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Ellie, we didn't win this one.,
my beautiful wife.
We will try harder,
in the afterlife.

Why did you,
have to endure,
a disease,
which has no cure?

The brightest flash of light,
made a rent in the fabric,
of the Holiest of Holy,
the Sacred Sacrament.

God accepted a new Soul,
into Heaven's presence.
Light announcing the arrival,
of Ellie, the newest resident.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Sometimes, it's the stars that are the hardest to see that are the most interesting. IC 348 is a young star cluster that illuminates surrounding filamentary dust. The stringy and winding dust appears pink in this recently released infrared image from the Webb Space Telescope. In visible light, this dust reflects mostly blue light, giving the surrounding material the familiar blue hue of a reflection nebula. Besides bright stars, several cool objects have been located in IC 348, visible because they glow brighter in infrared light. These objects are hypothesized to be low mass brown dwarfs. Evidence for this includes the detection of an unidentified atmospheric chemical, likely a hydrocarbon, seen previously in the atmosphere of Saturn. These objects appear to have masses slightly greater than known planets, only a few times greater than Jupiter. Together, these indicate that this young star cluster contains something noteworthy -- young planet-mass brown dwarfs that float free, not orbiting any other star.

Thomas Edison - (1847-1931) American inventor and businessman. He invented many devices in fields such as electric power generation, communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600 –1682) was a French artist of the Baroque era. His actual name was Claude Gellee, but he is better known by the province in which he was born. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is regarded as one of the great masters of ideal landscape and known for his golden-hued pastoral landscapes which usually include the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology. More

Some days are good,
most days are not.
I miss your sweet smile,
my memory is all I've got.

Someone made a choice for you to leave,
It wasn't you or me.
Sorry you had to go on Christmas eve,
for you are my life and I miss thee.

I must say,
or even admit,
these few days,
made me feel less fit.

She floated,
like a butterfly,
a flit on a bloom.
I let out a sigh,

why do memories
fade and go away,
without nature,
gone! What do I say?

Lovely eyes,
look back at me,
from a face
so lovely.

To make a new friend,
good and true,
works for me.
How about you?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don't exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland in 2019. The aurora was caused by a hole in the Sun's corona that expelled charged particles into a solar wind that followed a changing interplanetary magnetic field to Earth's magnetosphere. As some of those particles then struck Earth's atmosphere, they excited atoms which subsequently emitted light: aurora. This iconic display was so enthralling that the photographer's mother ran out to see it and was captured in the foreground. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.

Photo by Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng