Landscape With Three Figures, 1901, Paul Gauguin

Got a mind that ramble, got a mind that roam I'm travelin' light and I'm a-slow coming home

“Mother of Muses”

Bob Dylan “Rough and Rowdy Ways”

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“Who will write the story of what could have been? That, if someone writes it, Will be the true history of humanity. What exists is the real world—not us, just the world. We are, in reality, what doesn’t exist. I am who I failed to be.”

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Fernando Pessoa

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Laozi, (Fifth Century BCE) Chinese Taoist Master

“Spirit Gathers Together; Honesty Should Pass”, Tōgō Heihachirō, Taishō period, dated 1916 (5th Year of the Taishō Era), Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Professor and Mrs. Toshikazu Oyama Size: H. 128.3 x W. 52.4 cm (50 ½ x 20 5/8 in.) Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper, with signature reading “Tōgō sho”

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/202308

Understanding and love aren’t two separate things, they’re just one. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Engraving by Robert Fludd from his book Utriusque Cosmi, 1621

You’re experiencing a bird’s-eye view of one of the largest galaxies in our local universe. The scale of this Godzilla-like galaxy is simply unfathomable. Located 232 million light years away, UGC 2885 is 2.5 times wider than our Milky Way and contains over a trillion stars. It takes light itself at least 800,000 years just to traverse its width. Think of the countless worlds and creatures that may reside in such a behemoth, perhaps forever out of reach of humanity. (Music Credit: Hammock - “Afraid to Forget” | Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)