August 31 - Anchorage, Alaska. I write at the end of a hot Summer - hottest on record here. We wonder about whether our climate is changing, but why? The evidence is clear. And yet we debate it. People talk about a dying planet, but it is not the planet that will die, it will just create new environments for life. We are the ones that won't survive if we don't figure out how to adapt to the change we are, in great part, responsible for. Instead, though, we debate the ridiculous antics of our President (funny if he didn't actually control the power over life and death, which he does). So we avoid addressing long-term pressing issues as we struggle to find a way to make sense of the short-term gaslighting that has become our political norm nationally. Not so much our norm up here where we have learned to collaborate together well - at least in the Legislature. Republicans and Democrats resisting the actions of a Governor grown quite unpopular as he follows Trump’s lead.
It has been a slow Summer for music as well. But I finally finished, to a degree that I like it, "Got to Wake up and Take a Stand". Perhaps when Sarah and I return from our upcoming travel I will find the time to record that one. Then post it and see where it goes. For now, this entry is brief. Just a reminder that I am still around...