Monthly Archives: June 2025

Zero Hour, 9 a.m.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”⁠
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— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994⁠

From Acorn to Acre

Meet the Angel Oak Tree.

Estimated to be around 1,400 years old, the Angel Oak Tree in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the oldest and most magnificent living oaks in the United States. This Southern live oak isn’t just a tree — it’s a living monument that has silently watched centuries of history unfold.

Its longest limb stretches an astonishing 89 feet, and its sprawling canopy covers about 160 feet, casting shade over an area of more than 17,000 square feet. It has endured countless hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and the relentless march of time.

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