THE UNIVERSE IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO MAKE SENSE TO YOU __________________ W’MENSWEAR AUTUMN / WINTER 19
Oh hello earth finally I see you in all your totality. From the expanse of space the universe appears infinite and you so fragile from way up here. Merely a speck in the Milky Way your celestial body orbiting the light we need to live. Your gravity grounding us in the solar system we seem to forget it is bigger than our existence. It’s 1983 and light years away from where women were, but a man still asks a woman in space if she will weep when things go wrong. I may weep at your beauty mother earth from this viewpoint of vastness but like you I can compose myself stronger than constellations whilst navigating this night sky. Thank you for nurturing us. Sally from Space ___________________ “Note to Mother Earth” A tribute to Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space 1983* By Stacey Cotter Maniere
FOOT NOTES “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you”from ‘Astrophysics For People in a Hurry’ by Neil deGrasse Tyson, published by W.W. Norton & Company 2017. *“Looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It’s a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate actually how fragile our existence is.” - Dr Sally Ride, Astronaut and Physicist. *Journalist Michael Ryan recounted some of the sillier questions that had been used to Ride in a June 1983 profile for People: Q: Do you weep when things go wrong on the job? A: How come nobody ever asks (a male fellow astronaut) those questions?
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