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On Jan. 2, I stepped off the treadmill gasping for breath and learned I’d flunked the test, but this failing grade could put a permanent period on my earthly life. Terror struck my heart at the thought of leaving my family behind even though my faith in God assured me peace and love awaited me on the other side. Fear is a terrific motivator. I gave up red meat, butter and high-fat foods, hoping my changes even at this late date might make a difference. Two months later, an Olympia cardiologist inserted a stent in an artery into my heart to increase blood flow around a 95 percent blockage. So as Thanksgiving approaches this year, I count my blessings as I do every year, but especially the blessing of still being here to celebrate with my cherished loved ones. After surviving an operation to insert a stent — perhaps routine for the cardiologist but seldom for the patient — I decided to take a hard look at my bucket list and quit putting off longed-for trips. My husband and I toured British Columbia and Alberta in August, an item on his list. I’m visiting the Panama Canal with my sister, crossing off a desire from my list. Last weekend, I sold books at the Elma Country Christmas Bazaar, sharing a table with fellow authors Sandy Crowell (author of “The Land Called Lewis” and “Water, Woods, and Prairies”) and Bill Lindstrom (who wrote “John Tornow: Victim or Villain? The untold story of the ‘Wildman of the Wynooche and Strait Press”). I visited with passersby, greeted old friends and thought how, despite contentious election seasons, we all have more in common than divides us. Sometimes, our favored candidate wins; other times, the one we liked loses. But life goes on. I liked a meme on Facebook before the election that stated: “Don’t lose friendships today over two people who don’t even know your name.” That’s so true, and it’s sad to see how fractured our divided nation has become. Families disagree. Friends no longer speak. Some on each side demonize those who hold different beliefs. Even in my own family, I’ve seen divisions over politics create tensions among people who love each other. A year ago, I spent a week in November in Los Cabos with my four sisters at an all-inclusive hotel. My eldest and youngest sisters have made the annual trip to Mexico with their husbands to celebrate their birthday: they were born on the same day, six years and 15 minutes apart. At one point, one of my sisters mentioned that Donald Trump might win election as president again. I threw out a quick quip: “Only if he steals the election.” When she stood and walked away, I realized my offhand comment offered partly in jest had offended her. I never want to destroy relationships over politics. I love my sisters and my brother too much to let differences in opinions separate us. The next day, all was fine. Just as the Bible promises that nothing can separate us from God’s love, we should let nothing separate us from our love for one another. Another Facebook meme offered wisdom: “Please don’t let the elephants and donkeys make you forget you belong to The Lamb!” Our faith, our family relationships, our friendships mean so much more than politics, even though, as my husband points out, voting decides who controls the government, which can adversely affect our lives. But it doesn’t need to destroy our relationships. While I counted my blessings over the weekend, I did what I often do: I picked up my camera and snapped photos. I love to chronicle life as I live it. In the past, before Facebook, my digital photos remained trapped in my camera or on my memory card, never to be printed. But the advent of Facebook allowed me to share those photos with friends online in more than 4,000 albums. What’s most fun, and a reminder of the blessings in my life, is when Facebook pops up with a photo from a year ago, five years ago, a decade ago. Often it’s a photo of one of my children when they were younger. Other times it’s a precious friend who has passed away, and I think how grateful I am to have known them. That happened with a photo of the late Margaret Shields of Centralia and Harold Borovec of Chehalis who were walking together in the Lewis County Historical Museum. My life is richer from having known them both. So as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s time to set aside political differences and simply enjoy being in the presence of loved ones. If you have time, pull out your camera and snap photos to capture those precious memories. Open the video or audio recorder on your phone and ask questions about the past (I have lists of oral history questions on my website at www.chaptersoflife.com under Help for Historians). Treasure your family and your shared past and preserve it for future generations. And count your blessings. ••• Julie McDonald, a personal historian from Toledo, may be reached at memoirs@chaptersoflife.com.kijiji edmonton rentals 。

