Salvador Dalí's 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dalí’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory

Every March and November, America reenacts one of its strangest magic tricks: we lose an hour, then months later we find it again behind the couch cushions of November, dusty but intact, like the coins that fell out of our pockets back in the 1980s when people still used cash.

Note: this is a sample of my writing that I am saving for posterity.

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On a bright and sunny but very breezy morning, SpaceX launched another tranche of Starlink Mini V2 satellites to orbit today from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral. Launch was at 11:00 AM ET, and sixty-six minutes later at 12:06 PM ET, SpaceX declared the mission was a success when it announced a successful deployment of all 28 satellites included in the payload.

Falcon 9 and Starlink 10-21 rise as a fine sea mist hugs the wind-beaten surface of the Banana River today. Coupled with the inevitable heat-distortion of shooting through miles of distance between camera and pad, the photo takes on an almost Impressionist view.
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