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In order to enjoy the music in today’s post please click the link above in your email. Or click here. “When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.” ― Rudolf Karl Bultmann True enough. And I have to admit, Dr. Bultmann, it feels that … Continue reading Over the Rainbow
“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