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Passion is the primary addiction of the artist. It is what will cause her/him most of its questionning, anger, pride, it shall be the adrenaline needed to feel alive. And once you get addicted... there is no turning back. Life will never taste the same.
Glorieuse-Demise (Yes I do quote myself
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How do you fall back in love with life?
clean your room. clean space, uncluttered space, space that doesn’t have miasma clinging to it can work wonders. clean the dishes. sweep. take out the trash. peel the clothes off the floor and wash them, and then actually fold/hang them. take a long shower. scrub behind your knees. brush your teeth. (this can be utterly exhausting, but try to get it done in a day, if you can. the end result is worth it.)
pull out your notebook. it doesn’t need to be a new notebook, but preferably one that you don’t usually write in, or that you haven’t touched in a while. fuck moleskins. the yellow legal pad will work fine. sit in your room, or in the park, or in the library, and write a list. count clouds. describe all the colors that you see, and note patterns that arise. sketch the cracks in the walls. note the shape light makes when it enters a space. talk about what the air tastes like, smells like. what sounds are there? even the white nose, break that down: air planes, fans, cicadas, anything. remind yourself that you are sitting in the middle of a space brimming with detail. remind yourself that you are not in nothingness and emptiness. your world is fathomless. it has potential.
drink cold water and try to eat something that isn’t processed. it does not need to be fancy. buy yourself an apple with the change between your couch cushions. eat it outside. if you’re someone who walks, walk somewhere afterwards, just to stretch your legs. take your fucking meds. remember that its a good thing that you are inside your body. your body is a fantastic and endlessly intricate machine, and even though society has smacked a bunch of poisonous ideas on it, that doesn’t change its inherent worth and splendor. take care of it.
read a novel. underline your favorite lines, and write phrases that twist your heart inside your chest on the back of your hand with an ink pen. read a novel like it’s poetry. read poetry, something decadent but unpretentious. watch a movie you haven’t seen before. if there are free art galleries near you, walk through one. take your time. let yourself bask. if there are patterns in what makes your soul ache, write those patterns down – marbles arches or soot crumbling bricks or dandelions or descriptions of dresses or whatever it is, write them down.
your chosen family is important. remember, they picked you as much as you picked them. the love has no obligation. it is given freely and it is given from a place of compassion. you are not a burden. if you need to breathe, take a minute by yourself and just exist, but remember to go back to your people. when they need you, listen and be gracious. always be gracious. the universe sometimes remembers things like that.
listen to new music. link jump on youtube or related artist jump on spotify or ask the chap beside you in the cafe what their favorite band is, and listen to that. listen to something that you don’t usually listen to. we tend to tie up a lot of memory with music. we are falling in love again. the soundtrack needs to be specific to that.
allow yourself to indulge in romantics. press flowers in old books. play movies with subtitles and mouth the words. dance in your room. wear something that makes you feel good, even if you wouldn’t wear it in public. write your chosen family letters, even if you hand deliver them. write poetry, even awful poetry. revel in its awfulness. eat dark chocolate and when your chosen family want to go out, try to go out with them sometimes, even if its just to the market.
What if I told you it's all in your head and you're not drowning but living, instead?
Patio Decking
Mid-sized trendy backyard patio photo with decking and a roof extension
Landscape in London Inspiration for a medium-sized formal Victorian backyard garden in full sun with decking in the spring.
