Once upon a time there was a blue-skinned people who lived on a silvery planet orbiting a great blue star. They were an ancient race of humans who understood many advanced sciences including space travel and genetic engineering. Long ago, some of the blue-skinned people travelled to a little planet used by many interstellar species as a ‘living library’. An amazing diversity of lifeforms adapted and evolved on this terra-formed planet orbiting a yellow sun. The blue-skinned people adapted and thrived there too. Over the centuries, they recorded their presence and their knowledge in Sanskrit, architecture and sculptures. Gradually, however, they began to forget their origins. Planetary upheavals, conflicts with other species and other humans created more confusion. They dispersed and migrated to other lands. They forgot who they once were- as even their skin changed from ‘blue’ to white’. They forgot who they once were.

(June 17, 2020- Shelley Wilson)