Well it has been some time since I have lasted pulled out my metaphorical pen and pad and exposed myself to you, my modest audience. And by modest, I am trying to put the fact my audience consists of an amount of people no more than the maximum I could count on my digits (that’s fingers, toes, and thumbs) in a positive light. It’s not working so well.
But, I digress, which so happens to be the point of this post. It is a digression from the norm matter and style my entries follow. For you die-hard Arugula Eater fans, do not fear, I plan on reverting back with another of my quality musings some time this week. However, I would like to draw the crowd’s attention to a more pressing matter that has appeared:
What is this you ask? This might be the single finest use of auto-tune known to man. It also is one of the most inspiring videos I have seen in a long time. Yes, friends, that was me being sincere.
Before you are paralyzed and in shock that this writer has sensitive emotions, let me elaborate. Sadly, Carl Sagan was before my time, but I do vaguely remember some of his videos. They were riveting. His spirit, however, is timeless. It is the same as the desire of those who quest for truth absolute and the willingness to go to any lengths explore it fully; he emanates the fundamental energy that has driven humankind to the point it is. As flawed as we are, it has been a marvelous 25,000 years and a glorious past century. And there will be still more glorious dawns to come as he tells us.
What does his message fundamentally mean to us, motes of dust on this blessed rock? It means that despite the need for cynicism and criticism, optimism for us as a species should be kept. We have made mistakes but that should not stop us from learning from and fixing them. Let us then move forward then at this crux between progress and penitence, and fulfill our duty to understand these cosmos we so humbly inhabit
Thanks to John Boswell and ColorpulseMusic.com for arranging that. And naturally thank you Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, for your voices and your progress.
