{"id":76,"date":"2010-09-22T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/?p=76"},"modified":"2022-03-11T00:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:15:20","slug":"as-the-earth-and-sky-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/2010\/09\/as-the-earth-and-sky-dance","title":{"rendered":"As the Earth and Sky Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

This last weekend I was asked to share a few words on the topic of Love and Relationships during the magical marriage ceremony for my friends Leila and Matthew Madrone.\u00a0 Leila<\/a> is a wonderfully creative engineer who used to work at NASA.\u00a0 She was the lead mechanical engineer for the Gigapan Imager<\/a> – a robotic device used to capture super high resolution panorama images. The inspiration behind the Gigapan is to spread global cultural awareness by making immersive imagery cheaply available and easy to share.\u00a0 Matthew is a talented musician working in a number of collaborations such as The Fingermonsters<\/a> and Cubik & Origami<\/a>, whose music has inspired me to joy and dance on many occasions.\u00a0 In fact, their video for “The Box<\/a>” is one of my favorite music videos ever. Check it out!<\/p>\n

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Taking the new last name of Madrone<\/a>, a tree native to Northern California, the themes of Earth and Sky were woven through their wedding. I wrote the following poem at 20,000 feet in the air, flying home from the NASA Robotics Field Test I was just at (next post).\u00a0 Many folks at the wedding liked the words very much, so I am sharing them with everyone else.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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As the Earth and Sky Dance<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A poem for the wedding of<\/p>\n

Leila & Matthew Madrone<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By
\nVytas SunSpiral<\/p>\n

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As the Earth and Sky Dance,<\/strong>
\nThey play many roles for each other —<\/p>\n

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Leila Madrone — One of the best engineers I know<\/p><\/div>\n