Whenever we travel people
always tell Peter he looks
like Albert Einstein.
(They often take pictures with him.
He does.)
Einstein has been in the news
because of the new telescope,
what they can see now, and because
he said that gravity bends.
We are in Ithaca. The drive here
across 23 was more than amazing.
It’s easy to forget with everything else
how incredibly beautiful this
country can be. We look for beauty
in other places but it’s actually right here.
One of my favorite Einstein quotes:
you can live as though nothing
is a miracle, or as though everything
is a miracle. He was in the everything camp.
I want this one in the book!