Posted 5 years ago
TreasureTex
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These are two of the vintage paperweights that were given to me yesterday from a large collection. We are celebrating the anniversary of Apollo 11 this month and ironically, last night we pulled this out of an old box of unknown paperweights that someone collected many years ago. I just realized that it was in the same box with this other 50th Anniversary paperweight, how cool that they were found together last night after all of these years.
Indeed TT, what an achievement we all (worldwide) should celebrate. It IS, as Apollo 11 eventually showed us all, *such* a "small world" we all occupy together.
I was ~4yrs old at the time, but still remember the morning of the moon landing...Mom making a special point to drag me down to the basement in front of the Motorola B/W TV set (the only one we had then, Mom wasn't ever a great fan of TV in general) where we watched it happen. At that age I no doubt didn't really understand what I was seeing, but the memories of seeing it persist anyway...and WOW, what our little planet has managed to accomplish since...