The Augeries of Innocence by William Blake.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

There's just times that I wish Feynman was here.

Many, many times.

I'm sorry, but this happens when I think of him.

And I can't predict what it's going to happen.

So give me a moment. and I can't predict what it's going to happen.

So give me a moment, because I'm not good at, you know, controlling the upwelling.

It does happen and I miss the man.

Ralph Leighton is a retired school teacher who lives just north of Berkeley, California, with his wife Phoebe.

From their front porch you can see the San Francisco skyline, the

Golden Gate Bridge, the Pacific Ocean. When Leighton was a teenager, he started hanging out

with a man who would become a lifetime friend and inspiration, Richard

Fineman. Fineman and Ralph Leighton's father both taught physics at Cal Tech,

the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

But Ralph Leighton and Richard Feinman

didn't bond over physics.

They bonded over their love of playing the bongo's. We would drum often at his place, but sometimes at my place.

And then after that, you know, then he just talk and then sometimes we drum again and then he talk.

This talking is what Leighton helped turn into two books that made Feynman famous toward

the end of his life. The first one was called,

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