don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. the days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. enjoy what you can - walks, sunsets, music, laughter and nature. joy doesn't have to be expensive. you deserve it.
Mercury retrograde starts now double check all your emails before you press send, triple check any contracts, extend any deadlines, trust your gut, and start giving less fucks. Have fun kids!
Civilization is drowning in mediocrity and starving for Beauty.
It is one of the things which reminds a civilization that life is worth living.
Cathedrals, poetry, music, sculpture, architecture, gardens, great stories are civilizational necessities.
A society which stops striving for beauty eventually forgets what it is striving for at all.
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@OrevaZSN@ElaineZ3518 Amid all the chaos, it is easy to forget that we live in a genuinely magical world, breathing, alive, and surrounded by quiet wonders every single day.
In case you forgot, we live on a planet where lightning turns sand into glass, dolphins give each other names, the ocean glows in the dark, and rain has a scent before it falls. You stand here with a beating heart, a steady moon above, and a world quietly, absurdly beautiful.
I want anniversaries. I want someone to look at me and can't imagine life without me. I want unconditional love. I want healthy communication. I want the fireworks that never die. Butterflies even after we're months/years in. I want years with someone.
Gas is almost $2. Toronto is cold af in May. There are rumors of a new pandemic, groceries are expensive, the job market is shit. The list is unending.
NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who says he is not religious, says he broke down in tears when he saw the Cross after getting back to Earth.
Wiseman: "I'm not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything..."
Victor Glover: "The only thing I would add is I am a religious person, but everything else is the same."
there is something in these photos that nobody is talking about.
the earth, seen from the moon’s surface, is a crescent. the same shape we see the moon from earth. which means from where these astronauts stood, our entire world, every human being alive, every city, every ocean, every mountain, was receiving light the same way the moon does.
dependent. reflective. not a source but a receiver. and God placed both of them, earth and moon, in a gravitational relationship so precise that if either one shifted slightly, the conditions for life dissolve completely.
He did not just create them. He positioned them. He calibrated the distance. He calculated the tilt. He set the orbital speed. and then He rested.
what that tells me about God is something i am still processing.
He is not a God who creates carelessly and steps back. He is a God who creates with intention so deep that billions of years later, the greatest scientific mission of our generation goes out there and finds everything exactly where He left it. the craters on that moon are not evidence of chaos.
they are evidence of endurance. of something built to absorb impact and remain.
God put that quality into the moon because it is His own quality. He absorbs everything this world throws at existence and remains. unchanged. unshaken. still in orbit. still faithful. still holding everything He made in the dark.
Your eyes can only see the moon in gray. It's actually covered in color, blues and oranges and pinks, all from different metals sitting in the rock. You just need a camera and some patience to pull them out.
These photos are called "mineral moons." A photographer points a telescope at the moon, takes hundreds or thousands of pictures, stacks them on top of each other to clean up the image, then slowly turns up the color intensity in editing software. The colors that show up were always there. Too faint for your eyes to catch on their own.
Each color is a different metal. The blue areas have a lot of titanium in them. The orange and brown zones have more iron. The pinkish-red patches around the edges are the oldest parts of the moon's crust, full of aluminum and calcium.
That deep blue region on the left side is called the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 11 landed right there in July 1969. When Armstrong and Aldrin brought back 47 pounds of rock from that blue titanium zone, scientists cracked the samples open and found three minerals that had never been seen on Earth before. They named one "armalcolite" after the three astronauts (Arm-Al-Col: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins). They named another "tranquillityite" after the landing site itself. For 40 years, tranquillityite was known as "the moon's own mineral" because nobody could find it here. Then in 2011, a geologist in Western Australia spotted a speck of it inside a billion-year-old rock.
Andrew McCarthy, a photographer in Sacramento, once stacked 150,000 separate pictures of the moon to build one color map. Each splash of blue or orange in these images is a real metal deposit on a surface that's been getting hit by space rocks for 3.5 billion years. The moon was never gray. We just couldn't see it.