Wednesday, May 16, 2012

mind blowing aint it?


so the earth is just slightly larger than venus...wow the sun is ginormous?
but then our sun...this wonderous star that feeds our planet light...is so small compared to arcturus...
but then....yes but then...arcturus is so small compared to betelgeuse...but then...


so go back up and look at earth again...think about venus passing before the sun as a speck across it...then on to the others...yet when i look at all of this i dont feel small at all...i actually feel amazingly full and ever expanding...i am certainly humbled and it is so immense beyond reason to my human mind...yet...my soul is comfortable with it...i feel like i am a part of it all and a part of everything...and i delight in the mystery of it...it is the most simple visual example i could think of to communicate our inspiring existence...my life...your life...it is a dazzling remarkable astounding wonder and yet so many of us feel so unhappy and disconnected...

up until very recently i have felt like an outsider and apart from everyone...now i dont...i feel like i am connected in the most precious way to everyone and everything...i feel the sacredness of life on this planet...what a beautiful world...

3 comments:

  1. love it! love it! this is what I LIKED about being a science teacher!! : )

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    1. yes it did...though i have the power to remove the extra one...or not;)...which i wont because it made me laugh...i dig science...especially spacey stuff...think it was all that nova i watched on pbs when i was young and omni magazine:)...my nephew is like me in that he has always been into bugs and nature science...

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  2. love it, love it!! this is what i LIKED about being a science teacher!! :) (hope this doesn't post twice - damn technology!)

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