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Great Job! Kudos!

Absolutely fantastic! Congrats to RB and congrats to all of the wonderful and talented artists and writers who grace this awesome site. God Bless Us All!

Great words Peter.

The comments graph is really impressive.

And what is that spike in the sales graph ? Christmas ?

This is sad news about the market crash, but it’s true about the Redbubble website, it takes a time where I can come to see the great works people have published, aside from thinking of financial worries.

It is good to see some graphs going UP instead of DOWN. Thanks for some encouraging news Peter.

AMEN TO THAT! Great reminder, and thanks for sharing those stats with us. How encouraging!

I had such a fantastic weekend! Didn’t think about all the money we lost even once! The sunshine and warmth and my own walk in the woods and a paddle down the river every day sorta trumped all that stuff. Thanks for the reminder. What’s the big spike in Sales?? Was that Christmas?

You’re quite right. This is FAR more positive news. (I must admit that it does remind me of the only other graphs, I see once a day. It’s on our ABC T.V. channel and has a man beside it, smiling and explaining to us why we’re getting poorer.)
Go RedBubble!

i just am so grateful to be here

It’s just money. There are far more important things to be concerned about. People just need to be reminded again how to find beauty in negative spaces.

najeroux

Forget about your troubles by playing… BUBBLE JEOPARDY!!!
see here
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Just shows that imagination, applied in a direct manner to produce art, is still a commodity that is recession proof.

Thank you and I look forward to a long relationship with everyone on Redbubble.

Kudos to the entire Redbubble community, a fine one it is!

Congrats.

Beautiful message!

Thank you! A breath of fresh air, you are exactly right about the good things in life.

It is nice to see a positive note in these troubled times. I thank you for being her for us. I can not say what peace I have found through the true freindships and honest critics that have been shown to me on here. Thank you all for your hard work to keep making it better for all of us members. The challenge events are truely inspiring to get the best capture possuble.

magnificent pics… nature is a soothing balm.

oh yeah, life will go on…but without money, we can’t do much else BUT create, huh?

Great job. Love it at RB. I sold my Home Depot stock and only lost $1700.00! LOL The way I see it, it’s better that losing it all! Thanks for the uplift!

good to see something positive..not only is the friendship here calming but also you can view places around the world for like a mini vacation and loose your worrys for a while

That’s encouraging!! I am thankful to be part of this wonderful community!!

I appreciated the positive reminder of what really counts in life, thank you!

I love the Redbubble community! Thanks for this great perspective.

Great pickmeup!! Well done! :)

Wonderful words Peter. Thank you for boosting our confidence in today’s market and reminding us of what a great site this is and especially the great people involved. Thank you also to your group for providing the opportunity to be part of all this. It may be doom and gloom on Wall Street but it’’s pure sunshine and promise of things to come on Red Bubble.

I do love your perspective Peter, so tired of the doom and gloom!!!
Those redwoods are an amazing site to behold, so glad you got to see and appreciate them ;)

Actually these graphs predict doom and gloom .
Notice how each graph has a sharp down turn at the end.
What are you hiding Peter?
Is this the smiles before the daggers?
I smell a conspiracy brewing…...

Thanks for the great news. Positive thinking can get you anything you want in life. Cheers to everyone.

Wonderful words, Peter…YES THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE TRUELY FREE…one just needs to stop and take in all the glory around us…. :^{) ....thats why most of us enjoy photograph or one of the many art forms featured at the RB….you only give up your freedom if you allow another to control your thoughs and feeling….free creativity…wheeeeee…O sorry got a little carrried away in the moment… :})

yahhh for the bubble

solar panels are available in Queensland now for around $5000… :-)

I was introduced to this site today – I’ve been in a fog it seems! LOL – Kudos to all of you at Redbubble!

