Sponge Worthy

   Being a child of 1952, the 60's were my years.
   I think they were the most remarkable times to grow up. Maybe each generation thinks that. I can only write what I know to be true, my truth.
   I know that the space race, was a huge part of my upbringing. We lived in Florida, we think that the space program was ours to have. Again, maybe Houston felt the same way? Cape Canaveral, The Right Stuff, watching flight after flight of unimaginable rockets go into orbit. It was fantastic, out of this world, enjoyable.
  SO...when I heard somebody was landing a gadget on a comet, my ears perked up." How is this possible?" my next question to myself, was " How are YOU BONNIE, asking that question!" 
  Then I heard, it has been ten years in reaching this comet! The adult child that I occasionally tend to be thought(maybe out loud), " Wonder how much this cost, when people are still starving all over the world!"
    Let me back up..
This is all happening at about 5am, over coffee with the hubs.
Our eyes are just slits, not yet looking darling.
Now back to children starving. I grew up in the 60's, I did inhale, and I care about all people. I'm a bleeding heart liberal, bra burner female activist, civil rights supporter, Aids caregiver, tree hugging special human! I believe you feed people before you shoot rockets off! You heal people with modern medicine before you catch a comet, but I believe in research and science. I should have stopped with a question, but I like being married to a very smart Dr. Bill, and I was not all awake, so I asked, " What kind of information could a comet tell us? Ebola is eating people alive, people are sick and starving all over the place, that is crazy!" (run on sentence, have to use, when ranting)
So at 5:03 Dr. Baron said, " Well the molecular....."
That is all I heard, " Stop Bill, people don't just spew molecular around in conversation, and this sponge is not worthy of such information!"
Note..he is still talking through my stop, " we may need to live in other solar systems.....it is crucial ...the comet carries organisms from..."
I ask him, " Did you ever watch Lost In Space, or My Favorite Martian?"
So we sit and laugh, two different peas in a pod.
I had to know, so I continued, " You do believe in feeding people and Doctors without Borders, right?"
He spoke, " Of course, you will handle that end of the spectrum!"
Again we laugh.
Our morning chat, taught me, that education is the most important thing.
And second, compassion has to work with the educated, side by side. Either one by itself, lacks the ability to work. Each day we have to just soak up the knowledge, and filter the crazy.
You have to be sponge worthy( thank you Elaine from Seinfeld) every second of every day.
Life is full of mystery, amazing stuff you can learn from a comet, and a child from the 60's.
Enjoy