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It was so long ago,
I can't recall,
if it was Winter, Spring
Summer or Fall.
I do remember, now,
love was the game.
Your wide eyed, flashing look,
the color blue,
created a deep longing, when
looking at you.
Your smile was radiant
with your teeth so bright.
I would swear, you would
guide my path tonight.
The words, coming from the
ink and this pen,
keeps scribing down facts
of when love began.
The strength you give me,
will never end,
for you are a most
cherished friend.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

South is up in this detailed telescopic view across the Moon's rugged southern highlands. Captured on July 20, the lunar landscape features the Moon's young and old, the large craters Tycho and Clavius. About 100 million years young, Tycho is the sharp-walled 85 kilometer diameter crater near center, its 2 kilometer tall central peak in bright sunlight and dark shadow. Debris ejected during the impact that created Tycho still make it the stand out lunar crater when the Moon is near full, producing a highly visible radiating system of light streaks, bright rays that extend across much of the lunar near side. In fact, some of the material collected at the Apollo 17 landing site, about 2,000 kilometers away, likely originated from the Tycho impact. One of the oldest and largest craters on the Moon's near side, 225 kilometer diameter Clavius is due south (above) of Tycho. Clavius crater's own ray system resulting from its original impact event would have faded long ago. The old crater's worn walls and smooth floor are now overlayed by smaller craters from impacts that occurred after Clavius was formed. Observations by the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) published in 2020 found water at Clavius. Of course both young Tycho and old Clavius craters are lunar locations in the science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Photo by Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau

A stray dog,
lay in the street.
He was trying to rest,
he had nothing to eat.
Being rested,
was the second best thing;
the first was the water
and the food it could bring.
A shelter or a loving home
is what he wanted
and to not live alone.

A perfect make ahead brunch sausage breakfast casserole -  Made with eggs, sharp cheddar cheese, cubed day old bread, and Italian pork sausage.  Click to read Elise Bauer's recipe.

Ever the morning,
always the night,
ever the moment,
always sun light,
ever the rain drops,
always the dew,
ever the exitement,
always the few,
ever the wonder,
always it's you.

The blade is sharp,
like a young mind.
No empathy for others,
just a mind most unkind.

I'll search the World over.
I'll search until I find
a corner of space
within my lonely mind.

My loved one.
My Dementia child,
is what you are
and why it is wild,
for nothing I say
is remembered by you.
If my love is a given,
this I must certainly do;
take the necessary action,
doing what is good for you.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

How do supermassive black holes create powerful jets? To help find out, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) imaged the center of the nearby active galaxy Centaurus A. The cascade of featured inset images shows Cen A from it largest, taking up more sky than many moons, to its now finest, taking up only as much sky as an golf ball on the moon. The new image shows what may look like two jets -- but is actually two sides of a single jet. This newly discovered jet-edge brightening does not solve the jet-creation mystery, but does imply that the particle outflow is confined by a strong pressure -- possibly involving a magnetic field. The EHT is a coordination of radio telescopes from around the Earth -- from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii USA, to ALMA in Chile, to NOEMA in France, and more. The EHT will continue to observe massive, nearby black holes and their energetic surroundings.

Why must the life we live
be so unbearably long,
when there is no longer music;
no words to sing in a song?