"It's hard to leave home, but we're managing to do it as a species regardless.  Pretty amazing."  ~ Chris Hadfield, Canadian retired astronaut b. 1959.  Global News w/CP & AP files.

Hadfield has his first book coming out this fall, A Guide to Life on Earth. Theme?  "To show how to make the impossible possible," said Random House.

 

Photos:  lbw

Each day brings an hour of magic.
Listen to it!
Things will whisper their secrets.
You will know
what fills the herbs with goodness,
makes days change into nights,
turns the stars
and brings the change of seasons.
When you have come to know
some of nature's wise ways
beware of your complacency
for you cannot be wiser than nature.
You can only be as wise
as any man will ever hope to be,
~ if you let it happen.

~ My Heart Soars by Chief Dan George

"The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass.
So we, too, pass silently."