At least it’s warm enough for me to leave the door open for the dogs to go in and out of the yard without being assaulted by a squadron of crazed mosquitoes.
Some thoughts on jihad
Hate is easy. Love is hard. Intolerance is easy. Tolerance is hard. Violence is easy. Non-violence in response is so hard as to be almost unbearable. So when Jesus told us to turn the other cheek, he was asking us to do something that most of us resist doing with every fiber of our being. When someone hits us, we want to hit back, and we want to hit back even harder. I guess that’s the part of being a Christian that truly tests just how deep your faith really goes.
In our memories, Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi
Kicking the can down the road
So if I understand the situation correctly, Alaska is deep in a financial hole due to the drastic decline in oil prices. We are therefore dependent on the moral strength and integrity of our legislators to do the right thing and balance the state budget no matter the political cost. I’ll pause here for a moment to give you time to laugh hysterically. Call me a pessimist, but I’m going to bet that legislators will find a way to make a few cosmetics cuts and then kick the rest of the pain down the road. After all, this is Alaska.
Hate is easy
Tolerance and love are hard.
And in Alaska news…
In Alaska news, Charlo Greene lost her court case and was evicted from her store. She ran a “social club” that centered on pot. But that’s not the strange part. The strange part is that she lost out to the downstairs business which indulged in BSDM… an apparently alternative lifestyle. I’ll leave you to figure those initials out. I got a headache just reading about it.
Yesterday was another horrible day so I went out and did something to make me happy
I bought a heating pad for my arthritic dog to complement her pain meds. She is now much happier than she’s been in a long time. And she’s warmer than living things usually are in my house. So there is one creature on this earth that had a good day yesterday.
It gets harder and harder
It gets harder and harder to view Islamic extremists as fellow humans. I want to not lose that ability because I don’t want to become one of them. But it’s harder every day to not just be so angry that I want us to go to the mid-east with bombs and keep bombing until it is a virtual wasteland.
In Bush Alaska, basketball rules all
Congratulations are in order for the boys and girls Barrow Whaler basketball teams. They both did extremely well in their respective tournaments. For anyone who has lived in Alaska for longer than ten minutes without figuring this out, let me make it perfectly clear to you that basketball is to Bush Alaska what football is to all of Texas. It is king.
For the kids lucky enough to have the talent to play, basketball can be a way out of town for some mall roving and movie going. It is also a strong impetus to stay in high school. The
So let’s see what our choices are…
Anchorage is having the kind of winter that gives winter a bad name. Our choices for weather seem to be below freezing weather followed by rain followed by more below freezing weather so that all the rain is now sheer ice, making every attempt to walk outside an unmitigated disaster waiting to happen. Today is freezing. Tomorrow we’re supposed to get freezing rain. I may just go to sleep until spring. Then I can wake up and see how many of my perennials died because there was no snow cover to protect the roots from the freezing ice.
Living in