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Honoring the heroes who purchased our freedom

Posted on May 29, 2022

Arlington National Cemetery

“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.”
     -–Unknown

We Americans often take the gift of freedom that we all enjoy for granted, never giving much thought to what was required in order to attain it and keep it.

It’s often said that “freedom isn’t free“, and that’s definitely true. Freedom had to be purchased, and keeping it requires a recurring payment that must be made on a continuous basis.

I have come to believe that few among us have a clear understanding of the sheer magnitude of that enormous cost.  [Read more…]

Would you take a hike on the world’s most dangerous trail?

Posted on May 27, 2022

Attached to the vertical face of China’s Mount Hua is a “hiking trail” that consists of nothing but wooden planks.

The “Plank Road in the Sky” is some 7,000 feet above the valley floor below, yet it’s only a few inches wide.

[Read more…]

Katherine Johnson: The ‘computer who wore a skirt’

Posted on May 21, 2022

Some of the most crucial (and most difficult) computations in the field of space travel are used to determine the trajectories and orbits of rockets and various types of space vehicles.

One simple mistake can cause a spacecraft to miss a planned rendezvous with another vehicle or even miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit and explore a comet or some other heavenly body that’s hurtling through space.

And in some situations a mistake in these calculations can even cost the crew members their lives.

Back when space pioneers like Alan Shepard and John Glenn were gearing up for their historic flights, they depended on an amazing lady named Katherine Johnson to calculate the trajectories and orbits of their crafts – and she made those calculations by hand!

[Read more…]

The power of the first step

Posted on May 18, 2022

“Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.“
     -–Robert Collier


I have a question for you: Are you a dreamer?

I mean are you someone who sits at times and thinks about what you’d love to accomplish in life?  [Read more…]

Time is both precious and fleeting. Use it wisely.

Posted on May 16, 2022

“Time is what we want most and what we use worst.“
     -–William Penn

Chances are you’ve heard the famous adage “Youth is wasted on the young“.

When you think about it, there’s a lot of truth in that.

By the time most of us have life figured out, we’ve already used up most of it.

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