It’s so often the small things in life that makes us the happiest. I saw a doumentary recently and the host was in some grasslands in awe of the abundant insect life, butterflies etc and said the thing he most enjoyed was laying down and listening to the hum and smelling the sunny, grassy, smells. It reminded me of the joys of this when I was a child. I thought, which would I prefer, if I had the money to buy 10 designer handbags or to be blissful soaking up nature. Its not even a contest, I’ll take nature anyday.

thanks for the stats (^_-)

BEAUTIFUL CAPTURES !!!! ..........NO … NOT ALL DOOM & GLOOM AT ALL !! ....... BUT … WHEN OUR PERSONAL PORTFOLIOS SHOW A BIG PORTION OF THE SALES, ARE OUR OWN AND WE CAN SHOW CHARTS LIKE THIS , THAT WILL BE PURE JOY ! THE BUSINESS SIDE OF WHY WE DO ARTWORK , IS TO SELL OUR WORK ! FRIENDSHIPS FORMED HERE ARE PRICELESS AND WE LOVE THAT PART OF THIS WONDERFUL SITE !!! GREAT TO SEE REDBUBBLES CHARTS ARE FLOURSHING AND MAKING GREAT BUCKS .

What is that spike all about?

Viva le Bubble! :D

well said.

Wow! This is so amazing and uplifting! I love my RB…RB will out live cockroaches here on earth! Thanks so taking the time to share that with all of us!

hey i just live north of sf.. the redwoods is name after a famous explorer john mir..
there more to marin than meets the eye.. I live here all my life and know the corners of the place the county.. if the staff like a tour ebubble me.. i can give them one they never for get..
anyway welcome to usa and calif..

Beautiful images and encouraging graphs and messages.

What is that spike all about?

Christmas last year Mtnman

great stats and awesome images

The 4 things that never went down in stock during the depression were alcohol, makeup, tobacco and art or entertainment. Its good to see that people are still turning to art to ease their own fears. Most of the works on this website are worth buying more than once. This site rocks!

We had a courageous, upbeat, inspiring older Redbubble member pass away a few days ago – the outpouring of love, sympathy and support that has flooded in from the RB ‘family’ has put the world’s ‘doom and gloom’ into perspective, and confirms your message Peter. We can’t right the world economy, but we as members of this site surely can (and do) make the world a better place by validating and supporting each other – thank you Redbubble for making this possible!

A very timely reminder of what else is important in life. I work for a stockbroker and it has been hell on wheels here at work. I too took a time out on the weekend, with a trip to Cape Tribulation, and the newest photos in my portfolio are the result. Thanks again for being such a positive site and experience and a haven from the troubles of the world.

Congratulations and well done, RedBubble. I’m a relatively new member, but already I’ve derived a huge amount of joy and personal satisfaction from being a member of the RedBubble community. Your words are spot on! Huge thanks from me to RedBubble and to all other members. There’s definitely no doom and gloom in this community!!!!!

Good news on the sales front but the Bubble is so much more to me – frankly I dont really give a damn about the sales but I do care about the realationships I’ve formed and the inspiration I have gained since I’ve been here.

All I can say is Kudos and Thumbs Up!

I really like redbubble and I totally agree with you and was thinking the very same way. There still are beautiful things in nature and in life. I saw THE most beautiful double rainbow this past weekend. A very close friend of mine has been doing exhaustive investigative research on the economic situation and not on ABC because all the main news, paper and others are all owned by an elite group who are the manipulators of this mess. I am not trying to bring anyone down. The situation in the US is much deeper than just another dip in the market. I for one will have to walk away from my house within 2 years. If you think of your children if you have one or some and what they will be facing you might want to find out more about this situation. Try OpEdNews.com for some eye opening information, please. It is a time like now that appreciating those wondrous things is essential but paying attention and awake to what is happening is as important if not more. I apologize if I bummed people out. Redbubble is a great escape. I rarely say much and alwys try my best to play nice. I sincerely hope that the US can fix itself and try to undo some of what it has done to the rest of the planet.

Yes cheese on toast and perhaps a pork roast on a bbq.

Thanks Peter, yep friendships are creative expression are priceless and so is beautiful nature, keep creating everyone :)

Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful graphs!!! I so agree “it’s more about the relationships and the people that we meet along the way”. I am just so grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!!! Thank You!!!

Aloha Peter and to San Francisco, too!

i cherish the folks, the art and my experience on red bubble despite the fact it makes no difference in my financial reality. I may never understand how to sell art yet I will do as the GREAT ONE asks of me…..continue on as a creator.

