Gonna be a weepy evening, watching a PBS thing on the Columbia disaster. Challenger was one of those moments in my childhood I can remember acutely, but Columbia really hit me where I live as an adult, being invested professionally in the shuttle program. I still, to this day, remember an interview with Kalpana Chawla, where she described seeing the reflection of Earth in her own pupil in a window, and that just captured so much of oneness to me, and that was one of the first things I thought of as I listened to the coverage on NPR as I sat in line at the emissions inspection station. I bet the workers wondered at the chick crying in her car.
It meant that when SM4 with Atlantis happened, I was half-sick from takeoff to touchdown.
Yikes! Tornado touches down in Louisville near Churchill Downs: [link]
We looked into renting the house at the time, but a 5 bedroom 3 bath house was too large to rent at a price we could maintain. And not worry about the condition of the house post rental. Bitter. Very bitter.
Found the quote:
I could see my reflection in the window and in the retina of my eye the whole earth and sky could be seen and reflected.
~Kalpana Chawla
And not worry about the condition of the house post rental. Bitter. Very bitter.
YES. My house is in poor post-rental condition. However, we are doing some stuff that maybe might help with the saleability. I'll be over here holding my breath.
sara - that is a beautiful quote. Truly awe inspiring.
It floored me when I heard it. And then when they died, I thought,
god, at least she got that.
Nonian, Sass was tracked in the part of Chevy Chase that is split by Western, right near the north part of Rock Creek. And they are in Tacoma Park, right? So maybe it's 5-7 miles?
But Sass, IIRC, went missing in Adams Morgan from the dog walker, not from home.
