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Knock Knock

What’s something most people don’t know about you? – Let’s see, I don’t want to give the same answer to this question that I did last year in a post titled Night Sky so I’ll reveal something else.

The number of concussions I’ve had in my life. And yes, it scares me. Luckily things are still connecting the dots between the ears.

Being its baseball season I remember picking up one there. I was playing catcher and a State Trooper on the other team decided to do his Pete Rose imitation and rolled me over like a bowling pin and knocked me out.

That one I recovered from in week or so, I was young. The worst one from an accident took almost a year to even start feeling somewhat normal and I actually think that one had some lingering lifelong effects on my balance. I believe I can recall 6 in total.

Maybe I should leave the noggin to science.

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Night Sky

What’s something most people don’t know about you? – The Daily writing prompt digging into more secrets about my life.

Well, let’s see which of the hidden pieces of my life I expose to the general public. This is taking much longer than I thought because I’m trying to find something that I’m willing to share.

Ah, here is a simple one. Almost every night I go outside by myself and look for the stars or watch clouds in the moonlight. I guess it’s a habit I picked up from working decades of night shifts. During break, I would go outside for a few minutes and marvel at space.

This isn’t last night’s full moon, which was beautiful. It lit the entire night. Photo by Mike Hartley
Photo by Mike Hartley

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