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younger than springtime older than dirt just another wordpress com weblog younger than springtime older than dirt just another wordpress com weblog choose something like a star august 12 2008 leave a comment sometimes it all works out and that s why i m smiling today even though my back aches and my eyelids are drooping standing in the middle of the street at 2 a m staring up at the sky for an hour will do that to you but oh what a thrill when a sudden streak of silver arcs down the sky as the perseids meteor shower offers its annual celestial spectacular too many years the kentuckiana night skies are cloudy rainy and or swelteringly hot and humid but this year we ve been blessed with clear skies and perfect temperatures there weren t even any mosquitoes just a few fireflies trying in vain to compete with the sky show earlier in the evening the bright moon offered a challenge but provided some impressive views of its own as it converged with jupiter in the southern sky and by the time the perseids went into high gear the moon and planet had sunk behind the horizon of neighborhood trees leaving me to savor the sensory joys of deep night under the stars i had to force myself to go indoors still smiling ever since childhood i ve been fascinated by the night skies maybe it was my father s influence as he brought home all the science fiction pulp magazines which i found even more enchanting than my favorite fairytales it was the golden age of sci fi bradbury clarke heinlein asimov and so many others and it marked me forever my schoolmates ridiculed me for insisting we d land on the moon in our lifetime no humans have reached mars as yet but the robots have made it so it shouldn t be too long before our descendents get there growing up in wisconsin was an advantage there were grandiose displays of northern lights which i took for granted until we moved south oh there s an occasional showing here but nothing to compare with the blazing pulsating sights that alone among astronomical phenomena gave true meaning to the word awesome lunar and solar eclipses round out my list of celestial favorites occasionally i ve had to drive into the country away from city lights and tall trees to park along a deserted road hang my head out the car window and wait as the shadow crept across the moon s face the perseids peaked early this morning but there will be plenty of action for several more days it s a happy coincidence that olympics coverage goes past midnight the fine weather is forecast to continue and so you can catch some starry acts overhead to complement what s going on overseas posted in uncategorized tags add new tag astronomy eclipse perseids science fiction hitched august 2 2008 2 comments it s been quite awhile since i attended a non uu wedding and even longer since i attended a catholic wedding which may help explain why i found today s experience unsettling sometimes comical sometimes irritating luckily i was seated with other uu friends many of whom seemed to share my feelings the setting was lovely the vocalist cantor i didn t know catholic churches had cantors sang well the sanctuary s excellent acoustics showcased the repertoire of familiar wedding classics to their best advantage everyone in the bridal party looked terrific and the bridesmaids dresses were knee length bare shouldered actually possible to wear again and then the officiating priest began what i can only call his schtick casually informal with gestures smiles brief pauses to allow for audience reaction he prefaced the ceremony with a monolog and continued to interrupt various segments of the service with comments and explanations of what was going to happen what had happened what was happening and on and on i was reminded of the policemen in pirates of penzance reiterating we go we go while their leader observed yes but you don t go after about an hour and a quarter of christian theology during which the wedding couple mostly sat facing the guests who were requestedto do a lot of standing up and sitting down there came one final burst of oratory something about a sacristy whatever that may be and we were commanded to applaud as the newlyweds were introduced for the first time by their married names the priest concluded his remarks with an odd flippant little wave of his hands causing me to come perilously close to a disgraceful snort of astonished laughter throughout the ceremony he gave the impression of someone moonlighting from a comedy club overall the entire event was about god and the importance of his role in the newlyweds lives so that my impression was of the bride and groom as bystanders spectators at the wedding show starring god and father gary i wondered driving home how the groom s parents felt as they witnessed their son s participation in a rite so vastly different from the kinds of nuptial celebrations we ve become accustomed to as uu s if anyone asks about today i ll have to respond that was a wedding and i wish the couple a long happy life together posted in uncategorized raison d etre july 29 2008 1 comment when i was in fifth grade i received a girl scout diary it s still somewhere in my house buried along with 65 years worth of memorabilia an assortment of notebooks recording in greater or lesser detail the daily events of my life sometimes i d stop writing for months or even years but eventually i d resume the catalog of my humdrum daily life sometimes i d stick to facts other times my journal became the outlet for ideas and emotions i couldn t or wouldn t share aloud throughout my mother s life we exchanged long letters which were diaries of a sort and during my 45 years of marriage my husband and i talked about everything at day s end we d debrief share anecdotes reminisce and plan act as sounding boards for each other s thoughts let off steam since his death nearly a decade ago there s been no substitute for this part of my life and i ve missed it terribly now comes the age of the blog just in time as my old hands don t hold a pen as well as they once did and my cat isn t interested in conversation about anything but food so after months of procrastination i m going to try this 21st century way of capturing and preserving my thoughts thumper said if you can t say something nice don t say nothing sic at all maybe by consigning my thoughts to the blog i can have it both ways let the games begin posted in uncategorized recent posts choose something like a star hitched raison d etre add new tag astronomy eclipse perseids science fiction categories uncategorized archives august 2008 july 2008 create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed younger than springtime older than dirt sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy younger than springtime older than dirt subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started