Raise the Heat
I guess it is winter now that the temperature outside has dropped into the 20’s. The temperature in the house, thanks to the gas heater, stays where we want it. The temperature in the sunroom with the five-pane Air inserts and a small electric radiator heater stays around 57–60. I did a reading in the greenhouse yesterday. Preliminary readings indicate that with the lack of glass, despite the Air insulation the temperature is all over the place, from 85 degrees when the Sun is out to 40 degrees at night. This is what my science adviser predicted. However, we need to take more readings before we can say anything sound about this experiment. All the windows in the house using AIR layers of glazing or the inserts have glass for one layer of glazing so are not affected by this seeming loss of a certain kind of heat. More in the future about this experiment with Air. The question is still open if you need one glazing to be glass for the Air Insulation Resource system to work effectively.
Another question raised on this web site remains open for debate: “Is it moral for Marquette University to host military training on campus?” Since my open letter and call for an open debate on this issue does not seem to have much of a response from Marquette officials I hope to start an open debate on this wiki web site. Stay tuned.
Tonight at the Milwaukee Bucks basketball game I saw an old friend from my days as a youth minister at a local Catholic Church. He was, and still is, the person you can count on to work with youth, be it as a teacher or as a leader for a work experience to Appalachia. It was in a mission trip to Appalachia that I learned to appreciate simply living. The people there were poor but full of joy. It was there that I learned how easily I could relate to young children and adults full of innocence and life. I used to say to the teenagers on the trip that I wanted to be a three year old when I grew up. They thought it was funny, but it was true.
But turning the clock back is not possible so the best I can do is to live as simply as possible in a complex world full of doubts and fears.
A good and honest debate on an issue can produce simple truths so I will try having an online debate. This first question for debate on military training at a Catholic university, to a child’s mind, if they understood what the military teaches and what the Catholic Church teaches, would result in a simple answer of No. Children do not know how to avoid a direct answer or to justify a non-response. Children say what they think, as I often do and am told not to do.
So while the temperature drops outside I, being a persistent child, try to raise the heat on a very simple question for adults. As the temperature drops it is time to rise the heat.
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