Equilibrium Midst Flux

On This Day In History
1952: Joseph Fletcher lands the first aircraft on the North Pole

Quote Of The Day
"On March 19, 1952, the U.S. Air Force, led by Colonel Fletcher and some scientists, landed on this island (T-3) in a C-47 aircraft, setting up a weather observation station. Fletcher established a research station that was manned at this big ice sheet for roughly the next 25 years, despite a grim quote given by the head of the Alaska Air Command at the time, a General Old, who was quoted in a Life magazine article of the time as saying, "I don't see how any man can live on this thing.""
(Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG, quoting from Polar Philately website)

An interesting fact about the T-3 ice sheet is that it has a post office. The post mark stamped on letters includes the T-3's coordinates. Since the T-3 ice sheet drifts constantly, it's coordinates change on a daily basis. As a result, the post mark on a letter one day is often different from the next day's post mark.

Just like the T-3 ice sheet, the tectonic plates are also constantly drifting, although not enough to have any bearing on their coordinates - at least, not on a human timescale. Similarly, we drift on life's surface across moments of euphoria and despair. It is a futile endeavour to seek happiness and circumvent pain; each will come and each will pass in time, as fleeting as a soothing rain shower on a hot summer's day. 

Be still, and graciously accept life as it is.

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