Ethan and Ehlana:
Happy 13th Birthday, Brandon Green!
We had a gift for Brandon that we gave him while at school, but while he’s only a year younger than us; we don’t hang out with him very often. That seems a bit funny to us when we do spend time with Seth and they are both friends and cousins, and Jeremy is Kaitlyn’s match, but even in a small town; it doesn’t really work to hang out with gangs of fifty to seventy-five teens and tweens.
Moving on, our day started with indoors Tai Chi thanks to it being freezing outside; and then we still went with a hot breakfast despite not actually getting cold first. It did warm up into the fifties eventually, but we still spent most of our school day indoors; and then Ehlana and I opted for the lab or archives work-play time. We had fun with that, but didn’t go with staying there all evening too –we came home for dinner with Mom and Dad; and then we had a work evening in the office. Our focus for charities and the family business was for the post-earthquake needs, but we also did a bit for Cassie and Michael. They are mostly doing rural project site visits and meetings through tomorrow; and then they’ll be in California from Wednesday through the weekend before they’ll turn around and start heading east through the southernmost States.
We worked in the office until ten o’clock with added hours in time phases; and Ehlana and I have been doing our nightly computer checks and twin chat since then. As we move into April, tariffs are in the news as President Trump has promised to match our tariffs to whatever tariffs are placed on our exports by the rest of the world. We’re sure that whatever ends up happening; there will be impact on world trade and economies; so we’re sure to have more need of our charities and businesses. Mom will lead the way for dealing with the impacts; and we’ll keep you posted on at least some of the highlights. We do want to note that the attempts to scare everyone are really dumb. Tariffs have been around for a very long time, and even when changes happen; it takes months or even longer for the impacts to actually effect final consumers. That is obvious when supply chains are months-long just in transport and production time; so fear should not be an issue at all. News flash – international trade or trade of any kind is often unfair to someone! That won’t change over the next few days regardless of tariff changes; since we’ll all just see other changes to adapt or get around the tariffs.
While most of that nonsense is getting a lot of attention; the warmongers continue to defeat any attempts at peace – though we still doubt the sincerity of those peace efforts when nothing real happens on the ground with any of the conflicts. President Trump ran on a peace-making platform, but that apparently means something different to us; since all we’ve heard lately is closer to war-is-peace as he’s signed off on bombing Yemen; threatens to bomb Iran; and is basically continuing the same policies for Ukraine that have led to the current and horrifying state of death and destruction in Ukraine that will only get worse as the war continues.
None of that news is happy or good for the majority of people in the world, but we just can’t get stuck in those darker thoughts; so that’s all for tonight. We’re going to get some sleep now and shoot for happy dreams; since there is hope for the future and she is out there right now taking just a bit of Light into the world and changing lives for the better along the way! ;^)
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
