Monthly Archives: January 2016

How To Drape A Chair

January 4, 2016 – 10:31 pm

photo by Gaia Franciosi

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Solar Flap

January 4, 2016 – 9:15 am

The sun has circled the center of the Milky Way about twenty-five times. Each orbit takes about 250 million years at a speed of 250 kilometers per second. The Earth and its companion planets are dragged through the cosmos without protest, although the sun absorbs the blunt of this peregrination through Space and this week […]

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The Babbling Brook

January 4, 2016 – 12:20 am

The Babbling Brook Alfred, Lord Tennyson I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by […]

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The First Day Of 2016

January 4, 2016 – 12:18 am

After babysitting at the Fort Greene Observatory I woke early on the first day of 2016 and rushed to catch the 9:45 from Grand Central Terminal to Dutchess County. The subway was uncrowded and Lexington Avenue was devoid of people other than early morning risers searching coffee and a bagel. I caught the train with […]

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