One thing leads to another. . . wasn't there a song about that?
Tuesday! A day to make strange connections. . .
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Mr. eJ happened to be reminiscing about his living in rural Northern New Mexico Back in the Day--and he recalled seeing a ceremony held before Easter by an archaic offshoot of Catholicism that seemed to have stayed alive in that region. So I looked up the New Mexico religious order, Los Penitentes. Or that was what I thought I was doing. But it wasn't. One thing had led to another.----
In fact, to this:
Not a religious phenomenon,
but a weather-related one, first described in western science in 1839 by none other than Charles Darwin--in the Andes at the border of Chile and Argentina.
Weird, huh? "Penitentes" is
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Or maybe not so weird. Share an example of your own experience with looking up one thing. . . that led to a completely different thing.
Although it is clear even to me how the snow formations and the religious order got the same name. I could do without the nagging feeling that the Penitentes in some images look like Klan members. Still, I'm sure I'd prefer to hang out with the New Mexican brothers (briefly) rather than the Klan. But a trip, say to Chile, to see the snow formations would be my first choice!