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Ta-Da! Here you have it. The finished sink. I think it's finished. Glen's mighty proud of that commercial-grade faucet with a sprayer. That'll come in right handy when it's time to wash off potatoes! And beans. And whatever else needs washing from the garden. I can rinse out my compost bucket too. 

And that was about the most exciting and positive thing that happened around here today. It's been steel gray and gloomy and almost bizarrely warm and humid. According to my weather widget, it's going to rain here tonight and then the great temperature drop will begin with at least a week of low temps down to the lower twenties. 
I will not complain while some of you are in the middle of the one of the worst snow and ice storms in recorded history. I'm not stranded in an airport and I'm not snowed in with no power and I'm not going to be shoveling driveways or sidewalks or waiting for the snowplow and most of all I'm not out in the streets protesting the presence of the murdering ICE, risking my life either from weather or gestapo. 

So. Are we going to just become inured to watching videos of people being shot and killed on the streets and in their cars? 
Oh boy. There's another one! 
We cannot. 
And you may notice I didn't even add the descriptor "innocent" before people and that is because no ICE agent is a judge, jury, and executioner as far as I know and also as far as I know, no one who has been shot by these Nazi storm troupers has been a threat at all to anyone, especially to the armed, masked militia. 
I cannot tell you how incredibly in awe I am of how the citizens of Minnesota are responding to the presence of ICE and the murders they have committed. If ever there has been an example of people speaking truth to power, that is it. Meanwhile, our so-called government lies and lies and lies and lies calling the murders self-defense and whatever else they cook up, trying desperately to spin what the videos and witnesses say and show without a shadow of a doubt. 
Yesterday's murder of a VA ICU nurse who was trying to help direct traffic and then help a woman who had been pushed down and was being pepper-sprayed is too fucked up to even contemplate, as was the murder of Renee Good. Or the kidnapping of a five-year old child. Or any of the shit they are spraying and calling...well, what ARE they calling it today? What in hell does any of this have to do with border control except for the fact that cosplaying miniature Nazi border commander Gregory Bovino is indeed a senior border control officer who is strutting around in his Nazi coat with his Nazi haircut and insisting that the murdered were far from innocent and indeed, a threat to the ICE officers who shot them. 

You all know all of this. I won't go on. But these are the things my mind keeps coming back to. Every morning is like waking up after a loved one dies and for just one moment, forgetting that death, thinking life is going on as usual and then realizing and having the grief come rushing back to pummel and destroy any sense of normalcy at all. 

There is no end to this terror. There is no end to the astonishment of the cruelty being thrust upon American citizens. And of course the world at large. And at the epicenter of all of this is one man, although I feel certain he has never been in control of the plans and carrying out of them which are now far beyond wreaking havoc and on into absolute and undeniable destruction. However, Trump has been such a fantastic puppet, getting elected on his promises of Making White People Great Again and, oh, I don't know- stopping windmill cancer? Proving that sexual predators have no need to atone for their actions because, oh, you know- women and children. Who cares? Making sure that you can get adequate water pressure in your shower and you can cook on your gas stove? 

And since his dementia and failing health have progressed so rapidly, these puppet masters need to get things done in a hurricane hurry before even the least glimmer of sanity and the Constitution begins being defended again.

This is one of those times I feel like I should just delete everything I've written. I am not Heather Cox Richardson or Robert Reich or even Jeff Tiedrich. I am not a constitutional law expert. I am not an expert on anything having to do with politics. 

But I am a human being. As such, I have empathy and I have the ability to think logically, and I know evil when I see it and I am seeing it now as is every decent person on this planet. 

Remember what the protestors said during the Viet Nam War? 
The whole world is watching. 
They were. And at that time, even the warmongers had the ability to feel shame for what was being seen. Not done, perhaps, but seen. 
And that may be the difference between then and now. 
These people have no shame, no decency at all. 

I sure don't have any answers except that we must refuse to believe the lies but that goes without saying. If you're not a liar, you see no need to accept anything but the truth. If you're not a pedophile, you see no need to protect one. If you're not a hater of people who have different skin color, religion, gender and/or sexual identities, culture, music, food, or abilities, you do not understand why anyone would judge another on any of those things. And this is not a leftwing conspiracy. This is not some woke bullshit. This is decency and respect for our fellow human beings, our neighbors, our children. 

All right. Here are some camellias. 

Love...Ms. Moon