#TongueTwister

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#Reflection

In learning to relinquish control and trust others, I found a profound sense of peace when I realized that...

At the end, the meteor was gone in a second, but the galaxy will last billions of years. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)

Also the wind high in Earth's atmosphere blew the meteor's glowing evaporative molecule train away from the galaxy, in angular projection. Still, the astrophotographer was quite lucky to capture both a meteor and a galaxy in a single exposure -- which was subsequently added to two other images of M33 to bring up the spiral galaxy's colors.

#Astronomy photo of the Day

The galaxy was never in danger. For one thing, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much farther away -- in this instance 3 million light years as opposed to only about 0.0003 light seconds. Even so, the meteor's path took it angularly below the galaxy.

The critic Albert Aurier published an article full of praise for Van Gogh’s work in January 1890. He commended the painter as a dreaming realist who bent reality to his will in an unparalleled manner. Van Gogh was pleasantly surprised by this, even though he felt that Aurier paid him too great a tribute. By way of thanks, he sent him this Cypresses with Two Figures.

"He describes this painting as "a group of them [cypresses] in the corner of a wheat field on a summer’s day when the mistral is blowing. […] enveloped in blue moving in great circulating currents of air." It is one of his works with the most impasto. The trees are made up of curly, flame-like brushstrokes and all the surrounding vegetation is also full of life, as though the mistral is raging violently.

#Arts

Van Gogh finds the dark cypresses with their flaming silhouettes so characteristic of Provence, "as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk. And the green has such a distinguished quality. It’s the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape, but it’s one of the most interesting dark notes, the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine.

@AskTheDevil ❤️ Exactly 💯 That's why my belief is sure a person could use the Bible if they so wish to as a type of " guide" however they shouldn't take literal everything.

WORD OF THE DAY:

Navel

Definition: (noun) The mark on the surface of the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached during gestation.

Synonyms: bellybutton, omphalos, umbilicus

Usage: The first-graders were awed by Tom's navel, which protruded outward in classic "outie" fashion.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
"True happinessConsists not in the multitude of friends,

FACT OF THE DAY:
The world’s worst soccer riot occurred in Peru in May 1964 during a Peru vs. Argentina match in Lima, after an unpopular decision by a referee. In all, 300 fans were killed and more than 500 injured.

#Haiku

Jul 14, 2024 | Author, Nina Kovačić

Sunday rest
on grandmother’s slipper
dozing cat

Already
you are learning the off-stage rules
about who gets rescued. Who throws
flowers, who catches them.

The boy
was careful not to bring flowers
but you can feel his eyes bending around
the shoulders, clavicle, and neck you forgot
existed. When these minutes end,
these minutes of spinning his eyes
in their own pirouette, the world
won’t allow you to leave in his red Bronco,
not anymore. Already, hope sounds like
the adult word for magic. Relevé
meaning how much choreographed
relief a kingdom tolerates.

Lift your head along with the heel.
A boy your mother says is not a boy
follows your pirouettes from the balcony.
Already a wondering, rise to what.
The ballet can’t perform without
fairy tale. The stage is safe for magic,
or at least pretend. Almost everyone gets
a solo in Sleeping Beauty, so no surgeon’s
daughter has hidden your pointe shoes
in the dressing room couch.

You enter the stage as Lilac Fairy
& fairies make critical things happen,
though underneath your tulle brushing
sleep over a kingdom, you’re a mouse
who gets eaten every night.
No audience wants to see that. Not
the barbed feathers tucked in your
mother’s cardigan. If you pretend
rescue is coming, it might.
Relevé meaning rise & also relief.

#Poetry

Sleeping Beauty
BY K. IVER

You’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi.
Backstage you wear lotion laced with
its chemical imitation. A ballet mistress
says relevé always as command: lift
onto the toe using only the heel.
Your ankle’s bewilderment
old as the horned owl gaze from
your mother hunched in the audience.

#Maze

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