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Up the chimney,
like old smoke,
when you were young
having a toke.

What is it?
When will it be gone?
Get out to vote, please,
so we can move along.

Up stepped the Devil,
hitting me between the eyes.
I had no inkling,
it was a huge surprise.

Stage Four Pancreatic Cancer,
a big one, for its size.
I understood the importance,
and at that moment realized,

It's a new game,
with some extra strife,
for we are talking about,
the ending of my life.

Thank you all for the prayers
and the kind words you say.
I will try to beat this,
every single day.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnological constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, monstrous clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40 light-years across this gorgeous telescopic portrait. A cometary globule, the swept-back cloud is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from the OB association of very hot stars in NGC 6231, off the upper right corner of the scene. That energetic ultraviolet light also powers the globule's bordering reddish glow of hydrogen gas. Hot stars embedded in the dust can be seen as bluish reflection nebulae. This dark tower and associated nebulae are about 5,000 light-years away. Growing Gallery: Moon Eclipses Saturn in August 2024

Photo by Mike Selby

Of love
and loss,
of a soul,
such as she.
What happens
now, when her
soul is free.

Swirls of fog,
encircle my feet,
as I stroll on
this old country street.

Droplets of breath,
exhaled during my walk,
gather on my beard,
while I breath and talk.

Activity like this,
on a cold winter morn,
takes me back
to when I was born.

Three is a number,
uno, dos, and trey,
but not a number,
which includes you and me.

For three becomes trey,
and as you can see,
it can't be you and I,
but it could be we.

Far from the Maddening Crowds,
at political rallies, these days,
we hear the lies and untruths,
which are told in many ways.

If you want to keep our country strong,
you must speak, having your say,
or you may awake on the morrow,
finding you country has gone away.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Forget X-ray vision — imagine what you could see with gamma-ray vision! The featured all-sky map shows what the universe looks like to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi sees light with energies about a billion times what the human eye can see, and the map combines 12 years of Fermi observations. The colors represent the brightness of the gamma-ray sources, with brighter sources appearing lighter in color. The prominent stripe across the middle is the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Most of the red and yellow dots scattered above and below the Milky Way’s plane are very distant galaxies, while most of those within the plane are nearby pulsars. The blue background that fills the image is the diffuse glow of gamma-rays from distant sources that are too dim to be detected individually. Some gamma-ray sources remain unidentified and topics of research — currently no one knows what they are.

"Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools...... Over the past few decades, conservative or religious groups that object to including the theory of evolution in science classes have tried a different approach. Now, they argue, if the “scientific” theory of evolution is taught, other views, such as “intelligent design” – a stand-in for creationism – should also be taught"  More at The Conversation ➜

Many like to bring problems,
to your door,
instead of solutions,
which is better for more.