NM Gas Co. Crisis or What You Learn at a Yard Sale

Today was the perfect yard sale day. Warm, sunny, not too hot, not too windy. This would have been a much better time for the New Mexico Gas Company Crisis! Perhaps no one would have lit their homes on fire and lost everything they owned. Perhaps no one would have died in their burning home. Holding a yard sale was an act of faith that we can release the past and move on to the future. For some families, that will be an insurmountable task.

So, it was fitting that a team of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) employees came by our family yard sale. Other customers were anxious to tell some of their stories to the folks from Louisiana and Texas. Did I say Texas? No, they had nothing to do with the New Mexico Gas Company. Other customers stared, seeming to wait for their responses to the stories being told. We were all a bit awed to have key players in the crisis response at our tables. A little surprised that they were humans who played with the old Hot Wheels cars, and considered buying this or that. It was a good day to be human. It was a good day to tell of our hardships and listen to each other.