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…
When someone spits out a jumble of acronyms, abbreviations and technical terms have you ever scratched your head and wondered what in the world they were talking about? Have you ever wondered if they know themselves? Ask. I do and I’ve found that the ability…
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…
We know the purpose of the Forum Romanum, we can speculate as to the reasons behind the war depicted on the Vulture Stele (other than those written, loosely translated “I dreamed god approved”) but in the grand scheme of things time is oblivious. Rather than…
Walking up the Sunset strip I stopped in Book Soup and picked up a book I’d been looking for “Laurel Canyon The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood” It just seemed so appropriate considering the neighborhood. I walked up the street, found a place to…
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…
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.
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…
Sometimes it seems like time flashes by, at others it seems to take light years to reach desired destinations. If only there were some way to step outside time so that long periods dragging out are skipped, banked to spend on times we wish would…
