Weather permitted a quick trip to the Curtis in Brunswick to meet Hazel and pick up a load of stuff for our Library of Things, including a sewing machine, a projector, and a metal detector. Hazel has built an amazing LoT at Curtis and is the go to person for all things LoT and resilience and sustainability. She replies to emails almost instantly usually from her phone. I mentioned that we would have things for power outages and she showed us these cool solar lamps. We will have those and a variety of power blocks for sure.

Two other library projects are cranking up. Today I ordered two stackable apothecary cabinets to house a Seed Library. They will go on the wall in the meeting room; a launch is scheduled for this month as a seed saving talk. Another volunteer-initiated project is a Trad Music Jam, twice a month on Saturday mornings. For this we are partnering with Bagaduce Music a non-profit music library in Blue Hill that promotes traditional music played by regular people. Our first jams will be led by the amazing multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Foss, whom I think of as Maine's Dirk Powell.

With the present war in Iran or rather the whole of the middle east, I was remembering Wolf Blitzer's CNN coverage of the first Gulf war in 1990, before the internet. He was there reporting live and there was only TV to tell what was happening and there was just one version. Now with Bibby's war, it seems like there is an official version that tells of the US and Israel bombing Tehran and other sites, but there is a lot of unofficial reporting or reporting from unverified sources that tells how Iran has destroyed US bases in the other gulf states and how it has attacked critical hubs like Dubai, showing those states that they are not safe, and how they are making the US waste its missile supply while doing constant damage with its drones. It is hard to know what is true. The unofficial reporting sources seem to be better at placing the war in the amazingly complicated context of global energy supply chains and relationships with India, China, and the European Union.