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There are times in this life, short,
when we find ourselves, enraptured,
or captivated by others, be they
friends or be they strangers. This was one.

Flowers brought to my garden,
by creatures. Thank you.

My sleep was affected this way,
sometime ago. Now I find I am
back into this mode, of sleeplessness.

Love is warmth.
Enjoy when available/

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Relax and watch two black holes merge. Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, this simulation plays in slow motion but would take about one third of a second if run in real time. Set on a cosmic stage, the black holes are posed in front of stars, gas, and dust. Their extreme gravity lenses the light from behind them into Einstein rings as they spiral closer and finally merge into one. The otherwise invisible gravitational waves generated as the massive objects rapidly coalesce cause the visible image to ripple and slosh both inside and outside the Einstein rings even after the black holes have merged. Dubbed GW150914, the gravitational waves detected by LIGO are consistent with the merger of 36 and 31 solar mass black holes at a distance of 1.3 billion light-years. The final, single black hole has 63 times the mass of the Sun, with the remaining 3 solar masses converted into energy radiated in gravitational waves. Today's Event Horizon: It's Black Hole Week at NASA!

Life isn't simple, so
be nice to each other.

When the Devil's dog,
whales at a Banshee moon,
it may have indicated, the time,
of the bloody doom.

A doom, a legend,
and nothing more.
A time to repent,
if you're keeping score.

Go from here,
you foolish child.
Gamble your life,
for a long while.

Return to here,
where they don't keep score,
keep wandering the earth,
for evermore.

Wind shorn the trees,
with an easternly bent,
as wind blows hard.
Not sure what was meant.

Words flow out,
heading far South,
quite the expulsion,
coming from your mouth.

My mind is gone,
it's now ablaze,
with obscure thoughts,
a cloudy haze.

It has been like this,
for the past few days,
as I ponder what
is this, a new phase?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is rendered in blue hues in this infrared image from the Spitzer Space telescope. Though M87 appears mostly featureless and cloud-like, the Spitzer image does record details of relativistic jets blasting from the galaxy's central region. Shown in the inset at top right, the jets themselves span thousands of light-years. The brighter jet seen on the right is approaching and close to our line of sight. Opposite, the shock created by the otherwise unseen receding jet lights up a fainter arc of material. Inset at bottom right, the historic black hole image is shown in context at the center of giant galaxy, between the relativistic jets. Completely unresolved in the Spitzer image, the supermassive black hole surrounded by infalling material is the source of enormous energy driving the relativistic jets from the center of active galaxy M87. The Event Horizon Telescope image of M87 has been enhanced to reveal a sharper view of the famous supermassive black hole. It's inescapable: Black Hole Week at NASA!