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The pale blue dot

If I have shared this before, please indulge me, as I ran across this again a little while ago. This always leaves me.....humbled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8 Hope it has an effect on you, too.  Enjoy the rest of your week.

My valentine

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!  Hope you get to spend some time today or tonight with someone special! While I will not deviate from my normal approach of not using names of family in these posts, I want to devote today's space to my wonderful wife, to whom I've been married almost 34 years. Back in the golden age of movies, romantic comedies always included a "meet-cute," an endearing and unexpected way that the couple whom the movie concerns first meet.  I know this because the Eli Wallach character in "The Holiday" was once a studio bigwig and said so! Anyway, the "meet-cute" for me and my wife was in a video store that I was managing MANY years ago.  And unlike Blockbuster or the other chains, this one had all of the videotape boxes behind a counter, with the idea that a staff member could recommend or at least explain a movie to a customer. I happened to be working on a snowy weekday afternoon when this nice and friendly woman

So, that's that....?

Big day today, friends.  Not only is it Super Bowl Sunday (sorry, I didn't add the "registered trademark" symbol) but it's also Groundhog Day.  News reports indicate that Punxatawney Phil failed to see his shadow this morning, so we're in for an early spring.  Maybe. I come here with a high level of assurance that our President will, in fact, be acquitted of the articles of impeachment brought against him late last year.  This vote is a virtual certainly and will occur along party lines, with a very small number of exceptions. So that's the end of this entire saga. Or is it? Seems that some of the folks who have something to say are ready to say it to someone.  Like former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who apparently has a book that's about to be published about the entire Ukrainian affair that prompted what's been happening in Washington since the late summer.  There have been numerous strategic leaks from the Bolton manuscript, which