Wanderlust or Homesick?
11. Apr 2026,
Wanderlust or Homesick? Anyone who has always lived behind the moon or under a rock won't be surprised by the state of the world today. Because they don't catch any of it. The news? A Canadian was behind the moon. But only briefly.
Canada can never be far enough away to lose the way back to Maple Leaf Country.
Jeremy Hansen knows that now too.
Who?
Jeremy Hansen is the Canadian on the NASA team of Artemis II.
He and the crew are safely back — having covered the greatest distance — a full 1.1 million kilometres — ever travelled by humans from Earth.
Take this: when you wake up in Newmarket and hear that a Canadian just went further than any human ever before — and still found the way home — that says something about belonging that no geographer can explain.
In a time when everything on Earth is drifting apart, four people proved that precision, trust, and collaboration still work.
The universe has no interest in populism.
The fresh, if partial, perspective on the only home in the known universe also showed just how extraordinarily precious this planet is.
Over the past few days, I’ve looked up at the Newmarket sky more than a few times.
And what did I see?
Blinking lights and sluggish clouds.
I’m fascinated and thrilled.
On one hand, scientists and engineers have once again shown how enormous human potential is when it comes to the «impossible» — enough to make an expedition like this happen.
On the other hand, three Americans and a Canadian placed their trust in exactly those people who launched them into space.
And they had to trust each other that every move was right.
And worked.
The Artemis II expedition opened up a wider and different perspective.
From the man in the moon, we now have three men and a woman.
And it was completely irrelevant whether Canadians or Americans had to get along in that tight space of the Artemis II.
The four are genuine globalists — even as they buzzed furthest away from that very global sphere.
Now that’s a perspective that gives you hope.
Finally, a decent distance from dividing things like countries, religions, philosophies, or races.
Then again, it doesn’t always have to be millions of kilometres to put some distance between us and nasty perspectives like war, fascism, greed, hunger for power, and envy.
Sometimes all it takes is reaching out a hand.
And perhaps it’s also enough if universal human rights reclaim their place here and there.
How about more Woodstock and less Stock Exchange?
There we have it.
