(liza) Shad Fishing and God
Hi Dad!
Isn't the weather WONDERFUL???
Gene and I went down to Fredericksburg to fish in the Rappahannock River Saturday evening and from 4:30 am to 3:00 pm Sunday. It was soooo peaceful, beautiful, lovely, with tons of herons, kayakers every now and then, other serious fisherman here and there, hot sun, beautiful breeze, and lots of shad and herring. We've been eating the most DELICIOUS shad roe, and fish, all week. Sounds like
your kind of vacation, almost (that is, if you knew how to fish. It helps to have someone who knows fish habits, types of lures, how to untangle string, can teach you how to cast, what equipment you need, etc.).
I've been thinking lately how lucky we are to have a physicist for a father. I've also been thinking again about God, the need of people for God. How your whole life Dad seems to be a kind of celebration of life itself, which might be the reason you haven't needed to believe there's a God. Or maybe it is because you never believed in God that you've been able to take full advantage of the splendors of reality itself, without there having to be any supernatural explanation for it all. And of course you have physics, which helps a lot. Einstein believed in God, though. I would have liked to have heard his ideas about that.
Anyway, here are some more nice quotes.
Love Liza
One of the advantages of being
disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries.
- A.A. Milne, 1882-1956 (one of my all-time favorite authors...I have all his books)
The object of opening the mind, as of
opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something
solid.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1864-1936
Isn't the weather WONDERFUL???
Gene and I went down to Fredericksburg to fish in the Rappahannock River Saturday evening and from 4:30 am to 3:00 pm Sunday. It was soooo peaceful, beautiful, lovely, with tons of herons, kayakers every now and then, other serious fisherman here and there, hot sun, beautiful breeze, and lots of shad and herring. We've been eating the most DELICIOUS shad roe, and fish, all week. Sounds like
your kind of vacation, almost (that is, if you knew how to fish. It helps to have someone who knows fish habits, types of lures, how to untangle string, can teach you how to cast, what equipment you need, etc.).
I've been thinking lately how lucky we are to have a physicist for a father. I've also been thinking again about God, the need of people for God. How your whole life Dad seems to be a kind of celebration of life itself, which might be the reason you haven't needed to believe there's a God. Or maybe it is because you never believed in God that you've been able to take full advantage of the splendors of reality itself, without there having to be any supernatural explanation for it all. And of course you have physics, which helps a lot. Einstein believed in God, though. I would have liked to have heard his ideas about that.
Anyway, here are some more nice quotes.
Love Liza
One of the advantages of being
disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries.
- A.A. Milne, 1882-1956 (one of my all-time favorite authors...I have all his books)
The object of opening the mind, as of
opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something
solid.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1864-1936
posted by Liza May at 3:47 PM
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