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When you ask of me,
"What should I do?"
It makes no sense,
for your question is about you.

I love where I am.
It's the right place for me.
There is so much love here.
It's not about I, it's about we.

You chose your role, in this life,
by whom you pretend to be,
for we are but temporary actors,
in this, the life we see.

Practice being civil to other
actors in this world with thee,
for good relationships, is the reward,
to you, when practicing civility.

Must I tell you,
where to go?
Must I tell you,
what to do?

Do you not have reason,
or make a logical thought,
about the news you here,
or are you a forget me not?

If your mind is out of sync.
If you have no rational thought,
then no matter your journey,
your skills vanish as you've forgot.

What a pleasure it was,
seeing the light in your eyes.
To hold and caress you,
then to hear your sighs.

What happened,
to upset our happy day,
for it disappeared
and went away.

I am heart broken
and this way I'll stay,
until the grief passes
and I've learned to pray.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Can the Moon and a mountain really cast similar shadows? Yes, but the division between light and dark does not have to be aligned. Pictured, a quarter moon was captured above the mountain Grivola in Italy in early October of 2022. The Sun is to the right of the featured picturesque landscape, illuminating the right side of the Moon in a similar way that it illuminates the right side of the mountain. This lunar phase is called "quarter" because the lit fraction visible from Earth is one quarter of the entire lunar surface. Digital post-processing of this single exposure gave both gigantic objects more prominence. Capturing the terminator of this quarter moon in close alignment with nearly vertical mountain ridge required careful timing because the Earth rotates once a day.

Photo by Enzo Massa Micon

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles. Nearly a meter of new and unexpected snow fell over two days in a storm that started 86 years ago this week. As snow fell and gale-force winds piled snow to surreal heights, many roads became not only impassable but unplowable; people became stranded, cars, school buses and a train became mired, and even a dangerous fire raged. Two people were killed and some students were forced to spend several consecutive days at school. The featured image was taken by a local resident soon after the storm. Although all of this snow eventually melted, repeated snow storms like this help build lasting glaciers in snowy regions of our planet Earth.

I miss you so.
I do every day.
Deep is my sorrow,
since you went away.

What a price to pay for
what sorrow will bring,
my heart will no longer sing.

Thoughts of redemption,
from deepest memory,
crawls from the darkened
corners, which I cannot see.

What must I do to remain,
true to the vows I made,
so many years ago,
when you were my lovely maid?