The DART
"Bouncing Around The Hemisphere"
by Jay Larsen
8/20/00
Business has me bustling about getting ready for a last-minute trip to Texas.
Now, San Antonio is not my first choice of places to visit in August, but some business people with lots of money and their reputations on the line think I can make a difference by appearing in a meeting room for three days in Texas. So off I go to man my post. Anyone remember the Alamo?
I came across a quote from Vincent van Gogh, which I have not been able to get out of my mind. So I will share it with you in an email letter, as he shared it with his brother Theo in an old-fashioned letter in the spring of 1889.
"At one time the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even to-day, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn?t prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well, nowadays, in spite of that, we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know at present?"
So while I am bouncing around this hemisphere, be happy, because this life is anything but flat. See you when I return from Texas.
Jay Larsen
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