Photo: NASA
REMEMBRANCE: As always, this time of year is somber when remembering spaceflight.
REMEMBRANCE: As always, this time of year is somber when remembering spaceflight.
A few day time period between late January and Feb. 1 has been cruel to space flight.
NASA holds an annual Day of Remembrance to reflect on those losses. Here is a video from this year's memorial.
Photo credit: NASA
#SHINEALIGHT: For a moment this evening, we went up to the roofdeck and shined a light. Our city's mayor had called on residents across Seattle to do so, as a symbolic gesture in support of those affected by the recent, sweeping Executive Order barring many immigrants from entering the United States. The mayor and city council have declared Seattle a sanctuary city, and the state of Washington is first to sue the new administration over the Executive Order.
We're pretty sure standing on a porch or roofdeck with a flashlight won't make a difference when it comes to this issue, but it didn't hurt anything, either. Plus, we got to see the moon, Mars and Venus in a cool line in the southwest sky.
UNICORNY: Monday night, Annabelle and I whipped out a couple dozen unicorn cookies for her art classmates. They are ending a medieval unit in their class, and had a small party to celebrate. The unicorns were a hit!
Here's a video a friend took of Annabelle presenting her artwork. It's a page representing the month of February.
FIRST: As part of a cooperative social studies club they belong to, the kids are working on reports about mistreatment of indigenous people. The last couple of weeks they explored the issue as it pertains to Native Americans. Today, they were each researching indigenous people elsewhere who have been mistreated.
#SHINEALIGHT: For a moment this evening, we went up to the roofdeck and shined a light. Our city's mayor had called on residents across Seattle to do so, as a symbolic gesture in support of those affected by the recent, sweeping Executive Order barring many immigrants from entering the United States. The mayor and city council have declared Seattle a sanctuary city, and the state of Washington is first to sue the new administration over the Executive Order.
We're pretty sure standing on a porch or roofdeck with a flashlight won't make a difference when it comes to this issue, but it didn't hurt anything, either. Plus, we got to see the moon, Mars and Venus in a cool line in the southwest sky.
UNICORNY: Monday night, Annabelle and I whipped out a couple dozen unicorn cookies for her art classmates. They are ending a medieval unit in their class, and had a small party to celebrate. The unicorns were a hit!
FIRST: As part of a cooperative social studies club they belong to, the kids are working on reports about mistreatment of indigenous people. The last couple of weeks they explored the issue as it pertains to Native Americans. Today, they were each researching indigenous people elsewhere who have been mistreated.
While researching, we found a helpful web site: GlobalIssues.org. It had a helpful page all about the rights of indigenous people.
The page points out that there are approximately 370 million indigenous people spanning 70 countries, worldwide. All too often, indigenous people have been dispossessed of their lands, and stripped of their resources.In fact, indigenous people are often among the most disadvantaged people in the world.
Annabelle chose to learn more about Australia's Aborigines, while CJ researched how the rights of New Zealand's Maori have been trampled over time.
Hawai'lans, Inuit, are more New World peoples
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