Tag: sun
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The Keeper of Autumn
by Sarah Earlene Shere, ©2024 (Sep. 20, 2024) — The keeper of autumn glided along the way, with her velvet robes sweeping the forest floor behind her. Gently, she caressed each tree she passed, sending a chill up the trunk that caused the limbs to shiver. Her gnome friends scampered up these trees and took…
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A Reader’s Account of Eclipse “Totality”
by Sharon Rondeau, h/t Robert C. Laity (Apr. 10, 2024) — Monday’s “total” solar eclipse in the Western New York region was cloudy at the outset, though colorful at its conclusion after the city of Buffalo was plunged into complete darkness when the moon moved squarely between the earth and the sun. The U.S. “path…
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Time to Talk of Cabbages and Kings…
“THE FREIGHT TRAIN TO POVERTY” July 23, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Classical education was admired, desired, and fairly widespread in years past. It included the “classics,” learning foreign languages – even defunct ones such as Latin and Ancient Greek – and history, philosophy, literature, science, and math. But, more recently classical education was pushed…
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A Green New Deal? Really? Paris Accords? — Stop the Insanity!
“QUI BONO?“ March 29, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Please forgive me, but I must, once again, beat this horse, because it refuses to die. Too many folks, who should know better, are insisting that massive action must be taken to stop climate change – because they “truly believe” it is a life-and-death matter. Such…
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Clouds and Sun in the Same Sky
DRAMATIC DISPLAY QUICKLY GIVES WAY TO GRAY by Sharon Rondeau (May 27, 2017) — 8:45 a.m. EDT – After a week of dreary, gray weather, the sun has come out — but only partially. In one place there is blue sky, but in another, 180 degrees away, it is dark. How can there be sun…