the last #SilentSunday of summer 2025
Sunrise over the ocean at Ocean City, MD (Photo: Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums)
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Time flies when you aren't having fun too
Today is the 5th day of the 35th week, the 28th day of the 8th month, the 240th day of 2025 [ with only 118 shopping days before Christmas ], and: Crackers Over the Keyboard Day Dream Day Question and Jubilee International Cabernet Sauvignon Day International Read Comics in Public Day National Bow Tie Day National Cherry Turnovers Day National Power Rangers Day National Sport Sampling Day National Thoughtful Day Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day Radio Commercial Day - according to WikiPedia "WEAF in New York (now WFAN), aired its first paid radio commercial on August 28, 1922 for the Queensboro Corporation, advertising a new apartment complex in Jackson Heights, Queens, near the just-completed #7 subway line." Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Red Win Day Thoughtful Thursday the moon is waxing crescent and Voyager 1 is ~23h 16m 07s of light travel time from Earth, or 25,113,000,000 km / 15,604,000,000 miles / 167.868 AU Quote of the day: " There is much to learn f...
last words....
On June 19th, I packed myself up as I was staying overnight at the house and then catching a morning flight back to BWI, and the airport was more easily assessable from there. I booked a roundtrip as the plan was that I would come home, and settle things here. I had to make new arrangements for Triscuit's care, show up at the office at least a couple of time, and then return on Monday the 30th and stay in the hospice with Tommy through his birthday. We had set the room up so that I could work from there during the day so staying for a couple of weeks would not be an issue. Tommy had decided he would see how things went staying overnight without company as a trial run - it was the only night he did because Bryan went and camped out while I was gone. And so, that night as I left, I hugged my son, kissed him, and.... I remember I asked if he wanted me to sing his lullaby before I left, and he just chuckled and shook his head. I remember that ...
just another Monday
Today is the 2nd day of the 34th week, the 18th day of the 8th month, the 230th day of 2025 [ 63% of the year is now behind us as only 135 days remain] , and: Birth Control Pills Day AKA World Contraception Day Cupcake Day [Australia] Helium Discovery Day International Delivery Rider Appreciation Day Mail Order Catalog Day National Bad Poetry Day National Badge Ribbon Day National Fajita Day National Ice Cream Pie Day Never Give Up Day Pinot Noir Day Serendipity Day Stay Home with Your Kids Day the moon is at waning crescent, 25% of full and Voyager 1 is ~23h 14m 11s of light travel time from Earth, or 25,078,000,000 km / 15,583,000,000 mi / 167.636 AU Quote of the day: " The crime of loving is forgetting ." ~ Maurice Chevalier - French singer, actor, and entertainer The Bing wallpaper picture of the day is of the Matterhorn reflected in Stellisee, Switzerland. This isn't the highest mountain in the world, nor the most difficult climb, but it wasn't s...
expiration date
Another post that I don't feel like adhering to the format I have adopted Been having a bit of a rough time this week as the 13th of the month rolled up and past. It was just two months ago when Tommy was told there was no more hope, when we were told he had 90 days at the most left to him. We've always joked in our family about our expiration dates. Despite the fact that I decided at a very young age that I would live to be 100, the women in my family haven't made it past 85, men past 72. And of course, Grandmom Hughes' saying that " tomorrow is promised to no one " is something none of us ever forgot. But to be told what the limit is on your life was frightening. By helping Tommy process the news, to talk about what comes after on such concrete terms, I thought I was preparing myself for the inevitable as well. After all, once the colorectal cancer metastasized to his lungs, we knew that cancer had won - he fought it for 3 1/2 years [ if...
weighed down....
Today is the 2nd day of the 33rd week, the 11th day of the 8th month, the 223rd day of 2025 [ with only 135 shopping days until Christmas ], and: Annual Medical Checkup Day Global Kinetic Sand Day Independence Day - Chad from France in 1960 Ingersoll Day - based on the birthday of Robert G Ingersoll [born in 1833] and hailed as a day to challenge entrenched beliefs, celebrate free thought and reason, and encourage critical thinking National Align Your Teeth Day National Hip Hop Day National Panini Day National Raspberry Bombe Day National Raspberry Tarte Day Play in the Sand Day Popsicle Day Presidential Joke Day Son and Daughter Day Victory Day World Steelpan Day the moon is waning gibbous and Voyager 1 is ~23h 12m 53s of light travel time from Earth Quote of the day: " Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. " ~ William James - American philosopher and psychologist When Grandmom Hughes died back in 1985, I mourned and missed her very much - it ...
#SilentSunday 08.10.2025 version
Last night's Full Sturgeon Moon rising from UK picture credit: @evan.seass666999
80 years ago today
The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. Credit...Hiromichi Matsuda, via Shutterstock In some ways, I can comprehend the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on the grounds that at that time, it wasn't known how devastating such an attack would be. The second bomb was dropped on another civilian population with the full understanding of what was being done. And so, the United States of America is the only country to have used nuclear weapons to date. Twice. Every citizen should bow their heads in shame and silent apology on this sad anniversary.
