On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:01:29 -0500, Ignoramus9349
wrote the following:

It really looked like a volcano eruption. It lasted for, perhaps, 5-8
seconds. The white hot pool of lava inside glowed for perhaps 3
minutes.

Cool. Too bad it lasted for only a few seconds.


The kids were very impressed and a girl asked me later what kind of
scientist I was.

I hope you told her "Mad!"


I kept the kids appx. 30 feet away.

Bueno, boss.

--
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's
sitting right here right now, with its aches and its pleasures, is
exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
-- Pema Chodron