The Bright Sunlight That Outshines The Dimmer Stars
When it appears fully well-lit from the Earth`s
perspective ---
sun-lit, roughly every month, we view lunar splendor in
action!
Sometimes I wonder how it is like to visit an uncharted
territory ---
to blast off and land on the lunar surface, ( I hear
your roar of well!)
Talk of a Neil Armstrong special, talk of me walking in
style! Differently!
Actually, picture me running more rapidly than any soul
ever expected!
Consider this: they say the gravity on the Moon is 16.5 %
(1/6) what one
would experience on Earth, and so if I jumped a bit for
good measure,
guess what—bingo—I could prove that flying is not the
privilege of birds!
I guess one would have to overcome the weak attraction of
the surface
and hop over as one explores the Earth`s only natural satellite,
I mean the fifth-largest natural satellite in the Solar
System
that enables one to weigh less on it than one would do on
the Earth;
Yes, I retaliate: one that makes one`s jump higher than
normal!
And as one moves faster in space, time goes slower, talk
of an age
bonus and being over the moon in the truest sense of the
word!
Wait a minute… envision me looking for any evidence of
life
as I step on elegant dust filled with pebbles – and
finding none!
What an awe-inspiring experience that could be!!
Astronauta Optimus Maximus -- Alan Bean
Slip Slidin' Away -- Alan Bean
In 1969 Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, the 2nd lunar landing. After he retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1981 he used his ability as a painter to chronicle his impressions of space. He mixed moon dust, which had collected on the keepsake patches from his space suit, into the paint for "Astronauta Optimus Maximus," his lunar portrait of Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad, and he used his own bronzed Apollo boot to texture "Slip Slidin' Away." He titled the latte painting after Paul Simon's 1977 song:
ReplyDeleteSlip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Delores
I live in fear
My love for you's so overpowering
I'm afraid that I will disappear
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
I know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain't got no rain
She said a bad day's when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
And I know a father
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he'd done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again
He's slip slidin'
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away
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