A small child is looking at me. I’m at a “Wake up Santa” event with my grandchildren and a small child is looking at me expectantly. She’s perhaps six or seven with eyes as wide as her smile. I think she has confused me with someone else so I look away. But her eyes...
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” –Theodore Roethke The stars seem brighter as we move into winter. Fourteen of the 25 brightest stars are visible on a December evening. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair, and Deneb is setting in the west. Fomalhaut...
Fool: The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool. November is an excellent month to discover the Seven Sisters, the Pleaides. They rise in the east just...
This fall is a marvelous time for a moonwalk. The next three months, our calendar and lunar months align. The new moon falls near the beginning of the month. First quarter moon is a week later. Full moon is mid-month. Last quarter moon is the third week. And...
Everyone loves a party. Whether it’s 50 years of marriage, 25 years of a career, another year among the living, or another workweek among the gainfully employed, we humans gleefully celebrate that which we have accomplished or successfully put behind us. And so it is...
“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? Henry David Thoreau, Walden Look up into the September sky and you will see our Milky Way flowing across. It starts in the northwest where you find Perseus the Hero, now safe from the gorgon and sea...
