Ehlana and Ethan:
The weather warm-up continued today, but we resisted the call of the after-school play time with our friends and went to play-work with our beakers or books at the lab. We had a good day at school after Tai Chi and breakfast with Mom and Dad that had the added bonus of a vid-chat with Cassie and Michael that was a wrap-up of their Wednesday in Cambodia. The lab or archives work included time phasing to get more done, but I also want to mention that I need to be more-careful with how I do that on weekdays when there are more people in the building while it is less of an issue for Ethan when he’s usually alone in the archives.
We came home in time for dinner; enjoyed that pasta and sides meal with Mom and Dad; and then we took care of the clean-up before going to join them for a work evening in the office. That work and Magi lesson included more time phasing and we got a lot done; there was another vid-chat with Cassie and Michael as they were starting their Thursday; and now we’ve moved on to our daily wrap-up computing and twin chat time.
We did not write about the Presidential State of the Union speech last night; and have decided not to offer a rant on it at all; since it was just another political distraction that means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Maybe we should at least add that we aren’t suggesting that the speech is completely inconsequential – we just expect that there won’t be any ‘good’ results; and talk isn’t matching up with action more often than not for all of our world leaders. It would be nice if that wasn’t true, but we see what is actually happening in the world; and ignore the distractions. The news that we do see is the continuing fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East; the economic warfare that is causing global-level supply chain disruptions and insecurity; and rising tensions causing smaller problems in a lot of countries. Mexico is getting a lot of attention because of the cartel retaliations against the Mexican government and American businesses and tourists, and that is serious, but there are protests and other violence happening in a lot of other places as more and more people get angry or desperate. We don’t want to get into the weeds on those stories, but will point out that our world leaders could choose to promote love and community instead of hate and division and that would actually be easier and less-expensive than spending trillions on war and destruction.
Let’s stop there. Ethan and I need to get some sleep and it has been a long day with all of the time-phased hours. We’re looking forward to the nice-weather days we’re going to have for the rest of the week; and we want to be at full-power to enjoy the extra play time we’re going to have over the next few days.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
