Tuesday's postcard, and the days between the nightmares

August 8, 2023

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…