Ehlana and Ethan:
We have had another long, busy day from a chilly Tai Chi workout by the river through to now as we’re winding down toward bedtime. Our classes and studies were good but not newsworthy; our football and cheer squad practices went well as we had our final workouts ahead of the game tomorrow night; and we were happy to have another decent weather day – even if we are still also getting used to the cooler temperatures that are only reaching highs in the mid-seventies. There is rain in the forecast for the game and weekend, but maybe we’ll get lucky and get the bad weather when it doesn’t matter – like when we’re sleeping! That wasn’t an issue today, and after the practices, Ethan and I hosted our four best friends for dinner and a study session; Mom did a group Magi lesson with us too; and then we all went to the Inn for game night. Naomi won the junior title tonight with a bit of help here and there from Ethan that he might not have noticed thanks to all of the bonus hugs and kisses Naomi shared with him along the way. We all had fun; Ethan and I did our third walk in a row with Silkie to see Naomi and Aiden to their homes; and then Mom didn’t want us to do any office work tonight. She and Dad didn’t stay up late to work either; and we won’t comment on what they might have been more-interested in doing instead since sending themselves to their room for the night. Ethan opted for a shower while I spent some quality time with my Jacuzzi; he’s done most of the computer checks and shared the news with me; and now we’re just having a shorter-than-usual twin chat while I multi-task writing this update.
That brings us to the world news report and today has just been more of the same theatre out of New York and from too many of our world leaders while tensions only rise around the top wars and elsewhere. We don’t want to spend time on the details from the ongoing fighting and air attacks happening in both regions; and instead want to again write about the fact that both of these wars didn’t need to happen and everything that has followed shouldn’t have happened. The Ukraine war could have been avoided entirely if their government had simply agreed to be neutral and stop persecuting the ethnic Russians that were, at the time, around forty percent of their population. Yes, there are other issues, but those two simple steps would have kept the war from happening at all and the rest could have been worked out with a bit of honest and sincere negotiations.
The Middle East is more-complicated, since the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians preceded the current war and needed to be stopped too, but ‘we’ started the current war with Iran for no valid reason – and while pretending to negotiate with them in good faith for the second time in two years; and we shouldn’t have done that at all and the consequences since then are our responsibility. Our leaders won’t admit to that; they only seem to be doubling down with the insanity; and that was made clear with President Trump’s United Nations speech. For the record, let’s add that his threat to annihilate Iran alone is supposed to be a war crime according to the United Nations; yet not one of the other world leaders called him out on that or demanded his arrest for committing that crime right in front of thousands of witnesses! That proves to everyone that the rule of law means nothing in the United Nations; since their own rules apparently don’t apply to the most-powerful leaders.
Let’s stop there. Ethan and I have had a happy day; we want to stay happy; and need to get some sleep to be ready for the last school day of the week, the football game, and the weekend. Stay tuned, since we hope that our last weekend of September will be another really good one – even if it rains all weekend!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
