8 bar rises 30.11 0mph WNW windchill 4 Samhain
Full Moon of Long Nights Day 8hr 47m
I hear you saying often that you’re not turned on to politics. Well let me bring to bear the lessons of history. If you’re not turned on to politics the lesson of history is that politics will turn on you.—Ralph Nader, Countdown
Yes, Nader is right, but I wish he’d take his own lesson to heart. Quixotic campaigns that drain the vote of the left and left independents have had their day. Until or if the left can mount a credible candidate we should support the Democrats.
In this and many other ways I can tell I have reached old fogey status. Twice in the last couple of weeks I’ve sent notes to the Sierra Club’s legislative committee that reveal, to me later, and probably to each member at the time, my more conservative approach. With a $5+ billion budget deficit I think we should pitch our stuff in light of savings to the state budget. Instead my colleagues queue up to decide which expletives are more appropriate for sulfide mining.
Used to be me.
We’ve had a cold December so far, considerably below normal. This is the weather most of us here yearn for and miss as the winter’s have grown warmer. The snow stays on the ground; the air is crisp. Sleeping becomes a treat, a warm bear-in-the-den snuggle.
I have finally caught up, again, with my various chores including all the outside ones. That feels great, but it does mean I have to reorient my daily activities and I’m still in the in-between place about that. Soon.