fields

I got a couple of very strong magnets. Much like the ones my brother Peter gave me a couple years ago. These are SO strong. In fact, I've hurt myself many times with them already. They can pinch quite well, and I have a few blood blister on my hand, and even some skin taken off from a surprise connection (they're all surprises).

It's amazing how magnets emmanate fields that effect other things. It's weird. Reaaally weird. So I've been preoccupied these past four days just with handling the magnets and feeling the force of resistance and attraction they exert on each other.

Was a beautiful day, and as my brother Daniel says, "The sky was a deep blue."

While I'm here, I'll offer up the suggestion to start furthering your knowledge of the world. For some that'd be an encouragement to continue furthering. For me, it's a start. I just read the entire wikipedia article on the independent state of Abkhazia. I'd never heard of it before, but it is a remarkable tale of a country. I am foolish to have thought that on-the-whole most countries are pretty stable, as this is one which is not. They experienced a ethnic cleansing of sorts even as recently as 1993! This depleted the population by roughly half, now 250,000. (many became refugees to Georgia). The turmoil there is still unresolved and the efforts of the UN to establish peace there have been met with steadfast resistance (and even aggression).