We can't boil every injury down to one single blow.
What hurts us is cumulative. It happens over time. We absorb blow after blow, shock after shock, painful hit after hit.
But even then, even if we know exactly how we got here, it doesn't mean we can fix it.
You can't heal every wound and that's okay.
even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken.
My house says to me,
"Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me,
"Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road,
"I have no past, nor have I a future.
If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;
and if I go there is a staying in my going.
Only love and death will change all things.
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God.
I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction.
The Christian god may exist;
so may the gods of Olympus,
or of ancient Egypt,
or of Babylon.
But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other:
they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge,
and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
Infections are like sleeping monsters.
You can't see them. You can't feel them, but you must do everything in your power to contain them.
Because when the monsters wake up, they are out of control.
All that time you spent convincing yourself the sleeping monster wasn't real, it was gathering strength. The infection was spreading.
The monster's awake now and there's nothing you can do about it.
The organs in the human body have entirely different functions.
The cells which make up those organs act independently of each other.
But in a healthy body, seemingly independent cells quietly depend on the functioning of the others. Because when one system stops working, the others can't function for long.
Just as organ systems are codependent for survival, so are human beings. Studies have shown that our happiness and health depends on our relationships not just functioning, but thriving.
Sometimes the best we can do is bear each other's burdens and ease each other's pain.
And hold each other's hands in the dark.
Despite its complexity, the human brain can only focus on about one thing at a time.
Monotasking reduces distraction, sharpens attention, and allows us to operate at peak performance.
But a brain can adapt and thrive in just about anything.
Even chaos.
Scientists call the conscious thought needed to complete everyday tasks working memory. That memory is always there, always there, getting you through the chaos of life, one task at a time.
In some ways, that's all life really is, all the things we do strung together.
this day, this night, this moment.
This connection, this family, this friendship.
And somewhere, in all of that, sleep and wake up.
Sleep and wake up.
Sleep.
And wake up.
There's a stage you go through during child birth and it's the toughest part. It's called the transition stage.
You've been pushing so hard and so long that you're exhausted, spent and there's nothing to show for your effort.
During this transition stage, it feels like you can't go on, but it's only because you're very nearly there.
Transition is movement from one part of life to a whole new one. And it can feel like one long, scary, dark tunnel.
But you have to come out the other side because what's been waiting there might be glorious.
We cover up injuries with tape and gauze to protect the injury, to prevent infection, to prevent further suffering.
The hard part comes when you have to rip the bandage off, because that can hurt like hell.
It hurts to tear that bandage off. We don't wanna see what's underneath.
But maybe it's not the fear of the pain that holds us back.
Maybe, we're really afraid to see if the wound underneath is still open, or if it might actually be healing.
in the original stories his powers were down to his molecular density and low gravity as Krypton's high gravity not only means he is stronger here, his body is far more dense - it also means he is heavy
The yellow sun radiation bit was added around the late 70s, it was gravity plus yellow sun - it was much later the became, or seemed to be, the sole reason for the powers
under a red sun, on a planet with low gravity he would have strength and be heavier and denser, also indestructible
maybe without yellow sun he wouldn't be able to fly or have heat and x ray vision, but the other powers would be there
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound - these would all still be there due to the gravity
presumably there would still be super speed, able to run fast, if not fly
Like John Carter, when he went to Mars he was strong and could jump high, due to the lower gravity
When you consider that the Rumours album was largely about the breakups and relationship problems the band was going through at the time
Lindsey and Stevie breakup
Stevie affair with Mick may have started as early as this
Lindsey started seeing "a young lady" saying "and that put some wind in my sails" - which he attributes why Never Going Back Again ended up being a more upbeat song that it originally might have been
Christine and John splitting up and later divorcing
Christine seeing that engineer and John not wanting him around
Mick splitting up with his wife Jennie
Sideline - Jenny is the sister of Patty Boyd, wife of George Harrison, who had the affair with Clapton, and who Leyla is written about .
Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "Second Hand News" Lindsey Buckingham Buckingham 2:43 2. "Dreams" Stevie Nicks Nicks 4:14 3. "Never Going Back Again" Buckingham Buckingham 2:02 4. "Don't Stop" Christine McVie Buckingham and C. McVie 3:11 5. "Go Your Own Way" Buckingham Buckingham 3:38 6. "Songbird" C. McVie C. McVie 3:20 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "The Chain" BuckinghamMick FleetwoodC. McVieJohn McVieNicks Buckingham with Nicks and C. McVie 4:28 2. "You Make Loving Fun" C. McVie C. McVie 3:31 3. "I Don't Want to Know" Nicks Nicks with Buckingham 3:11 4. "Oh Daddy" C. McVie C. McVie 3:54 5. "Gold Dust Woman" Nicks Nicks 4:51 Total length: 39:03
"Silver Springs", written by Stevie Nicks, has been included on some reissues as either track 6, 7 or 12 of the album, depending on the pressing.
Many cassette releases swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know".
