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Our picture of the universe evolves with time, snapshots of interaction, and changing perspectives as do our pictures of each other. With evolution individual direction is sought, aligning and realigning direction. Pulsar explosion leads to implosion, weight multiplied with compression collapsing inward, wind blowing out…

Spirographic Evolution

February 23, 2020

How close to the event horizon of a black hole does one have to get before being sucked in is inevitable? Always our attention is first and foremost attracted to the light rather than the darkness. Taking a picture of a black hole took international…

Crimson Surround

February 16, 2020

The belief that if we tear off all the masks some all encompassing truth will be revealed is deceptive. Sometimes tearing off the masks just causes people to bleed. The universe and everything in it is beautiful symphony of complex simplicity, a composite of multiple…

Reveals

February 12, 2020

MSH-11-62 is the remnant of a supernova. “The reverse shock and other, secondary shocks…appear to have begun to crush the pulsar wind nebula…” Sometimes the voids, in a picture or a life, say as much as the elements that remain. Even a star can only…

Irregular Reading

February 2, 2020

Patterns weave themselves through our lives unasked. The Chinese Artist Shitao followed “yihua”, which teaches that every design begins and ends with a single stroke, all united. Sometimes it’s easy to see the pattern, at others, frustratingly, it’s not.

Golden Spiral Covenant

January 26, 2020

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You’d think we’d get it right as so much of history repeats itself, but no matter how hard we try human nature hasn’t evolved all that much. It’s deja vous all over again. When focused inward perspective is lost. What is changing is the scope…