La gran conjunción de Júpiter y Saturno

Deadliest Sniper

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

USSR

309 confirmed kills  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

En paz

 
Muy cerca de mi ocaso, yo te bendigo, vida,
porque nunca me diste ni esperanza fallida,
ni trabajos injustos, ni pena inmerecida;

porque veo al final de mi rudo camino
que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino;

que si extraje las mieles o la hiel de las cosas,
fue porque en ellas puse hiel o mieles sabrosas:
cuando planté rosales, coseché siempre rosas.

...Cierto, a mis lozanías va a seguir el invierno:
¡mas tú no me dijiste que mayo fuese eterno!

Hallé sin duda largas las noches de mis penas;
mas no me prometiste tan sólo noches buenas;
y en cambio tuve algunas santamente serenas...

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!

 - Amado Nervo

• https://www.poemas-del-alma.com/en-paz.htm
  

Te verde

• Pueblos mágicos
  
• Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
• José María Pino Suarez
• Francisco I. Madero
• Plan de San Luis Potosí
• La decena trágica
• Plan de Ayala
  

Philatelia I

I appreciate Philatelia's position among the hobbies. One can be interested in sports, but the main trends seem to be shared among the individual sports (basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, hockey) than in athleticism in general. Stamp collecting is the interest as well as the hobby itself. Quite economical in the mindspace there as well. In other words, you can directly collect the thing you are studying. With sports, you can take an interest without participating in the sport itself, and I've also sparred with boxers who weren't interested in the sport outside of its practice (styles, fighters, major fights, etc.).

I'm seeing Philatelia also lends itself to writing about it.

Philatelia

I started collecting stamps about five months into the pandemic.A sense of urgency came over me when we all learned that Louis DeJoy was literally dismantling the United States Postal Service. 

I think it was the combination of the destruction of things that remind me of the normalcy of life and my mind wandering and feeling a need for an anchor. All an anchor means is a means to stay in one place while the water around you moves.

There was lots of movement everywhere. At the very least we wore our masks and socially distanced. We all sheltered in place at first, and then we started hearing about people with nasty behavior. There was the collective trauma and burden of unpunished murders, and the subsequent learning that we've actually lived in a racist society for quite some time, and the fact that it must change. Let's not forget our terrible management of our natural environment and its effects. At one point, I was affected by a pandemic, social upheaval, and the smoke from massive uncontrolled fires far away.

Of course I yearned for the stability and predictability of the world before. I missed its innocence, but waiting for the past to return meant to deny the significance of the present moment. If we paid attention, we learned we couldn't go back to the way things were because they were flawed. We needed to fix them.

Stamps offered way points. Like stars in the night sky, stamps are an innocent, impartial, and delightful souvenirs of the human experience. They are pinpricks of light in the darkness, tiny records of time and space. I loved how they reminded me of the shared human experience of sending a letter, which was driven by our desire to send messages to each other. And how people organized and standardized and built something for everyone. The grandeur of stamps and stars are contained in the smallest of sizes as visible to our eyes. 

US Navy UFO Videos / Advanced Technology

The US Navy has been granted a patent for an advanced aircraft which resembles a flying saucer UFO. [...]

The patent is highly complex and describes methods of reducing the mass of an aircraft using various techniques including the generation of gravity waves, which were first detected in 2016 after being produced when two black holes collided.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/18/us-navy-secretly-designed-super-fast-futuristic-aircraft-resembling-ufo-documents-reveal-9246755/

In other words, if you can a) create a room temperature superconductor capable of storing an incredibly high amount of energy and b) get the energy field created by that superconductor moving at incredibly high speeds around or within the craft, you can create a polarized energy vacuum around it which allows it to basically ignore the energy of the air or water around it, thereby removing its own inertia and mass from the equation.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-got-ufo-patent-granted-by-warning-of-similar-chinese-tech-advances

What a wonderful world

Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods. Most live in top 10 m of the ocean and are less than 1 cm long.

Shocking Blue - Love Buzz

Would you believe me when I tell you
You're the king of my dreams?
Please don't deceive me when I hurt you;
It just ain't the way it seems.

 

Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?

 

I need you like a desert needs rain;
I would rather like to die.
Darling I hurt when I do not see you,
So spread your wings and fly.

 

Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz? 

 

Would you believe me when I tell you
You're the king of my dreams?
Please don't deceive me when I hurt you;
It just ain't the way it seems.

 

Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?

 

I need you like a desert needs rain;
I would rather like to die.
Darling I hurt when I don't see you,
So spread your wings and fly.

 

Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?
Can't you hear my love buzz?

[COVID-19] Dia 2 de la cuarentena

Popcorn

It's nice to not have to worry about an audience (except for me) and to make this a living journal.

Marilyn Manson - I Put a Spell on You