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"It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously, the noise swells to a bellowing bass line, until it drowns out the symphony of life" ...Read more 

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I feel a strangeness
in my head.
There is not pain
or any dread
of Dementia
of this
I'm sure,
for I know
the signs
of this
dreaded disease.

Run fast
into the wind,
on your
outward bound,
training path.
Run faster
with the
wind on
your back,
as you
return home.

I toss the die,
I roll the cubes,
for when I gamble,
I usually lose.

Strap tight the light,
wait until Dawn.
Keeping your composure
for tomorrow and beyond

Forlorn my heart,
is to me,
a small look,
toward eternity
of loneliness.

Comes the Sun
after the cloud
has sheltered us,
in early morn

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Can you find the Moon? This usually simple task can be quite difficult. Even though the Moon is above your horizon half of the time, its phase can be anything from crescent to full. The featured image was taken in late May from Sant Martí d'Empúries, Spain, over the Mediterranean Sea in the early morning. One reason you can't find this moon is because it is very near to its new phase, when very little of the half illuminated by the Sun is visible to the Earth. Another reason is because this moon is near the horizon and so seen through a long path of Earth's atmosphere -- a path which dims the already faint crescent. Any crescent moon is only visible near the direction the Sun, and so only locatable near sunrise of sunset. The Moon runs through all of its phases in a month (moon-th), and this month the thinnest sliver of a crescent -- a new moon -- will occur in three days.

Photo by Mohamad Soltanolkotabi

Did you miss me?
Did you know I was gone?
It now matters, not,
for my blues are in my song.

I miss you so much, my darling,
for me it's a new romance.
I miss you so much, my darling.
Why didn't you take a chance?
Long may the wind be at your back
and may the Lord bless you,
as you stay the course on life's "hack".

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Many details of Saturn appear clearly in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not predicted, and its origin and likely stability remains a topic of research. Saturn's famous rings circle the planet and cast shadows below the equator. The featured image was taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft in 2014 in several infrared colors. In 2017 September, the Cassini mission was brought to a dramatic conclusion when the spacecraft was directed to dive into ringed giant. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator

It's a glorious time,
as I write on this page.
It's a glorious time,
in spite of my rage.
My rage against a
disease, which is this cruel,
for there is no cure
and no medical tool.
Yet in this glorious life,
I'm here to support
my most beautiful wife.
She says she loves me,
many times, during the day,
with word so profound,
I could lose my way.
When going to bed,
I see in her eyes,
a pure love I wed,
no tears and no sighs.