Over the Mountain of the Moon - II

This was the picture I wanted to post yesterday…
A view from my living room. (click to enlarge...)

Somehow it got lost in this computer’s treacherous memory.
Somehow it took me in another direction.

Somehow, through M. I have found myself battling with my own concepts.
Why space? Why space exploration? Why do we bother, why do we dream, why do we challenge, why do we Go?

This picture somehow illustrates that quest. This path that many ignore and from which much more will profit.
What does this picture from my hometown, Sintra, reveals us?
Earth, Man, Civilization, Discovery and Beyond.

We have gone that far.
We have gone this far, the Hour is to move Onward.

We, mere, ignorant, fans of space exploration, are not mere, ignorant fans of space exploration.

We are members of this expedition that has and will last for millennia.
We are those foreseeing the possible tomorrow.
We are those dreaming. And what would be of Man without dreaming?
Centuries have passed and we keep the candle lighten. As a beacon.

Today, in my country, we celebrate the Carnation Revolution, where common people made the difference, defining a new course for a decaying nation.
May we, the common people of the world, see beyond the numerous human made veils and embrace our common challenge: To go where we must go, to go towards our own destiny, over the hill, across the frontier.
To find our reflection in the Universe’s mirror.

29 Days to Mars, time to recover old words, time to recover new worlds.

What do we harvest from this adventure, from this unavoidable purpose of Mankind?
The roadmap for our own survival.
Man must return, in full strength, to the Spirit of Adventure and Discovery, to a new quest, first dreamed, then imagined and finally assumed as irreversible by our species’ core, offering consistence, permitting no retreat, embraced by all, towards the next step, that must and will be, the journey of the Human family, and its subsequent permanent settling Beyond Earth. Beyond ourselves.

We, Homo Sapiens, must not, and will not, fall in the traps of conformity and granted satisfaction.
For evolution to occur we must have, not only the will, but the daring to be the apple that returns to the branches, the tree that returns to the soil, the soil that returns to the meteor, the meteor that returns to the outset.
In order to evolve we must delve in our primeval past and bring back, to the present, the survivor and the adventurer in each one of us.

We are the vehicles for the Tomorrow.
From the deepest of us, among us, are already the future pilgrims of the Cosmos.
The future Homo Viator.
Far beyond the boundaries of our own planet lay all the questions, and even not reaching all the answers, in the process, we will be face to face with the wonder.
This are the lines we must follow, this is the Grail we must seek, a pilgrim’s dream, we will conquer the void, and there, on far lands, seeds will germinate, a smile will be seen, and a singing voice will be heard.
Dreams. Of future.
Of a future where we will walk distant valleys that were once fire and ice, fire and ice that were once dust, dust that was once star. The path is the return to the beginning of the whole, to where we, valleys, fire, ice, dust and star were one.

The future pilgrim is the entire journey and the distance in between, all the will to unite Earth and other shores.
The future pilgrim is, step by step, making his way, returning Home.

And everything will bloom from that picture’s formula…Earth, Man, Civilization, Moon and Beyond.

Beyond. As it has always been.

May we assume the resolute urgency of now.

Do we have a home for spaEurope M.?

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