Al Worden described the sky from the far side of the moon in a recent interview:
"The sky is just awash with stars when you’re on the far side of the Moon, and you don’t have any sunlight to cut down on the lower intensity, dimmer stars. You see them all, and it’s all just a sheet of white.” -Al Worden (from his time orbiting the moon on the Apollo 15 mission)
2 powerful ideas here:
1. Our typical environment obscures billions of lower intensity stars from view.
2. Positions exist for our ordinary eye-balls to witness the vast & previously obscured stars.
Ideas like those, and the awe they inspire, really get you thinking...and me thinking, that similarly our own planet is awash with billions of humans, whose talents and potential are left in the dark…by subordination…distance…demotivation…inequities...especially for women and girls.
How can we position ourselves to see the brilliance in those overlooked?
It depends where you start. It depends who shows you how to look at what along the way.
I’ve started from privilege I’ve travelled. I’ve become a junky for culture, language, and witnessing happy people.
It’s astonishing how many women and girls remain in the dark in terms of their representation and opportunities for contribution in the world they so decidedly have a stake in, on the planet that so decidedly needs all the brilliance it can muster. I’ve spent the last year way off the deep end, surrounding myself with bright minds in the theoretical and practical fields of women’s empowerment, leadership, vocational training, household energy technology, and adolescent & adult education. The result is an effort dubbed “Visionaria Network”, a dedication to a new perspective among and towards women and girls.
If I, an otherwise boring business accountant, with normal eyes, have seen the brightness among overlooked women and girls – well, showing others should be much easier than reaching the far side of the moon.
It’s a wonderful time to try. Girls say they’re up for it.
Buckminster Fuller would concur, in his own way, nearly 50 years ago:
Our most reliable, visionary, and well-informed great-grandfathers of [the year] I8IO could not have foreseen that in the meager century and one-half of all the billionsfold greater reaches of known universal time that human life-span would be trebled, that the yearly real income of the individual would be enfolded, that the majority of diseases would be banished, and human freedom of realized travel one-hundred-folded; that humans would be able to whisper effortlessly in one another’s ear from anywhere around the world apart and at a speed of seven hundred million miles an hour, their audibility clearly reaching to the planet Venus; and that human vision around Earth’s spherical deck would be increased to see local pebbles and grains of sand on the moon.
Image source: NASA
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