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Everything we see is really just light focused onto the back side of your eye. Essentially your retina is like a tiny little movie screen for all of our images to play out on. It is covered with over 100 million photoreceptors to help give your own personal movies color and shape. This is also a good place to mention that the images are all upside down. Or maybe we are the ones upside down? Either way, these images get flipped and sent to our brain via the optic nerve. Every time I read about light, the eye, optical illusions, and how we see things I am amazed. There is an article on NPR about light and how we see and that seeing is not merely the reception of signals but that it is really more like dancing (go read it...and have your mind blown...or at least something to chew on for a while http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/01/12/261230681/seeing-the-world-is-like-dancing-with-it ) Or if you are a Vsauce fan, watch the one on color and spend the rest of your day w...

Lately the weather has been amazing. Which means I usually curse when I pull into the drive. Because after a long day I want nothing more than to go inside. Shed my grown up clothes. Put away the mail. Eat something. Check real email and facebook and google reader and turn on the tv and decompress before starting dinner and baths and stories and games of CandyLand. But, I have hardly seen my couch in the last few weeks. I’m sure it misses me because I miss it. Instead before I even have my seatbelt unbuckled my son is out of the car, has his shoes and socks off (and sometimes even his shirt and pants) and is halfway down the street on his wiggle car. Or in the neighbors bounce house or is spraying his sister down with the water hose. For my son’s 2nd birthday we bought him this great swingset-slide-fort for the back yard. My husband and his dad (Grumps) spend hours and hours putting it together for my little ones sliding pleasure. My backyard is amazing. Quarter of an acre easy with ...

Sometimes you need a little more than facebook love. Or even double digit comments. Sometimes you need real live friends. The kind with skin that you can touch. So today I did a brave thing. And I so won’t be posting this today Or any time soon Because I’m not that brave. So I’ll hold on to this post awhile. Until it is funny. But this morning I walked downstairs and asked someone to go get coffee with me. Yep. That was my very brave thing. And here is why. Because me and the girl aren’t really friends yet. We have worked together for awhile. But it is a big building and I could go weeks without seeing her. And we are facebook friends and occasionally comment to the other. But I really don’t think that counts. But she reads my blog. And likes it. And comments. And because of I can tell we like some of the same things ( like Jen Lancaster and Jesus)…I thought maybe we should try and be real life friends instead of just virtual ones. Seeing how, we work in the same building and all. But ...