Yesterday Ireceived a beautiful Hubble photograph of the Orion Nebula rendered on to canvas. It was a gift from my daughter and her husband given with this message: “Hope the divinity of the creation of Orion’s Nebula fills you with joy and awe”. It does. I have a DVD of the Hubble telescope photos set to music and every time I see it, I weep at the exquisite beauty hidden away in the heavens for millennia. And now I also have a beautiful reminder to look at every day.
When I told my mother about this beautiful gift, her comment was, “and to think we all thought Edwin Hubble was a kook!”. Mr. Hubble was from my hometown of Wheaton, Illinois. Mom went to Wheaton Community High School way back in the day when Edwin Hubble’s telescope sat in what is now downtown Wheaton. She remembers walking past it and laughing with her classmates about this kooky scientist!
This reminds me that greatness is seldom either appreciated or recognized in it’s own time. And that perhaps it would be wise to be circumspect when confronted with things we do not understand.
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