
Probing Uranus
I am not sure I will ever understand why things tend to get weird around this time of year. Maybe it’s the turn in weather away from the arctic nothingness. That seasonal pivot towards the mushy in-between time. Maybe it’s the fact that the days are getting noticeably longer. Or perhaps it’s the lingering threat of springing into some as yet unknown direction. But something is triggering all this seasonal uncertainty. There are too many variables left lurking. Too many unanswered questions; too many chances to take another wrong turn. Too many tests still left to take. And too fucking many important things yet to be said. So I have to be careful. It had been a typical mittened Monday night spent kicking uncooperative 517 metal …
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