the world is moving with two sides . nonspiritual and spiritual
nonspiritual forms the major and global , yet unstable and unsuccessful for a living
after the pandemic spiritual has surfaced and quiet but steadily bringing hope and life
Sunset in Portobelo……. @scubapanama @scubaportobelo . . . . . . . . #portobelo #sunset #sunsetlovers #sunsetphotography #sunsets #pty🇵🇦 #panama #colon #colors #amazing #carribean #carribeanlife #living (at Portobelo, Colon, Panama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQgRAn1Bcmp/?utm_medium=tumblr
Historia de un fin Estaba en mi cuarto lleno de rombos, entre la muerte y el nacimiento, divagando en el diván de los recuerdos, reviviendola a ella, con su risa y su serenidad, su temple tan obtuso, tan misterioso, tan rebelde. Cada Rombo del cuarto estaba constituido por cientos de recuerdos. Estaba ahí... en el Diván, sentado a merced de los rombos, a merced de los recuerdos y a merced de su sonrisa, sin entender que debía hacer, sin entender si debía poner fin a todo eso. Entonces lo comprendí, no podía seguir existiendo mas, no para ella, la había perdido y solo por permitir que mis miedos me domaran, quería apagar las estrellas y reiniciar el juego, aquella partida en la que había procurado defender al reyna sin mover mis peones. Cada peón fue desplazado según mis miedos a consumirse en la incertidumbre al no saber si estaba bien o fallaba con mis decisiones y fines. Lo cual vine comprendiendo demasiado tarde. Cerca del nuevo fin, me desprendí de mi ropa, mis emociones, mis miedos, mis ambiciones y aspiraciones, estaba ahí, en el mar, entregandome dulcemente al fuego que consumiría mi persona.... persona que no existiría mas. Comencé a caminar en dirección al fin, en mis ojos habían diluvios de determinación, sentía los impulsos eléctricos recorriendo mi cuerpo al momento que avanzaba a mi muerte bailando con ella. Noté que algo me jalaba, era su sonrisa que parecía retarme y a la vez provocarme, las olas del mar a su vez se burlaban de mi.... escuchaba su voz en ellas, recordé que todo comenzó en un aula olvidada, y "cuando no había mas que decirnos se abrían al aire vacíos que no podíamos respirar", estaba en el momento justo donde pensaba que me fallarían el animo, la determinación y la resolución. No importa que tan fuerte aprendiera a golpear, sabia por mi experiencia que nadie golpeara jamas como la misma vida... pensé que tenia que hacerlo, ya estaba a la mitad del camino, entonces avancé con mas fuerza, mas determinación, y pude notar que se desprendía algo de mi, era la ambigüedad, esto me impulsó, avanzaba y el mar me jalaba, casi como si supiera lo que quería, como si me implorara que lo dejara devorarme con una noble belleza y a la vez una inquietante fiereza, casi como un niño en un berrinche y fue entonces que deje que el mar me tomara. Esa noche devoro la persona que fui.
Habían pasado tres días desde que murió aquel hombre devorado por el mar, nadie lo recordaba ya. En su lugar estaba sentado otro hombre, un hombre forjado por los riesgos, que luchaba por lo que quería sin mas escrúpulos, un hombre entregado, desbordaba felicidad y plenitud, el hombre era el amor en persona, este hombre había nacido hace apenas tres días. Este hombre fue en quien renací Este hombre fue en quien me convertí Solo así podía amarla y lo hice por ella
©Robert Mustang
Solar System: 10 Things to Know This Week
The Living Planet Edition
Whether it's crops, forests or phytoplankton blooms in the ocean, our scientists are tracking life on Earth. Just as satellites help researchers study the atmosphere, rainfall and other physical characteristics of the planet, the ever-improving view from above allows them to study Earth's interconnected life.
1. Life on Earth, From Space
While we (NASA) began monitoring life on land in the 1970s with the Landsat satellites, this fall marks 20 years since we've continuously observed all the plant life at the surface of both the land and ocean. The above animation captures the entirety of two decades of observations.
2. Watching the World Breathe
With the right tools, we can see Earth breathe. With early weather satellite data in the 1970s and '80s, NASA Goddard scientist Compton Tucker was able to see plants' greening and die-back from space. He developed a way of comparing satellite data in two wavelengths.
When healthy plants are stocked with chlorophyll and ready to photosynthesize to make food (and absorb carbon dioxide), leaves absorb red light but reflect infrared light back into space. By comparing the ratio of red to infrared light, Tucker and his colleagues could quantify vegetation covering the land.
Expanding the study to the rest of the globe, the scientists could track rainy and dry seasons in Africa, see the springtime blooms in North America, and wildfires scorching forests worldwide.
3. Like Breathing? Thank Earth's Ocean
But land is only part of the story. The ocean is home to 95 percent of Earth's living space, covering 70 percent of the planet and stretching miles deep. At the base of the ocean's food web is phytoplankton - tiny plants that also undergo photosynthesis to turn nutrients and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen. Phytoplankton not only feed the rest of ocean life, they absorb carbon dioxide - and produce about half the oxygen we breathe.
In the Arctic Ocean, an explosion of phytoplankton indicates change. As seasonal sea ice melts, warming waters and more sunlight will trigger a sudden, massive phytoplankton bloom that feeds birds, sea lions and newly-hatched fish. But with warming atmospheric temperatures, that bloom is now happening several weeks earlier - before the animals are in place to take advantage of it.
