Winter Lingered So Long In The Lap

I Often Reflect On What An Extraordinary Time (pun Intended) It Is To Be Alive Here In The Beginning Of The Twenty-first Century. It Took Life Billions Of Years To Get To This Point. It Took Humans Thousands Of Years To Piece Together A Meaningful Understanding Of Our Cosmos, Our Planet And Ourselves. Think How Fortunate We Are To Know This Much. But Think Also Of All That's Yet To Be Discovered. Here's Hoping The Deep Answers To The Deep Questions-from The Nature Of Consciousness To The Origin Of Life-will Be Found In Not Too Much More Time.

Hard To Find Anything Lovelier Than A Tree. They Grow At Right Angles To A Tangent Of The Nominal Sphere Of The Earth.

I Understand That You Take The Bible, As Written In English, Translated Many Many Times Over The Last Three Millennia As To Be A More Accurate, More Reasonable Assessment Of The Natural Laws We See Around Us Than What I And Everybody In Here Can Observe. That, To Me, Is Unsettling.

As My Old Professor Carl Sagan Said So Often, 'when You’re In Love, You Want To Tell The World.’ And I Base My Beliefs On The Information And The Process That We Call Science. It Fills Me With Joy To Make Discoveries Every Day Of Things I’ve Never Seen Before. It Fills Me With Joy To Know That We Can Pursue These Answers. It Is An Astonishing Thing That We Are — You And I Are One Of The Ways The Universe Knows Itself.

If You Meet Somebody Who Says He Or She Has Never Dreamed Of Flying, I Don't Believe You. I Mean, They're Lying.