I'm on a treadmill - running my heart out but not going anywhere - because the ice outside gives no friction.
Treadmills can make you crazy. So much movement, so much being still breeds a compulsive type of thinking. But today, I am victim to someone watching the Discovery Channel on the gym TV. Topic of the morning: Saturn.
At the age of 7, I decided to read everything I could find on the solar system. My fa
vorite planet was Saturn (yes, it may have extremely nerdy to like planets but I was still a girl...Saturn had pretty rings). We lived in Kentucky, there wasn't a whole lot to do but read.According to the Discovery Channel, which would obviously never lie to a viewer, one theory is that the rings were formed by a destroyed smaller planet or moon of Saturn. This moon, perhaps a little risky, ventured too close to Saturn and was pulled in so violently by her strong gravitational forces, the purest form of attraction...that it was destroyed.
Blown into tiny bits and left to circle the planet forever in the form of beautiful rings.
I almost tripped on the treadmill as it occurred to me:
Some days you're Saturn
some days you're its moon.
Song of the Day: Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine
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