Bruce Banner in the comic risked his life to save an innocent person
This is why the Hulk was heroic
David Banner in the show experiments on himself trying to gain super strength
They are not the same Banner, not the same person in the two universes
For this film we see Bruce do the heroic thing and get the gamma that way
For the MCU, the Ed Norton version, we see him experiment on himself
Which is disappointing
The MCU Hulk has a lot of the TV show in it, even the David B on the letters from Sam, the moving from town to town
And while Ed looks and acts like Bruce from the books, Mark looks more like David from the show
And the Don't make me angry line gets referred of course
Vincent and Butch
Vincent is a professional killer with a code of conduct and honour
He had just been part of executing Brad and was there for Jules killing "flock of seagulls" - he then killed Marvin, albeit by accident, but he showed no remourse
After killing two and witnessing one, as part of his job, he goes for breakfast then to the club to meet Marsellus and deliver the case
He is in a bar owned by his "Firm" where he respected, a feared hitman, and Butch is just a Paluka, being paid to throw a fight, making him a piece of shit, a coward
Also Vince kills men, and Butch has never killed anyone, he is a "virgin" in a hitman's eyes
Butch is no no warrior like the family men who owned the watch before him, he has never been to war - his war is the ring, but still a game, and now he is giving up what honour he had to throw the fight for money
Butch had already arranged and decided not to throw the match before this meeting - his phone call about being the "rich and prosperous" as well as having the girlfriend fetch the stuff and have an escape route planned shows this - he made the bets on himself to win and took the bribe money to make a nice fund for himself
The war watch story is also key - he had the watch and wanted to be a warrior so would never have thrown the match
The reason he is so calm with Marsellus doing the "pride" speech is because it all meant nothing - he was not going to throw the fight
He kills Floyd in the match - he is now a killer, even if this was incidental and accidental
Point is though, once he knows he shows no remorse - a capacity he always had
When he meets Vincent in the apartment he is no longer a "virgin" so he is able to kill Vince with his own gun - now a true Warrior
In the shop he could leave Marsellus to be killed, and that would end the search for him - his honour as a Warrior, which he always had, compels him to go back and rescue the helpless, not innocent, but helpless man, who is being tortured and will then be killed.
He kills one of the men and is ready to kill the second before "step aside, Butch" - he has gone from a "virgin" to a warrior who has killed two enemies
Keep in mind he was also ready to kill Marsellus with his own gun before being stopped
Wolf Moon
Said to be so named for the wolf's hungry howling during mid-winter nights.It’s thought that January’s full Moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time. It was traditionally believed that wolves howled due to hunger during winter, but we know today that isn’t accurate.
Howling and other wolf vocalizations are heard in the wintertime to locate pack members, reinforce social bonds, define territory, and coordinate hunting.Another fitting name for this full Moon is the Center Moon. Used by the Assiniboine people of the Northern Great Plains, it refers to the idea that this Moon roughly marks the middle of the cold season.
Other traditional names for the January Moon emphasize the harsh coldness of the season: Cold Moon (Cree), Frost Exploding Moon (Cree), Freeze Up Moon (Algonquin), and Severe Moon (Dakota). Hard Moon (Dakota) highlights the phenomenon of the fallen snow developing a hard crust.
Canada Goose Moon (Tlingit), Great Moon (Cree), Greetings Moon (Western Abenaki), and Spirit Moon (Ojibwe) have also been recorded as Moon names for this month
That’s what they used to call it when your parents got divorced, even though getting divorced was the least broken they ever did.
I wondered if broken homes were where broken people lived.
to this day I still wonder.
You can build a house out of anything, make it as strong as you want, but a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with and people can be broken,
what's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed, that no matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again.
13 full moons,
including three supermoons (Jan 3, Nov 24, Dec 23)
and a rare Blue Moon in May,
plus two total lunar eclipses,
spectacular celestial events like the Wolf Supermoon to start the year
and a big finale Cold Moon,
Key Moon Events in 2026:
HAIL, January, that bearest here
On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year
That weeps and trembles to be born.
Hail, maid and mother, strong and bright,
Hooded and cloaked and shod with white,
Whose eyes are stars that match the morn.
Thy forehead braves the storm's bent bow,
Thy feet enkindle stars of snow.
For January I give you vests of skins,
And mighty fires in hall, and torches lit;
Chambers and happy beds with all things fit;
Smooth silken sheets, rough furry counterpanes;
And sweetmeats baked; and one that deftly spins
Warm arras; and Douay cloth, and store of it;
And on this merry manner still to twit
The wind, when most his mastery the wind wins.
Or issuing forth at seasons in the day,
Ye’ll fling soft handfuls of the fair white snow
Among the damsels standing round, in play:
And when you all are tired and all aglow,
Indoors again the court shall hold its sway,
And the free Fellowship continue so.
January
Janus am I; oldest of potentates;
Forward I look, and backward, and below
I count, as god of avenues and gates,
The years that through my portals come and go.
I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow;
I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen;
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow,
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.
All is quiet on New Year's Day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
I will be with you again
Under a blood red sky
I will begin again
I'm singing hallelujah
Amen, the angels say
Let's hope tomorrow finds us
For all of our tomorrows
And what was yesterday
I'm saying seize the day
Come on, let's live forever
Where does the time go
It's New Year's Day