Come to Maui if things get out of hand. You can climb the coconut trees and eat bananas…..and best of all smell the flowers!

the best things in life are free
for example, loyalty given freely with no thought of return (luckily for me)

Thanks for sharing the information regarding the site’s numbers… For us visual-spacial learners, that really brings home the fact that we are part of an ever-growing online community regardless of money market trends in one or a few countries…

I don’t read graphs but like the look of yours, and according to the jump we had today and the global markets tonight, perhaps we will see a real end to all of this being afraid soon. I hope so, for the Big and LIttle people in the world.

You just wrote about what is truly important in life. I thank you for putting it into such perfect perspective…
I lost a dear friend today in a car wreck (age 55)... and as I sat and wondered about life, I thought of all the panic and fear over lost money, savings and jobs. Those can be replaced with time and hard work, but a friend cannot… they are only remembered in memories and photographs. We have to rethink what is truly important in our lives..

Cheers all. And that photo of the redwood forest . . . magnificent.

Thanks for the encouraging words and beautiful pictures and a bungee cord back to a better perspective. We do forget sometimes the wonder that is our planet. The graphs are good to see. I agree with Maria that friends and family cannot be replaced. We are burying my grandfather Dec 7th in Pearl Harbor this year, he was dedicated to protecting our way of life through his service in the Navy for 30 years. So, yes, we will heal again but not for the last time. Sorry for your loss Maria.

...and my daughter’s just learnt to crawl!

Great stats RB… I think the graphs would look FAB on a black T-shirt ;o)

Well said Peter!

keep pouring money into a fucking war that is good economics.

Good form Peter…and great perspective!

I think redbubble is more about community i guess everybody knows that
but what keeps us going is the friendship and the camaradrie we share
great job all of you guys here on RB

such true words and very timely.
a little time spent with nature which is bigger than us all is a wonderful way to remind ourselves of what is truly important. the life that we create and the people we share it with is to be cherished. thankyou to all the fantastic people of redbubble (one person in particular )for adding a beautiful and creative layer to my life collage .

Without repeating what others have already said, a great piece of writing and very valid points…thanks for sharing your views so eloquently…

Sorry for your loss, Maria and Rhonda, but just think , your loved ones have had the priviledge to go before us , away from all the gloom and doom of this world, to play forever in the beautiful garden , a glimpse of which is portrayed in the uplifting pictures by Ben. May they Rest In Peace.

Thanks for sharing those stats rather than just keeping them for yourselves. Shared in the true spirit of Redbubble! :-))

Thank you for bringing back a pespective of reality to this chaos and our addiction of want.

thank you for reminding us that most things in our lives do not cost money, but are free for all of us to enjoy. The sunshine that breaks through the trees of an ancient red wood forest, the crashing of he sea against the sea shore. the delicate song of the birds. It is great to be alive.

Now is the time to get back to basic enjoyments and all those on RB have a wonderful opportunity to capture the beauty of our world and afterwards look and marvel at them when the outside world is in turmoil

bush wanted his hands on iraq’s oil reserve, he was counting on that to bail him out of the debt incurred with the war, strategy of a mad man, you shouldn’t have voted him back in America this is all your own fault and the rest of the world is paying for it, no good romanticising now, we are all in the shit and it’s going to get worse.

so everyone lets have a bbq to roast the suckers to hell. Pork ribs anyone?

stats are wonderful – they can be made to read anything.
As membership rises, so will comments, likewise overall sales.
However, I would be interested to see the graph which shows average sales per member which excludes self purchases….......

rockin the free world

Well said…great message!

good read.

nice reminder …

Spot on and well put, go Redbubble!

we must not forget all those who are losing their jobs, livelihoods and self-esteem throughout this global financial downturn. For many it will be devastating. It will affect foreign aid spending and those who have the least most.
A strong community is a wonderful asset at all times and the greatest part about redbubble is that it’s free and for everyone with computer access. This is the part I appreciate most – lets hope the community continues going from strength to strength and that those who put in so much time and effort are rewarded for all their time. A big thank you to all of you positive and creative creatures.

Those stats are really promising. They tells us that money is not everything in life.

All this fuss over paper. You are correct enjoy the freedom! Peace!!!...)o(

All this fuss over paper. You are correct enjoy the freedom! Peace!!!...)o(

Certainly a great and excellent perspective “The important things in life”
True Priorities are truly a blessing, Family and Dear Friends the very Essential Systems that keep each of our lives in a balance of Need, Love, Responsibility, Gratitude, Humility, Dependency, Trust, Inspiration, Strength, Etc…
Thanks For bringing that home.

