Spring Waxing Seed Moon
Kate left home to visit a snow storm. 4-6 inches falls in Denver right now. Tomorrow will be a good day for a ski oriented family to have a birthday.
Though the southern part of the state has blizzard warnings, we look mild here. Saturday does not look quite as good as I thought it would for outdoor work.
I popped two alleve and the throbbing went down toward manageable levels. A vicodin will get me to sleep. Bearable now.
A week plus of little commitments stretches out ahead of me, so I plan to school myself on Sierra Club issues, especially safe mining and building sensible communities. Environmental politics has a wonky aspect once you get past tree-spiking and waving signs. A lot of science and complex theory behind much of the work makes even entry level understanding a challenge.
How have I continued to work without a detailed knowledge of the issues? Well, two things. One, I have a good, broad grasp of the issues, just not a detailed one. Second, the politics have been what interested me initially and politics I understand. The Sierra Club folks understand the legislative process much better than I do, but in politics I’m a quick study and I was not as far behind in understanding as I was on the issues.
