March is roaring like a lion today. There's been no rain since January so the landscape is brown with only tiny dots of the hardiest greenery. We desert rats are not surprised by this weather but maybe a bit disappointed. Green is such an alive color; heartening in spring.
The first - and we hope the last - fire of the season is burning SW of here in Hell's Gate, Coronado National Forest. Man-made they say. No one in their balanced mind would start a fire in the current conditions. The destruction is sad. Sad too that they killed Macho B, the famous jaguar that roamed in that same area as the current fire.
Obama is the name of the hour, week, month, year. You would think that he embodied a messiah by the way folks invoke his name. I am here to say, that whatever the man is or whatever he may try to do - WE are the ones we have been waiting for! It is naive in the extreme to think that one man can change all to good. He may inspire, but WE have to get to doing the work.
I am planting spring things in the garden and on the windowsill while planning for summer. Plant a garden for yourself wherever you live and become involved in working with a group of allies who work together locally. Things are setting up to rock and roll next year.
Take good care of yourselves in all you do and say.