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St Constantine Ukranian Catholic Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

for crazy cat people with limited space

"Real prayer penetrates to the marrow of our soul and leaves nothing untouched."

- Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart

And who said all the good chem jokes argon

a pair of chapel ceilings - both in wroclaw, poland

midwestern gothic moodboard

The required escape velocity of each planet.⠀⠀

(Sorry, no Kilometers 😥😥) ⠀⠀Via NASA

“People can’t anticipate how much they’ll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it. I have read about submarine crewmen who haunt the sonar room, listening to whale songs and colonies of snapping shrimp. Submarine captains dispense “periscope liberty” - a chance to gaze at clouds and birds and coastlines - and remind themselves that the natural world still exists. I once met a man who told me that after landing in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a winter at the South Pole research station, he and his companions spent a couple of days just wandering around staring in awe at flowers and trees. At one point, one of them spotted a woman pushing a stroller. “A baby!” he shouted, and they all rushed across the street to see. The woman turned the stroller and ran. Nothing tops space as a barren, unnatural environment. Astronauts who had no prior interest in gardening spend hours tending experimental greenhouses. “They are our love,” said cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov of the tiny flax plants - with which they shared the confines of Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station. At least in orbit, you can look out the window and see the natural world below. On a Mars mission, once astronauts lose sight of Earth, they’ll be nothing to see outside the window. “You’ll be bathed in permanent sunlight, so you won’t eve see any stars,” astronaut Andy Thomas explained to me. “All you’ll see is black.””

— Mary Roach. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.  (via hummeline)

"A true theologian...is someone who has tasted of God directly."

- Kyriacos Markides, Inner River