Our friend Dave gave Brent a gadget for Christmas that’s kind of a clock. There are at least seven plastic gears in primary colors inside a clear plastic shell that sticks to a sun-facing window with a rubber suction cup. A 2-inch rectangular solar panel collects power from the sun, charges the mini copper-wound battery, which then moves the gears that spin two prisms causing tiny rainbows to pass across the room on sunny days.
I rode my trike and reminded myself, as Poet Laureate Ada Lemon said, “you are here, you are here” (I am here on this trike, outside, solar eclipse above and I am here).Embrace the moment and the universe. All the rest is small stuff with or without totality
We are with family in Kansas City and got to see 90% totality on a perfectly clear day. The light got that tinny quality at about 30% and I wondered what the plants were “thinking.” I also found it amazing that even with 90% covered, our sun is STILL too bright to look at. Such an astounding universe we live in! (And that little solar prism clock is the COOLEST!)
Did you know about the “sonification” of the eclipse data? They translated the data live into music!
I rode my trike and reminded myself, as Poet Laureate Ada Lemon said, “you are here, you are here” (I am here on this trike, outside, solar eclipse above and I am here).Embrace the moment and the universe. All the rest is small stuff with or without totality
We are with family in Kansas City and got to see 90% totality on a perfectly clear day. The light got that tinny quality at about 30% and I wondered what the plants were “thinking.” I also found it amazing that even with 90% covered, our sun is STILL too bright to look at. Such an astounding universe we live in! (And that little solar prism clock is the COOLEST!)
Did you know about the “sonification” of the eclipse data? They translated the data live into music!