Muddy T-Shirts & The Importance of Community Solutions

I was recently telling this story to my friend Jess when we were discussing the importance of community; both large and small. It was 8 years ago, but it still hits the same. Back in 2018, I was setting up my STAY VOCAL booth at a tiny house festival in Massachusetts. It was raining and pretty windy. All of a sudden, a gust of wind decided that my entire rack of reuse shirts needed to be on the ground and in the mud. I was pretty upset at the thought of all the damaged merchandise. I had a whole bunch of white shirts, too. Some people might consider this waste and discard them. Nope. What happened next was absolutely amazing.

My friend Sheena came right over and immediately offered to bring them to a laundromat. At the same time, my other friend John went and grabbed a bunch of quarters. Numerous others helped me pick the rack up and take the shirts off of the hangers. Within three hours, all of the shirts were cleaned with no signs of mud, back on the rack and secured to the tent. And people started buying them. The rescued shirts were rescued again.

This was one of the many times where I experienced such a deep sense of community in the tiny house scene. People wanted to help their neighbor and come up with positive solutions to a problem ASAP. That's the kind of community that I want to be a part of. And that's the kind of world that I want to live in.

As long as we're breathing, we're sharing this planet with everyone else and we are ALL in this together. Let's act like it. 🤝