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Across the far horizon,
across the vast sea,
I'll search the World over
until I find my love, thee.

Breakfast Club is meeting.
Six players in the pool.
The leader, a psychiatrist,
discussing, anyone a fool?

Is it wrong to ask
someone to remove their mask,
allowing me to see
their face? May I ask?

A simple question.
A complicated life,
when you care for
one with Dementia, my wife.

What answers to give,
what words to say,
except, please forgive me,
if I cannot stay.

A full circle of love,
has appeared in my mind.
Wondering now, about
a circle of love, this kind.

Jan 1, 2023 - #sunset

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

There, that dot on the right, that's the largest rock known in our Solar System. It is larger than every known asteroid, moon, and comet nucleus. It is larger than any other local rocky planet. This rock is so large its gravity makes it into a large ball that holds heavy gases near its surface. (It used to be the largest known rock of any type until the recent discoveries of large dense planets orbiting other stars.) The Voyager 1 spacecraft took the featured picture -- famously called Pale Blue Dot -- of this giant space rock in 1990 from the outer Solar System. Today, this rock starts another orbit around its parent star, for roughly the 5 billionth time, spinning over 350 times during each trip. Happy Gregorian Calendar New Year to all inhabitants of this rock we call Earth.

This year, nearing its end.
Too many questions asked,
too few the answers.
Now we must pretend.

Acting becomes a way of life.
Pretend our lives are good.
Clarify your position, make sure
you're not misunderstood.

Words are flowing,
as my mind runs amok.
I don't know what I'll
write. It won't be Tik Tok.

What words I think
or the words I hear,
I must write them quickly
or they will disappear.

Disappear, as in vanish,
no matter how hard I try,
those words in my thoughts
will be gone, no goodbye.

What is it like
in this mind of mine?
Spontaneous words appear
from my thoughts or thine.

I love to write,
knowing this is true.
If I couldn't write,
what would I do?

I need to talk.
These words are mine.
When I write for you,
I feel sublime.

Why do I write,
when I have time?
It's simply because
I want it to rhyme.

Dec 31, 2022 Sunset over Whidbey Island, WA

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Makemake (sounds like MAH-kay MAH-kay), second brightest dwarf planet of the Kuiper belt, has a moon. Nicknamed MK2, Makemake's moon reflects sunlight with a charcoal-dark surface, about 1,300 times fainter than its parent body. Still, in 2016 it was spotted in Hubble Space Telescope observations intended to search for faint companions with the same technique used to find the small satellites of Pluto. Just as for Pluto and its satellites, further observations of Makemake and orbiting moon will measure the system's mass and density and allow a broader understanding of the distant worlds. About 160 kilometers (100 miles) across compared to Makemake's 1,400 kilometer diameter, MK2's relative size and contrast are shown in this artist's vision. An imagined scene of an unexplored frontier of the Solar System, it looks back from a spacecraft's vantage as the dim Sun shines along the Milky Way. Of course, the Sun is over 50 times farther from Makemake than it is from planet Earth.