The black and white framed photograph sits on my desk and leans against the green wall beside my computer.
The background of the photograph is stark black. A marbled, swirling image of planet earth as seen from deep space centers the image.
I had clipped this picture from The National Geographic in the 1960s after the first moon landing.
The poem that accompnies the photograph calls out to a troubled world.
"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers." -
Archibald MacLeish
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Lovely, Chancy -- I love it!
I remember that magazine and the photo. When the first moon landing took place, I was in the hospital, having just given birth to my second child. I was amazed and proud and humbled by the moon landing, and the photos that surfaced afterward were marvelous!
There are some events we all remember -- the moon landing was one for me. Thanks for sharing the poem.
My son and youngest child was about 4 or 5 years old when the first moon landing took place. I remember I got him and his two sisters up way past their bedtimes so they could witness the historic ocassion.
I had a had time keeping them awake for it. :)
I was in school and remember watching it on TV when I got home. It was a very humbling experience.
Love the quote. Kind of puts it all into perspective, doesn't it.
Beautiful!
We need to send this one to DC.
Beautiful words and how far from a world of brothers we have become.
I remember walking out that night and looking at the moon and thinking, "We have landed on the moon". It was a complete moment of awe and wonder.
Thanks, Chancy, I love it. I remember watching that first moon landing as if it were yesterday...
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