Sept. 22, 2021
Wed. 09/22 - The Wonders of Fall, and the Cosmos
Sharing some reflections, some poetry, and a bit of a historical context on what it is that makes fall strike such a strong chord with so many of us, in honor of this first day of fall. And a look at NASA’s upcoming Lucy mission to Jupiter’s asteroids that somehow includes facts about the Beatles, Mexican track and field athlete Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo, and The Iliad.
Sharing some reflections, some poetry, and a bit of a historical context on what it is that makes fall strike such a strong chord with so many of us, in honor of this first day of fall. And a look at NASA’s upcoming Lucy mission to Jupiter’s asteroids that somehow includes facts about the Beatles, Mexican track and field athlete Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo, andThe Iliad.
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Links:
- Between Restlessness and Rapture: Autumn and the Sensual Urgency of Aliveness (Brain Pickings)
- A Sunset of the City (Gwendolyn Brooks, Poetry Foundation)
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me… (William Shakespeare, Poetry Foundation)
- To Autumn by John Keats (John Keats, Poetry Foundation)
- John Keats: “To Autumn” by Caitlin Kimball (Poetry Foundation)
- Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers
- The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature a book by J. Drew Lanham by J. Drew Lanham
- NASA's Lucy mission will visit at least 8 asteroids on a loop-de-loop trajectory (Bad Astronomy, Syfy)
- Queta - The Story Behind the Name - Lucy Mission (NASA)
- Where Is Lucy?
- Netflix buys Wonka author Dahl's catalog (AP)
- Roald Dahl's Family Apologizes For His Anti-Semitic Comments (NPR)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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