Ehlana and Ethan:
This has been a good day, but not newsworthy for our personal adventures. Tai Chi was indoors; breakfast was standard school-day fare; and our academic adventures included a test, some classmate presentations, and the usual daily lessons and work. Ethan and I worked at the lab or archives with our books or beakers doing mostly-boring jobs. Okay, that would just be boring for most people including our friends while we have fun getting into the weeds of our projects. We came home for a slightly-late dinner; worked in the office with Mom and Dad after the clean-up – including a Magi lesson with Mom; and now we’re ready to wrap up our day and get some sleep.
Along with the work tonight, we did a vid-chat with Cassie and Michael at the start of their Thursday in Savannakhet; we’re still jealous of the sun and hot weather, and it is even-warmer there than in Vientiane! They are having more fun than we are even with all of the work, but we’ll cut them some slack on that this week; since Cassie’s birthday is just days away now! They have all-weekend plans for that and we’ll cover that news eventually too, but that’s all we have for them tonight.
On the world news front, peace talks are on-again – or they aren’t; and that could be said for pretty much every major conflict right now. The ongoing destruction of Ukraine rolls on while politicians accomplish nothing; that’s true in different ways in a handful of Middle East countries; and stresses in Europe, here, and elsewhere continue to fester and grow; just waiting for the next spark to set off future fights. We haven’t mentioned recent, renewed calls to place nuclear weapons in more European countries, but that’s because we can only hope that those leaders won’t be allowed to be that stupid. That would likely lead to nuclear war, and with the last of the big nuclear treaties, the START-2 agreement, due to expire tomorrow without our leaders even trying to negotiate an extension or renewal; we’re already moving a step closer to that kind of conflict.
That’s a terrible note to wrap this up on, but we’re tired; and I don’t want to really get started on a rant that our leaders will never read or hear anyway – and would ignore if they did! Cassie and Michael would never want to live in Washington, but President Cassie Stone does have a nice ring to it; and we – the people of the world – might have a chance with a Magi Master there to clean up the swamp! ;^)
Okay, that’s a happier note to end on; so we’re out of here and off to dreamland right now.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
