Answers galore but ⁣ none that fit my cadence⁣ Fragmentary focus of blinking eyes⁣ I wake up a thousand times each night⁣ I wish I was alive each time ⁣ Forgetful dreams full of insights⁣ while traumatic nightmares fill my⁣ days to only shake my momentary faith ⁣ and a shell that breaks I drown⁣ […]

[324] Seas of Space

When life on earth gets impossibly complicated, I often look to the skies for solace. On clear nights, I have a galaxy of stars above to embrace me. At other times, it’s Hubble’s photographs.   The Hubble Space Telescope (“Hubble”)  is situated above Earth’s atmosphere–340 miles (540 km) up. At this altitude, it is able […]

Hubble Space Telescope

Space the Final Frontier , where do I begin on this one. Hang with me this might be a long post. Most every morning I am usually up by 3 am, first thing I do is let my dogs outside. And when it is nice out, ( like this morning at 3 am) I pull […]

Space the Final Frontier

An essay on death, loss, and coronavirus: “The same unknown that makes me nurse the thought of my mother’s death, makes me think of the loneliness of everyone who died of the virus…. For decades, for the rest of their lives they will be imagining the last moments of the ones who left them.”

Beneath the black rocks

Kerala is known for its diverse nature. Its profound love for mother earth. Here are few photographs depicting beauty of kerala

1. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Often hailed as “Harry Potter meets college,” The Magicians follows disillusioned 17-year-old Quentin Coldwater as he comes to discover much, much more than the magic of freshman parties. On the day of his supposed Princeton interview, Quentin instead gets interviewed and accepted to Brakebills — a highly selective university of bona fide sorcery.

While he initially finds the Brakebills curriculum frustrating and tedious (they have to study hand positions and phases of the moon), Quentin ultimately rises to its challenges, forming strong bonds with his fellow classmates. Good thing, too, because he’ll need them when trouble comes knocking… trouble which, as we know from HP, is never far away from any given magic school.

2. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
Though he’s best known for his Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series, Rick Riordan’s Kane Chroniclesare just as thrilling as their Greek predecessors. The protagonists of this series are Carter and Sadie Kane, siblings whose Egyptologist father reconnects them with their own ancient roots — that is, that they’re descended from Egyptian pharaohs and magicians.

After their father is captured by Set, the Egyptian god of evil, Carter and Sadie must tap into parts of themselves they never knew existed and battle unimaginably powerful forces. For those of us who had a childhood obsession with Egyptology (Cluefinders, anyone?), this book is a marvelous source of wish fulfillment and entertainment all the way through

3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Pullman’s works are perfect for the reader who craves an intellectual challenge. Taking place across multiple universes and containing some pretty complex religious references (not to mention criticisms), His Dark Materials grounds itself in the journey of Lyra Belacqua, a 12-year-old girl with a knack for lying. Lyra and her dæmon (the external, animal manifestation of her “inner self”) travel the worlds of the series in search of kidnapped children, and a mysterious elemental matter called “Dust.” These quests reveal mind-bending twists and turns that Pullman masterfully narrates over the course of this epic trilogy.

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Outer space has very low density and pressure, and is the closest physical approximation of a perfect vacuum. But no vacuum is truly perfect, not even in interstellar space, where there are still a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton