OnMyMind

For the last few nights, we have had spectacularly clear nights here in West Nowhere, so I have spent a lot of time standing outside staring up at the night sky, trying to learn the constellations…. Apparently, the earths atmosphere refracts the the light from the stars in random waves, much like a glass of water refracts our view of what is on the other side of it. The interesting thing, as I see it, is that although the light is refracted many times as it passes through different densities in the atmosphere, it only seems to twinkle instead of jumping around wildly.Now that I know, I want to forget.

As a parent, I was absolutely horrified to read this article about a 13 year-old boy who died for losing a baseball game.
“Saturday after the 63-year-old club manager had him do throwing practice for an hour starting at 5 p.m. and then a total of 300 sprints with other players. The manager said he had the boy, in his second year of junior high school, and other club members do the exercise as punishment for their losing the game earlier in the day.”