I WAS CAMPED IN THE eastern Sierra Nevada of California at 9,000′ within a roughly enfolded basin, granite cliffs rising at least another 1,000’ all around except for the gap through which the old glacier had eased downward fifteen millennia ago. A hiker...
Why do celestial conjunctions affect us as they do (this question provoked by recent observations of two planets dancing with the moon)? If I step out in the evening and am surprised to see that a planet and the moon have sailed seemingly close to each other, I always...
