Apollo 8 Plus 40: An Open Letter to Q's Jian Ghomeshi

Jian,

I was wondering if the text of that speech opening
up today's edition of your show might be posted in its entirety?

That monologue got me thinking.

I was...too young...when Apollo 8 happened,
and so missed out on the fuss and the fun. I remember
reading the Apollo 11 material in _Collier's Encyclopedia_
over and over obsessively as a child, obsessing over
the coverage of Apollo-Soyuz later on in that same childhood.

I feel as if I truly missed out on a Golden Age of
space exploration...although with all the extrasolar
planets now being discovered by astronomers, I'm increasingly
gripped by the sense that I will live and die trapped
*between* golden ages of exploration.

There is at least one way in which I hope I'm wrong
about this, and that Canada will be a self-reliant
leader in the age of exploration yet to come. Specifically,
that I will live long enough to see that next age
arrive and to know it and know at least some of what
it will mean.

Wishing you and yours peace...

...and the Best of the Season to you all, by all the Names by which you honour it.

Christmas, Yule, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and all the other Names I don't yet know...