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“True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” — Isabel Allende Recently I wrote a post about NASA’s Voyager spaceship which, as planned, will soon lose contact with the NASA team that’s been tracking it. It carries a number of artifacts from Earth, including a selection of recorded music. I was fascinated by the idea of how to select music that might represent our human civilization … Continue reading Music for Eternity (Part 1)
I’m a grandfather to seven-year-old Sam who possesses an endless fascination with dinosaurs. Did you know — if all of Earth’s time from the very beginning of the dinosaurs to today was compressed into 365 days (one calendar year), the dinosaurs would have appeared January 1 and become extinct the third week of September. ~ Dinosaurs were here for 165 million years. According to this … Continue reading What We Learn From Dinasaurs and Carl the Caterpillar
[This post includes a short video best experienced from the Just a Thought website. Please click the link above.] First, thank you to everyone who sent me music in response to last week’s post, Our Message to the Universe. I will begin sharing your selections soon. Anyone else who would like to share music, I would love to receive it: patm@justathoughtbypat.com Second, an important correction … Continue reading A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
[This post includes two short videos best experienced from the Just a Thought website. Please click the link above.] Voyager1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5,1977. Its mission was to gather information about our solar system and send a message to extraterrestrials who might come in contact with the spacecraft. President Jimmy Carter sent along this message: “This is a present … Continue reading Our Message to the Universe
The dogwood tree outside my bedroom window is blossoming. When I open the drapes in the morning and look out from my second-story window, I see hundreds of small white flowers. I first noticed the buds opening on Easter morning, and my first thought was: Praise the Lord, Christ has risen. I sensed what the Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins sensed when he wrote: The … Continue reading A Thought on Prayer (by Joe N.)