Still in Ordinary Time in the Church Year or Trinity or Pentecost depending on the generation you belong to but always God the Creator's world. The smoke still with us as Climate Change reeks its horrible disaster onto the world. Protect the world; without the world we do not exist and so we must protect it. God gave us a plan to live by and protect the earth was part of that plan; we need to work at that for sure. Everything else is just gravy as my uncle used to stay. Do not forget what has to be done and when that is complete time for the gravy.
Sometimes just waiting works very well as we continue to tear down those provincial barriers and buy Canadian; buy up all the goods that went south before and offset recession. Re-invent our industries of the past bought up by free trade; sitting behind a computer all day long is not good for you. We were not meant to sit all day long - it shows for sure that that is a great truth. We are meant to run, to work hard with our hands and make the things that we need to have a comfortable life - washing machines, dryers, dish washers all of those things we did make and can make again. Keeps us on our feet and independent; we do not want to be a weak nation.
My great uncle who fought in the First World War's memories of the war were mostly of Paris where they went on leave occasionally. A beautiful city he said and when we went several times actually that is absolutely true. Paris is beautiful; viewed from high up on the Eiffel Tower it is stunning to see the perfect lines laid out below you. A gift to the future of the peoples of France and will always be like that because they love that and will sustain it through the centuries. We are a country built by the First Peoples who taught us how to survive in the winter here; we also have two founding countries in terms of colonial - France and England and they brought new blood to this continent which had been decimated by Eastern Hemisphere diseases after the arrival of the very first colonials namely the Spanish. Together we can build a Canada that is strong and free; our democracy is ruled by the people in the long run. When we do not like something; we get it changed but it is all of us not just a minor grumbling group because they just want more money from whatever. But the value of Canada belongs to Canada; we bought and paid for it and so we must work together to make Canada even greater. Those were my Great Uncle's thoughts. He was a marvelous man and when my mother was sorting through his things after he passed away I went over and helped her. What I remembered about him she reinforced because she had known him all her life and by then she was 56 and I was 27. We chatted about him all that time as we sorted his belongings into what she would keep, what she would give away and what she would throw away. As always the throw away part is the hardest. I did learn that lesson then at 27 and it stayed with me all these years until I too am faced with downsizing and must reduce the amount of material that I continue to hold in memory of Edward. Interesting really.
So today Church (two services) and this is always our downsizing day and we will work on my closet likely. Not that there is anything to downsize but more to clear away the dust which does accumulate in the corners I do not reach like the shelf. It is smokey outside so a good day to be inside and my daughter is very busy at the moment with her research (AI is on the brain for sure along with another colleague) but will take a couple of hours to downsize. We will not go out once again as we do not need to although the gardens call out to us for sure to weed them.
Yesterday not a lot of accomplishment in terms of my research but my research time in the summer is always somewhat scant. It is the winter that sees me spend long hours on my research. The hermit in me has become stronger and stronger as the days pass by.
Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next.
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