I only just — about 2 minutes ago — figured out why the Orbit Room is full of globes and world maps.
Mostly, the maps just served as a reminder of a friend who couldn’t be there to celebrate with us, a hemisphere of space getting in the way. Our hazy minds full of swirling worried thoughts, we gazed at the maps trying to find her — “Africa’s over there, behind that pillar, you have to stand up ” — silently hoping she’d be with us next year.