There is a great documentary out right now called, Apollo 13 Survival. If you’re not familiar with the story, on April 13, 1970, two days into lift off, an oxygen tank in their service module exploded, leaving three astronauts without most of their oxygen supply, electricity and other vital resources. Basically, the shit hit the fan. Astronaut Jim Lovell’s now famous quote came across the radio to mission control in five words:   “Houston, we’ve had a problem”.    A problem was putting it mildly as he calmly stated disaster beyond imagination. They were about two days shy of oxygen to get home at their current rate of speed. Together, with the astronauts, mission control worked tirelessly, chain smoking many packs of Pall Mall’s to figure out how to get them back, not only safely, but quicker. They crawled into the lunar module that was built for two that had never been flown, now turned life boat hurling through space and awaited advice. Time was running out.   Ultimately, mission control made a bold decision. Instead of Apollo 13 turning right back around toward Earth, they decided the doomed spacecraft needed to go AWAY from the Earth and around the moon to get home. To get back to Earth they were going to use the moon’s gravity to ‘slingshot’ the spacecraft with much more force and speed.  Spoiler alert: these three astronauts, Lovell, Swigert and Haise survived their near death mission to tell the tale of leadership, teamwork and hope.    I simply can’t imagine what was going through their minds as they went further AWAY from Earth and all the way around the dark side of the moon. So counterintuitive.    It got me thinking. Not just physically, but emotionally and metaphorically they had to face the “shadow’ of their lives. How fitting their journey is to me right now on our little blue ball spinning in space.    That there are moments in life where we need to let go, even if we don’t want to. We have to go toward the moon, when every ounce of our body shouts,