Midweek Wonder: What Once We Dreamed

We have to preface this saying that Neil deGrasse Tyson is our favorite, favorite science geek. He’s the man we love to hate over what we euphemistically call “The Pluto Incident;” or, “it’s this dude’s fault that the little planets mnemonic we learned as kids is no longer viable.” (He’s very sorry about that. Really.) We’d also like to say that we don’t intend to conjecture on where our tax dollars, in whatever country, should be spent, only that we have noticed in ourselves that the world is changing, and becoming increasingly consumer-based. We cheer about what we’ve bought and much, much less so about what we’ve made. That focus is inward, an accumulation of things, but not knowledge, and things are not shared. Thus, our drive is to increase what we have individually, and community and society can go jump in a river.

We acknowledge that we’re unlike a lot of people (as a reader of this blog, you know that full well), and think differently. We want to share this little video with you, which inspired us. It is snippets of various interviews with Neil deGrasse Tyson, set against the backdrop of the undiscovered country of the universe. Enjoy.

We will always be “make” people. Others might not understand why we put the time in to turn the soil and seed it, or bake from scratch, or puzzle out notes from reams of scores, or scowl over yarn with a crochet or knitting needle, or create another universe, full tapestry, out of the threads of our own imagination — but we believe that the human animal was created to be creative, and it gives us a sense of well-being and fulfillment to have something in our hands and say, “I did it, me.” Even the best shopping day for us does not compare; “I bought” or “I have” will never have the ring that “I made” or “I dreamed” does.

May we keep hoping, thinking, dreaming.