What the Solar Republic Means to Me
As a child, my mother told me I was always fascinated by stars in the sky even before I could walk or had the words to describe what I was seeing. I remember how she woke my brother and me up before dawn to get us dressed so that she could go to work and drop us off at our grandmother's house. I paid close attention to the sky on those dark, early mornings. I was in awe of how the constellations seemed to move across the sky with each passing day. After school, each evening, as the sky grew…