She's fighting a lonely battle. No matter how much love you have in your support network--and Eva has more than most--fighting battles with your own mind is lonely work. But she is still engaging with the world as best she can, even on days when it's the last thing she feels like doing.
She's trying. She's trying very hard.
Obstacles keep getting thrown in our path. I won't gild any lilies; things are tougher right now than they have ever been, for either of us. But as we approach our fifteenth anniversary, I can say this: we are stronger by far as a couple than anything that has been thrown at us. You can only truly fight demons from without if you are strong within. Ken is, Eva is, and the shared entity called KenEva is as well.
She made what so far as I know is the first public political statement of her life and put it up on our lawn today for all the world to see:
Although I wholeheartedly approve of the content of this statement, I'm mostly proud of her for having made any statement so boldly.
I do the politics in this house. It's not that Eva doesn't care: she cares too much. When it comes to bullshit, she has a much lower tolerance than I do. I'll sift through the bullshit and try to determine some cogent underlying message. She just rejects the bullshit, and let's face it, it comes from all parties left and right. So she pretty much ignores politics whenever possible. She doesn't read my political blogs. It's right up there with hockey as a trapdoor subject for her.
I have tried as best I can to be somewhat balanced in my political discussions with Eva. I've failed because quite frankly I can't get inside the head of our Prime Minister. I'm quick to ascribe the worst possible motives to his actions simply because I can't think of any others. Why would you muzzle scientists? Why would you burn their books and archives? And why wouldn't you accept questions from your citizens? I beg any Harper supporters reading this, if they know the answers to those questions, to leave them in my comment section. To educate me, if nothing else.
Evidently my wife agrees with my political assessment, which is always nice (though certainly not mandatory...we have voted differently in elections in the past and doubtless will again in the future). But the extent to which she agrees surprised me. It's not like her to be this passionate about bullshit politics.
Anyway.
I'm going to take a wee political break from here until just before the ballots are cast. I can't take the hatred that passes for political discourse online. I'm busily digesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement ahead of making a pronouncement on it. There's a lot of good in there, but there are also some very scary elements. Expect a post on that sometime in the next week. Until then, this is Ken Breadbin, signing off.
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