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How do you say, goodbye,
painlessly?
What are the words to use,
when you see,
the slow progression towards
her insanity?
The sadness inside this wretch
of a man,
who never had a significant,
thought out plan,
to care for his wife,
an elderly child.
Fortunately for I and for she
her actions are mild.
I pray, that I soon will see
a way for a goodbye,
with dignity.

It was 4 AM. The sound was loud,
as if a door had been slammed.
My first thoughts were, "Someone's
in the house" but no more noise
was heard.
Then I realized, it was the paper
delivery person, throwing the paper
at the garage door.
I had complained several times about
the Times being delivered wet, when
left in the middle of the driveway,
when raining. Our driveway slopes
from the house to the street and
if the paper is in the driveway, it gets
wet.
I like the paper dry so I don't have to
drive to the store for a replacement.
I had asked for the delivery to be placed
next to the garage door.
My request was realized.

The Owl calls in the dead of night.
Calls once more then takes flight,
on wings of feathers so soft,
flying to a different tree loft.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's happened to the Sun? Yesterday, if you were in the right place at the right time, you could see the Sun rise partially eclipsed by the Moon. The unusual sight was captured in dramatic fashion in the featured image not only directly, in a sequence of six images, but also in reflection from Soltan Salt Lake in Iran. The almost-white Sun appears dimmer and redder near the horizon primarily because Earth's atmosphere preferentially scatters away more blue light. Yesterday's partial solar eclipse appeared in the sky over much of Asia and Australia, but those with a clear enough sky in a thin band across the Earth's surface were treated to a more complete annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the Sun in what is known as a ring of fire. The next annular solar eclipse will occur in 2020 June. Notable Images Submitted to APOD: The Partial Solar Eclipse of 2019 December

Photo by Majid Ghohroodi

This World of insanity
where the citizens
want to be free.
Free to live a life
of joy and escape poverty.
Is that wrong? It must be
as they separate our children
from our family.
I worry not for you,
nor do I think or do,
the thing that comes to mind
when seeing this, our cruelty
of this display by mankind.

These words that I write; they are many,
flow to the paper notebook, on my lap,
not into a computer, which would be easy.
I hand scratch, with a Pilot G-2 roller.
A wonderful pen to have in hand
that will respond, on demand.

Comes the Gander
with his gaggle
of strutting Geese.

From the barnyard,
across the pasture
to waters edge.

Pausing at muddy slope
allowing all to pass,
watching, ever watching,
alert to danger's sign ;.

Into the water
all tuned in,
to feed in reeds
and cattail rushes.

Lake Louise landscape

Photo by Daniel Roe on Unsplash

Cold rain is falling
on dead leaves of this Fall
moistening the ground.

I am at that age, where I understand
the need for Velcro, no tie shoes
and snaps instead of buttons.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

December's New Moon brought a solar eclipse to some for the holiday season. It also gave beautiful dark night skies to skygazers around the globe, like this moonless northern winter night. In the scene, bright stars of the Winter Hexagon along the Milky Way are rising. Cosy mountain cabins in the snowy foreground are near the village of Oravska Lesna, Slovakia. The shining celestial beacons marking the well-known asterism are Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux (and Castor), Procyon, Rigel, and Sirius. This winter nightscape also reveals faint nebulae in Orion, and the lovely Pleiades star cluster. Slide your cursor over the image to trace the winter hexagon, or just follow this link.

Photo by Petr Horálek

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