know he's listed as one of the 6 Roman soldiers of Armenian heritage, martyred during the Diocletian persecution. Expeditus is the Latin word for light infantry soldiers known for their quick responses. He holds a palm branch to represent his martyrdom and a cross with the Latin word "hodie" (today) for his expeditious conversion. Devotion to him spread throughout Europe and Latin America.

We considered a go fund me, but we didn’t wanna lose more money to the fees and we didn’t like how it was hard to insert photos to show what was going on. We wanna be as transparent as possible to the struggle we’re going through.

More importantly, there is no one size fits all way of thinking about your family, your situation, and your needs.

Some people do well with checklists, buy this and they're done. And that's ok! Some people do better with being asked questions and thinking critically about what they have, what they need, and what they'll do if x happens, or y happens. And that's ok too!

So having said that, a bunch of people I know and love have been filling my message boxes with questions asking me to tell them what to do, and so I made this quick little pdf as a starting point, not an ending point. This is the rough draft that I sent out, I've not proof read it, and I've found that days later, I'm still adding some stuff to it, but it's "good enough" for now and so I'll share it with y'all too...