Ethan and Ehlana:
Happy 8th Birthday, William Connor!
Hoppy 25th Birthday, Ryan Cross!
Ehlana and I didn’t have anything to do with either birthday today, but hope they’ve each had a good day with family and friends.
While we got back to school today, or top hometown news is that Cassie and Michael have hit the road on their cross-country work trip. They’ll head west all the way to the coast; go through the southern states when they’re ready to head east; and then head towards home again after spending five days with us chaperoning the Grade Eight trip to the Capital. They’ll be away for around two months, and we’re going to miss them, but we are also glad that they are getting the chance to check out a lot of the work we do here in our own country through the family businesses and charities. You might think that Cassie’s language skills won’t be needed this time, but we do work with most minority communities; and her talents for working with everyone and making them comfortable – including conversing in first languages will help a lot. She’s also looking forward to working in some native-American languages; and they are both looking forward to some quality sightseeing along the way.
Here at home, Ehlana and I had a good first day back at school – especially when it came to visiting with friends we didn’t see very much of over the break; and then we picked up picnic dinners and headed to the lab or archives to get back to work again. Including some time phasing; we put in the equivalent of twelve hours with our beakers or books; got a lot done; and feel pretty good about our accomplishments. Dad came and brought us home at ten-thirty, and after a short visit with him – and with Mom; we have been winding down with our usual bedtime twin chat and computing. Ehlana is fired up thanks to successes with her cancer cure experiments that continue to fine-tune her treatments for the different types of cancer. There is still a lot of work to go and then decades more before her treatments can be scaled up to meet global demands, but that doesn’t take away from those successes; and my sister truly is brilliant!
We can’t say the same for most of our world leaders; since all of the talk of peace is not translating into action on the ground for any of the current conflicts. If anything; all of the situations are getting worse and positions are hardening as atrocities, killing, and destruction continue in Ukraine, a handful of places in the Middle East, and elsewhere in the world. Visiting aliens would think that we were all crazy, but basically every conflict boils down to fighting over who controls the natural resources where they are most-abundant; and the most-powerful and wealthy of the world do not care about the human cost needed to gain even more power and riches. News flash for all of those power-hungry people – as junior Magi of the Light; we can assure you that you can’t take it with you and that God does not ‘keep score’ using human currencies or material wealth!
Moving along, yes, there are peace talks going on, but even deals that have been made aren’t being honored; so our expectations for any successes are low right now. If we’re proved wrong about that between now and when we go to Washington; we’ll happily apologize to the President and his negotiating teams – not that they’d care or be interested in even meeting with us. Okay, they might want to meet us if they knew about our Magi talents, but then that’s a scary thought; and it would not likely end well for us – or for them! ;^)
Okay, that’s enough for this report. We’ve had a good day; feel great about our accomplishments; and aren’t going to think too much about how much we’re missing Cassie and Michael. As expected; let’s add that Faith has Mandy with her for the first week or two, and while Mandy loves visiting with us too; she definitely gets more attention from Faith and doesn’t have to put up with any dogs at her house! Sorry, Silkie and Lady, but Mandy is getting older; and isn’t really interested in playing with you or being best buddies! That really is all for tonight and we’re ready to get some sleep now, so we hope that your ‘now’ is amazing too; and we’re out of here and off to re-charge so that we can do it all again tomorrow.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
