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You're already doing it Annie - just write about whatever you like! If you have questions about how to use the site, let us know.

What can one talk about in a blog? The possibilities are endless! We can talk about love, fun and laughter. We can talk about keyboards, microphones and music. There are cows, pigs and sparrows that roam that could use attention. Cleaning the garage! What can one talk about?

It's up to you Anne - Get it out!

Blog, blog, blog!

Oh hey hi! I just found these messages from Matthew Siegel and Mantis Evar!!-thank you for helping me fellas-I didn't ignore you! I just didn't see all the messages here until now! I just click on things and all of a sudden I see a message from some one! It's just a minor cognitive disorder really, I've been confused all my life actually. Blog, blog, blog away, gently down the stream........ :o)

I see you have Carl Sagan listed in your influences.

December 2006 was the tenth anniversary of Carl Sagan's passing, and Ann Druyan, his widow and longtime collaborator, marked the occasion by releasing Sagan's famous "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology" in book form: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God.

Last year Ms. Druyan had presented me with a personal copy of this work by this brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner that represents Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God.

Sagan is certainly one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman has made him one of the most important communicators of science to date.

The Gifford Lectures is an honor reserved for the most distinguished scientists and philosophers of our civilization. Carl Sagan was invited to give them in 1985. He took the opportunity to set down in detail his thoughts on the relationship between religion and science as well as to describe his own personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos.

Sagan easily discusses his views on topics ranging from manicdepression and the possibly chemical nature of transcendence to creationism and so-called intelligent design to the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets to the likelihood of nuclear annihilation of our own to a new concept of science as informed worship. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, he illuminates his explanations with examples from cosmology, physics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural anthropology, mythology, theology, and more.

Sagan's humorous, wise, and at times stunningly prophetic observations on some of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos have the invigorating effect of stimulating the intellect, exciting the imagination, and reawakening us to the grandeur of life in the cosmos.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html