by luminari | Jan 30, 2024 | Inspiration, Pursuing Dreams, Space
Your Mirror – 6 Personality Factors A New Year has begun, a time that calls for making resolutions, promises to do better at something, small or large. We promise to do better at things: to go to the gym more, start a new job, better manage money, or clean up our...
by luminari | Nov 27, 2023 | Inspiration, Pursuing Dreams, Space
Being fit comes in many shapes. We can be fit for duty, fit for work, fit of mind, and fit of body. While each of these fitness factors is important and are mutually supportive, there is one form of fitness that studies show is key to lasting health, longevity, and...
by luminari | Feb 25, 2023 | Inspiration, Pursuing Dreams, Space
On StarTrek’s Next Generation, the Starship USS Enterprise-D sports a unique bar that has an equally uncommon bartender. The Ten Forward is a lounge on the tenth deck of the Enterprise commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) who leads its intergalactic...
by luminari | Oct 27, 2022 | Inspiration, Pursuing Dreams, Space
It is almost Halloween. Halloween, a time when we express admiration for our heroes by wearing costumes that look like them. Children in my neighborhood often dress as space characters, robots, and (my personal favorite) astronauts. Of course, the littlest astronauts...
by luminari | Jul 31, 2022 | Inspiration, Space
Feeling nostalgic, I recently flipped through the channels to watch an old childhood cartoon favorite, The Jetsons. Afterward I saw it from a new perspective. In 1962 Hanna-Babera animators had created a new entertainment to portray space age life in the year 2062....
by mjmarggraff | Nov 7, 2020 | Inspiration, Space
Humans are explorers by nature. We are drawn to seek what is unknown so that it can be understood. In a handful of years we will arrive at our destination: the polar region of the Moon and later to Mars — goals that are both audacious and dangerous. How will we...