by mmooney | Jan 24, 2025 | The Friday Message
So many things in this world I did not know. I am familiar with sponges, natural and synthetic. Sponges are plentiful in our oceans. Not unlike corals, they are immobile aquatic invertebrates. The sponge is a member of the phylum Porifera. It is a simple animal with...
by mmooney | Jan 17, 2025 | The Friday Message
Many of us on this planet look to the heavens for spiritual guidance, inspiration, humility, beauty, awe and so much more. The dark sky in McCall is excellent as ambient light levels are low. The most amazing night sky view I have experienced was in Maui on Honomanu...
by mmooney | Jan 10, 2025 | The Friday Message
I cannot go another week without mentioning the Orange Wanker, our soon to be President. Karen handed me a quote today that is the perfect advice for our soon to be sentenced POTUS. “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all...
by mmooney | Jan 3, 2025 | The Friday Message
I generally do not get serious about resolutions for the New Year. The last year left me feeling a bit hopeless about the future of our State and the nation. I could likely go on to say the world is at an inflection point as authoritarian regimes...
by mmooney | Dec 27, 2024 | The Friday Message
It was another memorable McCall Xmas for the Mooney/Haga/Wonderlich clan. We were all at the cabin for Christmas Eve and Day. This marked the 37th consecutive year we have celebrated the holiday in McCall. In the beginning it was quite a challenge to get...
by mmooney | Dec 20, 2024 | The Friday Message
It is the Christmas Season. I had a request from my spouse to skip the disturbing current events and focus on the beauty and joy that is represented by the season. That is a tall order, but apparently so is one of the expressed tenets of Jesus’s time on earth. “Love...
