Captain's log – today in fact
Ninety year old William Shatner (Captain Kirk) returned from his 10 minute sojourn to the outer limits of the earth’s atmosphere aboard Jeff Bezos Blue Origin spaceship and uttered these words. "What you have given me is the most profound experience, I am so filled with emotion, just extraordinary," a visibly overcome Shatner told Bezos, immediately after emerging from the capsule. "I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now." I found myself so deeply moved by these words and it caused me to consider my life on this planet. Shatner made the mention of the difference between earth’s atmosphere and space and what holds us here as the thin veneer of air that holds us in our existence. Air being the thin space between life and our ability to survive. He alluded that here on earth is our life and out there in space is our death. If we venture out of the earth's orbit to space we will surely stop breathing and so we are held here by such a thin wafer of oxygen.
As I marvel at our ability to fly into space and think about life on the ground, this thread of thought crossed the galaxy of my mind. I want to think every day like William Shatner. "I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now." Even though I might never be hurtled out into space, I want to be able to remember things. I want to capture and maintain the grandness of my normality. It then occurred to me that I hope that this cup of coffee I sip, this conversation I have, this hand I hold and this music I listen to…I always recollect?
In my time so far and as I watched Captain Kirk disappear and then reappear there is a lesson I believe that I have learned….
There is ecstasy in our every day
There is brilliance in our boredom
There is Merriment in our melancholy moments
There is joy in our everyday journeying
There is creativity in our contemplation
There is delight in our drudgery
There is treasure in all our time
ENGAGE
"I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now." - Kirk out.
