Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, astronomy, cool stuff is cool, innovation, inspiration, science on January 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the new year! Here’s what you can expect from space in 2025 (including a new way of studying the solar corona that looks enough like the Millennium Falcon to be extra fun):
Look up! Here’s what’s to watch for in space in 2025 – NPR
After a spectacular 2024, which featured a year of wonder in the skies, including a total solar eclipse and rare sightings of the northern lights, 2025 is set to bring even more astronomical events.
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Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #365Ways2025, books, chilling, reading, Thoughts on January 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Today is the last day before the day job resumes. I shall spend it wisely, with food, chill, and books. Mostly books.
“Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven’t Read
- Books You Needn’t Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read
- Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025 on January 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, artists, creativity on January 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Good advice to artists of all kinds, as quoted in this article on “Les Archives de la Planète” in 77 Stunning Color Photos Of The World’s Cultures A Century Ago:
“I ask only one thing of you,” Kahn said… “It is that you keep your eyes wide open.”
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, New Year, perspective, Thoughts, time on January 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
On the first day of this new year, a short poem on the relative nature of time. And nature.
Do we seem as slow
To hummingbirds on the wing
As trees do to us?
Wishing you a happy new year.
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