Benjamin Royal
Stories (1/0)
No Ordinary Day
I always thought my brother Eric’s interests were an odd pair: stargazing and architecture. But he always said, “astronomy is the architecture of the universe.” And architecture was the closest that mankind would ever come to building anything as captivating as the night sky. “The beauty of manmade structures pales in comparison to what we can find in the sky,” he would say, “but the products of human intelligence and human creativity are nonetheless inspiring in their own right.” He had never said anything so pretentious as a teenager; I think he took a course in philosophy or creative writing in college because that was around the time he started talking like that. He attended the University of Michigan College of Architecture. There were a number of architecture programs he had been considering, but he won a $20,000 scholarship for Michigan. Besides, he explained, “Michigan has a great astronomy program too, so maybe I can take some of their classes as electives.”
By Benjamin Royal3 years ago in Families