Ehlana and Ethan:
Weather is the story of the day for two reasons – another high in the seventies; and then the plunge below freezing that is also bringing a dusting of snow after some rain we got earlier this evening. This little blast into winter isn’t going to last for long, and we haven’t gone outside to experience the cold yet, but that is a big drop from those highs this afternoon to now; and it is a safe bet that Tai Chi will be indoors in the morning.
Some of our teachers wanted to enjoy the warm we still got to have today, so we had bonus outdoor time again, and our school band practice was shorter than normal again so we were able to go for a short bike ride after that and before dinner. Mom cooked that meal on her own, so we took care of the clean-up; and then our evening has been quiet with family business work and a Magi lesson in the office that Mom had us wrap up by nine-thirty; and now we’re winding down with the usual bedtime twin chat and computing. That’s pretty much all of our news for today; so I’ll move on to my commentary of the night while Ethan goes along because he loves me and occasionally finds my rants entertaining.
First up, I just can’t resist mentioning one of the news stories from Ukraine. Reports from a couple of days ago about the first Abrams tank being spotted near the front lines was celebrated, and then it only took a day – or possibly less – for the Russian army to find and destroy it. We haven’t seen anything about whether the tank even managed to fire a shot against the Russians, but either way, that seems to be a very expensive contribution to the war effort with zero benefit. In addition to losing the tank, if the crew was lost too, add in the wasted months and expenses of training them – along with those wasted lives and anyone else that might have been hurt or killed nearby. To us, this is just another example of the stupidity of this war; and we really, really need some leaders to step up and find a peaceful solution instead of continuing to support Ukraine and encourage them to throw more lives away so pointlessly.
That brings me to our next story – the air force member that chose to set himself on fire outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington in protest of the genocide in Gaza because he refused to personally support the war against the Palestinians due to mandatory deployments to the area. The spin on this story has been ridiculous; so I’ll simply suggest that we – and our leaders – should all get the message that we’re on the wrong side of this battle and the political and humanitarian issues; and need to fix that before it is too late.
Next up, let’s go back to Ukraine for the story about secret CIA bases that have apparently been there for the past eight or ten years and helping Ukraine with gathering Intel on Russia and feeding them info in support of attacks and assassinations within Russia. All we have to write about that is that we are not surprised – and nobody else should be shocked either! Ditto that for stories about the New York Times hiring Israeli propagandists to write some of the worst stories about what Hamas did on October 7th that eventually proved to be flat-out lies. We don’t need to get into the horrid details that weren’t true anyway, but once again, we are not surprised to find out that those worst atrocities were completely invented out of the twisted imaginations of people that want to see all Palestinians killed or expelled from Israel.
That’s enough for tonight, since we want to head off to dreamland on happier thoughts, so we’re going to wrap this up; listen to some music to get happier again; and then we’ll get some sleep so that we’ll be ready for the winter day ahead of us.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
