Hi, friends,

It's been a full two weeks since I've written anything to you! In my defense, Mercury is in retrograde yet again and that affects communication, so the backward motion of the smallest planet is surely what's made me too busy to correspond.

Things just keep collapsing in onto us, and I'm sure there's more horrible crap left to come on a Friday night as it always does. Twenty years from now, young people are going to ask us why we're on edge every Friday evening, and we'll have to explain that that's when the Krasnov administration liked to dump the big surprise attacks on us, so we could be anxious and scared all weekend. It became kind of a ritual to wait for the bad thing on Friday during his first administration, and I'm hoping to ignore him as much as I can this time around.

Some of it is just too weird, like trying to invade Greenland. From what I understand, Greenlanders don't even want to be a territory of Denmark, so why on earth would they want to be taken over by the US? I really hope that when the dust has settled on all of this, Greenland is as independent as the people want to be, and Krasnov puts it back in his pants and shuts his mouth. In the meantime I kind of want to send the entire country of Greenland an email apologizing for the orange loser.

I got to be a guest in a friend's undergrad-level class on Grief today, and I talked about my grief process when my uncle was dying and when he died in 2016. It's made me think about grief in general, and about how I'm grieving hard for life before, even though things objectively were not great before January 20, 2025 anyway. I think that the kidnappings that are happening could have happened under previous administrations, too, but more officials would have spoken out about it (including possibly some Republicans) and could have gotten the victims released. The simple dissolution of so many institutions we didn't even think about because they were so embedded and essential is what's relly making me grieve right now. Who knew libraries and consumer protection boards were a luxury? When my uncle died, I felt phantom pains in my body for months, and I'm wondering if the random pains I'm feeling now sometimes are from grieving the USA I didn't think enough about before.

In other news, I'm teaching a class online (starting next Tuesday evening, April 1) for my church, called "What Do The Gospels Actually Say?". In the class (which everyone is invited to, regardless of belief system), we're going to read the Sarah Ruden translation of the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), which are the core religious texts for Christians in that they're the texts that tell about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The class is going to be geared for people who haven't read the Gospels ever or in a long time, and who want to find out what's actually in them and what isn't. I have no investment in anyone else's beliefs, but I do want people to know what's really in those books that get waved around often. If you're interested in joining the class and reading along with us, please check out the information and sign up for the class list to get the emails with the Zoom link and anything else I send out. https://pecsenye.kit.com/thegospels Right now I'm working on a study guide for the Introduction to the book we're using, and I'll send that out this weekend to people who have signed up for the list.

I've got another recipe that I'm typing up, so I'll send that out when it's ready.

Love,

Magda

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