September 1, 2014 Monday Sputnik

First Words

      …thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician

                    by Glenn Feole, M.D.

        "Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy 

        laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote

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September 1, 2014 Monday

The first satellite in space - Sputnik (Russian), in 1957.
I was five years old and was standing on my front lawn in Westerly,
Rhode Island as my Father and I watched it go overhead in the evening.
A peaceful memory.  The dawn of the space age.
(Only 23 inches in diameter; two pairs of antennae.)

Interesting Name:

     The Miah

Anecdote:

     While examining a  two and one-half year old little girl, many of the questions I asked her resulted in a rather politically adept answer that portended well for her future in some presidential campaign.  

      I guess I had peppered her with a barrage of esoteric inquiries, such as "When did you get sick?  Does your throat hurt?  Do your ears hurt?"  Like Bartleby the Schrivener, she would matter-of-factly answer me, eyes straight ahead, in a monotone voice, time after time with, 

     "I can't know it." 

          Westport, Connecticut, 1990's

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I am away for Labor Day - will write more tomorrow.  :)

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