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The other day I was driving and as I usually do I was looking at the sky a lot, driving is a great opportunity to do this since it is right there, as long as you also look at the road and all that.

Anyway, I saw this bank of clouds, and then this other bank of clouds in front of it doing some totally other thing, like they were very vertical and piled atop one another while the others were just moving along like normal.

I thought about how that all is just showing how much circumstances can differ even when they are mostly invisible to us, here are these drops of vapor having stuck together due to surface tension and other things, and they are responding to what looks like quite a lot going on up there, and the only reason I see it is because a)there’s a phenomenon there I can perceive and b)I looked.

Like, this is going on in the ocean too, currents going every which way and being disturbed and forming and un-forming.

I am sure this is a deep metaphor of some sort. But also I just like the sky.

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Much has been made of how far South the Northern Lights have been visible lately. Here’s a collection of photos. Electro-magnetism, man! It’s cool.

OK wait, this woman in Barcelona in the 1900s made art with her typewriter. Like, how. Just how. She even shaded the sky.

My student Ramiro made an amazing sky after we talked about the Northern Lights:

Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.

May you see a weird cloud, may you see unexpected colors in the sky, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy