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“I think if you’re not a conservationist before you go to space, you’re at least partly a conservationist when you come back.  Because when you see how thin that atmosphere is, that protective layer that we have here, you think, wow, we really have to take care of this because it does look so fragile from space.” ~Mike Foreman, former NASA astronaut Happy Earth Week! (Image by NASA, taken from Artemis II)

“I wish we could send every elected official into space because they’re bound to come back with a different perspective. … When I looked back on the earth as we orbited in the space shuttle, I looked through the eyes of a politician.  And when I looked, I did not see political division, and I did not see racial division, and I did not see religious division.  What I saw was we are all in this together as citizens of planet earth.  And that is a profound effect on someone who

Happy Easter! “All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see. … This moving through the dark into blossom is the threshold to God. … The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.” ~Mark Nepo