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Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #240 – The Sun is Disintegrating &
Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – Astounding

while it may be astounding
to say the sun is disintegrating
it will

as does everything
eventually, all will
come to an end

maybe not how we wish it
but it will
at last

remember this
as you engage
in living

Astronomers and physicists have been trying to figure out the ultimate fate of the Solar System for at least hundreds of years.  The Sun gets its energy by crushing hydrogen and other atoms until they fuse together, and this energy output leads to a loss in the Sun’s mass because it is converting around 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, which is over 350 billion tonnes each day.  The Sun more or less maintains its size because it has a total mass of two billion, billion, billion tonnes, or two octillion tonnes.  The tonne is also called a Metric ton and that is equivalent to 1.10231 US tons, just to add to the confusion.  Over billions of years, the Sun will burn through so much of its fuel that it will begin to expand, ballooning out to become a colossal red giant star.  It is expected that…

Looking for an interesting place to tour, consider this site rich with miracles, legends, and pagan history.

 This strange prophecy below is associated with St. Odile, who is revered as the patron saint of Alsace and this historic site.   History of Alsace

The prophecy stated below sounds like today’s newscast.

“Before the war breaks out again, food will be scarce and expensive. There will be little work for the workers, and fathers will hear their children crying for food. There will be earthquakes and signs in the sun. Toward the end, darkness will cover the earth. When everyone believes that peace is ensured, when everyone least expects it, the great happening will begin. Revolution will break out in Italy almost at the same time as in France. For some time the Church will be without a Pope.”

That last line…

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.

This last week has been a weird weather week, and not in a good way.

The sun was so hot this week, there were prefabs in London that caught fire due to the extreme heat. I remember sitting in my car at 6 in the afternoon, and it feeling like the middle of the day, and it was still too hot.

I am old enough to remember the summer of 76, it is still talked about today, as weather being so hot we weren’t allowed to use hosepipes, and could get fined if we did so. Wasting water was a crime, and I used to go to the Lido, where I could sunbathe, swim, and eat ice-cream.

It wasn’t even as hot then as it was on Tuesday.

I went to an indoor swimming pool with with daughter, and granddaughter, and the cold water was…

The Fight

i forgive the stars
for not shining the brightest
at nights when i needed a little
spark of light outside my bed
when my world is at its darkest.

i forgive the rainbow
for not showing up
the day storm took away
my strength, my hope, my dreams
when my world is crumbling down.

i forgive the sun
for forgetting to rise
the morning my soul was broken
by night’s traumatic dreams
and false promises of a better morning
when my world is in complete halt.

and i forgive myself
for not taking on
the fight anymore.

P. S.

When I saw Reena’s Photo Collage Prompt, I immediately thought of the many battles I fought. The kind of fight that seemed to be an endless battle; and I wonder maybe it’s time to just stop. Just stop fighting.

Maybe. Or maybe not.

If ever I do it doesn’t…

The Writer’s Games have ended! I sent in my final story yesterday. Guests have left. The family is busy. I might get a full day to myself. And the sun is out. 😎

Hope and Despair

Last week, inspired by some abstract art books:

• Abstraction in Art & Nature by Nathan Cabot Hale
• Abstracts In Acrylic & Ink by Jodi Ohl
• Abstract Art Painting by Debora Stewart

and a writing tip from the Shaelin Writes video below, I started a new phase in my study of abstract nouns. Each week I’ll choose two opposing abstract nouns and attempt to create an image representing both. To inspire my work, I’m expanding my research from studying the words, history, and philosophy, to collecting music, paintings, photographs, poems, stories, scientific studies, and anything else I can find that represents the two abstractions, immersing myself for the week.

Using the statement, “Find the despair…

The year
raging in our window.
The street is on fire,
shots pounding against sky,
the stars screaming again,
and somewhere, someone
singing.

Close the blinds,
turn up the TV,
maybe next year will be better,
but I can’t convince it so.
We have no part.

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Written for The Weekend Writing Prompt.