Kids & Family

A Celestial Tic-Tac-Toe Board

With a skywriting pencil I could take on heaven.


I was coming out of a meeting Friday when I looked up and saw a pattern in the sky that immediately struck me as a tic-tac-toe board. Or a noughts and crosses template as it is called in British Commonwealth countries.

It was nothing special, nothing important, just a bit of whimsy writ large.


If only I had a sky pencil. And a partner as silly as me.

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