We are going to run the weekly meteorologic update a little out of the normal sequence this morning.

You may have felt the same way when you saw the headlines this morning. We had not quite got over the news of the passing of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The announcement about her husband Jimmy choosing hospice care had come at the beginning of the summer, so we expected a Carter-related medico-news related event. We did not expect it to be her, so the memorial service with the emaciated former President and other former denizens of the West Wing brought back the giddy times of working in Mr. Carter’s administration.

Below is the headline from an outfit called the National Security Archive, captured on a Duck Duck Go search. So, this week’s report on clouds, wind, rain and human affairs is contained in what we like to call “all that other stuff is going on, too.” But this week, “all that other stuff” was contained in a cascade of activity now over a half century in progress.

Mr. Kissinger was a large part of the great Opening to China that we are attempting to close back up at the moment. We will see how that works out as reports continue to how external cash and influence were harnessed in the last Presidential election. Now, the question is how to save the good works the Kissinger Krowd contributed to this world while allowing the ill-conceived to slide off the stern of the ship of state and into the stately wake.

Is there more to talk about this morning? The almost casual rise of anti-semitism right here in the United States is one of the most curious, but possibly to be expected with the rise of identity politics that blankets all the medias.

We were taught one of the mottos of our young nation as we grew. “E Pluribus Unam” was one of them, with the translation to English loosely being “from the many into one.” A newer version might be more accurate these days, which would be “ex uno in multos,” or from one thing changing into another. This morning we will have to leave this headline from the National Security Archive and a memory of when people like Henry-the-K shaped the world in which we rise this morning:

Mr. Kissinger is responsible for many of the aspects of our modern world works. His passing this week will be followed by the loss of Mr. Carter, who appeared very frail on the images from the Maranatha Baptist Church down in Plains Georgia. We have tried to highlight some of the issues that will highlight the coming year-long campaign for the General Election. There will naturally be some of these strings that will require years to resolve. Some of them are in fact irresolvable, a factor Mr. K resisted all his long and productive life.

So, we take this day in this confusing year to survey the issues that are coming up. There is a stream of punditry that suggests a third Global War, complicated by division into wars in East Europe, the Middle East and now possibly the South China Sea. Enhancing the surreal nature of all this are experts who crow we must reduce human population by a few billion souls and eliminate modern fertilizers to reduce agricultural production.

Thankfully, the Writer’s Section here at Socotra LLC is only charged with attempting to track the way things are rolling these days. Based on some of the reporting, there could be a precipice ahead. We could like to take some of the disparate pieces of activity and bring this complex situation to peaceful resolution. We used to be pretty good at that- ‘from many things into one thing.’ But right at the moment, we seem to be better at devolving ourselves from one thing into a whole bunch of them.

All that stuff on the Weather Report slide this week? Yep. All of it is going on. It is sort of complicated, and that very complexity makes things difficult to jam back together. Our challenge is just to figure out the right steps to take, put on our Game faces and take swift and decisive action to repair things.

We could try that one from many thing. It worked before! LOL!

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