January 28 Slip Bonds; Embrace Inspiration, Act With Grace

Space is the Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sOIs1u8iwg Afro-futurist Sun Ra made in 1974. The earliest humans, and maybe other creatures, look up and wonder. The sky and space was projected as the home of gods and now we have become them. Traveling up and out, beyond terra firma, is the realm of birds we wondered. Myth was made real by the Wright Brothers. It is poetically memorialized by John Gillespie Magee Jr. in his poem High Flight. Magee crashed at age 19. Risk is real. We were taken beyond the atmosphere by Sputnik, Laika, and President Kennedy. We love the frontier as explored by Walter Prescott Webb's the Great Frontier. We have always projected utopia on that new frontier. The United States asymptotically aspires to utopia. We have work to do in the spirit of continuous improvement. We can be much better gods. You can see an inspiring move on NASA and African American pilots, scientists and engineers making Afro-futurism real. They sought to slip the surly bonds of racism and be their maximum selves. The movie, The Space Race, https://films.nationalgeographic.com/the-space-race documents their experience. To Afro-futurism, world population dynamics make it inevitable. Movie The Space Race https://thereser.org/event/the-space-race/ at the Reser. Reservations required. 3PM Free