I'm supposed to remember when I get up tomorrow morning to say, "Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!" before any other word passes my lips. Or maybe I should substitute "dust bunny". Either way, although I may be dimly aware that it's the first day of a new month, I'll be more attuned to the weather. NOAA is predicting another one of those delicious winter storms. Schools may be canceled, and there may be another chance to gas up the snow blower and follow it around like the faithful acolyte I've become. Then perhaps the sun will come out and it will all melt and the daffodils will bloom. I can see it in my mind's eye like some crazy stop-action video.
Tomorrow the kitten is supposed to go visit the vet and get spayed. We've explained it to her various times, in more or less kind tones. She may get a reprieve if it snows, but her first heat was really quite embarrassing for everyone. So the sooner done, the better.
I'm almost done reading a fascinating book by Natalie Angier called; The Canon. It's a marvelously brisk and humorous overview of the basic sciences. The last chapter is astronomy, which of course is my favorite. So once again I'm trying to get my head around the expanding universe as depicted by a balloon with wee galaxies drawn all over it. From rubbery and flaccid to incomprehensibly huge -- perversely, I can never shake the feeling that some overzealous windbag is going to blow too hard and explode the metaphor. A sort of Big Bang big bang, and all of those billions of hapless galaxies more or less splattered into any number of dimensions, save the four we know and love. Actually the coolest and most absorbing thing for me is the notion that the expansion of space is really the stretching of its very fabric. Like no new space is being made; it's just getting thinner. What does that mean for an empty vacuum, getting thinner? Suddenly my brain is very small and way out if its depth. But I'm good with that. I'll keep trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. Life gives us time for that and snow days, but makes no promises. What a deal!
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