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NASA Discovers New Sun—Oh Wait, It’s Just My Friend’s Ego

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Think the universe revolves around the sun? Wait until you meet my friend—his ego has its own gravitational pull, and your wallet will feel the burn.

Did you read the latest breaking news from NASA? It appears that our solar system has another sun. Opps, that’s not another sun, it’s just a guy I know who believes the world and all other parts of our solar system revolve around him.

If this guy is in your life this is how interacting with him may go down. He’ll give you a call, he hates text messaging, he’s paranoid and thinks people are trying to steal his brilliant ideas. When he calls he may invite you to lunch. Let me warn you, make sure you have sufficient credit on your credit card. Although this guy is loaded, he somehow finds a way to ignore the check when it’s left on the table. When you check the bill, you’ll see your prudent lunch and that this guy was eating like it was his last meal before he faced the firing squad.

During lunch, there’s not too much to worry about in keeping the conversation going. All you have to do is ask, “What’s happening in your life?” That will set him off for an hour and he’ll go stretches without taking a breath. An opera star would be jealous of his breath control.

When lunch is over and you’ve paid the bill and tip, be prepared because he’ll say, “You should have let me get that.” Then he’ll add, “This was fun, we’ll have to do it again.”

You’ll nod, hope you have water and Tylenol in your car because you have a splitting headache. It always happens when you get too close to the sun.

My advice, next time, bring sunscreen and sunglasses.

Planetary Line-Up or Solar System Slip-Up?(Warning: Mercury is tired of being forgotten first.)

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Most of us learned the planets in order once upon a time… probably right before forgetting them in favor of more practical knowledge like how to microwave nachos without lighting the kitchen on fire. But today? Today we test your interplanetary IQ. Get ready to orbit into a challenge that’s hotter than Venus on a summer day.

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Today’s Quote: Never Give Up!

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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ― Victor Hugo

A Great Pond ~ A Poem by Mary Oliver

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A Great Pond

Mary Oliver

At Great Pond
the sun, rising,
scrapes his orange breast
on the thick pines,
and down tumble
a few orange feathers into
the dark water.
On the far shore
a white bird is standing
like a white candle —
or a man, in the distance,
in the clasp of some meditation —
while all around me the lilies
are breaking open again
from the black cave
of the night.
Later, I will consider
what I have seen —
what it could signify —
what words of adoration I might
make of it, and to do this
I will go indoors to my desk —
I will sit in my chair —
I will look back
into the lost morning
in which I am moving, now,
like a swimmer,
so smoothly,
so peacefully,
I am almost the lily —
almost the bird vanishing over the water
on its sleeves of night.

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Saturn’s Slow Return: Can You Guess When the Planet Comes Full Circle?

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You’ve aged, grown wiser, maybe even bought wrinkle cream—but guess what? Saturn’s just now getting back to the same spot it was in when you were born. So… how long does it take this slowpoke planet to complete one lap around the sun? Take a guess:

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Today’s Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien lets us know if we traveling we’ll discover the hidden paths

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“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

What a Way to Start the Day

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“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” ~ Mary Oliver

The Sun ~ A Poem by Mary Oliver

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The Sun

Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

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Love is All

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Some days the sky is so thick with clouds you wonder if the sun is still shining above them. When those days stretch on for a week or more the need for feeling the sun’s warmth surges through us. When the sun finally breaks through the clouds and the clouds give way to a blue sky, everything seems better. Life is once again joyful. That’s how it is with love. When we know we are loved and love surrounds us, life is good no matter where we are. When love is absent, we feel it. We know that something important is missing from our lives. Don’t be afraid to love or be loved. Love is as essential as the air we breathe.

For a Child ~ A Poem by Fannie Stearns Davis

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For a Child

Fannie Stearns Davis

Your friends shall be the Tall Wind,
The River and the Tree;
The Sun that laughs and marches,
The Swallows and the Sea.

Your prayers shall be the murmur
Of grasses in the rain;
The song of wildwood thrushes
That makes God glad again.

And you shall run and wander,
And you shall dream and sing
Of brave things and bright things
Beyond the swallow’s wings.

And you shall envy no man,
Nor hurt your heart with sighs,
For I will keep you simple
That God may make you wise.

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