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The Labor party at the 2022 election focused greatly on Scott Morrison’s character. The Hawaiian holiday while Australia burned and his cowardly abrogation of responsibility, “I don’t hold a hose”, gave them plenty of material. As Opposition leader Anthony Albanese promised he would “step up” and that “his word is his bond”. Albanese now has his own “I don’t hold a hose moment”. He messed around while a synagogue burned. While visiting the Adass Israel Synagogue on Tuesday after it was firebombed in a terrorist attack, he gave a short speech before cutting and running, not taking any questions. As he was being whisked into his car surrounded by security, he was heckled by the crowd: “Your words are cheap and late” and “Why is the Prime Minister such a coward?”. Albanese had to be dragged kicking and screaming to label the incident a terrorist attack – finally after two days – and preferred to stay in Perth and attend a Labor “networking event” on the Friday evening after the attack, rather than convene a National Security Committee meeting. As Peta Credlin pointed out, the very day of the Lindt Café siege, then prime minister Tony Abbott (a man who did – and still does – actually hold a hose, as a volunteer firefighter) convened the National Security Committee within hours. We should not be surprised. Albanese is the PM who had to be begged to go to Alice Springs to see for himself the devastation that violent crime was wreaking on the town, only to high tail it out of there after three hours to then spend three nights watching the Australian Open tennis. As this column has noted , there has been muted condemnation from Albanese and his ministers of extremist Islamic preachers in Australia who call for jihad, or the pro-Hamas protestors who yelled anti-Semitic slogans at the Opera House and disrupted cities by closing down key intersections. All the while, Albanese tries to put anti-Semitism and a confected notion of Islamophobia on the same level. Never in my Australia did I think a synagogue would be attacked. Never in my Australia did I think a Christian bishop would be stabbed in the presence of his own congregation. Never in my Australia did I think a government would wreck social cohesion as this government has done, by, among other things, giving succour to terrorist sympathisers, be it at the UN or through immigration policies. Never in my Australia did I think the government would want the power to tell us what the “truth” is. The only things Albanese has stepped up for are freebies or photo-ops. And his word is worth about as much as an echo in a canyon – present but without tangible effect or purpose. A fish rots from the head. Albanese and his inept ministers are leading this country down the same path as Venezuela and Argentina – once wealthy nations reduced to impoverishment. I am old enough to remember the 1990-91 recession. Back then it was described as the worst economic downturn in 60 years, that is to say, since the Great Depression. Never in my Australia did I think I would see its like again. I was wrong. The recently released national accounts showed that for seven quarters in a row, we are getting poorer per person – a prolonged per capita recession. As Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock has stated on more than one occasion, inflation is being fuelled by increasing government spending. Those energy rebates and childcare subsidies which Treasurer Jim Chalmers likes to boast about are actually paid for by your taxes, while at the same time the private sector – the sector that actually creates the wealth – is being strangled by increasing costs, thanks in no small part to punishing industrial relations laws and green tape. The only growth we are seeing is in public services, healthcare, education and training, that is, government funded jobs, either with taxes or by borrowing. Now we learn that, according to the 2024 Australian Homelessness Monitor, Australia has recorded a 22 per cent increase in homelessness in the last three years. Increases in people resorting to rough sleeping were highest in NSW, which saw a startling 55 per cent surge, with regional communities hit hardest. Is it any wonder? This government kills off mining projects on the basis of Dreamtime stories that the local Aboriginal community said were a fiction, and attacks rural and regional Australia by making it bear the brunt of its ideological obsession with wind and solar energy. Chris “Mr $275” Bowen’s infatuation with wind and solar is fast becoming a case of unrequited love. He gushes about Denmark as a benchmark for powering an economy on “renewable” energy. Aside from the fact that comparing Australia to Denmark is like comparing apples to watermelons, this delusion was exposed last week when a Danish offshore wind auction drew no bidders since they concluded it was uneconomical. Why? Surging costs, and, critically, there were no government subsidies underwriting any projects. And just this week BP announced it was getting out of wind projects and focussing on fossil fuels. Wind and solar the cheapest form of energy? Add that to the fairy tale collection alongside that one about the emperor’s new clothes. All the while the nightmare will only get worse. The next election cannot come quickly enough. Dr Rocco Loiacono is a legal academic, writer and translator. Earlier in his career, he spent a decade practicing as a lawyer with Clayton Utz, one of Australia’s top law firms. As well as SkyNews.com.au, he regularly contributes opinion pieces, specialising in politics, freedom and the rule of law, to The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and The AustralianFINLAYSON: Explaining ‘productivity’ and how can we improve it