Wednesday : 23 degrees C at 11:11am

 True, my hands are still too cold but hey, it looks like it is going to be quite pleasant when I take my afternoon walk today!  Regardless, I did morning shopping and at Trader Joe's, it was me and a couple of women choosing the best papaya for tomorrow.......

Today I meet neighbor Darrell Robb and we drive along the Pacific Coast Highway to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley for an evening lecture about US foreign policy.  Will it be right wing or neutral in tone?  Do I care?  Not really, I love this opportunity to visit a place I'd have no way of going to otherwise.......and the fact is I really do not know anyone here - my friends/support systems are in place, having been set up over decades, in Hong Kong, in Bangkok.  Nothing here....such is life......and having a neighbor with car and like interests is an unplanned delight!

Today's NY Times has an in depth article about the National Liberation Army, the ELN, a Columbian guerilla group that, for all intents and purposes, controls the border that neither Columbia nor Venezuela do and that they are quite likely to continue their insurgency and economic control of the area, regardless of US presence.

.....And two articles in today's Guardian:  first, about Renee Good and the increase of domestic military presence in the streets of our country, regardless of citizenry feelings......and secondly a call for Europe to kick the US out because of its 'demands' for taking Greenland from its NATO protector Denmark.  

I am against Trump's foreign policy - I am against his domestic policy, too........enough is enough!

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