Ehlana and Ethan:
Before we get to our news for the last day
of May; let’s begin with a quick update for our respective, separate adventures
last night. Ethan would normally be
suspiciously-quiet about his alone time with Naomi while she’d definitely share
the highlights with me, but in this case; Ethan fell asleep early; so Aiden and
I probably had more of that kind of co-ed fun than they did despite the rarity
of that actually happening! They still
had fun with the dinner and a movie they shared with Mom and Dad; they got to
have some alone time too; and that ended early when Ethan fell asleep during
their second movie of the night. For the
record, that was not because my brother was bored – he just picked an
inconvenient time to run out of steam.
Aiden had some fun with that story this morning, but then we did
actually have more fun last night too – partly because his parents went to bed
early; and Hailey was with Leah last night.
We had fun with our dinner and some quiet chat time with Aiden’s
parents; and then we did not watch the movies that we pretended to watch while
enjoying the make-out time opportunity.
We didn’t get as much sleep last night, but Magi-powered fatigue healing
was an option again this morning; and we also had more fun with our Tai Chi by
the river that we were able to do with Cassie and Michael thanks to another
well-timed break in the rain and storms.
Ethan and Naomi had their workout by the
river with Mom and Dad too; we had our respective morning meals at home or
Aiden’s house respectively. We met up at
church for the service and Sunday school; Pastor John is beginning a new series
of messages with supporting learning modules for the Sunday school classes that
is about family and growing things.
While there are sure to be farming themes involved, we know that Pastor
John will weave together connections from strong foundations and fertile soil
to strong communities and bountiful harvests.
The return of the rain didn’t arrive until
later in the afternoon than we expected, and it warmed up into the nineties,
but we still opted for work-play afternoon.
Ethan did that at the archives; and I ended up going to the bakery with
Aiden and helping out there instead of playing in my lab. We each had fun with our books or, for a
change, my baked treats; and my work was definitely more-delicious! ;^)
We cane home in time for dinner with Mom
and Dad; Ethan and I took care of the clean-up because they did the cooking;
and then we all worked in the office for a couple of hours. Let’s not comment on why our parents had work
left to do after a kid-free afternoon.
We had fun with the work we did on charity and family business projects;
Mom did a Magi lesson with us; and then we eventually moved on to bath or
Jacuzzi time. While we’ve been busy,
let’s also mention that Cassie and Michael have been busy today too. They switched out nephews and nieces from the
Nortons to the Stones; and they are keeping Sierra, Stuart, and Samuel tonight. They did get a buffet dinner at the Inn out
of that deal; and they do love spending time with all of their favorite
next-gen kids. Ethan and I will not
offer training-related commentary about all of that babysitting – and yes, that
is entirely because they started that training with us!
As for the world news of the weekend; it
has been another total mess of propaganda.
For the Middle East conflict, while President Trump again continues to
claim imminent peace with Iran while there are major issues still outstanding
and he also continues to move the goalposts for that ‘deal’ that Iran doesn’t
agree is close at all. Add in that the
latest terms include ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ for that deal; and our
skepticism is more-real than that supposed peace deal. Let’s also add that Israel has continued
massive attacks on Lebanon and continue to push to take territory by force; and
nobody should believe that peace is near – or that it would last if a deal was
even reached when there is no reason to trust that ‘our’ side would keep to any
deal at all.
On the Ukraine war front, there are two
major defensive cities that are getting close to collapse as the Russian forces
advance, and while everyone is waiting for and expecting a major attack on
Kiev; losing two of the largest remaining defensive locations east of the
Dnieper could prove more-significant to the Ukrainian armed forces – especially
if they lose too many more troops as those cities are lost. There are sidelines stories related to NATO,
the Baltic countries, and expanding nuclear weapons stockpiles and positioning
in Europe. Some of those reports are
distractions meant to keep western populations looking away from the disaster
that Ukraine has become for their own people, but the stories about nuclear
weapons and building up troop levels in the Baltics are true risks that Russia
must assess and counter to protect themselves.
We can only hope that both sides will come to their senses and stop even
these verbal escalations; since nobody wants to see what happens next if that
war expands and NATO gets directly drawn into the war. That would not end well for Europe; and worse
for the world if nukes are used at any level.
Ethan and I have mentioned this before as our leaders have wiped out all
nuclear reduction treaties and talk of arsenal build-ups have developed; and we
do not want to see a new nuclear arms build-up race. We are sure that there are many powerful
people interested in the power and wealth possible by just that sort of
military expansion and the potential for population control through another
round of nuclear war themed fear m0ngering, but we’ll hope for the best; and
maybe we’ll do a bit of Magi-powered research to work on ways to keep that kind
of destruction from actually happening!
For the record, no, we can’t do something like turn nukes into flowers
or maybe something funny like in Harry Potter books, but maybe we can figure
out a way to neutralize those weapons before they can be used.
That could be a fun thought to take into
dreamland and explore for those solutions; so we’re going to do that and wrap
this up right now! ;^)
Until next time, live with love, fellow
Magi of the Light!
