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Thank you for this. Late one evening, as I was about to graduate from high school, my mother and I were in our backyard looking at the sky. Mom asked me why I

Thank you for this. Late one evening, as I was about to graduate from high school, my mother and I were in our backyard looking at the sky. Mom asked me why I wanted to study astronomy. Surely I would do well to practice my father's profession of electrical engineering? I pointed up at the stars. "Consider how much bigger all of that is, than you or I, or even the entire Earth. Surely there is no better way for a young man to spend his life, than in the contemplation of the Heavens?" Mom lost her father to suicide when she was but seven years old. For reasons that are hard to explain, despite being a scientist, I expect to meet my grandfather one day, in the afterlife.

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"... I expect to meet my grandfather one day, in the afterlife. ..." David Suzuki had a different take on this. Talking about his departed Dad, he explained to this way: "We ARE air, we ARE water" "We are all connected. The air we breath, the water we drink, is forever conserved. In this way, we are connected to every part of our planet" Pretty profound when you think about it that way. [http://regenerativeramblings.tumblr.com/post/31412293898/honoring-dr-david-suzuki http://regenerativeramblings.tumblr.com/post/31412293898/hon...]