Real Talk!

The Perseid meteors are an annual show, starting in late July when Earth enters a cloud of debris from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle. This year we’ll also cross the path of a new strand of debris that separated from the comet in 1862.

The comet Swift-Tuttle was actually discovered because of the strand of material boiling off from the comet. Two American Astronomers, Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle, working independently, made the discovery.

On the 12th local stargazers could be treated to some 50 visible meteors per hour.

Visible light. Electromagnetic radiation.
Energy released. Electrons within atoms.
Light is all our eyes can really see.
Particle and wave.
Traveling energy. Vibrations at
different frequencies and
travelling at different speeds.
Continuum;
electromagnetic spectrum.

In total darkness, our eyes sense single photons- they absorb some of the photons flowing through space. Of visible light, violet has the most energy and red the least.

At twilight, sunlight scatters in the upper atmosphere: L'Heure Bleue, a most solitary time.

I fell in love with him, long before he was known for writing poetry… although I recognized immediately he was a poet…

a poet in its root sense- meaning seer, visionary….

He had a great love for privacy, a great love for solitude. He needed long periods alone to meditate, reflect, think. He needed to have the noise stilled… to contemplate, dream, write…

A great fan of Merton, he was a great lover of Merton’s work… and rogue intellectuals,
McLuhan, for example.

He had a certain stubbornness, pride, a certain amount of arrogance, a certain amount of determination to find out things in his own way and also to beat a path that was his own.

There was nothing one could do about it.

We often spoke in whispers… the moon exposed, at intervals… scattered through slats

in the window blinds. Light of a different frequency bends at slightly different angles.

Such were our concious attempts to reach each other…
another human being…into the soul of another human being…

Such are Laws of Reflectance.

"the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection."

The atoms in some materials hold on to their electrons loosely. In other words, the materials contain many free electrons that can jump readily from one atom to another within the material. When the electrons in this type of material absorb energy from an incoming light wave, they do not pass that energy on to other atoms. The energized electrons merely vibrate and then send the energy back out of the object as a light wave with the same frequency as the incoming wave. The overall effect is that the light wave does not penetrate deeply into the material.

In most metals, electrons are held loosely, and are free to move around, so these metals reflect visible light and appear to be shiny. The electrons in glass have some freedom, though not as much as in metals. To a lesser degree, glass reflects light and appears to be shiny, as well.

A reflected wave always comes off the surface of a material at an angle equal to the angle at which the incoming wave hit the surface. In physics, this is called the Law of Reflectance.

There comes that certain point & one just realizes they’re on a path alone…

The decision is simply to go on with it or not…

Though, no one truly forgets the brightest white light… The way something burns red hot, then turns to white.

The mixture of all colours, mixture of light… frequencies… incandescence.

A perfect colorless, white.