I found out from my daily infusion of book news on Shelf Awareness (sign up for the new twice weekly readers' newsletter to find out what's new on bookstore and library shelves!) that a book on why we must settle Mars will be discussed tomorrow on Science Friday on NPR. My visceral reaction was "Why can't things be the way they always were?" And then my brain adjusted and my second thought was, "How is that - the way things always were - when nothing stays the same?" There is the sum and total of my profound thoughts for the day.
I've discovered that if you do something the same way twice and it is successful, everyone involved remembers it as "we always had marshmallow fluff fights on the Summer Solstice!" Oh wait! That is a brilliant idea. Plans are underway for a Marshmallow Fluff "fight" for June 21st, 2012! Mark your calendars, NOW, boys and girls! Details to be announced.
Now where was I? Oh yes, profound thoughts... My brain is wired to be nostalgic for the oddest things, sunlight on the hillside where a house now stands. I will never relive that particular day, when I was twelve, and I looked out the kitchen window and saw the late afternoon sun on the tall grasses on the hillside. So much has changed since then. There is an addition on my parents' house that blocks the view from that window. Someone built a house on that hillside. I am a little taller, much heavier and a whole lot grayer than I was decades ago.
But someday someone else will look out the window of that addition and become nostalgic for the way the light reflects in the windows of that "new" house.
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| The class of 2001-02 pose! |
Back then (in the late 1960s) we felt like heroes because we cleaned out years and years of pigeon poop and we put in safe floors and windows. Back then we could not believe that we collected enough money to put in bathrooms on the ground floor. The mill race and its entrance and exit were still in place all those many years ago. We planned on using hydroelectric power from the water wheel.
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| Trains pass on the OTHER side! |