“Wow,” I said to Merle, as we walked away. “That was unbelievable.” I was referring to both the basketball game, and Merle’s rescue of the child’s ball. “Cute kid, isn’t she?” said Merle. “Very cute kid,” I said. “What language was that?” “I don’t know yet,” said Merle. Merle told me what the language was, […]
Researchers from Utah State University have discovered that an astounding amount of tiny plastic particles drift in the wind and deposit themselves in apparently remote wilderness areas and national parks in the wide-open western U.S. This reminds me so much of Merle’s observation to Ken, in The Enlightening, of the global cycle of pollution that […]
18 Merle leaned back in his seat, put his hands behind his head with elbows out, and extended his legs in a relaxed posture. He emitted a long, deep sigh. Then he asked a simple little question. “Ken, who do you […]
My wife Kim likes to say she is going to get me a t-shirt that says, “I Predict,” because I enjoy making predictions. One thing I predict is that, over the course of the next five or ten years, we will see more and more cosmological studies indicating that our universe seems to have a […]