Here is something for all of us to consider ... to the cosmos or not, we can certainly strive to appreciate the beauty and the craftmanship of the world in which we live. While we are at it ...

Confucianist scholar Hakuseki Arai (1657-1725) noted in his autobiographical work "Oritaku Shiba no Ki" (translated into English as "Told Around a Brushwood Fire") that as the earth kept rumbling ...

It's all about perspective ... There is no way our eyes can take in the size of the spherical Earth when we are standing on it. You couldn't tell the Earth was a sphere even if you hiked to ...

Winter is when the northern hemisphere (where we live) is tilted ... to orbit (go around) the Earth.It takes a little longer, 29.5 days, for the Moon to go through all of its phases.