There are times that I wonder what exactly we are doing to our planet...it was Carl Sagan who wrote of Voyager's turning in deep space for one final view of Earth, and all that could be seen was a "Pale Blue Dot;" "Look again at that dot," he wrote. "That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confidant religons, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." Humbling? Good...sometimes we just forget to just appreciate what we have. That's part of me and part of what I try to remember.
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