Gibbons & Forever Wild — April 2021

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Our first travel in more than a year! Only local, and only one day, but still a bit of travel, and in a group! Now that we are both vaccinated, we joined a one-day tour of two nearby animal sanctuaries, both new to me. The tour company added plenty of COVID-related precautions.

In the morning, we visited the Gibbon Conservation Center and in the afternoon, Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary.

The trip went well. The weather was cooler than expected, and there were some threatening clouds, but it didn't rain.

Celebrity Trumps All ('21)

In the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Goldberg wrote a column headlined "Caitlyn Jenner for governor of California? What a terrible idea"

My immediate response was one I've written about before. I sent it to the Times. They edited it slightly (adding "Donald" and "so"), and printed it today (second letter on the page):

When Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, long before Donald Trump was president, I lamented, “Celebrity trumps all, so how can we overcome that?”
 

“Celebrity trumps all” is still the case, and I still don’t have the answer.