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section shares a variety a views, short sories, and comments from club
members.
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M
& M’s
This is a short story about the
Meetings
of the Minds. When I came to the first few
meetings
I felt I had fallen into a boring, nerdy group. "I knew nothing." I
still
"know nothing", but at least I feel more comfortable with the "nerdy"
people
and know enough to know what questions to ask. Friends that know me are
getting that glassy eyed look more often when they mistakenly ask a
question
about my "Astronomy" (usually they say Astrology). I have learned to
answer
their questions in about 2 or 3 sentences. They do not understand why I
would leave my perfectly warm house to stand outside in the dark, with
many layers of clothing, to look at something (just dots of lights) in
a small eyepiece. They do not understand the thrill of looking into an
eyepiece and see something that can only be seen in a book. My poor
hubby,
one of my earliest glassy-eyed victims, has patiently let me talk about
things with foreign words like nebula and super nova. He doesn’t
understand
my hobby but he backs me on my decision. He still asks questions and
his
glassy eyed views are getting less frequent, but to leave a perfectly
comfortable
home in the middle of the night is still beyond him.
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