It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ~ Voltaire

Three Questions, February 16, 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?

Saw a beautiful picture online today of a really magnificent sun dog. It’s one of my favorite meteorological phenomenon. It’s when there are a pair of suns in the sky to either side of the sun. They occur as a result of ice crystals in the sky and the sun’s halo showing at a specific angle.

What did I learn today?

Today I learned about, Granville T. Woods, born to free African Americans, held various engineering and industrial jobs before establishing a company to develop electrical apparatus. Known as “Black Edison,” he registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph (over which he defeated a lawsuit by Thomas Edison).

What made me happy today?

I made some really amazing steak burritos for dinner, they made me happy.