stardust

thousand word thursday | earth day edition

In images, life, quotes, stardust on 22 April 2010 tagged carl sagan, earth day, pale blue dot with 1 comment

this is a photograph of planet earth taken in 1990 by voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. by request of carl sagan, NASA commanded the voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and to take a [...]

i touch the future. i teach.

In life, quotes, stardust on 28 January 2010 tagged challenger, christa mcauliffe, i touch the future with 6 comments

twenty-four years ago today, i was sitting in mr. quincy’s fifth grade class.  on a media cart at the front of the classroom was a television broadcasting the launch of the space shuttle challenger, carrying it’s crew of seven.  amongst them was christa mcauliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space. in an [...]

thirty | year two

In life, nablopomo, stardust on 30 December 2009 tagged blue moon, december, thirty with 4 comments

the moon has always been a source of endless fascination for me. i remember, as a child, looking up at the night sky — filled with its fabric of twinkling stars and its grand lighted orb — and knowing, with certainty, that i was looking at something larger than i would ever understand.  it was [...]

i touch the future. i teach.

In life, moment, quotes, stardust on 28 January 2009 tagged challenger, january 28, tragedy with 3 comments

twenty-three years ago today, i was sitting in mr. quincy’s fifth grade class.  on a media cart at the front of the classroom was a television broadcasting the launch of the space shuttle challenger, carrying it’s crew of seven.  amongst them was christa mcauliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space. in an [...]

twenty eight

In family, life, nablopomo, stardust on 28 December 2008 tagged death, december, gram, nablopomo with 1 comment

my first real experience with death was the death of my grandmother, gram. i was eight and my little sister was two. i was deeply saddened by her death, but what i remember most was being mad. i was mad at god for taking her away. i was especially mad because i knew my sister [...]