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Choose Wisely

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #kittyandchill, Thoughts on December 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Time is nothing but a collection of nows.

— Tina Roth Eisenberg

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The Shortest Day

Posted in Holidays, Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, astronomy, genre fiction, solstice, Thoughts, winter, winter-solstice on December 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Greetings, fellow space travelers! Today is the winter solstice, the Northern Hemisphere’s shortest day of the year.

Winter solstice 2024: How to celebrate the start of winter – NPR

“At 4:20 a.m. EST, the solstice marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere,” NASA says on its website.

That means from now until the end of June, each day will get a little bit longer — and brighter…

Read the full article for some fun facts on the solstice, plus a link to solstice-themed music, food and writing, including work by beloved children’s author Susan Cooper (my brother and I loved The Dark Is Rising).

Today is also the official start of winter, and the temperature is dropping like a rock in a gravity well. Stay warm, it just gets brighter from here!

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*I think there’s a druid in there somewhere. Photo by Dyana Wing So on Unsplash*

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If You’re a Unicorn, Be a Unicorn

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on December 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Whether it’s money, grades, promotions, popularity, attention, or just plain material things we want, scientists agree: seeking out external rewards is a sure path to sabotaging our own happiness.”

― Jane McGonigal

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Crawling, but Still Looking at the Sky

Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, space, tedium of, Thoughts on December 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Between work and vaccine side effects and more work, today feels a little tedious. Time is crawling, and it feels like everything is taking a very looooong time.

What better day to remind myself that it could be much much worse? (Seriously, how many movies would I have to watch to fill the time it takes to get to Mars?)

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system

That does actually make me feel better.

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Advent in Spaaaaaaaace!

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, advent, NASA, photography, space, space magic, Thoughts on December 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Today, a public service announcement: The Atlantic is doing a special advent calendar, in spaaaaaaace!

I mean, technically everything we humans do is “in space” because Earth is in space, but this is a little different:

2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar – The Atlantic

…the 17th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar, featuring remarkable images from both NASA’s Hubble telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. Every day until Wednesday, December 25, this page will present a new, incredible image of our universe from one of these two telescopes. Be sure to come back every day until Christmas…

Enjoy!

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*Us, in space. Photo by NASA on Unsplash*

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Be the Tortoise

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on December 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“I deal with writer’s block by lowering my expectations. I think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent—and when you don’t, panic sets in. The solution is never to sit down and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent. I write a little bit, almost every day, and if it results in two or three or (on a good day) four good paragraphs, I consider myself a lucky man. Never try to be the hare. All hail the tortoise.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

If you can do more, great, but either way, keep going. You’ve got this.

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