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shouting at the universe
Mar. 20th, 2020 09:47 amIf there is karma in the world, I am kind of doomed, because I have been wishing horrible ends to a lot of people. I mean, they absolutely deserve it, but also venting that kind of anger, and putting those kinds of wishes into the world is unkind at best and deeply hazardous at worst, or so I am told.
Al suggested I go stand in the middle of the UMass sunwheel and shout at the universe. Which honestly sounds like the perfect idea, and only in part because it is the equinox. I love the equinox, but it goes so fast! It is a matter of moments when the sun skips over the equator like a jump rope and heads north (I know, I know, all Earth-surface centered thinking, but it works, and it has persisted for millennia because describing it from space is just way too hard). Spring is all about longer days and stuff bursting forth, and etc. but one major theme is that it is fleeting. Summer and winter are both a solstice - the still stand of the sun, when it hovers in the same place in the sky for more than a couple of weeks. But equinox - you gotta grab them when they zip past, no pre- or post- celebrating that. So I am going to harness some fury, and the movement of the earth, and go shout at the universe from the center of the tiny stonehenge that a dedicated astronomy prof had built so she could talk about the solar system.
In other news, there is no news. This is the calm before the storm, when all the preparations seem like too much and all the doubters are catcalling, and then the wave comes.
hold on tight
Al suggested I go stand in the middle of the UMass sunwheel and shout at the universe. Which honestly sounds like the perfect idea, and only in part because it is the equinox. I love the equinox, but it goes so fast! It is a matter of moments when the sun skips over the equator like a jump rope and heads north (I know, I know, all Earth-surface centered thinking, but it works, and it has persisted for millennia because describing it from space is just way too hard). Spring is all about longer days and stuff bursting forth, and etc. but one major theme is that it is fleeting. Summer and winter are both a solstice - the still stand of the sun, when it hovers in the same place in the sky for more than a couple of weeks. But equinox - you gotta grab them when they zip past, no pre- or post- celebrating that. So I am going to harness some fury, and the movement of the earth, and go shout at the universe from the center of the tiny stonehenge that a dedicated astronomy prof had built so she could talk about the solar system.
In other news, there is no news. This is the calm before the storm, when all the preparations seem like too much and all the doubters are catcalling, and then the wave comes.
hold on tight
