On an appropriate evening, this gentleman carried his telescope and some signs to Walmart, and offered people a chance to see the planet Saturn with their own eyes.

To see something beyond the daily mayhem of this world – the loud, demanding images that refuse to be ignored – gives people a vision of something else… and the possibility of something better.

Humans need distant stars to guide by; without them, they can fixate on negativity and see it as inescapable. Inside that condition, progress locks up. This man gifted people with a view to the outside. There are many types of outside views, of course, but he had this one to give, and he gave it.

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For a few minutes, before returning to the mundane, consider the things and the possibilities that lay outside of it. It will almost certainly be time well spent.

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