Earth is Heavenly

Dog sledding above the Arctic Circle in Norway. Jim Lovell says it’s not that you go to heaven when you die, but “you go to heaven when you’re born.” Earth is the best planet in our solar system. We go to space to save the Earth. @BlueOrigin #NoPlanB #GradatimFerociter #EarthDay

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I love this tweet by Jeff Bezos on Earth Day 2018 !

It’s not that you go to heaven when you die, but “you go to heaven when you’re born.”

Bezos is quoting US astronaut Jim Lovell.

Blessy

Today I hereby coin a new word: blessy.

A friend emailed me describing the last six months of her life as "the whole blessed/messy process."

Difficult tasks got done, slowly, or fairly quickly, depending on one's point of view.  Godspeed.

The sadness of letting go of two family members was balanced by the contentment of having cared for them as well as possible in their last years.

It was a blessed time; it was a difficult and messy time.

Blessy.  

Thank you to a different friend, Barbra Graber for finding and sending me this photo.

Poppies! Persistent...

The humblest and happiest flower on earth is the California poppy.

It can grow in the driest dirt, in the smallest crack.  All is needs is one good rainstorm and it's sprouting.  

We've had a very dry winter in 2017-2018.  The abundance of last year is not happening... "but still she persisted."

The Southern Cross

This photo of the Southern Cross is from Science-Photo-Library, which I accessed through Cafe Press.

We can't see this constellation in the northern hemisphere, but I saw it ten years ago in Argentina.

Here in the north, on New Year's Eve, I love to look out at Orion at midnight and remember where Earth is in its rotation around the Sun.

Wish I were in Colorado or the high desert of California! It's barely possible to see Orion most winter nights in Los Angeles.

I printed this photo for my Christmas cards this year, thanks to Cafe Press.