"You wanna fly?"I've found this past week very satisfying, having begun the educational/discovery process here at WA ... also, the process of unlearning stuff picked up from other programs, Internet searches, and other folks telling me how they think/thought it ought to go.I've also begun to rein in my marked tendency to go down rabbit trails, spending hours online chasing stuff that's interesting to me just because it is. However, along one such trail yesterday, I found a quote that struck me:"

It's 5:32 a.m. in the Midwest, Chicago Illinois, to be specific. Checked the news on TV and, predictably, every local newscaster was droning on, on and on about the weather. As a fairly recent transplant from the S.F Bay Area, I'm amazed at how frequently and in what detail the weather here is dissected and discussed, along with historical references. It's like listening to a sports wrap-up. In San Francisco it's cool, cooler, foggy, or warm, sunny and then foggy. That's it, and that's my frame