My memories of my father are slim because he was so sick in the last years of his life. But there are
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that I am often reminded of and which may have had some bearing on my love of
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.
When I was small I was somewhat
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of lightning and thunder. My father explained it. The explanation was in
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that a child could understand but was basically correct. I gained a better
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later, but I didn’t have to unlearn anything.
What he said was that there was electricity in the clouds
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it travelled to the ground like a spark. When it travelled
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the air it made the air so hot that it
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. Then there was nothing where the air had been and the air all around rushed in to
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the space. He clapped his hands together very loud,
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to be the air rushing in, and said that makes the thunder. When I hear thunder, I can still hear that
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.
He explained why if it was cloudy in the winter the night was warmer than if it was
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. It was one of those nights when the sky was full of stars: no moon, no town lights. But there were more stars than you could
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