Ehlana and Ethan:
The warm-up to the mid-fifties today is our news highlight for this report. Sure, that’s chilly compared to the weather that Cassie and Michael are enjoying in Perth, and they are expecting a high for their Tuesday in the nineties, but they are also working more than playing; so we may have had as much fun here at home with our friends. Okay, that’s wishful thinking, but we have had a good day; and are happy as we’re winding down toward nap time tonight.
Tai Chi was indoors this morning because it was still a bit below freezing first thing this morning. Mom opted for a hot breakfast, so we enjoyed that; and then our school day was busy as we started new learning modules as we moved on from the week of tests or high school mid-terms. The weather had everything to do with our choice to play with our friends this afternoon, and while many of the park trails were too-soft to ride on, the main trails are in decent shape; and we biked around town, at the park, and out on the trail toward Quarry Lake for a couple of miles too. We came home in time for dinner with Mom and Dad; enjoyed that meal with them too; and then took care of the clean-up before joining them in the office for an evening of family business and charity work and a Magi lesson. Time phasing was involved to keep up with what we wanted to get done tonight, but we’ll also mention that Mom wants us to cut back on doing that a bit so that we don’t mess up the growth spurts that Ethan and I are dealing with now – and over the next two or three years. Ethan doesn’t mind the idea of keeping up with Naomi on the growth chart, but we mostly just have fun with that, since we know that Naomi won’t really get very far ahead of us before we catch up and at least one of us passes her along the way to our adult heights.
We don’t really have anything that we need to write about for Cassie and Michael’s adventures in the Perth area, but they are getting a lot done; the business deals are more-focused on natural resources and sustainable projects for mining, fishing, farming, and more; and the charity projects include more work with indigenous peoples and other groups that w are really happy to be developing new partnerships with over the coming years. Cassie and Michael will be moving on to the Broone-Derby area on their Wednesday; so stay tuned for the latest on their adventures while we move on and wrap up this report.
That’s pretty much all we have for tonight, but I can’t resist offering a couple of comments on news from the weekend. The bigger story is from the Middle East, and I waited to offer comments until more information came out on the attack on a base on the border between Syria and Jordan – on the Jordan side. It is horrid that three American troops were killed and nearly three-dozen more injured in the drone attack, and we wish that hadn’t happened – just as we wish that none of the fighting was happening at all. We are also worried that this will lead to even more escalation of the fighting in the area, though, and pray that cooler heads will prevail on both sides. We have enough problems here at home without adding multi-front wars to the mix.
That leads us to the ‘Take Our Border Back’ convoy and rally that is just starting to become a big story. Let’s all hope that it will be a peaceful rally and protest; since tensions are very high and it is a safe bet that there are at least some people on both sides of the issues that would like to see the rally go badly. For the record, we are on the ‘secure borders’ side of that political fight, but then we also believe that our country needs to stop intervening in other countries in ways that lead to the desperation that motivates millions to attempt fleeing to our country – or to Europe and elsewhere.
We’ll keep you posted on that story as needed – or not, but that’s all for tonight and we are ready to crash and nap starting right now – so we will!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
