[lit-ideas] Re: On Nip Thievery
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:55:24 -0500
And, belatedly, Congrats, John!! Is the gender of said babe known or is it
a surprise? What names await him/her? How excited ARE you? I assume, of
course, that pictures of the wee one are already forthcoming. I remember
when my husband's daughter gave birth for the first time 4 years ago, her
first words to Grandpa were an awed and exhausted, "I made a person..."
Julie Krueger
On 6/6/08, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It seems an entirely proper time to ask who, amongst us, has personally
> witnessed volcanic lightening?
>
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Carlos-Gutierrez/photo//080511/photos_ts/2008_05_11t154356_450x300_us_chile_volcano_environment/;_ylt=AktsnX3TnyuO3vZ21peBenADW7oF
>
> It hadn't crossed my mind as being a phenomena, much less did I know that
> "Cases
> of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well
> documented, although scientists differ on what causes them.
> I can only imagine that such a thing would be a supremely impressive
> sight/sound/smell/feel. I would give a fair amount to be within palpable
> distance. I can't really begin to imagine what humans,
> pre-atmospheric-understanding, must have thought at these events.
>
> All we have here is a line of thunderstorms with damaging winds, baseball
> size hail, flash floods, and tornado watches and warnings as the flickering
> TV channel follows the tornado touch-downs from west to east, telling us
> when it is too late to seek shelter, how many minutes we have left until
> Certain Disaster. It's amazing the talent the weather folk have for
> convincingly announcing Armageddon every 10 minutes. Of course the best
> part (and probably the only real part, come morning) of this is that this
> "significant squall line" causing a "serious situation" is not going to cool
> our patch of earth or atmosphere more than 2 degrees below today's intensely
> humid 90 degrees.
>
> On the bright side, It's summer, folks! There's a big shiny thing in the
> sky!
>
> Julie Krueger
> heartened and going out to witness powers
>
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