What Wonders Will The Final Month -- And Four Orbits -- Reveal? [With A Side Of "Resist"]

Let's listen in on NASA's coverage -- via an overnight ScienceCast:

And, as a bonus -- see last evening's peaceful, easy resistance in Chicago -- at bottom, as 45 doubled down on his support of white supremacists. It all came together in about an hour; and with them, I marched -- at least insofar as it led me to my evening movie in the park. Smile. As we await the Southern Baptists' leadership -- for a truly Christian condemnation of white supremacist domestic terrorism and murder -- I will offer this, penned from the jail-cell, on scraps of paper -- in Birmingham, Alabama in April of 1963 -- by Dr. King:

. . . .I have traveled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states. On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at the South's beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlines of her massive religious education buildings. Over and over I have found myself asking: "What kind of people worship here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? Where were they when Governor Wallace [and candidate Donald Trump] gave a clarion call for defiance and hatred? Where were their voices of support when bruised and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"

Yes, these questions are still in my mind. In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Yes, I love the church. How could I do otherwise? I am in the rather unique position of being the son, the grandson and the great grandson of preachers. Yes, I see the church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. . . .

And here's a bit, from last evening's spontaneous, peaceful and upbeat marchers, along Washington Boulevard. . . and turning north, onto State Street -- at 6 PM CDT:



[UPDATE: The SBC issued this statement last evening.] Where indeed are the Southern Baptists in denouncing these domestic terrorists? I have given up on our man-child-president. His words are without meaning -- as he proves daily that he means none of them, with any permanence.

Onward, just the same -- beaming toward an eclipse road trip, later this weekend. . . grin!

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