Late afternoon moonrise in the northern Palouse, near St. John, WA
Four days in August
Eighteen days ago a friend invited me to a theater to see Oppenheimer, the movie, on its opening day. I wouldn’t have gone by myself. I know of the blinding light and Oppenheimer’s famous quote from the Baghavad Gita—‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’—to d…
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