BOOKISH: We had a great afternoon at a local Goodwill store yesterday. Check out this haul (above).
The store had rearranged their book section and instead of finding ourselves in the children's section, we were standing by the humor shelf. Turned out to be a boon. We picked up multiple books from The Onion, one of the most irreverent online sources of "news." Their "Our Dumb World" actually contains hundreds of interesting-and-odd factoids about places on Earth, written with humor that is right up CJ's alley, especially.
Annabelle spotted the book version of one of her favorite web-based humorists, Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half.
And last but not least, on a random shelf completely out of place we spied a young adult novel by astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his daughter, Lucy! "George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt" is one of four books the Hawkings have worked on together.
BOWIE BOUND FOR SPACE: An email from NASA certainly got our attention this afternoon. The press release contained an invitation for "all space enthusiasts to send their artistic endeavors on a journey aboard NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft."
OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for study. It's scheduled to launch in September and travel to the asteroid Bennu. They are accepting sketches, photographs, graphics, poems, songs, short videos or other creative or artistic expression that reflects what it means to be an explorer. Submitted works of art will be saved on a chip on the spacecraft.
Immediately, the kids and I thought it would be perfect to send a photo of the beaded David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust for a ride.
Daughter's #Bowie is spacebound! Fitting tribute to a pioneering, star-loving musician @OSIRISREx #WeTheExplorers pic.twitter.com/UuoQ3DlnYW— Kristine Kisky (@KristineKisky) February 19, 2016
YODA YOGA: Looking to shake up the exercise routine a bit, I did a quick search of YouTube for some kids' yoga programs and almost immediately landed on "Star Wars - A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!" How could I pass that up?
Turns out it was quite a fortuitous find. Truth be told, I was totally afraid the video was going to be completely corny, but the yoga teacher actually did a respectable job telling the original ("New Hope") Star Wars story while putting us through the paces.
That's not the first time MPA has had a space-faring item. Congrats.
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