MoseySusan

But I did see a #1 in the top corner of the next post I made. I don’t know how that happened.

A Cumbia station on Pandora. I’m cleaning the house.

@Airehead, are there pretzels and cheese at school today?

Auntie Annie’s is giving members a free pretzel today. Yum! A little mustard, or maybe a bit of Nutella….

I counted 19 loved things before mine. So, that makes mine #20.

I’d go with the second one. In the first, all could be misconstrued for fully, as commonly used in sentences like These apples are all juicy. Even though psychopaths is a noun and all is adverbial meaning how many, the second option eliminates any potential misunderstanding by placing ALL directly modifying astronauts. But, I’m not going to revise my initial wording. I cannot claim to speak for ALL astronauts. I refer only to those I’m familiar with, and they’re quite upstanding fellows.

20. Sifting through potting soil with my hands.

With plenty of exclamation marks!

I’m glad you shared this into the conversation. I feel validated in my critique of Twilight Zone writing that doubts the fortitude and focus of astronauts.

I’ve been avoiding the Modernist poets with their commentary about strained relationships and faulty communication. Their missing words. But, it is Springtime. And whether it’s the whistle of a goat-footed satyr with balloons or birdsong, I’ll come play in the puddles. [in Just-] BY E. E. CUMMINGS in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee

Holy smokes! Why are we even thinking about sending humans to Mars?! It’s a hard no.

Wrong! Astronauts are heavily vetted, and they endure a rigorous selection process.

lol… No space program would hire these reprobates. Huge plot hole…

No plans except living la vida Mosey.

Wow!

At least none I’m familiar with. But The Twilight Zone space exploration episodes include a character who is selfish, paranoid, mean, insubordinate. Not a team player at all. Mid-century doubt and fear about traveling through space looks like recruitment from prisons for men willing to go into deep space.

No, I haven’t seen any of those. Polyphemus is also the name of the giant cyclops that imprisoned Odysseus and his men in The Odyssey.

The size of my hand.

There’s a small tree full of tender green leaves just outside that wooden fence and an inch too far for this giraffe to reach, even though he was sticking his tongue out as far as possible to reach the leaves. This made me sad, and I think he’s sad, too.

Very.

“We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art... what we are talking about — and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth — I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.” Henry James I kept this quote on my classroom wall so that I could remind students that an f- bomb once in a while is just embracing the possibilities.

Is it always blue? EDIT: No, it’s not. lol…