The past month of dizziness and thinking about family turning points and how these trajectories evolve decades onward brings to mind a teenage ambition of Appalachian Trail thru-hiking but ending up a weekender variety covering the same local section on repeat instead.
Due to weather delay, last night SpaceX’s Dragon descended timed alongside Pascha Midnight Office services (11:30 PM-3:00 AM EDT), and locally the raccoon returned to the window in same half-hour as three nights ago, again interrupting reading, though this time the subject was not phronema but Alan Stern when he slips out a side door in the final countdown of New Horizons to witness its lift off en plein air.
Why are we compelled toward particular projects and how do we transition when one feels over and the next defies? How do we pack bounce boxes for a next destination? And how does Clyde Tombaugh’s spirit in the other realm respond to his remains divvied, part now past the 50 AU marker, while here with that which remains we note the moment within its very Earth hour?
Pascha, May 2nd, local, 11:16 CDT:
Moon opposite natal Sun
Image: Circa 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh shown with his homemade 9-inch telescope via Wikimedia, public domain, originally Popular Science Monthly, June 1930, p. 28.