Your Interests About

Captured with Zwo ASI294MC-Pro. By Guillermo Ferla on Unsplash

Bust of Germanicus, Getty Villa, California. The young Germanicus is depicted before the Roman rite of depositio barbae, the first shaving of the beard. Adopted by emperor Tiberius, Germanicus should succed him as Emperor, if he hadn't died on this day 2007 years ago.

J. Paul Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

By kazuend on Unsplash

Richard Bach -  American writer (born June 23, 1936) - He has written numerous flight-related works of fiction and non-fiction. His work include Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, both of which were among the best sellers in the 1970's. More 

PO boxes at the historic U.S. Post Office in downtown Chico, California. Today is International World Post Day.

Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet. He was a key figure in Spanish language and universal literature. Biography

By Les Anderson on Unsplash

Jaguar (Panthera onca) drinking from the river in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

No one told me it would be like this—
how growing older is another passage of discovery
and that aging is one grand transformation,
and if some things become torn apart
or even lost along the way,
many other means show up
to bring me closer
to the center of my heart.

No one ever told me
if whatever wonder waits ahead
is in another realm and outside of time.
But the amazement, I found,
is that the disconcerting things
within the here and now
that I stumble and trip my way through,
also lead me gracefully home.

And no one told me that I would ever see
an earth so strong and fragile,
or a world so sad and beautiful.
And I surely didn't know
I'd have all this life yet in me
or such fire inside my bones.

From Susan Frybort, (author of Open Passages) poetry collection "Look to the Clearing" 

By David Clode on Unsplash

Coturnix coromandelica (Rain Quail) in Bhigwan, Maharashtra, India.

Tisha Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Photo taken near Southampton, United Kingdom. By Monika Grabkowska on Unsplash