
Pale Blue Dot Express
As I am writing this journal, I glance up from time to time to the images on the wall above my desk. They are bookends to my thinking.
As I am writing this journal, I glance up from time to time to the images on the wall above my desk. They are bookends to my thinking.
Do you recognize this? Do you have or have you used one like it? Would you be surprised to know that it was patented in 1874? Do you know that it is considered an iconic symbol of human innovation?
Here’s a photo of a lamp. A unique lamp. As unique as its maker. Given to me by a creatively imaginative man who sees the possibilities in the ordinary. Click to learn more about this lamp and this man.
The final test at the end of a year-long course in comparative religion asked this: “Out of what you have studied, take the best aspects and construct a new religion.” Ha. No problem, right? I was young and smart, and eager. After a month of struggle, I turned in a final paper that simply said I could not do it.