[Kzyxtalk] A tiny mistake in the sky.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A tiny mistake in the sky.

The recording of last night's (2021-06-18) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0441

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
nonetheless worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as, for instance:

Here's an image to think about when you feel yourself ramping up to 
throw a tantrum at someone about something they can't help but do 
because they're mostly stuck being who they are, just as you are. All 
the trillion stars in this picture, most with planets, many with life, 
all together are just a little fuzzy dot in the sky, one of billions and 
billions of such dots, and our nearly-million-mile-wide sun is not even 
a dot to anybody a ten-thousandth of the way to the galaxy in this 
photo, and if the entire Milky Way were to somehow go black this 
instant, which it couldn't, but if it did, creatures of a planet hidden 
in the photo couldn't possibly know about it for /twenty-five million 
years/, because that's how long it takes light (or dark) to get there. 
Our entire stellar group is barely a quantum fluctuation in the noise 
floor of the cosmic background hum. Maybe the person doesn't know or 
care how to pronounce your name or what bathroom to use or which 
powerful crook to promote and which to vilify or which direction to bang 
his forehead on the floor to pray on which day, and so on. Maybe 
everyone is wrong to make an unpleasant fuss out of every petty 
annoyance. And if so, so what? Make your art. Try to be kind. Enjoy the 
ride.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/06/pinwheel-galaxy.html

Fluffy bees cutely crashing into each other.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2021/06/12/bee-airport-collisions/

And whenever I see the word /warning/ I hear, in my head, Doctor Yueh 
mutter, "The stains become a warning." Even if there are no stains 
anywhere, yet. And then I hear Lady Atreides say, anguished and furious, 
"A million deaths are not enough for Yueh!" There will be stains soon, 
though, when the duck plows through a dozen henchmen and walks in on the 
Russian druglord who killed her egg. The white walls will be drenched in 
blood. Drenched.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2021/06/14/warning-10/

That's it for now. Email me your written work and I'll read it Friday 
night on the radio on the very next MOTA.

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com