Truer words were never spoken!! And for Maria & Rhonda ~ I hope I’m not out of line in saying this but try not to mourn their deaths it’s much less painful to celebrate their lives and they’d probably prefer that too. It definitely helps you get through the grieving process. May they rest in peace. I’m new to Red Bubble and I’m lovin’ it so far! The people have all been really kind & helpful. Anyway, the stock market drama is something to be concerned about (for some) but it’s not all that matters and hopefully some people that read this will realize that finally. Kudos to you & Red Bubble whether it gets through to them or not! At least you tried! And Ben ~ you rock!!

now this puts it back into perspective…
and yes….can you do stats for smiles shared, hearts touched, bonds formed or spirits lifted?

Nice piece remember Money can t buy you love Paul :)))))

{It reminded me that many of the most valuable things we enjoy in life are free … the air we breath, the smile of a child, the sun on our face. What have we done to ‘earn’ these things?}

beautifully written, made me go all gooey!
Superb photos by Ben. Love redbubs !

The best things in life are free! It is great to remember that. It is good to remember that more often, not just when everything seems bleak.
I can guess, but not imagine what the fall out of recent economic events will be for me over the next few years. I am sure there will be a few. I know that for some already this has been devastating and empathize.
However it is done and we move forward regardless.
I hope for a long term positive outcome after the initial pain has gone. Where, we have a more global understanding of conservation vs waste. If every dollar becomes more valuable at a global level, maybe we will actually remember the value of money at a global level. This planet has been crying out for us to slow down our consumption, maybe we will now be forced to do so.
My fear is that right now and in the near future we forget our humanity, while we need to focus on ourselves. Here’s to remembering that this will effect everyone on every level, those that were living with very little before will still be living with less than most, still vulnerable and still need what help we can offer.

Well said and beautyful images !!!! We have a lot to be thankful about !!!!!

Really, it is not necessary to endure that passes in the end-ends. Crises, financial shocks… All it is short-term enough. For ever in memory remain a sun beam on a decline, singing of birds in a garden, bathing in the river, the sea or ocean.

It is great that Red Bubble is able to provide a community or refuge for creative types, (especially in a volatile financial environment). It appears to be growing exponentially. There is added benefit being lost in the act of creation while the stock market is doing a great old dance.

be a It just seems like yesterday we were living in a bountiful world with banks bursting with money and jobs galour

Great words and fantastic pics !
I love redbubble !!!

:)

wouldn’t it be great if, after this whole global market collapse thing, the world fell into a sort of bohemian free-for-all trading scheme. ahh…i’m quite sure i’d help myself to one of those digital hasselblads if that happened =p

I want to get the first shot of the banker jumping off the highest building (in Sydney).

Terrific outlook Peter…great shot by Ben :)

i LIKE YOUR OPTIMISM. RB ROCKS.

Thankyou so much for your wonderful words..so true! Love your pic of the Redwoods with the light shining through! This is a wonderful group of artists..I am so proud to be a part of it…:-) Thankyou.

Thanks so much for the positive news!!

Thanks, Peter – we all needed that! memac (aka “Sunny Days Originals”)

Thank you Peter, yes RB is a part of so many lives now that it has to make an impact. The fact that it is a positive impact is awesome. I have to be honest, spending 3 to 6 hours a day here and almost no negative comments, or even negative attitudes is really the amazing accomplishment, to do this with so many people from all over the world is truly amazing. Oh by the way the Sequoias were here when the dinosaurs were. Some we have now are over 3000 years old and still growing.

We have joined recently, and have found in this community great support and most important: equity. I hope we get to help this website to grow, even by doing the smallest things possible.

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Does the sales graph show number of items sold or money? Is the bottom dot at zero or some higher number?

Greed in this world is a big big problem. Way to much materialism and not enough spiritulism. Perhaps some of these bankers ought to take a look at our RB site and see how lovely and supportive us humans can be. You carnt sell that on the stock markets.
We on RB all have share,s in this site, the sharing of help, thoughtfulness, kindness and the feeling that we can and do make a difference. I for one aint pulling my hair out cause i,ve lost millions and no doubt the same for most on here. But then i proberbly would,nt have millions because coming from a large family , i would share it out.
Kimie x

thanks for everything. love the redwoods image that is a reminder of how small day to day problems are in the whole scheme of things.

