Last time I posted a photo of our planet was when Bill Anders passed. It was a retweet. Sixty years have passed between the two shots. Each one makes me pause and appreciate how tiny we are.

A wind that blows past and does not return. That’s simply what we are, however angry and noisy some might be, at the end of the day, they’ll get old, blow past and not return.

Man has dominated man to his harm. Man has the capacity to invent the extraordinary. Like the machinery to go to space, to take in picture this blue marble we call home. In his gasping haughtiness though, he erects imaginary borders, pretends he has rights over neighboors or previous earth citizens. He establishes booklets he’s called passports that suppose some would have an easier life than others.

Watching the misery of the world’s affairs might depress many. Marveling at such beauty captured on this photograph reminds me of the beauty of life. I’m convinced that Man has no capacity to fix what troubles us. I’m however neither nihilist nor hopeless. To the contrary, I rejoice at the inner peace that resides deep within me. For a good part, because I believe that I’ll get to experience that blue marble for ever.

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Note: the developer in me wonders at seeing one webpage weighing 16.7MB. On the other hand, it’s cool to see that NASA provides an image resizer endpoint, I fetched the image used here with https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e000192.jpg?w=695. You can give any value to the w parameter to get the image version you want.