"It was on this day in 1977 that Voyager 2 was launched by NASA to explore the planets of our solar system and to take the first up-close photographs of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Just before the Voyagers took off, a committee of scientists, led by Carl Sagan, decided to put on board each Voyager a message from Earth in case extraterrestrials ever found them....The Voyagers were each equipped with a gold-plated phonograph containing a variety of earthly sounds, including a heartbeat, a mother's kiss, wind, rain, surf, a chimpanzee, footsteps, laughter, the music of Bach and Mozart, and the Chuck Berry song "Johnny Be Good." Carl Sagan said, "The launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."
I started thinking about what I might put on a gold-plated phonograph to capture the soundtrack of my life and here is a partial list:
Etta James singing "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve," our song from our
courthouse wedding
My husband whispering "I miss you already"
Xavier's giggle, his sing-songy coos, and him saying "uh-oh"
My dad reading Good Night Moon to his grandson
My mom's laugh
A summer breeze rustling leaves on a willow tree
A raucous gentoo penguin colony
A humpback whale singing and exhaling on the surface
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Frank O'Hara reciting a poem
Chet Baker on the trumpet
My mom's laugh
A summer breeze rustling leaves on a willow tree
A raucous gentoo penguin colony
A humpback whale singing and exhaling on the surface
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Frank O'Hara reciting a poem
Chet Baker on the trumpet
"Lütfen" and "Teşekkürler" - Please and Thank you in Turkish
The pop of a champagne bottle opening
What sounds make up your life soundtrack? What would you put on a gold-plated phonograph?
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