Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 45. Sunrise is 6:28 and sunset is 7:27 for 12 hours 59 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 5:30 PM and the Police and Fire Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1965, the Communications Satellite Corporation’s ‘Early Bird‘ (Intelsat I) becomes the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
Ariel Waldman, explorer and filmmaker, has a new series on PBS: LIFE UNEARTHED. The first episode (Antarctica: Life at the Edge) is now available. Upcoming episodes include examinations of fireflies, wetlands, prairies and prairie fires, dry valleys with Mars-like conditions, and Antarctica.
Before and after politics — before and after this long conflict that grips America — the natural order. Sometimes, as respite and rejuvenation, even now.