back home in Indiana

Yar, we had an aunt in Grand Rapids and an uncle in Eau Claire and a Grandfather in Goshen so we crossed that line once or twice a year.  I don't remember a time difference going to Michigan but that was always in the summertime so that daylight savings time thing kept us on the same time.  Indiana was a little stranger because northwestern Indiana goes by Chicago time, but by the time you get to Goshen it is eastern time.  And I think they changed their mind about that from time to time, and also about  daylight savings time.  Hoosiers,

But you have to go through Hoosier land if you want to go anywhere on the other side of the lake.  It was kind of an exciting drive with us three kids in back of the pea green 1953 Ford Customline.  There was some kind of old mansion (which is still there) which looked like a castle with all its turrets where you made the turn east, and there were those little lakes right by the highway, and at night the refineries would be burning off natural gas or something which had kind of a scary beauty.

Sometime in the course of our journeys east the interstate was built.  What a new and exotic development.  I was a big science fiction fan and all the cities of the future had these highways in the sky and suddenly here they were right in the present. They had rest stops with restaurants on some bridge right over the interstate so that you could watch cars go by while you ate.  How cool.


When I got my edukashun degree ten years ago I had to take a philosophy course.  It was a pretty good experience.  We had a book with a chapter on Plato, Aristotle, the stoics, some other guys,  These guys had written whatever the equivalent of books was back in the day. but a chapter was plenty, I couldn't  imagine reading a whole book.  I think the stoics are interesting because, even if I don't quite approve of it, their plan is coherent and logically sound.  And it has historical importance with its ties to the Christians.

Speaking of which His birthday is only two days away.  And we have two days of lengthening days , though if you look at the sunrise and sunset times in the paper you can't tell, some kind of stutter step around the solstices which I once understood, but I have forgotten, like the turnip and ping pong ball and desk lamp.