Year End Newsletter 2016: January 2018

This morning's view

New Year Greetings from us to you,

2018! We made it! No lengthy Newsletter from the Frasers this year, just a short note and some pix to acknowledge the passage of another cycle and your friendship.

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What a challenging 2017! Alternate Facts, Fake News, political madness, increasing polarization and marginalization, widespread demographic upheaval worldwide, and - above all – across North America, the rollbacks or outright destruction of decades of

A pristine day at the cottage

A pristine day on Hilton Head

progress on protecting the environment, species at risk, climate change, the safety of our food, and Health care in both Canada and the United States. We live in precarious times! How is the youngest generation ever going to make it for the next 60 years? Our planet is so tortured and assaulted by gigatons of carcinogenic pesticides, toxic ocean dumping, carbon dioxide emissions, oil pollution on land and water, minerally-depleted agricultural soils, and on and on. What are we thinking? On all fronts, the world is so different than when we were younger. And North Americans wonder where the catastrophic rises in autism, neurodegenerative diseases and macular degeneration come from…

A typical evening on Hilton Head

A typical evening in Palm Desert

But... “Let us not allow modern day to distract us away from the exquisite wonders of this world and our ability to experience it together.” Robinson Jeffers, California poet

On that more upbeat note, we are both fine and in the sun in radiant California (think: vitamin D) for the winter. We have each other, health, adventure, freedom, and opportunity…

Frequent Flier Zorro patiently
waits for a connection at
Dallas/Ft Worth airport

We are happy, and like everyone else, too busy - and tapped into too many things - but thrilled to be still following our annual migration pattern of winter in no-snow-tires California, Spring in beautiful Hilton Head, South Carolina, Summer and half of Fall at our wonderful lake cottage, and finally a few Fall weeks at our house (read: warehouse) in Ottawa, a city we increasingly appreciate on a comparison basis, plus or minus a quick week in Victoria BC. We have opted out again this year of any exotic land and sea travel… but we are starting to get wanderlust…

We wish you may also have health, adventure, freedom, opportunity, and strength to combat the Endless Madness which barrages us while we try to remember the Real Christmas. (Forgive us for this late reminder.)

All the best of Good Fortune for 2018.

Fondly,