An epic pandemic for too many days
Petty polemics that fill me with pain
Oppression, systemic, from greed and hate
Recession, an epidemic of bills to pay
Schools closed, academics are slipping away
Health and wealth gaps, endemic, in political power plays
Protests, alchemic, transforming our ways
We know, it’s epistemic, got to vote for change
My dad, Tom Sandin, was a faculty advisor and professor to the astronaut Ron McNair. My dad was interviewed about Ron McNair in a recent article, called “The Wonder of It All”. I just read the article and realized I had written some lyrics in a song called “Small Wonders”, about seeing the Earth from space, with the phrase “the wonder of it all”…
“And from far away
Even the Earth looks small
There’s a quiet beauty
And the wonder of it all
Is how it looks so calm”
Given what the entire world is going through right now, I love the image of looking at the Earth from space and imagining that we are all in this together and we will get through this!
Here’s the link to the incredible article. So proud of my father and impressed with Ron McNair!
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1861-the-wonder-of-it-all
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