I heard on NPR that the Chilean earthquake bumped the Earth three degrees off its axis. That is astonishing, and I assume the earth righted itself and went right back to its usual orbit and axis right away.

I was just grumping about how dreary and bleak everything looks now; then I think of our blue planet, a blue and white pearl in the vastness of interplanetary space, of how precious and special it is and how remarkable and extraordinary that we live and breathe on its surface as it
makes its orbit through the void. Then I am ashamed to complain about this temporary drabness as one season melds into the next as they have always done, and always will.

susil