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From late March into April, Timothy Regan had severe coughing fits several times a day that often left him out of breath. He had a periodic low-grade fever, too.

Wondering if he had COVID-19, Regan called a nurse hotline run by Denver Health, a large public health system in his city. A nurse listened to him describe his symptoms and told him to immediately go to the hospital system’s urgent care facility..........................Read more

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It's the Sun. Most sunrises don't look like this, though, because most sunrises don't include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10, however, from Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the rising Sun. At times, it would be hard for the uninformed to understand what was happening. In an annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun, and at most leaves a ring of fire where sunlight pours out around every edge of the Moon. The featured time-lapse video also recorded the eclipse through the high refraction of the Earth's atmosphere just above the horizon, making the unusual rising Sun and Moon appear also flattened. As the video continues on, the Sun continues to rise, and the Sun and Moon begin to separate. This weekend, a new annular solar eclipse will occur, visible from central Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and a narrow band across Asia, with much of Earth's Eastern hemisphere being able to see a partial solar eclipse.

I am truly blessed,
a most fortunate man,
who has a lovely wife
with Dementia; I don't understand
a disease that takes her away,
from living the life we had planned.

I feel a pain, within my chest.
It's the angst in my heart,
for the public unrest.
What can we do,
during this long fight,
to finally be at peace
and sleep through the night?

A Dragon, lies beneath the trees.
Hidden now, within the dry leaves.
If you listen carefully
you may hear him sneeze.
Waiting for evenings night fall.
He learned how? I don't recall.
Being the last of his kind,
he hides so you can not find,
where he is surviving the day,
or he may flee and fly away.

Do you
croon a tune,
in the month
of June?
For me
I went on
my honeymoon.
A simple line,
a single prayer,
is what I like
with no despair
involved in
this long life
of mine,
where souls of men
become entwined
to solve the ills
of this World
and make peace.

Rain around me.
North and South.
No rain here,
least not now
but soon enough,
rain will abound,
beating at windows;
A rattling sound
of gutters full
and run off too,
as I await
to see you.

POTUS Trump
The only one I know
who could mess up
a one car funeral.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend national boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Above, Matt Harding traveled through many nations on Earth, planned on dancing, and filmed the result. The featured video, one in a series of similar videos, is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species. Happiness is frequently contagious -- few people are able to watch the featured video without smiling. APOD across world languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Beijing), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Montenegrin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish and Ukrainian

Where go you now,
my youngest of friends.
Do you seek redemption
when persecution ends?
Why do we treat people so?
What will happen now
to those unlike thee?
Do we help them? How?
Or must they all flee,
away from this place,
with hook and ladder
for you my friends
Black lives matter.

It was back before then,
as one was want to say.
It was there it began,
the refrain of a sad day.
A day that will dwell
in all annals of time.

"The annals of time?"
she said with a smirk
"Are you some kind
of a literary jerk?"

The event that happened,
"Can you not even see,
will live on forever,
on this day of infamy.