SOMETHING PROFOUND IS HAPPENING!

Recently, our conversation with strangers has changed.  We  are asking the same questions of each other.  We are all seeking factual information. We are looking for and listening for factual replies.

We are asking how will we be affected?  What will we do? Where will we go?  Will we be safe?
When will it happen?

From Salem Oregon on the West Coast to Idaho Falls Indiana, to Casper Wyoming to Lincoln, Nebraska, to Kansas City Kansas, to St. Louis Missouri, to Nashville Tennessee, to Charleston
South Carolina on the East Coast, in less than three months from now, a great migration of people
will move across this country.

There will be no walls nor boundaries nor political threats to stop the influx of people.  Neither
language nor religious doctrine or organizational ideology will stop the influx of scientific information.

Neither social, educational nor economic status nor color nor life style will stop the migration
of people from the very young to the very old.

In large cities to small towns and isolated hamlets, from impoverished neighborhoods to fortified gated estates to country farms and in schools and universities, people have been planning and working together to safely view and record the Total Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017 which will cover a large area of the United States.

Events atmospheric conferences, and philosophical poetry and prose are planned.  NASA,* The Astronomical and Sundial Societies are conducting expositions and sending speakers along with
special safety viewing glasses to inspire and educate people where ever they may be.  The United States Postal Service  has issued a first-of-its kind Forever Stamp on which users can make their
own eclipse using the pressure of their thumb.

Public expositions to introduce the public to the local events sober and entertaining are planned. Some were already  conducted.  Here in St Louis one such event The St. Louis Eclipse Expo was already held.  It was attended  by nearly 5,000 people who were eager for more information. Special telescopic telescopes to simple designs for making home-made safe-Eclipse viewing boxes were displayed.

In 1894, the American writer and editor of the posthumously published works of Emily Dickinson, Mary Loomis Todd wrote of her experience of seeing "The Total Eclipses of the Sun  of 1870" which crossed Sicily.  In it she says, "The spectacle is one which, though the man of science may prosaically state the facts, perhaps only the poet could render the impression."

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*NASA's website

SKYWATCH* JUNE 2017

SKYWATCH* JUNE 2017


ONE NIGHT DURING THE HEAT OF JUNE

A COOLING BREEZE CAME IN

THE TREES IN THE GARDEN SWAYED

AND WHISPERED RELIEF, AS DID WE

SITTING UNDER WELCOMING BRANCHES.


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*Every once in a while, we sum up the month's weather
and planetary movement. We do so believing weather
could be the unifying force for all regions of our
Country if not the world