i'm thinking of
someone to
make it alright
in the deepest darkest night
even though i know
not everything i think i know
is all right

strange attractions
distractions
things that go
bump in the night

oh you are ghostly
a sound of singing sand
your echo forever
only fog and mist
in bright moon light

i'm old enough to know
better no one ever
makes it
alright

let me live beyond the pale
of your respect society
let me live
as a moody lake or wind
all smooth and shiny
safe and easy
tempest-tossed and crazy
let me laugh and cry
scream and whisper a tale
that never ends
let me be
alright

ideas of interest and attention
drawing the conundrum into a spiral
of fuzzy logic-ed intention
the lyrical rhythmical graceful
flow of life
ofttimes may be captured in
elegiac and cosmical perception
i challenge the muses:  provide inspiration

k your glove's bigger'n mine, thx cya again soon?

i'm sitting in the woods just off the road
a half-mile stretch so woodsy there are no electric/phone poles
half way to The Lake - what a rare gift kinda day for mid-Michigan
sunny, near 70, even a warm wind, but still no inspiration
crack of the sound barrier, boom crack of the sound barrier, boom 
i'm on the no hunting side, but do bullets know that
i stand up, three deer are running toward me from across the road
i look up to the sky, are these the last things to see before i die
deer get spooked back, no more shots, although i've heard
you don't hear the one that gets you
i look around
i think
i'm alive

Happy Carl Sagan Day!  "We are star stuff."

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has picked up a shocking vibe from Earth.  During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial storms — and some of those flashes have contained a surprising signature of antimatter. 

During two recent lightning storms, Fermi recorded gamma-ray emissions of a particular energy that could have been produced only by the decay of energetic positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons.

During lightning storms previously observed by other spacecraft, energetic electrons moving toward the craft slowed down and produced gamma rays. The unusual positron signature seen by Fermi suggests that the normal orientation for an electric field associated with a lightning storm somehow reversed. 

How?  The answer is up in the air, say those quarky scientists.  Quirky!

in related news, "particle this" says god as he tosses manna into the LHC
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/06/bread-dropped-by-bird-causes-problems-for-lhc/