I am, as I said, buried in second-draft deadlines (which is actually as exciting as it is stressful). I do my best writing in the middle of the night, when it’s dark and dead quiet. The only downside is that when I hit a wall, there’s not much I can do to refocus without waking … Continue reading Walt Whitman. Because let’s make it a poetry week.
Because I’ve got revisions due to one editor tomorrow, and to another later in the week, and so haven’t time for much else. This from Wislawa Szymborska: So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day the World hasn’t earned the world’s end. Continue reading A one sentence poem, from a Nobel Laureate…
Phil Plait (one of my favorite science bloggers) pointed out that yesterday marked the 25th Anniversary of this famous photograph. It’s a picture of Earth, taken by the Voyager 1 Spacecraft, from more than six billion kilometers away. It is the image that inspired this bit of brilliance from Carl Sagan: From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not … Continue reading 25 Years Later: You are still here, “on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”
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