SUNDAY MEETING — APRIL 19

“Tracking the Wild Word” with Janet Cornwell, H.W., m. Come along on a hunt for word meanings, and find new ways to connect with them. The practice of Word Tracking is a great adjunct to Translation® class, but can be used by anyone who wants to better understand their word-built world. It will help you find out what you really mean by what you say! For further information, click here: https://www.theprosperos.org/prosperos-events/sunday-meeting-22-09-2024  SUNDAY MEETING —  April 19, 2026 11:00 am Pacific / Noon Mountain / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern NEW LINK…PLEASE USE THE JOIN BUTTON BELOW FOR MEETING Join Sunday Meeting By contribution.  Please click here to contribute: Contribute! Call In Information: +16699006833,,85882863391# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,85882863391# US (Houston) Dial by your location        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)        +1 301 715 8592 US        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)        +1 253 215 8782 US Meeting ID: 858 8286 3391 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abtcyLDACK

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“If we can’t take love to the stars, then what are we doing?”

–Amit Kshatriya, NASA Associate Administrator

By Josh Dinner published 2 days ago (Space.com)

“If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down and landed on that moon.”

The astronauts who flew NASA’s Artemis 2 mission around the moon splashed down less than a week ago — and they’re back at work helping the agency prepare for the program’s next giant leap.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency‘s Jeremy Hansen captivated the world earlier this month, as they flew on a 10-day mission around the far side of the moon and back to Earth aboard the Orion spacecraft “Integrity.”

During their journey, the crew shared inspiring images of our celestial neighbor and reflections that spoke to the hearts of millions of people who followed their flight from its April 1 launch to its April 10 splashdown.

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“We wanted to go out and try to do something that would bring the world together, to unite the world,” Wiseman, the Artemis 2 commander, said during a press conference on Thursday (April 16).

He thanked not only those at NASA who helped ensure the astronauts’ safe return but also members of the media and the world at large for “just tuning in for a second and getting hooked on this mission.”

Artemis 2 was the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, as well as the first crewed flight of the Orion space capsule. Principally, Artemis 2 was a test flight of Orion’s life support systems and a shakedown cruise to verify that the craft can sustain a crew during a mission to lunar space. And from the perspective of the astronauts aboard: Mission accomplished.

Wiseman and his crewmates said they gained a deeper understanding about life aboard Orion during their time in space. And what they learned bodes well for future Artemis missions.

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“The thing that really surprised me on this mission was how well the spacecraft handled and how well the machine supported the four humans on board,” Wiseman said.

“There’s always things we need to improve,” he said, listing a few small items that needed to be troubleshot on orbit, like cabin temperature.

“We were a little cold the first two days. They warmed it up. They fixed everything that we asked,” he said. “They could put the Artemis 3 Orion on the Space Launch System [rocket] tomorrow and launch it, and the crew would be in great shape.”What to read next

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“It’s important for us to run these processes out,” Glover said, “because we are still making changes and learning ways that we’re going to support the 30- and 45-day missions of Artemis 3, 4, 5. And so it’s really important for us to keep practicing, keeping our heads in the game.”

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Artemis 3 is the next launch planned for the program, and will see another crew aboard Orion practice rendezvous and docking maneuvers in Earth orbit with one or both of the contracted Artemis lunar landers. Both SpaceX and Blue Origin have been tapped to provide landers for the program, and NASA indicated a willingness to fly with either or both once Artemis 3 is ready to launch.

That mission is scheduled to lift off in mid-2027, but had, until recently, been slated as the first Artemis moon landing, targeting 2028. Now, with Artemis 2 in the books, Wiseman says that a crewed moon landing seems more obtainable than ever.

“It’s not the leap I thought it was,” he said on Thursday, reflecting on his time approaching and flying around the moon. “If we had a first-flight lander on board that thing, I know at least three of my crewmates would have been in it, trying to land on the moon.”

“It’s going to be extremely technically challenging, but this team needs to show up every day knowing it is absolutely doable, and it’s doable soon.”

If NASA’s schedule holds, and Artemis 3 goes well, Artemis 4 will put astronauts down near the lunar south pole in late 2028.

Josh Dinner

Staff Writer, Spaceflight

Josh Dinner is Space.com’s Spaceflight Staff Writer. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA’s commercial spaceflight partnerships and crewed missions from the Space Coast, NASA science missions and more. He also enjoys building 1:144-scale model rockets and spacecraft. Find some of Josh’s launch photography on Instagram, and follow him on X, where he mostly posts in haiku.

ChatGPT:

Jacques Lacan takes the linguistic term metonymy and turns it into a key mechanism of how the unconscious works.

The basic idea

In ordinary language, metonymy means linking things by contiguity (association or proximity), rather than similarity.
Example: “the White House” for the U.S. president.

Lacan borrows this from Roman Jakobson, who distinguished:

• Metaphor = substitution based on similarity
• Metonymy = connection based on association

Lacan’s twist

For Lacan, metonymy isn’t just a figure of speech—it’s how desire moves in the unconscious.

• In his theory, the unconscious is structured like a language (influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure).
• Meaning is never fixed; it slides along chains of signifiers (words, images, associations).
• This sliding movement is metonymic.

Metonymy and desire

Here’s the core claim:

Desire is metonymic.

What that means:

• You never desire a final, complete object.
• Instead, desire keeps shifting from one object to another—each one standing in for something else.
• There is always a gap, what Lacan calls lack.

So:

• You think you want X → you get X → desire shifts to Y
• The chain never ends

That endless displacement is metonymy in action.

