Move Over, Odysseus
January 4, 2020

     I am a voyager, indeed.  At my latitude, 36.87̊ N, the ground under my feet is spinning around the earth‛s axis at over 800 miles per hour.  The earth, in turn, is traveling around the sun at the pace of about 1.6 million miles per day – that‛s over 66,000 miles an hour!  And if I really want to blow my mind, I think about this: our sun in orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at an average speed over 500,000 miles an hour.  

     No wonder it feels like life goes fast – it is!  My tiny corner of the universe is careening through space at a rate I can barely comprehend, covering territory about which I know essentially nothing.

  

     But this much is clear: I am in motion.  Whether I realize it or not, whether I take stock of it or not, whether I learn from it or not, I am moving.  I move and live and breathe among the stars. I am traveling in and through space and time – and the array of possible experiences, encounters, and explorations to be had along the way is effectively infinite.  So why not take some notes and try to understand something about the journey?  

     Move over, Odysseus.  New girl just got with the program.