My Mom loved Mozart. I get it now. He was an amazing composer. Wish we could talk about it...

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.

~ Ann Druyan

Captured before the clouds took over...

I side with the oligarchs... NOT!

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Don't underestimate JD Vance and his techbros and their ability to radically reshape America and the global order toward fascism. Trump may be a ignorant clown, but these people are serious, intelligent, and have the power, technology, and motivation, to change the course of civilization.

There has perhaps never been a time in history when so many people had such an intense Cassandra complex at the same time.

Balcony astronomy in Victoria winter is a fight with the clouds. Caught a few glimpses of dark patches on Mars and the Moon peeking through... such a tease.

Mars is in opposition... good time to get out the telescope and have a look!

Messier 34: Over 200 million years old and 1500 light-years away. Or, as I know it, "the little man in the sky".

On a magic rock, sharing a few moments with a woman and her two dogs, one aged a year-and-a-half, the other seven.

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Wondering if musicians might have some insight into inter-species communication?

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From my 1997 Themes From A Contemplated Life 12-string bass album.

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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Trying this out... hoping to find some sort of non-toxic online community.