Mars Landing and Palette Colors

@26-NOV-2018, Olan L. Smith

I am fine and I hope you are also well. I've been spending more time on art than writing, but the ode had to be written. It was bursting out of me, and I didn't want it mixing with my palette colors; it could have muddied things up. Today, the US and European partners landed on Mars, and I had to watch it online. I'm a space nut as it is burned into my DNA that I came from the stars. When I look up at the stars, a trait my father taught me with the aid of captured Panzer tank binoculars, I've always known I was made of star stuff, and these missions tell me we will return there someday, and build colonies. Where I grew up in the 50s, the night skies were dark and the Milky Way was always visible, when in season for us in the Northern Hemisphere and I asked what it was. Mother said it was the Milky Way, the galaxy we live in. Dad brought out the binoculars, very powerful, and I looked at it and was absolutely amazed that the individual stars were so many in number. What appeared to be a white streak was really composed of countless individual stars. From that time on I was hooked. What was out there, I thought, and how tiny were we, that whole stars were mere dots in my binoculars. I imagine the future colonies we build in other worlds will eventually forget where they came from, and they too will look up and wonder. Love, peace, and freedom, 

Olan