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Destination, Utah

It's orange in Utah, and green and grey and white... But before we go there, I am curious what you are reading these days, if anything. About a year ago, (Or is it two?) I bought a book about the universe by Neal DeGrasse Tyson.   He is known for bringing these complex topics of the universe down to the layman's level.  Even so, I find the topics and the concepts so mind-blowing that I just can't get my tiny brain to wrap around them and absorb them.  It feels like for a flash of a fraction of a second I grasp what he is writing and then it is gone.  It is like, "Wow! That's cool," but then I couldn't tell you (or my conscious self couldn't recall) what it was that I comprehended for a fraction of a second. I am telling you this because a couple days ago in a gift shop I found a children's book about the stars and I bought it for me.  Maybe this will be more my speed. And recently at a gift shop I bought a book about flies.   The thought of it giv...