Contrast with metaphor

Lacan links:

• Metaphor → condensation (Freud’s dream mechanism)
• Metonymy → displacement (Freud again)

So metonymy is tied to Sigmund Freud’s idea that unconscious thoughts don’t appear directly—they are displaced along associative chains.

A simple example

If someone says:

“I just need a better job… then I’ll be satisfied”

Lacan would hear:

• “better job” is not the final object
• it’s one link in a chain (money → status → recognition → love → etc.)
• desire keeps moving—metonymically—without closure

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Bottom line

For Lacan, metonymy is the engine of desire:

• not a rhetorical ornament
• but the way meaning and longing continuously defer completion

“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!”

― John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American artist, actor, writer, and filmmaker. Born in Baltimore in 1946, he first gained fame in the 1970s for his transgressive cult films like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, which he calls his “Trash Trilogy”. He later found box-office success with more mainstream films like Hairspray (1988) and Cry-Baby (1990).  (Wikipedia.org)

Born April 22, 1946 (age 79 years), Baltimore, MD

Danny: I haven’t read many books, I haven’t been to many places, but I have fucked a lot of people, and there’s one thing you just can’t fake – inexperience. The body’s tense when it should be relaxed, it hurts when it should be fun, and it’s dirty when it should be clean. I don’t care how smart you are, your muscles can’t lie. 

–Danny Holt (played by Ben Whishaw) on London Spy, Episode 2

In 1953 Christine Jorgensen famously returned from gender confirmation surgery in Denmark to a swarm of reporters at New York City’s JFK (then Idlewild) Airport.  (makinggayhistory.org)

ChatGPT:

That’s essentially right—with one small historical tweak.

Christine Jorgensen returned to New York in 1953 after undergoing gender-affirming treatment in Denmark, and she was indeed met by a large crowd of reporters and photographers at Idlewild Airport (what is now John F. Kennedy International Airport).

The key nuance: “gender confirmation surgery” wasn’t a single procedure in her case. She underwent a series of treatments—starting with hormone therapy and followed by multiple surgeries—under the care of Christian Hamburger and other physicians in Denmark.

By the time she arrived back in the U.S., her story had already broken in the press, which is why the reception turned into such a media spectacle. The moment became one of the first widely publicized instances of a transgender person in American history, and Jorgensen went on to become a prominent public figure, speaking and performing for years afterward.

Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Sunday’s Hungarian elections is an enormous victory for the democratic cause. The Hungarian prime minister and self-declared champion of “illiberal democracy” had become a poster boy for antidemocratic movements. The opposition, led by Péter Magyar, did more than pull off the most stunning election upset in the country’s history. It also may have offered a playbook for how to defeat other illiberal leaders across the globe.

Read Sandor Esik on the political strategy that ousted Orbán as well as our other coverage of the most consequential European election of 2026. And stick around for more of our essays from the new issue of the Journal of Democracy.

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian Poet and Nobel Laureate

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DAILY REFLECTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.

The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week. 

1)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is.  Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore full.  I think therefore I am.  Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore the beingness of me is Truth. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I am Truth, therefore Truth is Mind (Two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)

2)    Conflicts/disharmony in the psyche lead to conflicts/disharmony in the body.

Word-tracking:
conflict:  collide, clash, strike, hit, slay, destroy, fight, argue, dispute, to take apart
harmony:  join, fitting things together
fit:  suitable, appropriate, proper, true
psyche:  soul, mind spirit, breath of life, mental storehouse
storehouse:  storehouse of experiences, conflicts, harmony or disharmony, constructs, piling up of experience
body:  to be awake, to observe (etymology)
experience:  observe, to watch, to participate
participate:  to take part in, share

3)    Since to argue is to take things apart and since harmony is to join things together and since Truth is one, therefore Truth is harmoniously put together.  Truth being all that is, therefore Truth is all that can be experienced.  Since Truth is all that can be experienced and since Truth is harmoniously put together, therefore oneness, harmony is all that can be experienced.  Since Truth is Mind and since Truth is harmonious, therefore Truth is harmonious Mind.  Since Truth is harmonious Mind, therefore Truth is harmonious manifestation, harmonious body.

4)    Truth is harmoniously put together. 
        Truth is all that can be experienced.  
        Oneness, harmony is all that can be experienced.
        Truth is harmonious Mind.
        Truth is harmonious manifestation, harmonious body.

5)    I am the Body harmonious.

For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching.

Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation.  If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to  zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.

Or join us each Saturday for Translation Saturday Meeting at 11 a.m. Pacific time for current, up-to-the-minute Translations on the issues of the day.  Email zonta1111@aol.com for the Zoom link.

April 18:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Mike Zonta, H.W., M.

In a crisis — any crisis — The Prosperos offers Translation.  Translation Saturday Meetings is a weekly series of Translation presentations by veteran Translators, live and up to date on the issues of the day.

It is not a Translation workshop,  It is not a Translation class.  It is not a group Translation in the usual sense, though group participation is encouraged.

It is, however, restricted to those who have taken Translation class. So if you have never taken Translation class, check the calendar tab on The Prosperos website (TheProsperos.org) or get in touch with us and we will schedule a class.

Last week our sense testimony was:  Resentment and indignation can be habit-forming and cause illness. And our conclusion was:   I, being Truth, am in a constant state of innocence, wonder, awe and being just.

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Here’s the link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81749347119

For more info and link to join please email Mike Zonta at:

zonta1111@aol.com