There is a richness to life not captured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average …
So true! I really enjoyed reading this … the most precious things cannot be measured!

Peter WELCOME to America! As FDR said we have nothing to FEAR but FEAR itself. Tough TIMES don’t LAST, Tough PEOPLE do! We’ve had global challenges before TOGETHER we can CONQUER this. God Bless You ALL!

Very, very, well said! Never a truer word spoken!

Many thanks for the encouraging message :)

Thank you we all needed your wonderful words even here in South Africa.

I really needed this today. Thanks so much for always thinking of us!

redbubble, compared to the ‘panic’ you are experiencing in sanfrancisco pales somewhat in comparison to the the last couple of weeks in darfur, afghanistan, pakistan, swathes of iraq, palestine, tibet, nagaland, hiv infested s.a., and milton keynes.

really at the end of the day i understand that financial collapse in sanfranciso might be worth wrrying about in some respects,, but i’d be much more panicked about the possibility of john mccain becoming president of the world and starting third world war.

that could really devalue your investment and fuck up your retirement plans.

I believe you are right. If you look to our past and what has already happened i.e. the great depression, World Wars 1&2 and so on life is normal and repeating in many ways. Great shots by the way.

30 years ago I left those trees and came to England. You really made me homesick!
But there is good and bad everywhere and England has some fine views too!
Seriously, if that spike was Christmas, what sold? Cards? Christmas type cards? T-shirts? Could we have another graph showing a breakdown? Here, we are noticing that people can’t invest in property, banks or stocks and shares so Art seems a good investment as they get the benefit of something to enjoy as well. Might not be a bad time for all of us. We’re all in the same boat and yes, there is more to life than money.

Hi Peter. Bronwyn and I visited Mount Macedon a few weeks ago. It was a pleasant day, the sun was shining and the views were beautiful.

Just as we started our return journey back to Melbourne at dusk, we saw two mobs of kangaroos grazing by the roadside and a wombat moving at wombat pace.

We had a ball that day and discovered new things that were within an hour of home.

Cheers.

Not much more I could say other than thank you for reminding us what is really important.

We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured and put into practice.

Lwo Buscaglia.

“friendships formed … the new art created … the lives changed”

You just captured what RB is all about!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking an active roll in making our RB home a better place!!!!

I am reminded of a poem that my dad wrote many years ago….

From the tree
comes the seed.
And through the
seed the tree
lives on.
Through loving
and sharing, the
tree is eternal.
-Brian Zimmerman 1973

true..so true

Hey, where’s my porsche carrera and $100/bottle champagne and…oh, nevermind, there’s red bubble. Thanks alot all! :)

Not to long ago I’ve walked through those same trees and like the cathedrals of Europe you step out of the everyday world and into an ethereal realm. Not too hard to forget worldly problems :)

I just gotta say something so cliche.. thank you for the words , the beauty, the comaraderie..

tks for sending me the comment so I would look at your site, words and beautiful photos, yes we still have so much to be thankful for lynn

Nice comment Peter… Art will still be created when we are all on the street !!!

i think something similar when i pause to take in the many stars at night…there’s something bigger than us, more important than money, so much to be thankful for.

trees trees I love those trees, there’s more to them than roots and leaves, they take the poison from the breeze, and give to us the air we breath. Which is worth more than money.

These magnificent trees are hundreds if not thousands of years old. Silent, graceful and still….

I did these two journal postings few weeks ago, reflecting some part of your posting Peter:

A rather arboraceous page

and

Can you imagine our world without trees?

As far as I’m concerned, I feel very fortunate to notice and appreciate nature’s beauty in whatever shape/s (some people don’t and some take it for granted). If I didn’t I would probably go insane :))

We are all bigger than the financial market and U.S presedential race.Remember that.

I totally agree….I count my blessings every morning and RB is one of those things that I am so grateful for!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for the reality check!

we all need to look at the root causes and address them, trees are something we are all dependant on. Art is a great way of communicating this, it can say more than words can express and has no language barriers.

