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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.

And this is the slowdown. I closely watched out dog Finn this summer in the green mountains. I looked to see if

he behaved differently than when we're in the city.

In Nashville, he is confined to our courtyard and back alley.

He is very friendly with humans, but loses his marbles when a dog is within a football field of us.

So we don't walk him as much as we'd like.

His joy, galloping up the hillside in Vermont free of his leash is the epitome of animal delight.

His dog endorphins go off.

His sense of smell puts him into an exalted category of revelry that is almost indecent.

If you have a dog like mine, you know what I'm talking about. Wifts of ferns, fungi, organic matter act on his body like energy boosters.

He becomes a rocket.

He zips and runs in circles, and pauses only for a second before he's

blasting through the forest around our own. If only we possessed in greater number such unadulterated moments triggered by nature in the presence of humans.

If only we could awaken in each other similar bands of pleasure, if only nature's

smells reached our cerebral cortex with as much ecstasy. I think we would work to rid the earth of fossil fuels and we would take a

firmer stand against war and the domestic gun violence that occurs far too frequently because of lax laws.

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