As part of Jen Rae’s Creative Resilience Lab, Spatula&Barcode invited event participants to speculated on what objects and values they might take with them were they forced to “evacuate” on short notice.

Here is a list of what they imagined:

• Acceptance

• Audacity

• Books

• Calmness to share

• Canteen

• Can do attitude

• Chef knife

• Childcare experience

• Chocolate

• Chopsticks

• Collard seeds

• Courage

• Creature comforts

• Dogs

• Drive

• Duct tape

• Enough love to last forever and a day

• Eyeglasses

• Family

• Family journal

• Ferocity

• Forgiveness

• Finding beauty in everyday small things

• Gift ecconomy

• Grief

• Harmonica

• Head lamp

• Heart

• Hearth

• Homemade tinctures (foraged medicine)

• Hope

• Humor

• Hunting knife

• ID

• Imagination

• Joy

• Kalimba

• Ken’s hand

• Laptop

• Laughter

• Lifestraw (filtered)

• Love

• Maps

• Matches

• Memory

• Multi-tool

• My 6-year-old’s lion

• My tender heart

• My pictures

• Open heart

• Open mind

• Openness

• Openness to being cared for

• Optimism

• Passports

• Peace

• Photo albums

• Play

• Positivity

• Razor blade

• Revelry

• Runes or an oracle

• Seeds

• Solidarity

• Set of flair pens

• Steadfast

• Stories

• Straw

• Swiss army knife

• Sunglasses

• Tarot deck

• Tenderness

• The small voice from the calm quiet place within

• Toothpaste

• Utility knife

• Ukelele

• Wallet

• Whimsy

• Willingness to ask questions

• Willingness to do new things

In addition to printing bespoke bags, we also offered a range of snacks and small tools to support their two days of ruminations.