Amid the Covid-caterwauling, the media failed to take proper notice when Mr Trump signed an executive order encouraging our mining the moon on April 6, 2020. Mining the moon and its exploitation was the premise for Robert Heinlein‘s, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In Heinlein’s vision, the lunar colony is exploited by EarthContinue reading “MINING THE MOON”
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Covid-19 and Time
Usually, Outlook regulates my time through calendar invites and other obligation reminders. But the Covid-19 pandemic and its forced isolation means many are spending more time alone, without the external impositions of scheduled activities. And I am sure the rupturing of routine is a psychic unbalancing. Personally, I am enjoying the shift. It has allowedContinue reading “Covid-19 and Time”
Easter 2020
Easter Sunday. The hope of rebirth. The ancient myths remind me that we are all deeply connected. The Golden Bough (1890) by Sir James Frazer sits on my bookshelf beside Robert Graves and my high school yearbook. Mildred Beecher, my English teacher introduced me to Frazer’s work because I had asked the difference between aContinue reading “Easter 2020”
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