Lunar Eclipse Experience:

I opened my front door to get a good view of totality at 10PM and there was a medium sized brown dog i did not recognize barking at me to be let in.

I told the dog to "Go Home!" and closed the door.

When I opened it the dog was gone except for tracks.

Weird.

"As it was in the beginning, so it ever shall be, world without end, Amen."

Article about a theory that the Big Bang is part of a continuous cycle:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/qa_turok?currentPage=all

Which brought to mind a doxology from youth in the United Church of Canada.