Much of Earth’s Water Is Older Than the Sun, and Came From Deep Space >>

“A new study published today (Sep. 25) in the journal Science suggests that between 10 to 30 percent of the Earth’s water is older than the sun, and likely hails from comets born outside our solar system.”

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”

The Third Hour

The third hour was lovely, though not like the fourth,

But I suppose you already knew that.

All had grown still, frozen by the low sun;

Branches encased in their ice coffins,

The clouds gave the sky her veil,

And they wept for the loss of the mourning son.

I wish you could have seen it,

But you’d already left by then,

Gone somewhere warmer, I suppose.

Such a shame, really.

You missed the funeral procession,

All of its gaudy glory, all of its lies,

It was quite the sideshow.

But I suppose you already knew that, too.

It was from this parade that I wandered,

From that charade that I wandered.

I jumped the cable and fell into the leaves,

To me they whispered your song,

The sweet serenade you sang before you left.

I laughed in your memory

With the kind of joy that you would have,

And I cast off my shade and its weight.

Yes, the fourth hour was far more the lovelier

But now it’s the eleventh hour,

And I’d better get ready to leave.

- A Weiler