{"id":136,"date":"2005-10-09T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-10-09T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T14:10:00","slug":"just-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/dreamscapes\/2005\/10\/just-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Imagine…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“From our orbital vantage point, we observe an Earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence. And we pray that Humanity as a whole can IMAGINE a borderless world, as we see it, and strive to live as one in Peace.”
– William McCool <\/a><\/strong>
(Astronaut – died on February 1, 2003 over the southern United States when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew perished during entry.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>McCool had requested John Lennon’s song Imagine to be his ‘space song.’ His vision of what the world could be is inspiring. <\/p>\n

I can only IMAGINE what he saw. A tremendous sense of power! Mixed with the realization that we are only specks of dust in the wind. Yes I can fathom how that view of our world could inspire him. <\/p>\n

This image is a space image over Turkey. Looking at it I can visualize humanity as one borderless world. <\/p>\n

I can picture a world where our country is no longer wrapped up by its own limited borders. I can imagine the self-created boundaries disappearing – no longer seperating us. No longer keeping us away from the others. All of a sudden I can picture an Indian in the Amazon jungle that much closer to me. I can visualize that starving child in Ethiopia as close as my own son. <\/p>\n

All humans living as one. Yes, I can imagine that! Maybe one day I will be present to that level of magnificence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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