Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 09, 2023

They are the main reason you are here Lucy.

Ah, yes. Its all about me. Can we just focus on me. Whats more important than me. Yep. You go Lucy.

Lucy isn’t much of a philosopher

Lucy’s rewrite of Javert’s song certainly lacks something……

Gave you something to count at nights, many times. Especially, the lucky ones!

She thinks she’s the star.

A star is any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources (a black body). “Ask not what the stars can do for you – ask what you can do for the stars” (JFK almost)

With that attitude, she’ll have a dozen job offers when she’d done with school.

So much for cosmic religion.

Lucy we are stardust. Every element except for hydrogen and helium that makes up your body such as carbon and oxygen came from a distant star going Nova! And the elements heavier than iron such as gold and silver in your wedding ring came from distant stars going up in a supernova explosion.

Even the very rocks we stand on the Earth didn’t form from the Sun but from another distant star.

They made every element in the universe heavier than hydrogen.

Now the sun, I like that guy’s jib, cut-wise.

All those broken wishes.

Lucy, you can make wishes on stars:

When you wish upon a star

Makes no difference who you are;

Anything your heart desires

Will come to you.

If your heart is in your dream

No request is too extreme;

When you wish upon a star

As dreamers do.

Of course, this seems to work best if you have a friend who’s a magical cricket.

They’ve done a pretty good job of not landing on you!

Well, Earendil pled he Valar to save humanity…

They shine for you on a dark night.

It’s written in the stars…

Charlie should tell Lucy that its a star that makes all life possible here on earth.

In ’53 she was trying to count them.

Haven’t seen the stars for years and years but this morning I saw a slim crescent moon next to Venus. I even got a nice picture of it. Light pollution is so great the moon they may disappear one day.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever — John Keats, Endymion

Brought you into existence for starters.

Back to your therapist CB.

I walk in the mornings while it is still dark. I am aware of the sky above me.

https://stellarium-web.Org/ can show you what the sky looks like at any time and date from anywhere on the planet.

They provide endless hours of entertainment, and countless tales of mythology

The stars are gorgeous up at the cabin. I miss it.

Her universe is very small, but she is definitely at the centre of it.

Lucy the narcissistic kid.

When she was little, she tried to count them all!

Good grief!

can you imagine her on social media these days? but she would have a lot of competition

Because of them, well their predecessors, you exist.

We are stardust

Others have said it, but none better: https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=tLPkpBN6bEI

We are all made of star dust Lucy.

Light pollution is getting so bad that most people can only see a handful of stars from their homes.

Well, yeah, CB. Very few people get to enjoy looking down at the stars!

If someone in a black suit asks if you ever look at the stars and they are wearing sunglasses, close your eyes because you are probably going to be neuralyzed.

Her philosophy is that of most of my family members.

There’s a great song in the original Broadway play of “The Sound of Music” that didn’t make it into the movie and that is most appropriate to today’s Peanuts. Entitled “There’s No Way to Stop It” it goes:“So every star on every whirling planet,And every constellation in the sky,Revolves around the center of the universe,That lovely thing called, I

Fused atomic nuclei into heavy elements so that both your body and the planet that sustains it don’t have to be made of pure hydrogen?

Ultimately, give you life?

Light up the night so you don’t keep saying ‘You stupid darkness!’ Though that is mostly for everyone else.

She’s like the people who say, “The Grand Canyon? Why would I want to see a big hole in the ground?” What a sad perspective!

Aside from the roads, the public sanitation, and a system of laws, what have the Romans ever done for us?

The mantra of the perpetually aggrieved and eternally disappointed.