Partly cloudy today. Still cold and the ground is still snow covered. I spent the morning doing some stitching and cooking supper. It is sitting on the back of the stove until we are ready to eat. Otherwise I am settling down to reading what is in my e-mail.
Starting off with this piece by Leighten Woodhouse. He makes a good point toward the end of his long (but very readable) article. Americans are a people who share a territory but aren't really a nation. Once simply being over here was enough to define us but over the last century and especially over the last 60 years the American identity isn't enough to bind us together. But neither the left nor the right have the answers to our problems.
Timothy Snyder writes about the parallels between the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the latest security meeting in Munich today. As Mark Twain is supposed to have said: history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. I hope the point of divergence will be a better outcome for Ukraine than Czechoslovakia had. Unfortunately, Trump is an even more unreliable negotiator than Chamberlain. Snyder also has some good observations on Trump here. However, the weak "strongman" can create hell here for those of us who aren't white, putative Christian, male, and supposed billionaires.
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