I'm fidgety. It's one of those days: the weather is beautiful and I should be somewhere other than in a computer lab entering exam grades. Even if my body cannot be out doing other things, at least my mind should be, right?
Have you ever noticed how items can lump themselves together in our minds? The weather has immediately conjured up the following constellation of diversions:
Musically, it is a day for Beirut, DeVotchKa, the Decemberists and Andrew Bird.
It is a day for Indiana Jones, The Life Aquatic, Tombstone or Apollo 13.
It is a day for Mickey Mouse and Tintin, The Twenty One Balloons and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.It is days like these that make me want to join the Explorers Club, the CIA or Mission Aviation Fellowship.
In a word: it's a day for adventures!
Alas, I'll get back to my exams now...
2 comments:
President Obama recent announced the termination of the program to return to the moon. He said we had already been there, that there were new places to go. Maybe that was his interest. Maybe there are better ways to spend that money. But when watching the speech, I couldn't help but get the sense that he failed somehow to understand this part of the human spirit. We don't climb Everest because it's there; it has nothing to do with Everest. We climb Everest because we need to. And if we can't do it ourselves, we need to see someone else do it. It's part of what makes us human.
AH! Exactly! I feel this everytime I watch Apollo 13, as it happens.
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