“We’ve got to come together around an ambitious framework to protect the one planet we’ve got while we still can. If we want to prevent the worst effects of climate change before it’s too late, the time to act is now. Not later, not someday, but right here and now.” —President Obama after announcing that the Keystone XL Pipeline is not in our national interest
The Lively Center of the Lagoon Nebula : The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation. Visible near the image center, at least two long funnel-shaped clouds, each roughly half a light-year long, have been formed by extreme stellar winds and intense energetic starlight. A tremendously bright nearby star, Herschel 36, lights the area. Vast walls of dust hide and redden other hot young stars. As energy from these stars pours into the cool dust and gas, large temperature differences in adjoining regions can be created generating shearing winds which may cause the funnels. This picture, spanning about 10 light years, combines images taken in six colors by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The Lagoon Nebula, also known as M8, lies about 5000 light years distant toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). via NASA
i call my parents and say ‘yeah i can’t do family stuff tonight, i got too much stuff to do for school’ and i e-mail my professor and say ‘i can’t do my assignments tonight, work got crazy’ and i text my boss and say ‘sorry i can’t work late tonight, i gotta some family stuff’ and through this triangulation of deceitful excuses i at last will be free
leonardospoetry
I’m constantly on this search
for the essence of who I am.
Sometimes, it finds me
and I can feel its presence.
But if I try to grasp it,
it slips away.
If I try to separate it
from the rest, it escapes.
So elusive.
Like the birth of a soul
with no one to receive it,
no shape to define it.
Spilling everywhere,
touching everything.
Free.
