Warming up is right! It’s been minus 28dC for the last few days and Edmonton had -40dC with the wind chill. Warming up is on the menu, since an 18 degree increase is and makes a big difference; consider another such increase and we would at 8-plus, which it will be on Friday! This is like going to the tropics, which word means ‘turning’, as the sun turns to go the other way for the season.

Yesterday I spent 120$$ on grocery shopping for the month braving the cold twice with my trips, walking through and over the snow! Good exercise, but tricky with the slippery spots here and there along the way. Later today I’ll be on the way to Juliet, but the temps will be more bearable.

'What are you doing dear?' asks his wife. 'I’m trying to look at the weather and not see Trump news.'

Last night the anticipated ruling on the US travel restrictions was still pending and I don’t know the status of it today. The US judiciary is preparing to put the brakes on Trump’s rule by decree style and may become his most effective opposition.

Trouw - Dutch news - had a cartoon yesterday of a man peering through a tube at his newspaper. “What are you doing dear?” asks his wife. “I’m trying to look at the weather and not see Trump news.” How true!

Last night I worked on my message essay making a list of the items I had put down along my ‘egg-graphic’ chart on page 37 in my Clairfontaine cahier last January. It symbolises a round trip from the present down human heritage to its beginnings 60k years ago (60kya) and then back up to the present again as human society develops over time.

Last night I worked on my message essay making a list of the items I had put down along my ‘egg-graphic’ chart …

This I intend to make the framework for my narrative, which is my message. We need to formulate a message for our time that uses the handed down traditions and add to them, to make a modern one that reflects the current process of a forming planet wide society.
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