4. Keeping an Eye on Crops
The "greenness" measurement that scientists use to measure forests and grasslands can also be used to monitor the health of agricultural fields. By the 1980s, food security analysts were approaching NASA to see how satellite images could help with the Famine Early Warning System to identify regions at risk - a partnership that continues today.
With rainfall estimates, vegetation measurements, as well as the recent addition of soil moisture information, our scientists can help organizations like USAID direct emergency help.
The view from space can also help improve agricultural practices. A winery in California, for example, uses individual pixels of Landsat data to determine when to irrigate and how much water to use.
5. Coming Soon to the International Space Station
A laser-based instrument being developed for the International Space Station will provide a unique 3-D view of Earth's forests. The instrument, called GEDI, will be the first to systematically probe the depths of the forests from space.
Another ISS instrument in development, ECOSTRESS, will study how effectively plants use water. That knowledge provided on a global scale from space will tell us "which plants are going to live or die in a future world of greater droughts," said Josh Fisher, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and science lead for ECOSTRESS.
6. Seeing Life, From the Microscopic to Multicellular
Scientists have used our vantage from space to study changes in animal habitats, track disease outbreaks, monitor forests and even help discover a new species. Bacteria, plants, land animals, sea creatures and birds reveal a changing world.
Our Black Marble image provides a unique view of human activity. Looking at trends in our lights at night, scientists can study how cities develop over time, how lighting and activity changes during certain seasons and holidays, and even aid emergency responders during power outages caused by natural disasters.
7. Earth as Analog and Proving Ground
Just as our Mars rovers were tested in Earth's deserts, the search for life on ocean moons in our solar system is being refined by experiments here. JPL research scientist Morgan Cable looks for life on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. She cites satellite observations of Arctic and Antarctic ice fields that are informing the planning for a future mission to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
The Earth observations help researchers find ways to date the origin of jumbled, chaotic ice. "When we visit Europa, we want to go to very young places, where material from that ocean is being expressed on the surface," she explained. "Anywhere like that, the chances of finding biomarkers goes up - if they're there."
8. Only One Living Planet
Today, we know of only one living planet: our own. The knowledge and tools NASA developed to study life here are among our greatest assets as we begin the search for life beyond Earth.
There are two main questions: With so many places to look, how can we home in on the places most likely to harbor life? What are the unmistakable signs of life - even if it comes in a form we don't fully understand? In this early phase of the search, "We have to go with the only kind of life we know," said Tony del Genio, co-lead of a new NASA interdisciplinary initiative to search for life on other worlds.
So, the focus is on liquid water. Even bacteria around deep-sea vents that don't need sunlight to live need water. That one necessity rules out many planets that are too close or too far from their stars for water to exist, or too far from us to tell. Our Galileo and Cassini missions revealed that some moons of Jupiter and Saturn are not the dead rocks astronomers had assumed, but appear to have some conditions needed for life beneath icy surfaces.
9. Looking for Life Beyond Our Solar System
In the exoplanet (planets outside our solar system that orbit another star) world, it's possible to calculate the range of distances for any star where orbiting planets could have liquid water. This is called the star's habitable zone. Astronomers have already located some habitable-zone planets, and research scientist Andrew Rushby of NASA Ames Research Center is researching ways to refine the search. "An alien would spot three planets in our solar system in the habitable zone [Earth, Mars and Venus]," Rushby said, "but we know that 67 percent of those planets are not inhabited."
He recently developed a model of Earth's carbon cycle and combined it with other tools to study which planets in habitable zones would be the best targets to look for life, considering probable tectonic activity and water cycles. He found that larger planets are more likely than smaller ones to have surface temperatures conducive to liquid water. Other exoplanet researchers are looking for rocky worlds, and biosignatures, the chemical signs of life.
10. You Can Learn a Lot from a Dot
When humans start collecting direct images of exoplanets, even the closest ones will appear as only a handful of pixels in the detector - something like the famous "blue dot" image of Earth from Saturn. What can we learn about life on these planets from a single dot?
Stephen Kane of the University of California, Riverside, has come up with a way to answer that question by using our EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite. "I'm taking these glorious pictures and collapsing them down to a single pixel or handful of pixels," Kane explained. He runs the light through a noise filter that attempts to simulate the interference expected from an exoplanet mission. By observing how the brightness of Earth changes when mostly land is in view compared with mostly water, Kane reverse-engineers Earth's rotation rate - something that has yet to be measured directly for exoplanets.
The most universal, most profound question about any unknown world is whether it harbors life. The quest to find life beyond Earth is just beginning, but it will be informed by the study of our own living planet.
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