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Loria Aida Lamone and Caldecod honor-winning illustrator Peter Seis, a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard

NASA's Europa Clipper in praise of mystery, celebrates humankind's curiosity.

Asked us what it means to explore beyond our known world and shows

how the unknown can reflect us back to ourselves.

And praise of mystery is available wherever books are sold.

It's fall and that means back to school.

We put together this week's episodes for the educators in our audience, especially those of you who may be

looking for a little slowdown treatment on those classroom classics, from Shakespeare to Frost.

We hope you all enjoyed these selections

as learners of any age. I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. I took a little.

I took hikes this summer each night after dinner, a 2.5 mile loop with an elevation gain of 300 feet.

The ascent flattens out every 50 or so feet. The ascent flattens out every 50 or so feet. I was so in my head that I never felt the

burn in my leg and thigh muscles or noticed my labored breathing. I kept a rigorous pace that had me complete the

trek in just under 50 minutes. At the outset, mundane thoughts preoccupied me, like dinner, the contents of an unsent message,

and the day's scrolled headlines. But I love when my mind drifted away from all that, how the walks quiet at me. An open

field called my attention to the Babylink flitting about then perched on tall grass. He seemed to stare at me, a poor

suffering human with no wings. The evening air was full of songbirds. The higher I climbed, the more the bull-shaped mountains off in the distance revealed their majesty.

I continued on and reached the small pond with the swimming platform in the center.

Here I stopped to watch the days last reflected clouds slowly pass over its surface.

But eventually, concerns about the future

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