Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Seed Moon<\/p>\n
Kate left home to visit a snow storm.\u00a0 4-6 inches falls in Denver right now.\u00a0 Tomorrow will be a good day for a ski oriented family to have a birthday.<\/p>\n
Though the southern part of the state has blizzard warnings, we look mild here.\u00a0 Saturday does not look quite as good as I thought it would for outdoor work.<\/p>\n
I popped two alleve and the throbbing went down toward manageable levels.\u00a0 A vicodin will get me to sleep.\u00a0 Bearable now.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Environmental politics has a wonky aspect once you get past tree-spiking and waving signs.\u00a0 A lot of science and complex theory behind much of the work makes even entry level understanding a challenge.<\/p>\n
How have I continued to work without a detailed knowledge of the issues?\u00a0 Well, two things.\u00a0 One, I have a good, broad grasp of the issues, just not a detailed one.\u00a0 Second, the politics have been what interested me initially and politics I understand.\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Seed Moon Kate left home to visit a snow storm.\u00a0 4-6 inches falls in Denver right now.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Saturday does not look quite as good … Continue reading Wonky Politics<\/span>