Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On
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Apparently this video contains content from SVT ( I’m presuming that is the Swedish TV corp ) and I can’t watch it due to copyright reasons….. ( I’m in Sweden… Your guess is as good as mine???),
One direct for you Bob…. I don’t know if it is his own or not, but I just heard Neil deGrasse Tyson remark on Apollo 8, “They went to the moon, but discovered the Earth”, which I think is wonderfully poetic. You have probably heard it before, but thought it worth sharing anyway.
Lee Stevenson: Tyson is quoting my book.
@Bob…. I had a sneaking suspicion…. It’s a compliment to your writing skills that it’s made the journey into general use….. It’s a wonderful turn of phrase. It’s a shame he didn’t give you credit.
Lee Stevenson: Actually, I should be more precise. Tyson is quoting from my book a quote from astronaut Bill Anders. I didn’t write it, I only conveyed what Bill Anders had said on his way back from the Moon.
I guess whatever the origen, it’s a beautiful, and very thoughtful and thought provoking phrase. The photos from Apollo 8, and from Voyager 1’s “pale blue dot” picture throw our planet into remarkable context, and anything that helps keep these perspectives in the eye of our future generations is all for the good!
I’m not the kind of guy that gets wet eyed easily, but the late great Carl Sagan’s monologue regarding the voyagers photo always fills me up
https://youtu.be/GO5FwsblpT8
Here we stand at the entrance to a new year and a new beginning in many different ways, I hope we can all overcome our differences, and perhaps work together, world wide, to get off this rock, and start to migrate.