How mind-boggling is the universe. Which is why I rarely try to comprehend it these days. Yesterday’s solar eclipse at 90% was strangely compulsive viewing. TV tuned to the BBC News channel with live streams from total eclipse sites in Iceland and Spain, while periodically popping on my eclipse glasses to check progress outside. The glasses dated from 1999 when I went down to Lands’ End to view the total eclipse there. It was cloudy that day, so they were not needed; thankfully this time it was clear, and I had a perfect view of the cosmic phenomenon.
Then, past midnight, I was back in the
garden to recline in a deck chair and look skyward for meteors, the Perseid
shower. Shower is a misnomer. I saw three in half an hour but in between stared
at the stars and contemplated both the vastness of the universe and its
impossibility.
[Authentic selfie - 13 August 2026]
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