QMusings

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Click on the link for the full text of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech.
Over a century earlier…
Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said–”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert….Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of [...]

Last weekend I went to my 25th high school reunion.

Now…I’m not really a reunion person. Well, I should clarify that I’m not a High School Reunion person. High school wasn’t the best time of my life.
Yeah it was during my “formative years” but what formed out of high school was a young woman with a [...]

Feathered hair.
Puffy off-the-shoulder prom dresses.
It was 1983 and my Senior Prom. As usual I wasn’t quite in step with fashion. I didn’t have feathered hair. I didn’t have a Big Dress.
Nope.
My hair was end-of-the-permanent-wave wavy. My dress was a silky dark violet sheath with spaghetti straps, vaguely Grecian in look.
My date was a junior in [...]