Last night marked a rare encounter of the Earth with the planet Venus. This phenomenon happens only once every 129 years. One of my favorite short stories is Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," a heartbreaking story about a little girl who experiences a bullying incident that robs her of the chance to see the sun from her rainy home on the planet Venus. On the fictionalized planet Venus of Bradbury's short story, the sun only makes a brief appearance just two hours once every seven years. It seems almost poetic that it is within hours of this rare planetary phenomenon that Ray Bradbury, an author of rare talent, passed away at the age of 91. A genius. An artist. A legend. A moment of silence for an incredible speculative fiction/science fiction writer.
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rare, beautiful and will miss Bradbury.Rest in Venus!
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