Ethan and Ehlana:
Happy 20th Birthday, Jaimie Proctor!
We joined in on a group vid-chat with Jaimie, Micah, and some of their college friends, and sent a group gift too, but then we’ve left the rest of her birthday fun to others to help with making her day awesome while we’ve had a fall clean-up day around here.
While we enjoyed that vid-chat entertainment along with a hot breakfast after Tai Chi by the river; there really isn’t much news to offer for the rest of our day-so-far; since we really have just been working on yard work that has ranged from mowing lawns to gardening and the rest of the chores on our to-do list. Naomi and Aiden have teamed up with us all day, but that also means working in their yards too along with our place and three cottages. As we’ve worked, we have set up a camping night with cousins and friends that we’re hosting; and we even got our tents set up already – though most of those cousins and friends still need to set up their tents and round up their gear. Our chores are mostly done for the day as we’re writing this, but we need to help with the dinner prep work soon; and expect to be busy for the rest of the day.
Mom and Dad have lots of parental support for hosting the family-and-friends’ dinner, and we’ll likely keep most of those adults for the campfire we’re going with instead of an outdoor movie mostly because we want the warmth ahead of a comparatively-cool night. The weather today was great with sun and a mid-eighties high, and it will be clear overnight, but it definitely feels like fall later at night and early in the mornings. Ehlana and I will be okay with that; since we are planning on having co-ed tents with our favorite cuddle buddies, and while that won’t be true for most of the other campers; they do know what to expect an chose the camping anyway. That’s pretty much all we have for our own story, and we need to get going again soon; so let’s make the world news update quick and then move on.
The front lines fighting in Ukraine appears to be going badly for the Ukrainian army despite all western claims to the contrary; and we are concerned for all of the people involved on the ground on both sides as the fighting escalates again – probably to change positions ahead of winter. Talk of allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russia is growing again; and is still an insane escalation risk that shouldn’t be allowed to happen at all. Ditto that for new reports that the United States is planning missile strike options on Venezuela. That would be yet another unprovoked attack against a sovereign nation that has not attacked us in any way – not that our leaders have allowed international law or our own constitution to get in the way of previous attacks like the recent bombing we did on Iran. The horrors continue in Gaza for the Palestinians, and we don’t expect that to change; since while President Trump claimed an imminent peace deal; Netanyahu’s speech at the UN general assembly made it clear that his plan is to eliminate all Palestinians from the region either by killing all of them or expelling them to anywhere else in the world. That is, by his own admission, the definition of genocide even while he claimed otherwise; so the rest of the world needs to act – and not just by having most of their general assembly members walk out in protest ahead of that speech.
Let’s stop there. We want to be happy; and that is challenging when we think too much about all of the awful in the world. We’ll have the rest of our story for today with our next update, so stay tuned for that; and we’ll get back to living the adventures with some of our favorite people.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
