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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: Mortality
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
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
My Whole Life
I am a one-kid illustration for glump. glump: to look glum: FROWN Sitting at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the half of our storey-and-a-half house in Edmonton, my head hangs, my shoulders slump. Can you blame … Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, Mortality, New Perspectives
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Family
8 Comments
A Simple Rule
Can we knock this off? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Through the Calendar
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Miscellany
10 Comments
Three Hands
Remember when? Continue reading
As Fall the Leaves
And so it continues. Continue reading
Gradually and then Suddenly
Just one woman. But what a woman. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality
Tagged Community, Death, History
14 Comments
Shot by Shot
The Godfather, Die Hard, Kierkegaard, and me. Continue reading
Posted in Mortality, New Perspectives, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Critical Thinking, Miscellany, Storytellers
25 Comments
In Case You Were Wondering
It is a wise child that knows its mother. Continue reading