Then, starting a few days ago, the sky opens up. And every day we get a deluge, not a nice steady drizzle but a freakin' downpour that washes away my mulch, overflows my pool and, most unfortunately, keeps me from my evening jogs. Granted, the yard's showing signs of life. But the sunshine has become way too scarce and I want it back, dadgummit!
So, we go for what seems like weeks without any rainfall of any significance. The yard's toast. Brushfires create an everpresent haze and stink across Central Florida. I even have to add water to the swimming pool from time to time because it's evaporating.
Then, starting a few days ago, the sky opens up. And every day we get a deluge, not a nice steady drizzle but a freakin' downpour that washes away my mulch, overflows my pool and, most unfortunately, keeps me from my evening jogs. Granted, the yard's showing signs of life. But the sunshine has become way too scarce and I want it back, dadgummit!
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This past weekend I enjoyed the privilege of returning home to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the town where I grew up and where my parents and a brother live and where I still have several very good friends.
It was great to spend time with family, get my kids together with their grandparents, and share a couple of beers with hometown buddies. It was also wonderful, even a bit emotional, to spend time in my parent's house (above), the place I spent my formative years. The place I learned to be a kid. The place I learned to be an adult. The place that figures so prominently in my dreams, awake and asleep. Few things feel as comforting and relaxing and just plain right as going back home. "Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to." -- John Ed Pearce "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." -- Robert Frost "Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." -- Robert Montgomery Few things get me as excited as gazing skyward and taking in the vastness of the stars, the infiniteness of space, the mystery of what lies beyond our tiny Earth.
I just stumbled upon this spectacular time-lapse video shot by Randy Halverson, a farmer and photographer in South Dakota, showing the brilliance of our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy. You've got to take a look. Our home galaxy, as you'll remember, contains an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars and at least 50 billion planets. Oh, and it's one of about 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Inspiring and downright stupefying at the same time. |
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