It's a Hot Moon Summer 💅
In the early morning tomorrow, June 29, this month's full Moon will peak, also known as the Hot Moon or Strawberry Moon since it aligns with the beginning of the summer season.
Learn more about our Moon here: https://t.co/Vm9Iq3ZQpd
Summer, summer, summertime ☀️
June 21 is the summer solstice for folks north of the Equator. This is when the Northern Hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt toward the Sun and has its longest stretch of daylight all year. https://t.co/LmLttEnj9Y
What is life?
Socrates: "It is a test."
Aristotle: "It is the mind."
Fyodor Dostoevsky: "It is hell."
Friedrich Nietzsche: "It is power."
Sigmund Freud: "It is death."
Karl Marx: "It is ideology."
Pablo Picasso: "It is art."
Mahatma Gandhi: "It is love."
Arthur Schopenhauer: "It is suffering."
Bertrand Russell: "It is competition."
Albert Einstein: "It is knowledge."
Elon Musk: "It is curiosity."
Steve Jobs: "It is belief."
Stephen Hawking: "It is hope."
Franz Kafka: "It is only the beginning."
Therefore, each person must give meaning to life for themselves, based on how they perceive it.
When it comes to slowing down our biological aging, engaging with arts and culture is as beneficial as physical activity, a new study suggests. https://t.co/fimaVcoDd1
Mother is mothering.
Madonna’s Met Gala look is inspired by Leonora Carrington, an artist who ghosted the patriarchy and painted worlds where women run everything.
While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos.
You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before.
The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.
Sky full of stars.
Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.
This is incredible.
This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic.
It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
Tonight the #CNTower will be lit purple for International Women’s Day / Ce soir, la #TourCN sera illuminée en violet pour la Journée internationale des femmes 💜
The total lunar eclipse happens tonight in Canada! 🌕
The eclipse starts overnight, and the time of totality depends on your location.
📷: NASA/Jordan Cochran
Matthew McConaughey just gave one of the most honest, grounded takes on spirituality I’ve heard:
“I’m happiest and most connected spiritually when all day is prayer… but truthfully, come Friday, I still need Sunday morning.”
He needs that weekly ritual—church, inventory of loved ones, rolling through his mental Rolodex, seeing people in their truest form, wishing them well, then ending on an honest image of himself (not Instagram happy).
That’s when humility clicks:
“Humility is just admitting you’ve got more to learn.”
Shoulders back. Confidence returns. “Now I’m engaged. Now I can be involved.”
He was raised Methodist—gratitude was the foundation. Still is.
Every night at the table, his family goes around: one thing each person is grateful for.
No preaching, no performance—just quiet, consistent gratitude and weekly reset.
In a world drowning in noise and ego, McConaughey keeps it simple:
Pray with eyes open all day.
Still show up for Sunday.
Stay grateful.
Admit what you don’t know.
What’s your version of “Sunday morning”—the ritual that forces humility and resets your week?
Great Lakes ice update for February 6, 2026: Combined 52% | Lake Superior 50% | Lake Michigan 28% | Lake Huron 68% | Lake Erie 94% | Lake Ontario 26% | #GreatLakes
I live in an apartment complex. The guy above me stomps around at 2 AM every night. I was fed up. I marched upstairs to bang on his door and give him a piece of my mind. The door opened before I could knock. He was holding a crying baby. The apartment was bare. No furniture. Just a mattress on the floor and boxes. He looked exhausted. "I'm so sorry," he whispered. "I'm trying to walk him to sleep. The floor is creaky. I know we're loud." I looked past him. "Where's your furniture?" "Bed bugs in the last place," he said. "Had to toss everything. We just moved in. I’m saving up for a crib." My anger evaporated. "Hold on," I said. I went downstairs. I dragged my spare rocking chair up the stairs. "Sit," I told him. "Rocking is quieter than walking." He sat. The baby settled instantly. The next day, I posted on our building’s group chat: "New neighbor in 4B needs a restart. Who has spare stuff?" By noon, he had a crib, a sofa, a table, and three casseroles. He knocked on my door tonight. No stomping. just a quiet knock. "Thank you," he said. "We slept for six hours." Judge less. Ask more.
Anonymous
i think one of the healthiest things i've ever learned is that you should allow others to reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. Give people space to become who they are without assuming you know who they are just because you've been friends/family for years.