Letters for Astrid: 5
Letters for Astrid: 5 It’s still hot here, Astrid, but the sky is blue with a few fat clouds flying north. Tomorrow, they say, we’ll get a storm. We love the flash and bang of thunderstorms rushing past us to another country. We can’t go to Canada right now, but clouds can. There’s a comet in the western sky this week. It has a funny name— NEOWISE— all caps, as if it were newly smart or headed in a kind of new direction, shouting. It’s hard to see here for all the trees. You are far west of here, though, and have the perfect window from which to see that big, big ocean and, once the sun goes down, to see the comet, with its tail of sparkling light, pass by and wave to you. We can’t go to California right now, Astrid, but comets can. S. Robbins, July 15, 2020
Sherry Robbins 