Status Updates From Vesper Flights

Eager to finish but also wanting more. I have learned something every one of these essays—and argued with the author only once—and that newness is both rare and precious in my experience.

Most any one of these essays could be a model for how to ground information in a personal experience.

My observations during a total solar eclipse were not like Macdonald's. Spectacular, but different. The cold, the color the light, waves of lighting moving across the ground, and bats appeared when the sun was gone.