CITRUS — by OLIVIA MARTIN

I get manic and start to have ideas about how I can save the world. I have a theory that a lack of community ties is detrimental to one’s health, I think about this and think the solution is to have lonely people be not so lonely, I’d get a group together and we’d send out cards for Valentine’s Day and Christmas and on Easter we’d show up with fresh baked bread wrapped in butcher paper and twine, this would not be much but it would be something.

Sometimes, I get compulsions to make blankets for everyone I care about, so that they would have something to keep them warm in case the power goes out, if I run out of people to make blankets for then I’ll learn to make sweaters.

Currently, I am worried about sustainability and have been thinking about how much we could grow if we turned our grass covered lawns into gardens, I want to grow raspberry bushes at my house instead of hedges, I heard you can grow a tangerine tree in a pot and want to try it, my mother says it’s easier to buy them from a store, and I tell her to think of how glad we’ll be to have it when the global infrastructure shuts down and we are the only place to turn for a spot of citrus, it would be as good as gold.