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GLEANINGS FROM THE GROVE




































                                                                                 Paul Fanning, DTM




      As many of you know, I love a good story. Stories  some of the outlandish ideas of fantasy from
      are a way of expressing the mundane and making  the 1940’s and 1950’s that we take for granted

      them vibrant, alive, and influential on our daily  today as “normal.”
      lives. There are, of course, many views as well           A movie series that I liked and admired for its
      as ways to tell a story. Let me tell you one of my  blend of comedy, history, and reality is “Back to
      favorites.                                             the Future” and the two sequels. The two main

          I love a good science fiction story that often  characters are “Doc” Brown and Marty McFly.
      makes the impossible plausible, the fantasy a  They travel “back in time” or “to the future” in
      reality, and the bizarre a modicum of normalcy. I  each movie, often with humorous goings on as
      grew up (some think not!) in an era of rocket ships  well as a dose of morality thrown in for good

      that barely left the earth’s atmosphere, computers  measure. The franchise is special to me as I lived
      the size of buildings, and a communication  where many of the train scenes and the housing
      device called a “telephone” that was attached to  development in part two were filmed. One of my
      a wire screwed into the wall. I  read sci fi books  Sunday School kids found a portion of the script

      and magazines, dreamed about interstellar travel,  left behind when the film crew finished at one
      a computer so small it could fit in your watch,  of the sites. The movie explored the concept of
      and “mobile” devices without wires. Between  time travel and how one must be careful not to
      “Twilight Zone” and some new television show  change the simplest thing without consequence

      (gasp! It was in color even!) called “Star Trek,”  that we now call the “butterfly effect.”
      more and more of these dreams, these concepts             Is time travel plausible? Einstein thought so!
      of communication, travel, and exploration  Thus, I believe in my simple understanding of
      became common place. We now can laugh at  what that entails. We can indeed travel in time.




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