the storms have been piling clouds on

For days it has been raining and raining. About an hour ago the sun came out for the first time in a long while. It was like a rush of endorphins for me. I had been huffing and hauling wood down the hill to my cabin and then chopping it up and then stacking it and I got all out of breath and then I noticed the sun shining. Very nice.

Crazy storm patterns though, interesting enough if you think about climate change.

It makes me mad in the end that there was no warning system for the tsunami that has devastated SE Asia... it makes me mad that something so crucial and preventable was overlooked. We can learn a lot from this, or we can just be sad about it.

I've been honestly trying to detach myself from the news in general lately... its (as usual) so depressing.

Yes its great that ONE senator had the... oh the GALL to question the Bush regime election TACTICS, but, ONE?! and really, once again, as in "Rathergate", doesn't this seem a bit misdirected, the blame? Thank you Karl Rove, I suppose. And thank you, fellow Americans, for your willingness to cooperate.

I feel American, but I suppose in the more traditional way: loving my freedom, glad to have the rights that I have, glad to live in THIS country frankly. But not in the modern way: I'm not proud of the limp and lukewarm passions that prevail, not proud of the roll over and let it pass attitude that most people maintain (for sanity of course)...

I think that the United States is a great country, I think that there still is not a better place to live your life in the world... but we're kind of like prescription drug addicts, together, as a collective consciousness, oblivious to the roots of our problems, and obsessed with the symptoms.