Here it is Wednesday, clear and cold. Today will be an "out" day where I go out to mail things. Tomorrow's supposed to be rained out again, so it will be an "in" day.
I've been thinking for a while about the nonsensicality of a Jew moving to Hawaii. Hawaii, along with the mainland US, is one of the great colonialist experiments of the world. Jews in Israel predate the Arab colonialists of the Middle East by the odd thousand years or two. But Hawaii, and the US mainland, were unapologetically colonized, with the native populations if not completely wipes out, at least trimmed back by 90% or more.
Somehow this is OK. With the caveat that in Hawaii, it's OK if the colonists are Asian, not-OK if they're white or perceived to be white. I even saw, on Reddit a day or two ago, the sentiment that "No white person should live in Hawaii". But no one's saying "No white person should live on the US mainland" and there's a really good chance the person who said that is Asian.
I put in the required(?) hour searching ways to get a passport (I'm becoming a lot less mystified as to why so few Americans have them) and it looks like I can do it through one of the somewhat county libraries. The post offices are all booked up (I haven't gotten as far as trying to book an appointment with one of the libraries, enough despair and horror for one day) and maybe less people are thinking of going to a library.
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