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The closer I look at flowers the more amazed I am at the complexity and diversity of my little world! Even to take a few extra seconds to gaze into a flower I am treated to such simple complex beauty that it takes my breath away! "They can eat light, isn't…
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American Democracy has been considered an experiment from its earliest days and has been observed for over 200 years to see if self-governance actually works. America has faltered many many times yet she still stands. The way that we participate in the experiment is up to us. Voting is the most crucial…
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Yes, we are unfortunately in a time when we must assert loud and clear – that Black Lives Do Matter. Yet all true spiritual and religious traditions and scientific facts proclaim for all to hear that We are all one and one with all. Sure, we are all different colors –…
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HELP! What if, when chemical companies came up with the idea to spray food crops with the deadly compounds that were developed in wartime, someone very important had said, "This is a really bad idea." OR What if, 20 or 30 years later, when a bright caring poet/scientist saw the…
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In the past I was in the habit of visiting the Astronomy Picture of the Day each night before I shut off my computer for some wonderfulness to end the day. This was posted on March 6th, 2014 and I find it astonishing! APOD – Thank you!
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Sometimes numbers are difficult to wrap your mind around. The banana spider, or golden orb spider, or writer spider, is the oldest surviving spider on earth. To the tune of 165 million years! That's a really really long time. Compare that to humans and our nearest ancestors, the chimpanzee, and we clock…
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It didn't occur to me to imagine what the earth looked like during the eclipse the other day. Shot from the International Space Station, this photograph was my favorite in the APOD's (Astronomy Picture of the Day) gallery of Eclipse photos. A really different perspective! "Eclipse…
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Whichever way the wind blows, that's how I go. Some days I'm sailing the high seas, up and down with the swells. Other times it's calm and there's moonlight and stars that you wouldn't believe! Today I am on a beach, and a walking whale is pointing something at me. This…
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Let's never forget that we are a nation that can dream BIG, and make those dreams come true. What are your dreams for our America? The last launch of the Space Shuttle, Discovery, seen from St. Augustine Beach on February 24th, 2011.
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