I watched a politician on TV yesterday giving yet another speech about the Declaration of Independence. He said we were all entitled to our unalienable rights of “life, liberty, and happiness.” Besides being frustrated that a presidential candidate could not accurately quote our country’s establishing document, he missed the most important part of the sentence: “the pursuit of.”

New York City is home to 8,000,000+ New Yorkers. More than 600,000 people live in Boston. Our little hamlet of Edmonds has but 40,000 residents. Despite our decidedly smaller population, Edmonds represented the town well during one of the last climbs of Mount Rainier in the 2011 season.

Puerto Rico is marketed as a jewel of the Caribbean, some of its historic and natural treasures protected through the efforts of a few well-known figures. It is also a small island of people battling their psyches.

The New York Times recently said my generation was going through a mid-life crisis. Generation X was the first generation to go by a one-letter, unqualifying title, rather than the loaded monikers that preceded us (greatest generation, lost generation, Generation Jones, baby boomers).

“Beware the ides of March.” Clearly that soothsayer didn’t spend a February in Washington… According to the National Weather Bureau, this month we will get a peek at the sun no more than five days.

It has been said that Jimmy Carter is a better man than he was a president. Carter presided over the United States during the last years of the “Me Decade”, and in this role, he did not excel in the eyes of most.

A few weeks ago, two clouds above Edmonds criss-crossed to create a perfect “X”.

Juncos, Warblers, Cowbirds…

This past Saturday was glorious in Edmonds, 61 degrees and partly sunny through hazy skies, with a touch of a breeze from the south.