Realized this morning the tenth anniversary of the blog had recently passed. Because of a platform switch to google blogspot, I don't have direct links to the 2005 posts, but I did transfer them with original dates. The first few were on mining (alluding to the Lynn Scarlett and John Tierney anti-recycling first posts of the 90s), extinction, being an "Agent of Conscience" (AoC), and this one on the Iraq Invasion. It was written a bit after my dad's cousin, Jack Hensley (a contractor CNN), was beheaded on film by Sunni insurgents who went on to found ISIS / ISIL etc. in 2004.
It was interesting to re-read ten years later. I was 43. Maybe someday I can edit these things, if I trust myself to not rewrite my history in the process.
December 17, 2005
Letter to the Iraqi People:
May God bring each of you peace and justice, health and sustenance to you and your families.
My name is Robin, and I am a father of three, and I run a small recycling and parts company in the state of Vermont. It is a cold winter here, but the people are used to the ice and snow, as fathers and mothers have taught the kids how to live in peace with it for many generations. I can imagine, for your children, the desert sun must be less of a burden than it would be for me, but they would not enjoy playing in the ice and snow as much as my children do. Both the sun and the ice must be enjoyed but treated with respect.
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