Tenacity of lichens
ONLY Rex Murphy could turn such a phrase. The current election campaign is halfway through, and his description follows:
Any other political party after all that and more wouldn’t just be down for the count, they’d be calling up the funeral home and doing rough drafts for the obituary, but the Liberals have the tenacity of lichen, and the durability of granite, and even after an avalanche of troubles, they remain a good prospect of stretching a fourth-term minority into a fifth-term minority. The Liberal Party may be battered, defensive, divided, and uncharacteristically without focus, but it has a ferocious instinct for survival, and hard times bring out all its determination and its every well-honed guile
He does it so well.
On other fronts, today was a “gather up some more camping movies” with Mists Of Avalon, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (guaranteed nightmare fodder for unsuspecting children), 40-Year-Old Virgin, American Pie Bandcamp and Excalibur now in the bin. Even if we don’t play them back for years, the price fits my budget.
Vacation is going out, and the weather is cold, cold, cold. Welcome to another winter.
