Opinion

The early morning sun is filtering in my basement office window. And I have covid.

It was covid time for our family this week. It wasn’t pleasant, of course; it involved fevers and aches, sleepless nights, and deep congestive coughs. The house was quiet. Not much food happening in the kitchen. Our brains and bodies are still moving slowly, as if in a fog.

It is now over a week post-election, and there are some surprises, but in a way, not really. The county is split, surprise, surprise! Magnificently, organically, almost magically we have all worked together to ensure that whatever party has (narrow) control of either House or Senate, no one can breathe freely or ride roughshod over fringe or opposing views. As this goes to press, some of the elections are still pending, and in our own state ballots are being counted and re-counted. Here in Lake County, if all recounts align with original counts, we will be represented by nonpartisans in the city of Two Harbors and Silver Bay, Democrats (MN Senate and governor) and Republicans (MN House) in state office, and Democrats (US Senate) and Republicans (US House) in federal office.

There are many myths in this world. There have been creation stories throughout the ages and mythmakers have been busy over the years creating the many myths of this nation, from Pecos Bill to Paul Bunyan to the notion of a free market operating within a true democratic society.

Boy, is it going to get interesting in the Blabo- sphere in the coming weeks. The election is over and as of this writing we don't know who will control the House.

The end of the outdoor construction season in Lake County triggers an evaluation of work well done, and this year there were three projects in the area that fall under Habitat’s Age in Place program that allows older residents the resources to be safer in their own homes.