At Some Point, You Gotta Decide For Yourself Who You’re Going To Be. Can’t Let Nobody Make That Decision

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (France 1865-1953) La bourrasque (1897) pastel on paper 38 x 44 cm

Silver repousse votive offering

Arthur Poulin, Starlight #1

Sooner or later, Sam is going to die. What are people going to say about him after he’s dead? That he was a good man? That he was a kind man? That he accomplished something great, or even that he had great aspirations that he never accomplished, but that show the goodness of his intentions in this life, in this world?

This Hubble image captures a portion of a dark nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Dark nebulae ― also called absorption nebulae ― are clouds of gas and dust that neither emit nor reflect light, instead blocking light coming from behind them. These nebulae tend to contain large amounts of dust, which allows them to absorb visible light from stars or nebulae beyond them.

Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Yukiko Noritake, Jardin d'oiseaux ( Bird Garden)

André Brasilier

The 6th Examined Life (1989)

Ross Bleckner

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

Vincent van Gogh