Spirit in the Sky

 

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Towers as dust rises

Pillars of creation

Brilliant light consumes

Divided and torn

Infants emerge

Fire explodes

Streams of gas

Towering peaks

Arrows sail

  

This is a re-post from 2016. "Dragon" has landed at the Space Station, a new crew off loaded.  Now the two abandoned station crew will be carried home by this unique space craft. Poor people! They have been there for 8 months and have had to put up with each other all that time Could you do it? Could you get stuck somewhere and cannot be rescued for months? I don't know.  Maybe..  

 

The Spirit in the Sky, Norman Greenbaum, 1970

Why I married my husband...

 ...or maybe it should read, "Another reason why I married my husband".

(Reference note: Grandma, why did you marry Grandpa?
AND   Sunshine and the Solar System)

I was sitting here, content to check out blogs and make comments.

John had taken the telescope out to back yard (there is no yard, just a pool which is seldom used).

He came running in, "Quick.  You gotta see this!  Jupiter's moons are lined up, and you can even see..."

I told him, "Just a minute, okay?"

"No, you gotta come now.  These things move out of focus really fast!"

Jupiter with its moons

So we ran out back, and he refocused the telescope.

The planets' positions on evening, March 3, 2012

 Today's night sky


There Jupiter was with striations of orange and brown, with three of its moons in a line, and one shy moon snuggled in just beneath Jupiter.

Jupiter moving closer to Venus, with the Moon looking on

Awe struck.  That's what I was.  Then I look at John; his face was lit up like a child sharing a special toy with a special person.


And that's another reason why I married my husband.

 

Why did you marry Grandpa?

 

 ..or maybe it should read, "Another reason why I married my husband".

(Reference note: Grandma, why did you marry Grandpa?
AND   Sunshine and the Solar System)

I was sitting here, content to check out blogs and make comments.

John had taken the telescope out to back yard (there was no yard, just a pool which was seldom used after our progeny left).  He came running in, "Quick.  You gotta see this!  Jupiter's moons are lined up, and you can even see..."

I told him, "Just a minute, okay?"

"No, you gotta come now.  These things move out of focus really fast!"

Jupiter with its moons

So we ran out back, and he refocused the telescope.

There shone Jupiter with striations of orange and brown, with three of its moons in a line, and one shy moon snuggled in just beneath Jupiter.

Jupiter moving closer to Venus, with the Moon looking on

Awe struck.  That's what it  was.  Then I looked at John; his face was lit up like a child sharing a special toy with a special person.

And that's another reason why I married my husband.

 This is a re-post of April 2012.