It’s amazing. They’re gonna save the Hubble Telescope, which has brought the wonders of the Universe to everyone. All kinds of good things are happening. Almost as if to cheer me up I’m gonna sleep well tonight.

Tonight, for the first time, I saw the Moon in a telescope. Mine, that is. I went “Aah!” in adoration. A perfectly round marble with a crisp white edge on the sunlit half and the other half in perfectly black obscurity. A diagonal border in its center. Along that terminator, sharp jagged edges of craters [...]