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Who we love in life,
is a precious token.
Life is great,
if it remains unbroken.

Forever the love,
residing this day,
in the hearts of others.
For this I pray.

No matter the love.
No matter how far,
I'll follow you,
my eternal Star.

He wasn't tiny,
He wasn't tall.
He wasn't large,
He was small.

Garbed in a red suit,
with many white sashes.
A curly, white beard
and snow-white lashes.

Look up to the sky,
listening for the joys,
of jingling bells and
presents for girls and boys.

Merry Christmas,
with good cheer.
Wishing you a very,
Happy New Year.

A fantasy tale within a dream.

What path,
what way,
a broken heart,
on this day.

A lost love,
from long ago.
Close once,
now No.

How to mend
a broken heart,
so many pieces,
lying apart.

What say you,
about lost love?
Something lost from
life's treasure trove.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

A single 183 day exposure with a pinhole camera and photographic paper resulted in this long-duration solargraph. Recorded from solstice to solstice, June 21 to December 21, in 2022, it follows the Sun's daily arcing path through planet Earth's skies from Mertola, Portugal. On June 21, the Sun's highest point and longest arc represents the longest day and the astronomical beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere. The solstice date with the fewest hours of daylight is at the beginning of winter in the north, corresponding to the Sun's shortest and lowest arc in the 2022 solargraph. For 2023, the northern winter solstice was on December 22 at 3:27 UTC. That's December 21 for North America time zones.

Photo by solargraph

Flitting, Froh and back,
like a Moth to the flame.
Such is life, whomever,
knowing not your name.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Distant galaxies abound in this one degree wide field of view toward the southern constellation Grus (The Crane). But the three spiral galaxies at the lower right are quite striking. In fact, all three galaxies are grouped about 70 million light years away and sometimes known as the Grus Triplet. They share the pretty telescopic frame, recorded on December 13, with the comet designated C/2020 V2 ZTF. Now outbound from the inner Solar System and swinging below the ecliptic plane in a hyperbolic orbit, the comet was about 29 light-minutes from our fair planet in this image. And though comet ZTF was brighter when it was closest to the Sun last May and closest to Earth in September of 2023, it still shines in telescopes pointed toward southern night skies, remaining almost as bright as the Grus Triplet galaxies.

Photo by Dan Bartlett