Comments on: Looking Up and Down http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-up-and-down Girl-friendly points of view from women living midlife with humor and grace, keeping it real—staying young and healthy in heart and mind. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Emily http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Emily Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:50:18 +0000 http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/?p=282#comment-698 Words of wisdom - look up. So simple and yet so profound the way you write about it. Thank you for this piece. If it weren't so damn cold, I'd go outside right now and lie down on the ground and look at the stars which I'm grateful I can see some of, even in the city. In current conditions however, this would be counter-productive... Words of wisdom – look up. So simple and yet so profound the way you write about it. Thank you for this piece.

If it weren’t so damn cold, I’d go outside right now and lie down on the ground and look at the stars which I’m grateful I can see some of, even in the city. In current conditions however, this would be counter-productive…

]]> By: Conz http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-692 Conz Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:54:36 +0000 http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/?p=282#comment-692 "We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden...."Crosby, Stills, and Nash, right? Remember when we used to know that? Thanks for the much needed reminder, Christie. Love you, Conz “We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden….”Crosby, Stills, and Nash, right? Remember when we used to know that? Thanks for the much needed reminder, Christie.

Love you,

Conz

]]> By: Cindy L. http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Cindy L. Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:39:45 +0000 http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/?p=282#comment-667 What a much-needed and refreshing perspective. Too many of us are looking down these days, barely putting one foot in front of the other. Thanks for the uplifting thoughts. What a much-needed and refreshing perspective. Too many of us are looking down these days, barely putting one foot in front of the other. Thanks for the uplifting thoughts.

]]> By: Christie http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-664 Christie Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:23:44 +0000 http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/?p=282#comment-664 DearPru, wonderful thought that we all come from the same stuff... thank you for adding this poignancy. It does make our incessant squabbling pitiable. DearPru, wonderful thought that we all come from the same stuff… thank you for adding this poignancy. It does make our incessant squabbling pitiable.

]]> By: C Robin http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-663 C Robin Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:21:15 +0000 http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/?p=282#comment-663 Love the looking up idea. Need to get out of the city to do it. Had the opportunity to do so in Yosemite over Thanksgiving. Sheesh we are just specks, are we not? Thanks for the reminder and the super smart perspective Christie! Love the looking up idea. Need to get out of the city to do it. Had the opportunity to do so in Yosemite over Thanksgiving. Sheesh we are just specks, are we not? Thanks for the reminder and the super smart perspective Christie!

]]> By: dearpru http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/2008/12/09/looking-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-662 dearpru Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:33:35 +0000 http://www.fiftyisthenew.com/?p=282#comment-662 Great observations and insight, Christie. Before we left Los Angeles for greener pastures, my family and I went to the renowned and very accessible Griffith Park Observatory and sat in on one of the planetarium shows. A wonderful scientist narrated the display and ended by stating something to the order of "we're all made of stardust," a mind-blowing truth! After the Big Bang, the "dust" coalesced into planets, stars, gases, minerals, proteins,life forms...EVERYTHING! This means we all come from the same source, which renders all the wars, all the fighting over the planet's resources, all the greed, all the religious and factional violence completely insane. This simple truth makes Voltaire's maxim all the more meaningful, as you point out, especially right now when meddling in each other's global business has reached Defcon 2 proportions (or as Dick Cheney would posit, "an orange alert"). Great observations and insight, Christie. Before we left Los Angeles for greener pastures, my family and I went to the renowned and very accessible Griffith Park Observatory and sat in on one of the planetarium shows. A wonderful scientist narrated the display and ended by stating something to the order of “we’re all made of stardust,” a mind-blowing truth!

After the Big Bang, the “dust” coalesced into planets, stars, gases, minerals, proteins,life forms…EVERYTHING! This means we all come from the same source, which renders all the wars, all the fighting over the planet’s resources, all the greed, all the religious and factional violence completely insane.

This simple truth makes Voltaire’s maxim all the more meaningful, as you point out, especially right now when meddling in each other’s global business has reached Defcon 2 proportions (or as Dick Cheney would posit, “an orange alert”).

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