Ehlana and Ethan:
Happy 20th Birthday, Ben Norton!
While Cassie and Michael get top billing for family news today while they are beginning the first week of their adventures in Europe with a week in Italy; we’ve had a fairly-quiet day around here. Thanks to some rain in the area; we were happy to spend the morning playing with our books or beakers at the lab. Yes, we really do want to spend more time there while we can right now; so we would have been at the lab even if it had been sunny all day. My research is plugging along slowly and that could get frustrating, but I do understand that is the nature of my work; and can be content with every tiny success while trying to learn from the experiments that fail. Ethan’s books aren’t as annoying to him, but then he’s suited for the hours of tedium that go into overhauling millennia of information so that it will be more-useful to all of the Magi as we head into the future.
While we had fun this morning with our work-play, we also moved on to meet up with Naomi and Aiden in time to put a picnic lunch together and then head over to the park to meet up with some other friends to hang out there for most of the afternoon. We had fun with our friends too, and while it was a bit on the hot side as the high topped triple-digits, we stayed cool with swims in the river and two ice cream snack breaks with treats we picked up from the Emporium. It was tempting to set up another night with our friends, but we needed to do some family business and charity work tonight – along with a Magi lesson; so we were on our own when we went home in-time to help Mom with making dinner and then enjoying that meal with our parents. The office work was good too and productive; we used a time phase to get more done without staying up half the night; and we’re not going to get into any details of our work because we’re happy and don’t want to mess that up with any of the bad thoughts that would come along with the news from around the world that continues to be awful in many of the places where we are trying our best to help the people that are most in need.
Let’s just be happy about what we are able to do; we’ll continue to hope for better into our future – and yours; and move on to some quality nap time starting right now!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
