Making Connections with Social Media

Lately, I haven’t been too social on the Social Media networks… I do hope to catch up with everyone very soon though!

My original intention was to have my book finished by July 20th, on the same day that man landed on the moon, 40 years ago.

I ended up finding so many great sources of information that I decided to postpone, then postpone, and then postpone again, several times, my release date, so that I could make sure to rewrite and include the new information, as well as do the proper research for copyright information, submit requests for permission to use certain articles and then re-edit my bibliography to give proper attribution to the new sources added. Whew.

Well, I’ve decided to delay the release one final time. The new release date will be August 21st, early 2010.

I’m still sorting through and collating all the great stories, interviews and archived reports that I’ve collected over the past few weeks, but I’ve had this persistent, nudging feeling that just kept bugging me and bugging me that something was still missing. (No, it wasn’t indigestion, though I thought it could be at one point).

The book started off as a way for me to record my dad’s story of his involvement with the Apollo 11 mission. In my discussions with him, he clearly remembers a lot of things, but there are some things that he can’t recall, especially after 40 years. The one thing that he can’t seem to remember was the name of the exact part that he worked on, and where it was used on the space mission. He knows that it was a remote sensor (telemetry) part, but that’s about it.

I’ve done numerous searches on the Internet, over the past several weeks, but have been coming up with a blank. Along the way, I’ve stumbled across some other related information which has been somewhat helpful, but not quite the answer that I’m looking for. I feel like the information is out there somewhere, but not exactly clear just yet where to find it…

I guess I’m looking for closure on identifying what exactly the part was and where it was used.

So, I’ve decided to make the trip to Washington D.C. this month to visit the NASA Headquarters Library and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to see if I can track down the information that I’m looking for, and to also see first-hand some of the exhibits and artifacts from the Apollo 11 mission, and show my kids too, so that I can bring it full circle.

It’s one thing to read about it, it’s another to write about it.

I’d like to take it one step further and see the items from Apollo 11 up close, live and in-person. And, hopefully, find that one missing piece that my dad worked on. Then, I think I’ll be ready for closure, to circle around again one more time, and finally complete my mission (i.e. writing).

Then it will be time. The book will take flight.

Have you ever felt the same way? The need to search for that one missing piece? The nudging? The need to bring closure to a situation?

Sometimes, some things run parallel in our lives for a reason…

Let me know your thoughts on this.

As always, thanks.

~Eva
(hat tip to @7thscreen who is looking for closure and help in finding his missing Beatles car)

NJ Social Media Tour Schedule coming soon…

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