Kat, you have a very good heart. I suppose you could start writing to your senators. If you'd like to get friends involved that would be great.

Today I got an email from Larry with pictures of a canoe blessing ceremony for a new sakman built by some Micronesians in San Diego. I had heard rumors of the group but nothing more until today. The canoe is huge! Is there anyone in southern California that can look into this? Amos?

Big event today. Wakana bought me a cell phone to replace the one I lost several months ago. we bought the cheapest one available with a prepaid system. For those who don't know how that works you buy a card for $10.00 and that gives you a limited number of minutes for the phone. You keep buying cards when that one is used up. For us that makes the most sense since we do not use the phones very often. Our monthly expense MIGHT be $5.00 with us buying a new card about once every second month. The phone was $45 preloaded with $10 worth of phone time. Not a bad deal.