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Tweet of the Week
Posted: 2024 Mar 15
Rotational forces
[📹 Toshihiro Suzuki / toshi_brilliant]pic.twitter.com/NreepRampw
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 15, 2024
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2024 Mar 15
Huntington Beach, Feb 2018.
Second Photo Memory of the Week
From the truck-pull at RMCC's Obstacle Course conclusion to the cadet term.
Music of the Week
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Poetry of the Week
A Swarm of Gnats
- Hermann Hesse (translated by James Wright)Many thousand glittering motes
Crowd forward greedily together
In trembling circles.
Extravagantly carousing away
For a whole hour rapidly vanishing,
They rave, delirious, a shrill whir,
Shivering with joy against death.
While kingdoms, sunk into ruin,
Whose thrones, heavy with gold, instantly scattered
Into night and legend, without leaving a trace,
Have never known so fierce a dancing.Posted: 2024 Mar 15
Category Archives: Rambles
Lunar Tunes
Happy Lunar New Year! As I write this it started yesterday (Saturday, Feb 10), but celebrants carry on their festivities for 15 days, so we have ample time to get with it. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives, Through the Calendar
Tagged Aging, Attitudes
10 Comments
Your 2024 Planner
Resources for enjoying 2024 palindromic dates and stuff happening overhead. Way overhead. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Through Space, Through the Calendar
Tagged Number Play, Science, Skies
4 Comments
Another Honours List
Your list may vary. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Laughing Frequently, New Perspectives, Through the Calendar
Tagged Citizenship, Community, Family
14 Comments
Wonders Brought to Life
It’s good to be in the moment. And to be outside it. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Thinking Broadly, Through History
Tagged Attitudes, Buildings, Technology
10 Comments
For the Glory of the Skies
Look over: Look way over. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Nature Videos, Through the Calendar
Tagged Skies, Sunrises and Sunsets, Water
10 Comments
The Night Lengthens . . .
“There are only two times of the year when the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a “nearly” equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes…. The “nearly” equal hours of day and night is due to refraction of sunlight or a bending of the light’s rays that causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon.” You’ll be relieved to know that this is the last you’ll hear of these mechanics from me. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Mortality, Through the Calendar, You are Here
Tagged Science, Weather
10 Comments
Hold Out Your Hand
A half-century-plus? Are you kidding me? Continue reading
Loony Tunes and Others
Another Canada Day. Continue reading
Happy Victoria Day
How old am I? Old enough to forget about long weekends, that’s how. Continue reading