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As the song says,
"Come play with me,
come play amongst the stars.
Let us see what life is like
on Jupiter or Mars."

Flying to the stars,
so far away,
leaving Earth, now,
loving you today.

Off in the distance,
seeing trees sway,
it's still raining,
a wet soggy day.

I expect it will be,
like the day before,
wearing your rain gear
before going out the door.

What manner,
is there today?
Unfriendly it is,
what can I say?

Sorry for your feeling,
sorry you are mad.
You set the tone,
now it is bad.

Staffing an issue,
wherever you go,
so, adjust to it,
service is slow.

Allow for more time,
is the watchword, today,
when staff call in,
leave or won't stay.

Guilt is a terrible thing,
as is the thought of abandonment.
I see my beloved. She has changed,
from a confident entity to one who
harbors some paranoia.
She has no concept of time and
doesn't know how long it has been,
since she last saw me.
She tells me she loves me,
ad infinitum, saying she wants to go
with me.

Keep climbing the ladder,
the ladder to success.
Keep your nose clean,
to be heaven blessed.

Treat people with civility,
good manners to others,
should be your pledge,
as your fathers and mothers.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds -- mostly. On the third night of returning to same peaks, though, the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a spectacular auroral display. Arms went high in the air, patience and experience paid off, and the creative featured image was captured as a composite from three separate exposures. The setting is a summit of the Austnesfjorden fjord close to the town of Svolvear on the Lofoten islands in northern Norway. The time was early 2014. Although our Sun passed the solar minimum of its 11-year cycle only a few years ago, surface activity is picking up and already triggering more spectacular auroras here on Earth.

Photo by Max Rive

Cracks in the windows,
dirt on the floor.
Hasn't been swept,
in a year or more.

Spiders in the corners,
house flies, on the sill.
Needs a good cleaning,
I suspect I will.

Not really a home,
not anymore,
it just sits vacant,
with space galore.

Words exist,
so we may say,
I love you more,
every day.

Love the laughter,
which I hear.
Love the smiles,
when they appear.

Love's the word,
which will appear,
when seeing one,
you love, so dear.

We cannot all be men of fame,
We cannot all be men of wealth,
We cannot all be known by name,
We cannot all have perfect health,
We cannot all be men of power,
We cannot all be of one mind;
But we can all be, every hour,
Hopeful, cheerful men, and kind.

Edgar Albert Guest (1881 – 1959) was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. His family moved from England to Detroit, Michigan when he was ten years old and he lived there the rest of his life. He worked for the Detroit Free Press for 64 years. He published more than twenty volumes of poetry and was thought to have written over 12,000 poems. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life. Of his poems he said, "I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them. "His popularity led NBC to produce a weekly 15-minute radio program, “Guest in Your Home,” which ran from 1931 to 1942.The Globe editorialized his passing by quoting Philip Coldren, the late editorial page editor who wrote that the key to Guest’s greatness was “that among the thousands of Guest poems, ‘there has not been a single one that has promoted wickedness or meanness or anything else but kindness and gentleness and peace and hope"

When left is right,
when being alone,
should right be left,
to come back home?

As part of a growing national dialogue around hospice abuse, trade groups and government watchdog agencies are pushing regulators to make changes.
Last week, the four largest hospice trade associations jointly sent a detailed memo of policy proposals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulates the end-of-life care benefit. Their 34 recommendations, which span eight pages, directly address the alarming business practices outlined by a recent ProPublica-New Yorker investigation...... Read more