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"After a citizen-led campaign to draw fairer voting maps, this year Michigan voters will finally choose their politicians — instead of the other way around......In the United States only 40 U.S. House seats out of 435 are considered competitive. Clearly, this is NOT democracy".....Read more

The Simon and Garfunkel lyrics,
"Slip, Sliding Away" is how
I describe my wife's journey
from Early Onset Dementia,
into the perils of Alzheimer's.
A person of intelligence, who
cannot/does not know the name
of any item. As a result,
she does not respond to any
issue or direction. A small child
who doesn't remember from
day to day or minute to minute.
Her inability to cope with daily
routines is difficult as she
does not remember where she
is, where rooms are or the
fixtures which are essential
for her daily needs.
She no longer acknowledges
she has this diagnosis. She did
understand in the beginning,'
January 2017 diagnosis, of Dementia.

Red, rode the waves.
It was ridden hard.
Keep your deeds close,
remove the hidden card.
Peel off the caves,
remember the word.
"Don't believe others"
not even those read,
stay loose with life,
no matter your choice.
Do the right thing,
then you can rejoice.
Fret not about others,
or the words which
they write or the lies
which you will hear
every day and all night.
Be your own master
in the field which you love
and avoid others who
attack from above.
My brain is addled,
I no longer know
what to do, except
think of others.
Others like you.

Write words of tomorrow,
about your future days.
Write not of sorrow,
write to the reader,
about what works for you.
Show them why you must
write and edit too.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster's gravity will act like a huge lens, pulling images of the distant galaxy around the sides and greatly distorting them. This is just the case observed in the featured image recently re-processed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster GAL-CLUS-022058c is composed of many galaxies and is lensing the image of a yellow-red background galaxy into arcs seen around the image center. Dubbed a molten Einstein ring for its unusual shape, four images of the same background galaxy have been identified. Typically, a foreground galaxy cluster can only create such smooth arcs if most of its mass is smoothly distributed -- and therefore not concentrated in the cluster galaxies visible. Analyzing the positions of these gravitational arcs gives astronomers a method to estimate the dark matter distribution in galaxy clusters, as well as infer when the stars in these early galaxies began to form. New APOD Social Mirrors in Arabic: On Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Near the horizon the full moon often seems to loom large, swollen in appearance by the famous Moon illusion. But time-lapse image sequences demonstrate that the Moon's angular size doesn't really change as it rises or sets. Its color does, though. Recording a frame about every 60 seconds, this image also shows how red the Sun can look while low on the horizon. The featured montage was taken from Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, the day after June's Strawberry Moon, a full moon dubbed a supermoon due to its slightly larger-than-usual angular size. This Strawberry Supermoon is seen rising behind the Devil's Saddle, a mountain named for the unusual moon-sized dip seen just to the right of the rising moon. A shrinking line-of-sight through planet Earth's dense and dusty atmosphere shifted the moonlight from strawberry red through honey-colored and paler yellowish hues. That change seems appropriate for a northern June Full Moon also known as the Strawberry or Honey Moon. A Thunder Supermoon -- the third of four supermoons in 2022 -- will occur later this month. Today's Adventure Link: Click on "Cagliari"

Photo by Lorenzo Busilacchi

Break away from the crowd.
Go on your own.
Look for opportunities,
you may do alone,
or find you another,
to spend time with you.
It will be exciting,
whatever you do.

The light,
the shadows,
meld into grey,
A colorless spot,
in a once colorful array.

How grey the morning.
How bright the day.
It won't be the same
When you've gone away.

From dusk to dawn,
across mountain and plain,
in search of my love,
to be with her again.

I sit next to her,
she is my wife,
every day it seems,
all of my life.

Her memory is almost
gone from her.
It is this awareness
and what I fear.
I am afraid now,
like never before.
Afraid my love,
will be no more.

A close friend is gone,
from this disease.
I must pray to God,
get down on my knees.
"Please spare her," I say.
Don't leave now,
don't go away.