What’s Coming
Winter’s coming. That’s the promise. Rain tonight. Cool next week. Not cold, but it’s a start. We’ve already got the dark. The sun is off to warm other climes. It’s another phase in the long dance of our spinning planet around its sparkling sun as both move through the universe in tandem. Lot’s of forces at play.
And it’s fun to think, sometimes, of all the ways we’ve explained day and night, summer and winter, the stories we’ve created, the gods we’ve invented, the myths we’ve generated. And it’s interesting, as well, to ponder the civilizations that have risen and fallen, praying and sacrificing, as nature went on its merry way just doing what nature does on a churning, heaving planet, bombarded by anything the universe cares to send our way.
And speaking of celestial messengers, I’m hearing stories now of a comet on the far side of the sun, 3I-Atlas, doing things we haven’t seen before, and you should hear some of the stories filling in the blanks of what we don’t know. When it comes to the mysterious, we are truly inventive and science has a hard time keeping up. Of course, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when it peeks around the corner and comes out from behind the sun. Is it ET, Apollo, or simply another event to catalog as we learn how the universe works. I’ll be a killjoy and bet on the latter.