Why must people be so hardened in their beliefs? Why are people afraid of saying, “I don’t know.” Or better yet, “I don’t know, but my experiences suggest….” or “I don’t know, but if we take look at things this way, the world will be a better place.” To me, a dogmatic atheist is as […]
As we approach Easter, UC#3 reflects on some secular aspects of the celebration. A young child searched the house for a hidden Easter egg She crawled under furniture looking around the couch leg But what she found was a chocolate bunny and a Peep So she declared the Easter Bunny was cheep But then thoroughly […]
[1] Ice The Great Rectangle Scenes from the Northern Passage Holy Trinity Parish – Парафія Пресвятої Трійці LEDUC (RABBIT HILL) – HOLY TRINITY Parish – Парафія Пресвятої Трійці Location: 8 km. from the Leduc train station and 13 km. northwest from the town of Leduc. The first Ukrainian settlers in the area came in 1900-1912 […]
UC#2 was recently exploring the southern California coast with friends looking for Viking and Sumerian relics. No relics were found, but they came across some California black sea hares during low tide. A Little Background…. About The sea hare is a marine snail, found in shallow water and occasionally in rockpools on the low shore. […]
There is an iconic photo of Judy Collins on the beach, seagulls overhead, powerful waves behind her. She has an expression of spiritual bliss and ecstasy. We tried to recreate this scene with the HotPot image generator, using a simple prompt of “Judy Collins on the beach, large waves behind her, seagulls flying overhead.” It […]
While Spousal Unit and I were on a Three Initial Company (TIC) business trip to Taiwan, we took an enchanting trip across the country’s interior that included Taroko Gorge, Sun Moon Lake, and the hillside fruit orchards amidst the central mountains. After all those years, I remember the song that became fixed in my mind […]
Spousal Unit and I had an opportunity to spend a few months in Taiwan in the late ’80 while working for a large Three Initial Company. Taiwan is a country of great natural beauty, intense industry, an strong work ethic, and friendly people with good humor. They have a complicated and diverse opinion of their […]
She Belongs to Me – Bob Dylan She’s got everything she needs She’s an artist, she don’t look back She can take the dark out of the nighttime And paint the daytime black You will start out standing Proud to steal her anything she sees But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole Down […]
Ole Rømer first demonstrated in 1676 that light does not travel instantaneously by studying the apparent motion of Jupiter’s moon Io. The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 meters per second. It is exact because, by a 1983 international agreement, a meter […]
In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (/ɛpɪˈmiːθiəs/; Greek: Ἐπιμηθεύς, lit. “afterthought“) was the brother of Prometheus (traditionally interpreted as “foresight”, literally “fore-thinker”), a pair of Titans who “acted as representatives of mankind”. They were the sons of Iapetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas. While Prometheus is characterized as ingenious and clever, Epimetheus is […]