(from Planetaria Obscura September 2016)
First Unload Baggage Please
I’ve carried around baggage in my home planetarium career - time to unload it out of the boot (British for trunk). What baggage, as it applies to what people will remember about visiting my planetarium? What semi myths do I cling to? Well, there’s ‘I’m now inspired to take up amateur astronomy’! Probably not. Gone I think are the days when an Edmund catalog arriving at the house set off a lifelong passion. Then there’s ‘I’m going out TONIGHT and see all these constellations! No, the city of Gallatin isn’t turning off its zillion lights tonight for you. Finally there’s ‘I learned SO MUCH about stellar evolution, I’m changing my future major! ’ Not so much, being like school probably isn’t going to resonate. All these things of course are POSSIBLE - I had the little girl one time who wanted to direct NASA some day. But clinging to these as my major take-aways isn’t going to get word of mouth going. I think I need to consult the Beatles. A little help from my friends.
What Can’t Money Buy?
Money can‘t buy me love? True, but that’s another newsletter entirely. What can’t money or equipment or lectures or information or any manner of delivery buy? FUN is the one thing that money cant buy. After I saw Episode IV in 77 it was so much fun I HAD TO TELL EVERYONE. After I took a crazy picture that was so much fun to look at and produce, I HAD TO PUT IT ON FACEBOOK. ….. When anything happens that causes fun, be it a book, a movie, a video, a show, an experience, a game - I submit that it’s the fun you had in experiencing it that you want to share. You want others to see what you saw. Why else do we take pictures? To preserve something? Mainly, we want others to see what we see. Experience what we experience. Fun is the thing we love the best. And fun is an equal opportunity employer. It will work with any package of ingredients. It’s the experience that will be retold over and over.
And she’ll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the t-bird away. Indeed.
First Unload Baggage Please
I’ve carried around baggage in my home planetarium career - time to unload it out of the boot (British for trunk). What baggage, as it applies to what people will remember about visiting my planetarium? What semi myths do I cling to? Well, there’s ‘I’m now inspired to take up amateur astronomy’! Probably not. Gone I think are the days when an Edmund catalog arriving at the house set off a lifelong passion. Then there’s ‘I’m going out TONIGHT and see all these constellations! No, the city of Gallatin isn’t turning off its zillion lights tonight for you. Finally there’s ‘I learned SO MUCH about stellar evolution, I’m changing my future major! ’ Not so much, being like school probably isn’t going to resonate. All these things of course are POSSIBLE - I had the little girl one time who wanted to direct NASA some day. But clinging to these as my major take-aways isn’t going to get word of mouth going. I think I need to consult the Beatles. A little help from my friends.
What Can’t Money Buy?
Money can‘t buy me love? True, but that’s another newsletter entirely. What can’t money or equipment or lectures or information or any manner of delivery buy? FUN is the one thing that money cant buy. After I saw Episode IV in 77 it was so much fun I HAD TO TELL EVERYONE. After I took a crazy picture that was so much fun to look at and produce, I HAD TO PUT IT ON FACEBOOK. ….. When anything happens that causes fun, be it a book, a movie, a video, a show, an experience, a game - I submit that it’s the fun you had in experiencing it that you want to share. You want others to see what you saw. Why else do we take pictures? To preserve something? Mainly, we want others to see what we see. Experience what we experience. Fun is the thing we love the best. And fun is an equal opportunity employer. It will work with any package of ingredients. It’s the experience that will be retold over and over.
And she’ll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the t-bird away. Indeed.
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