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\"\"<\/a>I thought a lot about us spinning away on our own little planet, in our own little country, in our own little towns, in our own little houses, with our own little beating hearts. How small we are how short our stay.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just a little disconcerting, but I find it strangely comforting at the same time.\u00a0 A week after another topsy-turvy election where so much energy and passion is spewed out, and so little that is substantial comes of it, I am happy to think this is but a blip on the screen, a barely perceptible scratch on the record of time.\u00a0 We are tiny in the universe.\u00a0 This shouldn\u2019t be a perceived as permission to not care it should be a call to not take ourselves so seriously, we are but specks.\u00a0 Carl Sagan says it best so you really must go to the Carl Sagan You Tube link.\u00a0 Give yourself 3:32 minutes, make a cup of tea take a deep breath and listen to this wonderful mans soothing voice tell you about our place in the universe\u2026listen all the way till the end and remember we are but \u201ca moat of dust suspended on a sunbeam\u201d. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M<\/a><\/p>\n

P.S. Also check out several wonderful comments to Mondays post “The Blue Marble vs The Pale Dot”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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