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It was late in the Fall,
sitting, trying to amend,
my likes and dislikes
to keep from making mistakes again.

Thinking about this stage in life,
about the uncertainties we face,
during our brief time, in this reality.
Do we have compassion or a trace

of kindness, hidden within our being?
As members of the Human Race,
We need empathy and passion.
The well-being of others has a place.

Perhaps, this is by design,
when War or Genocide prevails.
Elimination of ethnicities, in battle
used to control over population, life fails.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Jupiter looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope images. Both were captured on November 17 from Singapore, planet Earth, about two weeks after Jupiter's 2023 opposition. Climbing high in midnight skies the giant planet was a mere 33.4 light-minutes from Singapore. That's about 4 astronomical units away. Jupiter's planet girdling dark belts and light zones are visible in remarkable detail, along with the giant world's whitish oval vortices. Its signature Great Red Spot is still prominent in the south. Jupiter rotates rapidly on its axis once every 10 hours. So, based on video frames taken only 15 minutes apart, these images form a stereo pair. Look at the center of the pair and cross your eyes until the separate images come together to see the Solar System's ruling gas giant in 3D.

Photo by Marco Lorenzi

Warm the Sun
on the back of my neck.
Heat which I needed
for I'm an emotional wreck.

Moments of remembrances
the events which I miss.
All of the hugging,
but especially a kiss.

What life will bring,
Death will take away.
Matters not the strength,
realizing, they will not stay.

Fast cars
and fast women
were never in my
vocabulary. Not now, not then.

I loved cars,
liking to drive fast.
Gas was cheap, but
tires wouldn't last.

This soul is lost,
he will survive
the mental challenges,
if he is to stay alive.

Many thoughts,
have turned to dust,
while his emotions,
are starting to rust.

So, what's the story,
here and now?
I must stay with her,
for I made a vow.

Born, we are.
Live, we do.
Love, we may.
Languish, we can.
Die, we will.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The cosmic brush of star formation composed this interstellar canvas of emission, dust, and dark nebulae. A 5 degree wide telescopic mosaic, it frames a region found north of bright star Aldebaran on the sky, at an inner wall of the local bubble along the Taurus molecular cloud. At lower left, emission cataloged as Sh2-239 shows signs of embedded young stellar objects. The region's Herbig-Haro objects, nebulosities associated with newly born stars, are marked by tell-tale reddish jets of shocked hydrogen gas. Above and right T Tauri, the prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars, is next to a yellowish nebula historically known as Hind's Variable Nebula (NGC 1555). T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young, less than a few million years old, sun-like stars still in the early stages of formation.

Photo by Yuexiao Shen

Moonlight beamed
off my brow.
I was still trying,
to determine how,

I had become,
entrapped here,
with few friends,
but family near.

I realized,
much too late,
my lovely wife,
my lifelong mate,

was no longer
close to see,
but one floor,
below me.

It's been a year,
the 28th of November.
No lying-in bed, no hugs,
all so hard to remember.

I will write of tomorrow
and the joy it will bring,
with friends and family,
we'll gather to sing.

A joyful time of life
a special time of year,
where we all gather,
singing songs, so dear.

Wind rustled,
through cattails,
near the pond,
rippling the water.

A peaceful sound,
with aroma unique.
Close your eyes,
enjoy a nap.
You will fall
into a deep sleep.