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Credit: NASA/SDO

Here it is in all its glory, the Transit of Venus; it won't happen again until 2117. I know that it does not look like much what with Venus looking like a drawn in black dot, but it is so incredibly cool. Venus is blocking part of THE SUN!

At approximately the same time, author Ray Bradbury died at the age of 91. Coincidence? I think not. If you have not read Fahrenheit 451 then you should go out and buy it and read it immediately. The man was brilliant. I teach his books often in many of my college courses. I have blogged about the novel and Bradbury before. I won't get into all that again. "The Reality of Fahrenheit 451"

I have another teaching demonstration on Monday at Brown Mackie College, which sounds very interesting as the students take only one course a semester, in a four hour block, three days a week. It is a new campus, and we get to pilot an iPad-for-every-student-program! I would begin teaching July 2. I am sorta stoked to be perfectly honest. I feel the excitement for teaching coming back full force!

With this new found zest for teaching, I have also found a renewed interest in women in politics. I offer you this link to sign a petition to have a female moderator at the Presidential Debates. Women vote more frequently; women are not as worried about sharing their opinions openly; women actually know what is going on before they vote.

This week has been a learning week. I learned a great deal about myself, my limits, my expectations, and my desires. It seems that I have not lost my wanderlust, but I have changed as to whom I include in my new journeys. Plus, I have become a whole lot more tolerant, which is really saying something, as I was already hyper-tolerant.

Good, no, great things come to those who wait. I do not need everything now. Strange, I am not a material person at all. I don't have to have things in the tangible-own-everything-in-sight-sense; I don't have to make the big bucks, drive the fancy car, or wear designer clothes. All the things then are really non-tangible items, special people, family, love. I can wait to have it all.