(April 27, 2012 at 12:04 pm)jess_essential Wrote: I am currently in the central valley. I was born and raised here, nothing to brag about, but you're aware of that. I will trade you weather, I enjoy the rain because it makes everything smell wonderful. The sunshine makes me cranky!
Wave at a palm tree for me! And you are welcome to all of our rain!
We are are part of nature, built from the same stuff as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. Our protons and neutrons have been around since the earliest times, glued together into heavy elements of long dead ancient suns, blasted out into the universe and resculpted from diffuse interstellar dust clouds by the gentle hand of gravity. When the pattern of atoms known to be you ceases to be, the building blocks will return to the voids of space, and in a billion years or more, they may take their place in another structure so beautiful that a future mind may perceive it to be the work of a god. ~ Brian Cox