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May 31 2020.

End of another calendar month in the year 2020.  Historic for a variety of reasons.

After nine years the human endeavor to continue to devise ways to escape earth's gravity continued with a successful commercial launch of a rocket with a space module (made by SpaceX) the day before and the phenomenal docking with the International Space Station about 260 miles above earth.

Bothe vessels were traveling over 17,000 mph during the time of docking.

Simply amazing - requiring scores of staff working in close collaboration toward one single goal.

Contrast that with the tragedy and travesty of what is unraveling on earth itself.  The same species but certain individuals with ideologies that are completely opposite of what made the victorious event possible.

Potentially fueled by poor judgement and certain biases toward fellow man there was a death of a black man as the outcome of a police interaction in midwestern America.

What followed was equally tragic with the expression of grief and anger and a racial divide exposed.  Looting, burning, destruction of private and public property and some close calls that caused injury to more of our species.

How and why we as a species continue to exhibit these polar opposite emotion and attitude will remain a subject of intense scrutiny and research for years.  But it is evident that we are not out of the woods on ensuring our own survival in a manner that is just and equitable for all man and womankind.

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