<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thanks Isobel, we will look forward to viewing “Cool the Country”. I just remembered meeting Grace Umbagai from Oombulguri at the LA airport when we were in the LA House. You Aussies are in the forefront of both the climate crisis and response to it. I hope at the end of 2025 we will be able to say WHATTA YEAR with a more upbeat feeling. But bo one knows what the future holds. <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 1, 2025, at 4:30 PM, Isobel and Jim via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hello Milan and Linda, <div>From down here in Oz I wish you and all friends listed a New Year of possibilities and hope. </div><div>Thank you for all your photos Milan !</div><div>Wonderful 👋 Also I appreciate the efforts you have consistently made for Climate repair. </div><div>Here in Australia, some of us are quietly excited about a Documentary called Cooling The Country - 10 Episodes of 10 mins in which the Heat Engine from the Kimberley is the focus. </div><div>This year in Climate Week: March 10- 16 here in Sydney, the Documentary Cool the Country Docu Series will be launched - featured right in the Heat Engine area of Mowanjum and Oombulgurri, the Kimberley. The Producer and Director Adam Long is not a Scientist himself, however he has drawn on wisdom and experience of decades long farmers , scientists, soil experts and others to produce his work. </div><div>Heave Ho, on we go 🌠<picture><source srcset="cid:C49EBAB5-BBF8-49DB-BC08-B81D69CE8FA7" type="image/x-apple-adaptive-glyph" data-unique-identifier=""><div><acb62891-b566-4e6c-9d82-88d8b7ec6b9c.png></div></picture><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">I’ll be remembering the first Anniversary of Jim’s death on Jan 14- a gifted leader. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">With love to you all, </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Isobel </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"></span><div dir="ltr">Isobel Bishop<div>Mob. 0412 129 425</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 2 Jan 2025, at 7:28 am, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(8,8,9);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Well, we made it through to 2025. At the end of each year I like to reflect a bit on the significance fo it. So I went through all my Google photos month by month and made a collage of those that held the significance for Linda and me. (Linda might have a slightly different take but she is busier than me). Maybe you have done something similar. Anyway, here is the collage and my summary of 2024:</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>WHATTA YEAR! 2024 WAS!</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">January—Milan’s 87<sup>th</sup> BD massage</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">February—Milan Took the Arrow train & Metrolink to
Claremont for Brunch with old friend Vance J. from Houston; ANCA Presentation
at the esri Forum on the climate crisis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">March—Getting our Braemar garden ready for spring planting;
Gathering at McDermotts, including Kyle Knutson family from Dallas, for a
fantastic celebration of Frank’s good life & death.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">April--Earth Day 2024 Day of Climate Action in Redlands,
with more than 30 projects, capped off with a celebration at the Redlands Bowl.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">May—Watching the garden grow, tomatoes and squash are a-comin.’
ANCA wraps up spring education series on health impacts of climate change.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">June—Linda’s 81<sup>st</sup> celebration at New York Pizza; ANCA
movie night at UR<i>: Don’t Look Up,</i> with discussion on implications for
our climate predicament.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">July/August—A month-long driving trip to the Midwest, seeing
friends in Denver, cousin and son in Nebraska, grandchildren in Iowa, sisters
in Wisconsin, more friends in Eau Claire, kids, grandkids, and great grandkids
in Minnesota, several days at our kids’ cabin on the Crow Wing River, sending
friend Frank’s ashes to the world (the Crow Wing ends in the Mississippi), and
lots of “This Land is Our Land” on what might be our last cross-country driving
trip.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">September—ANCA kicked off its fall educational series
“Living Closer, Moving Smarter” on sustainable housing and transportation; co-sponsored
our local city council candidates forum; fire season begins.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">October—kicking off the Map Your Neighborhood disaster
preparedness program and holding the second Repair Café.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">November—ANCA’s educational program on the reality of
recycling; a grant for education on the dangers of wildfires and smoke and
kicking off the Northside Alliance for work climate education in a low-income
community. Also, beginning the Map You Neighborhood disaster preparedness
program with ten events. Oh yes, and the national election happened. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">December—ANCA booth at the Northside Holiday Celebration
with information and a big fire suppression blankets distribution; the last of
Milan’s weekly Joslyn Joy Writers group meetings; capped off with a week at our
favorite Skylark hotel in Palm Springs.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">WHATTA YEAR! Lots of local climate crisis education and
action, lots of signals from Mother Earth about the serious pickle we’ve got
ourselves into, lots of turmoil around our dysfunctional political &
economic system, and a great need for compassionate response to the suffering
in our world. As we look forward to the coming year, we have another
opportunity to get up on New Year morning 2025, throw open our door, step outside
and shout “What have you got for us this year?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Happy New Year from the Hamiltons</p><div><Untitled design (2).png></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mellow Milan Hamilton<div>80 North Center Street</div><div>Redlands, CA 92373</div><div>Phone: (909) 943-1667</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:mellowmilan2@gmail.com" target="_blank">mellowmilan2@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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