2019 Life Logs, Day 88: A Day with Lynne
Date: Friday, March 29, 2019
Weather: Overcast and Windy; High 59, Low 41 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Lynne and I had a great day together. I started my day with another PT visit while Lynne stayed at home. We (well, really mostly Lynne) worked on the 1,000 piece puzzle any time we were not engaged in some other activity. After getting our day started, it was time for a walk.
We wanted to walk along the ocean, but it was overcast and windy, with winds from the SW, so I drove to the bike path in West Falmouth for our walk as the bike path is somewhat protected. 
We had a mile and half walk with views of the marsh–not green and beautiful like it is in the summer, but still a lovely view. 
Then we drove to Falmouth Heights Beach to see just how windy it was there and walked a little more. It was windier, but okay for a short distance. It is always great to walk along the ocean, no matter what the weather. We came home, had lunch, worked on the puzzle, and I elevated by leg and had a little nap. We had an early dinner of wild caught Alaskan salmon with a salad and then headed to Woods Hole for an evening Falmouth Forum talk. We picked up Olivia on the way and found that Terry is doing great after his back surgery yesterday. Good news. The Forum speaker was John Holdren, a well-known scientist here on the Cape as he was once the Director of the Woods Hole Research Center and calls Falmouth home. His expertise is climate-change and he was President Obama’s Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Currently he is a professor of Environmental Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His talk pointed out “the options available to society for reducing the pace and ultimate magnitude of future changes in climate (mitigation) and for reducing the damages to human well-being resulting from the changes that nonetheless occur (adaptation).” In his opinion, we need the full backing of the national government behind the effort to make substantial changes in policy as soon as possible. Yes, climate change is real. It is here. And each of us has to do what we can, most importantly pushing for our elected officials to make major policy changes. After the talk, we came home and watched a town hall meeting in the Bronx with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressing the Green New Deal that was introduced by her and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey. This has spawned all sorts of controversy, but after last night’s Falmouth Forum, I have decided my first action is to actually read the document to see what it says. If you are interested, here’s the link to the resolution.https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.pdf