I hope that you are right.

Thanks for reminding me of the beauty we all inherit.

I couldn’t be creative without nature around me. Yes, the financial situation is bad but a small deviation away from world issues is needed, and my art is my deviation. God deals us a hand and it is up to us what cards we play.

Thankyou for your dedication and all you wrote it was “ditto” for me. It’s 2:55 am, I’ve been on since 2AM or so… Without redbubblers I would have an empty life….. Thanks, can’t express the support I recieve here from this family…. cyber space isn’t cold, here at redbubble…

Way to go…way to go :-)

POS

Agreed.

that,s all and good but is it going to feed you and keep a roof over your head,,, not to be cycnical but realism has to come into effect here people,,,.

Peter, Thank you for a giving us a glimpse of the Eternal Trees, I once in the 70’s lived under these giants in Felton,CA. They taught me Courage in times of adversity, If you have self doubts you only need to walk under these giants to realize they were left as a reminder . They have survived plagues , the rise and fall of civilizations , kings and dictators , war and famine . They are living testament to survival of the spirit.

Living in Dayton, OH you get used to financial crisis. We’ve been one of the hardest hit cities in America by jobs being shipped overseas and (according to Forbes) are one of the fastest dying cities in America. I rent, so I haven’t experienced the foreclosures others have dealt with (though there are a lot of buildings for sale in Dayton) and I try not to live beyond my meager means (only using the cash I have rather than borrowing money from creditors). What I find odd about the “financial crisis” in Wall Street, is the positive things it has done for the American economy. In Ohio, the price of gas has dropped to around $2.60/gallon (something that hasn’t been seen in the past couple of years). The US dollar is stronger (compared to other World currency) than it’s been in years (the exchange rate between the British Pound Sterling and the US Dollar hasn’t been like this since 2003). The crisis has also dropped the price of oil per barrel below $100. So, while it may be hard to borrow money right now to buy a house or a new big screen TV, the American dollar is stronger and gas and oil are cheaper. Sometimes it’s best to look at the silver lining.

Your words are so true. Like the rest of the world South Africa is also suffering tremendous financial strain. The Rand is weakened, their is political uncertainty and poverty results into more crime. The people who don’t feel the financial pinch is few and far between. What makes everything worse is witnessing the suffering of others since no matter how bad things are going for you – there are always people worse off. YET through all of these things the best and the greatest moment of each day is to pick my child up from his day care and his happiness to see me is overwhelming and I know for now I am the centre of his life and his love and admiration is just limitless. Looking forward everyday to hearing the word “Mamma!” because for that second the world seems like a great place.

Hi
That was really lovely Peter

I have come along to RB at the tea time of my life – I have been making craft and art since I was 6 years old – I am almost 60 now – I have no love for money, because it is not the most important thing in life.

As an Artist I am now losing the use of my Arms and my eyes which are the 2 most important things to me – to be able to continue with what I love best.

Our paths are already marked out by those who ‘know best’ .............It’s a good thing that rich or poor we will all share the same fate one day if those who ‘know best’ do not wake up…....Having an artistic nature is a gift to treasure, At least we are able to see the world in a better way and help others maybe to paint a better picture for the future.

Thanks for RB it will become my nesting place.

Arrow

hello you are writing from and about my home place
the cathedral of redwoods where we used to camp
my take on the world calamity is radical
it is the wiping out of paper wealth the result of greed and unethical business practices
yes we are now a global family in common injustice and pain
my friend who is from so america so has a non usa perspective stated
we have to have destruction before new growth / creation
many people suffer because of the capitalist system as it is now or was
i hope for a future where there is equality love sharing as at redbubble
subhadra new mexico

This is so true that the best things in life are often not about money and it’s a shame sometimes that humanity seems so focused on making more and more money that it forgets to look at itself and see that the same beauty that exists in walking through a peaceful forest exists inside each person, each friendship and every act of thoughtfulness or generousity.

Peter: thanks for showing your worldly wisdom and documenting our business sense. I’ m
normally in Wilderness; so chaos is normal for me. But you are right about fear and don’t go there. During wild forest crown fire in Colorado, those that panicked ran off a cliff – my crew walked out alive. All human have to do is adapt better than the wooley mammoth or sabre-tooth cat !