Image: NASA

If Orion is visible in the east just before dawn, then it must be August.  Empires may rise and fall and governments may rewrite calendars, but no project of man can alter the course of the stars in the sky. I saw Orion this morning and it was August. They can take away my office and my phone, my calendar and computers, they can shutter the schools and burn all the books, but they cannot budge Orion from his track through the sky. It is August. Continue reading →