Hmm! Imagining the unseen before it is seen. Now, that sounds profound. But if you take the phrase apart you soon realize that if something hasn’t been see yet, but will be, you can imagine it. Yesterday afternoon, I watched the NASA press conference announcing the presence of seven Earth-like planets in orbit around the same star, and it struck me that if there ever was a moment to leave the imagine blank, to let the imagination run wild, this was it.

One of the scientists commented that this is only the beginning, or more accurately, a moment along the way, and instant in an amazing journey. At some point we will see, and we will photograph unseen words – worlds presently only imagined. One of the other scientists pointed out and explained just how hard it would be to go there and find out, to take such pictures. And those two comments only sent my mind in “hyper-drive.” Imagining is what we do. Doing is what we do. And nothing stirs the scientist’s cerebral juices quite like saying something is hard. ,

Just as we relate to those faces frozen in Daguerreotype amalgam, so do we reverse roles and stare forward to those of the future who will make those journeys. Just as we recognize the contributions that the denizens of the nineteenth century made to our lives; so too will we be remembered.

So I hope that your will excuse me two things today. First, for being overwrought in my philosophy and enthusiasm. And second, for not posting an image, because, when that unseen becomes seen, it will be greater than all of our imaginings.