I don’t want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don’t ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day’s done ~ The Police, Invisible Sun

Three Questions, January 22, 2025

You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we go!

What was the most beautiful thing I encountered today?

This afternoon it warmed up and it was a beautiful blue sky day, so I took a walk on campus and swung up on the hill that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. The sun shining on the ocean, lovely blue water and gentle waves was the most beautiful thing I saw today.

What did I learn today?

Today I learned that the James Webb Space Telescope found evidence of gravitational lensing around a quasar. This is really cool because once again, technology, nearly a century later, has confirmed another theory that Albert Einstein came up with, what an amazing human.

What made me happy today?

It’s been a bit of a nutty week and my sleep issues popped up earlier in the week, so I was pretty fried and stressed out this afternoon. So this afternoon, in a free half hour, I put on Ghost in the Machine by the Police, ate a couple of dark chocolate covered almonds and just relaxed to one of my all-time albums. This made me very happy!