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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.

In praise of mystery is available wherever books are sold.

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. I returned home to Philly for my birthday this year. I planned a breakfast with my father and dinner with my brother.

Both plans were thwarted.

My dampened mood raised when I opened the curtains the next morning.

I booked my hotel across the street from the free library of Philadelphia on Logan's

Circle. It was a second home to me. I spent many early evenings after school in stacks and long softly lit wooden tables.

The Neoclassical building made reading and studying a stately enterprise.

As a treat to myself, I walk Franklin Parkway,

then stop to marvel at its columns and marble.

Thinking about my precarious youth, I realized I spent those many hours

reading to calm my unsettled disposition, to journey in my mind where I was not supposed to travel both inward and away.

The taxi driver on the ride in from the airport asked me if I missed Philadelphia.

I said actually, I do.

He said, too much cry.

Do you return often? I said not nearly enough. To borrow a phrase

love calls us to the things of this world.

But as today's brilliant poem reminds us,

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