On My Mind

On Saturday a meeting in Turkey will bring together representatives from Israel, Iran, and the United States (and possibly others) to discuss the ongoing crisis involving the world's uneasiness with Iran's development of nuclear capabilities. Israel is especially nervous about this, believing that they would be a likely target for deployment of Iran's nuclear weaponry. They are working to garner US support for a preemptive strike at Iran's facilities.

The US is urging Israel to be patient to give the sanctions America has established against Iran time to work, in hopes that this will eventually prompt the Iranians to be open to negotiation.

I'm not sure what should happen in the upcoming meeting, but I'm praying that everyone present would be willing to work toward peace instead of war.

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Also, on my mind for Saturday is this morning's regional weather statement:

An outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes is likely for Saturday evening and Saturday night. Supercell thunderstorms with strong, long track tornadoes are possible. Large hail up to baseball size and damaging wind gusts to 70 mph are also a threat with any storm that develops. The highest risk of strong tornadoes exists from Salina, to Newton, to Wichita, to Wellington.

We're in this area near its western edge.