My latest column in
Christian Courier describes my boyish fascination with astronomy. In the print edition the title is "So Many Stars," an allusion to this
1967 popular song by the late Sergio Mendes. The online title is:
I saw four Galilean moons circle Jupiter. An excerpt:
When I was around 10 years old, my parents bought me a telescope.
Although my major adult interests would be in the social sciences, arts
and humanities, as a child I had a pronounced affinity for astronomy.
Something about those bright celestial objects easily fired the
imagination of a schoolboy. . . . I collected a small library on the subject, trying to memorize the
constellations and to identify them in the night sky. During the wee
hours of the morning, my ever so patient mother would get up with me and
join me as I set up my telescope and attempted to view the moon, the
planets, and the stars from our suburban front garden.
Read the entire article here.
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