Where is my wife?

[fearless]

The problem is that pointing out the bad stuff conflicts with my intent to allow her to withdraw temporarily if she feels the need, and reveling in the good stuff is hard because she often stomps hard on my excitement.

Yeah wouldn't it be nice if life was easier? Sorry I couldn't resist. I know it's tough but just remember it is worthwhile too.


Unfortunately many scientists in disciplines that do not deal with "deep time" have been seduced by the ID arguments (e.g. physicists, mathematicians, chemists, engineers, doctors).

That amazes me because the "theory" is so weak not too mention the whole question about who the "designer" is. I'm an engineer so I thought that helped some. The same with the Climate change issues. For me, the most important chart from "An Inconvenient Truth" was the one that shows on the same chart the tracking of Earth temperature AND CO2 levels for the past few 100,000 years and how well temperature and CO2 levels track and then it shows the CO2 levels have already increased beyond anything seen in the past and projected to keep skyrocketing even further up. On top of that I studied Arrhenius's accelerated testing methods and with reading about him I found out that this Nobel Prize winner came up with the CO2/Global warming theory back in the late 1800s - well before any environmental "nuts" or 60s hippies came along with any purported agenda against cars.

YES! Light pollution is the one form of pollution that gets sneered at, because the adverse physical effects are minimal and/or hard to understand. But I think psychologically it is damaging to the human race.

There are studies that show total darkness during sleeping shows improved health over those without total darkness (nightlights, TV etc.) My XH and I lived in the country and over 7 years ago turned off all our outside lights when we wanted to attract barn owls. I was kind of a scaredy cat about darkness but I was amazed by how much I enjoyed the total darkness. Even when XH moved out and I was living alone, I didn't turn on the night lights because I appreciated the darkness. And definitely I believe that being able to see the stars is something that ties into something deep inside all humans.