Thinking Out Loud Again
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"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
Neil Armstrong
What wonder, motivation, tenacity, courage and drive Neil Armstrong must have been filled with to try and better understand the mystery of space and to become the first man to walk on the moon.
Prior to his Apollo landing on lunar soil, as well as being the first to have their footsteps grace it's surface, his love of space exploration and the mysteries of the universe was evident in everything he did.
Of his many pursuits, he was a respected test pilot, engineer and pioneer pilot on high speed aircraft. In his quest to further his knowledge of the unknown, he then advanced to astronaut status in 1962 and went on to launch the Gemini 8 mission in 1966.
Me? My desire to understand something?
I would just like to know where my socks go once they enter the dryer.
What alien life form resides within its heated cavern, whose fuel source are trouser socks and footies?
I see them happily go in, hand-in-hand, (or foot-in-foot, as it were) for their drying adventure, but many return from their mission alone. The other lost forever to another galaxy.
Houston, we have a problem.
Currently, I have an entire dresser drawer devoted to single, lonely socks waiting hopefully for their wayward mate to return.
Frankly, I'm tired of wearing one really dark black sock and one somewhat blue-black one, because I can't find the matches for either and I am desperate to cover my feet, so I can put my shoes on and get to work.
While we are on the elusive questions of life, I would also like to understand the mystery of why I can't eat pizza without burning the roof of my mouth on the bubbling, melted cheese.
When the steam is rising from a slice, like the fog off the hot ponds on a cold morning, I KNOW I'm flirting with potential oral injury to take a bite of it.
Yet I do, thus burning the tender roof of my mouth, which makes that flappy, little, burned mouth, skin-thingie hang down, that my tongue now won't leave alone.
EVERY single time.
But I digress...
I would like to go back to my earlier mention and admiration of Neil Armstrong and thank him for his contribution to aerospace engineering and the NASA program in general.
I sincerely appreciate him for his courage to lead us all into new levels of understanding of our world around us.
When pioneers are listed thru-out history, it is certain his name will be mentioned and his accomplishments recognized and marveled at.
I would be so thrilled to meet him and ask him the question I am certain we all would inquire of him if we had the opportunity.
The question that burns as brightly as the color of molten lava in our brains. The ONE question that keeps us awake nights wondering...
"Did you see any of our socks up there, by any chance?"
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