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When all your yesterdays,
have moved into tomorrow.
When all the joys you had,
have turned into sorrow,

memories are fleeting passion,
while all the sadness,
in our hearts and lives,
is no longer still in fashion.

To was philosophically,
in this place we dwell,
is most usually something,
on the Perdition Road to Hell.

Step up to the plate,
sharing your concerns,
but always remember,
it's how the world turns.

Thinking about,
this life I have led,
I pause, and ask,
"What's wrong with your head?"

I've had a great time,
with kids and a wife,
so why are you worried,
you've had a great life?

Sometimes a question,
should be asked, especially,
during times of loneliness.
If only an hour, or a day,
helps to keep boredom away

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Sometimes the dark dust of interstellar space has an angular elegance. Such is the case toward the far-south constellation of Chamaeleon. Normally too faint to see, dark dust is best known for blocking visible light from stars and galaxies behind it. In this 36.6-hour exposure, however, the dust is seen mostly in light of its own, with its strong red and near-infrared colors creating a brown hue. Contrastingly blue, the bright star Beta Chamaeleontis is visible on the upper right, with the dust that surrounds it preferentially reflecting blue light from its primarily blue-white color. All of the pictured stars and dust occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy with one notable exception: the white spot just below Beta Chamaeleontis is the galaxy IC 3104 which lies far in the distance. Interstellar dust is mostly created in the cool atmospheres of giant stars and dispersed into space by stellar light, stellar winds, and stellar explosions such as supernovas.

Photo by Chang Lee

Years ago,
on a tropical Isle,
we would swim and snorkel.
all of the while.

A cruise, courtesy of
my Uncle Sam.
We worked and played hard,
like Popeye the Sailor, I yam.

I find myself,
wanting to be alone.
I'm OK talking about it,
but do not want sympathy.

Please leave me alone.
What you are talking about,
don't doesn't matter.
Not anymore.

At one time in my life,
I was asking my granddaughter to,
quit riding the exercise bike, from the front.
I asked several times. She turned, placing her
hands on her hips and said, "Grandpa, I Quit you."

It was hard not to laugh.
Now I say to her,
"Don't quit on grandpa"
stay with me, when you can,
for without you,
I am just an ordinary man.

Up and about,
in a recovery mode.
I love to track back,
they said, "Stay off the road."

You can't be walking,
without a card.
I said, "What's next?"
"Stay out of my yard."

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This rock structure is not only surreal -- it's real. Perhaps the reason it's not more famous is that it is smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs only a few meters. Even so, the King of Wings outcrop, located in New Mexico, USA, is a fascinating example of an unusual type of rock structure called a hoodoo. Hoodoos may form when a layer of hard rock overlays a layer of eroding softer rock. Figuring out the details of incorporating this hoodoo into a night-sky photoshoot took over a year. Besides waiting for a suitably picturesque night behind a sky with few clouds, the foreground had to be artificially lit just right relative to the natural glow of the background. After much planning and waiting, the final shot, featured here, was taken in May 2016. Mimicking the horizontal bar, the background sky features the band of our Milky Way Galaxy stretching overhead.

Photo by Wayne Pinkston (LightCrafter Photography)