I do care

If I don't write anything about the disaster in New Orleans it's not because I don't care, but because I'm trying to block it away from my thoughts because I just can't handle it right now. I'm too tired. And I don't want to think about people's behaviour. After the tsunami everybody was amazed at the willingness to help, the grace and the courage from the people in Thailand and Sri Lanka, who were poor form the beginning and who had lost everything. I can't help wondering what it is that makes people in New Orleans act so differently.
But as said, I don't want to think about it, I want to think happy thoughts about sewing.

Gardecorps update

I have put up some more information on the gardecorps and what may be another name of the same garment in the diary. It's taken from my dissertation, but shortened and without all the footnotes and technical discussions on using wills as source material.