Thin Crust Of Stone

Currently where you are is on a huge globe with a relatively thin crust of stone, containing fire in its bowels, rotating on its own slightly tilted axis at 1,000 miles per hour in an easterly direction while simultaneously traveling in orbit around an enormous ball of burning hydrogen, 93,000,000 miles away at 66,000 miles per hour. That’s 66,000 miles per hour, or nineteen miles per second, which is much faster that you’ve maybe ever imagined, and means that you will be traveling nearly 60,000,000 miles this coming year.

The beauty is,
you don’t have to
imagine it,
you can feel it instead.
And if you want
to know what it’s like,
simply stop.
Be still,
and in that stillness,
whatever you are
feeling in your belly:
that’s it.
This is what
it feels like to go
66,000 miles per hour
while spinning
at one thousand.

--Stephen Russell
Barefoot Doctor's Guide
to the Tao

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