Very short post this time because truly it was an uneventful week for us, although a staggering event for the world...You can't just make this stuff up, you know?...
It's that season when outdoor things have to be put away or tended to. This fall there are more leaves than ever and more vivid colours. All the rough rugs and towels got a last chance to dry in the sun.
The more delicate or rabbit-endangered shrubs get latticed or burlapped. The pond gets a daily skimming until all the leaves are gone. Certain trees get a brushcut, others just get a trim! Down in the barn the convertibles beg to go out one more time but the batteries have to come out one more time.
A friend of Polish background came over to play some well-known Polish folk music and translate some glassware that I remember from my grandmother's humble little kitchen. What huge circles life brings...
About the U.S. election results. I have been predicting this outcome since January because I have seen it all happen in Canada. We had a shameless, lying, slimy, self-serving, climate change denying, divisive Prime Minister for 8 years who embarrassed and diminished our country internationally. And in Toronto we had an ignorant, drug using, narrow-minded narcissistic buffoon as mayor for 3 embarrassing years. The United States now has a combination of all that but much worse. That country can now expect years of angry division, embarrassment, shame, disbelief, and sellout to monied interests. The rest of the world will suffer in accelerating climate destruction and copycat demagogues --- one has already surfaced in Canadian politics.
Gratefully, we leave tomorrow for places where news is restricted and the internet is iffy. But as the optimists say, the sun will still rise in the morning. Good luck to us all...
It's that season when outdoor things have to be put away or tended to. This fall there are more leaves than ever and more vivid colours. All the rough rugs and towels got a last chance to dry in the sun.
The more delicate or rabbit-endangered shrubs get latticed or burlapped. The pond gets a daily skimming until all the leaves are gone. Certain trees get a brushcut, others just get a trim! Down in the barn the convertibles beg to go out one more time but the batteries have to come out one more time.
A friend of Polish background came over to play some well-known Polish folk music and translate some glassware that I remember from my grandmother's humble little kitchen. What huge circles life brings...
About the U.S. election results. I have been predicting this outcome since January because I have seen it all happen in Canada. We had a shameless, lying, slimy, self-serving, climate change denying, divisive Prime Minister for 8 years who embarrassed and diminished our country internationally. And in Toronto we had an ignorant, drug using, narrow-minded narcissistic buffoon as mayor for 3 embarrassing years. The United States now has a combination of all that but much worse. That country can now expect years of angry division, embarrassment, shame, disbelief, and sellout to monied interests. The rest of the world will suffer in accelerating climate destruction and copycat demagogues --- one has already surfaced in Canadian politics.
Gratefully, we leave tomorrow for places where news is restricted and the internet is iffy. But as the optimists say, the sun will still rise in the morning. Good luck to us all...
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