Ehlana and Ethan:
This might prove to be a disappointing update for us; since we’ve had a fairly-uneventful Sunday! Okay, Naomi and I had a lot of fun with the girls at Faith’s camping night even without our favorite co-ed cuddle buddies, but after watching the first movie with us, Ethan and Aiden headed to their homes; and Ethan advised me that he took advantage of the chance for extra sleep while I stayed up late with the extra movie and riverside girl chat time before we eventually got some sleep for a few hours. Naomi and I were busier this morning from Tai Chi by the river through breakfast and getting ready for church; and then we were busy with the service and Sunday school – especially with the final round of work we had to get ready for the holiday weekend service. Ethan’s morning was quieter while sharing the early morning fun with Mom and Dad; Naomi made sure he had fun while we were at church, and then he came with us to the Everetts’ to help out with the camp clean-up before lunch.
Ethan and I were on our own for that meal with Mom and Dad, and while the weather was awesome with sun and a high in the mid-nineties, we’re running out of summer; and opted to work at the lab or archives all afternoon. We loved the time with our books or beakers, but don’t have amazing news to offer from that work; and that’s normal most of the time for what we do when my breakthroughs are fleeting moments of awesome and nobody even notices the amazing work that Ethan does while enjoying the benefits that go along with the improved access to archives information. We came home at around six-thirty; don’t want to write about what our parents did with at least part of their kid-free afternoon; and we enjoyed that meal with them too along with the chat time that included covering our plans for the coming week leading up to the holiday weekend. Ethan and I took care of the clean-up; we did some work in the office that included some charity work aimed at disaster relief in several countries and prepping for problems we foresee elsewhere – including for some food security risks. Mom had us wrap up by ten-thirty; bath or Jacuzzi time followed; and now we’re winding down fast toward bedtime. That’s all we have for our own news, so let’s cover the world news; and then we’ll go and get some sleep.
For tonight; we’re going to cover some stories that aren’t getting much attention in western media or with their leaders, but showcase stark differences in the directions that countries are going as they chart the course for their respective futures. In Iceland, while the vote was close; the majority voted against re-starting talks to join the European Union. The last round for those talks ended thirteen years ago; and we applaud the people of Iceland for staying out of the mess that the European Union is becoming as their leaders destroy the economies and societies they purport to represent. On the other side of that coin, Armenia is rapidly moving away from links with Russia toward the European Union; and their leaders are well on the way to destroying their country by doing that; since Russia was the only reason their country and people weren’t already torn apart. That is all but inevitable now, but apparently their leaders can’t look at what has happened to Ukraine and other countries that have been promised the world and ended up destroyed; and want to share that same fate!
That, by the way, was on full display this weekend in Ukraine as reports come out about the cumulative destruction that has, apparently, included the destruction of around ninety percent of food warehouses; major attacks on ammunition storage facilities – including one that the Ukrainian military put in a residential area. In that case, the secondary explosions from the ammo destroyed and damaged a lot of homes in the area; killed dozens of civilians in those homes; and an unreported number of injuries. It is sickening to watch and read about all of those horrors; and inexcusable for the Ukrainian and western leaders to keep the war going at the expense of an entire nation and its people.
Finally, for today, stories about nuclear war made the rounds again this weekend, and all we have to write about for that is this – don’t do it! Anyone pushing for any kind of nuclear war is insane; and we should not have any leaders anywhere in the world allowed to rule if they actually believe that using nukes to bully their way into getting whatever they want! We are not an evolving society or species if we’re considering a return to a civilization where the people with the most power and resources can use and abuse everyone else in the world.
That’s all we’re going to cover tonight, since at least one of us really needs some extra sleep after a very long weekend. Stay tuned; since our last week of summer is going to be awesome! ;^)
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
