1.
Ephemeris — a poem by Amy from Bad Poetry
From the Community
Residing in what is,
what was, what will be --
the past, the here, the now.
Crumbs left and gathered,
mirrors shattered --
silhouette’s reminder --
it lives and leaves
with brightness.
Residing in pinholes
poked in ether --
glimmers of hope
twinkle, shimmer.
The moon revolves, akin.
Residing in the space
between the stars.
everything, nothing --
together a reminder that
it resides in we, in me
beneath the maple tree.
I love the simplicity of this poem. It captures pretty much all of the experiences that I arrive at time and again as I witness myself stumbling along this journey of being human.
The residing in 'what is'... how simple it is to just see what's so. The (f)actuality of what's actually happening without all the things we might make it mean.
The residing in the space between the stars... the nebulous, undefinable dust and gas and the stuff of life. The moments and the stories that makeup who we have become. Yet it isn't really who we are - we are matter and spirit, and we're here. Not really separate objects but one with the spaces in between.
The residing in everything, nothing... we are the spaces in between and the stars themselves. We are everything, and we are temporary and ephemeral and we are no(t)-things.
2.
Space Between Stars — Music by Scott William Urquhart and Constant Follower
From The Internet
It reminded me of this particular picture book edition of 'The Little Match Girl' by Hans Christian Andersen that I had as a child. I can't find an image of it anywhere, but I remember she was illustrated almost like a 3D felt stop-motion character. In one of the pages, there were these yellow-white luminous balls against a dark blue background - they were the stars against the winter sky.
I have such a memory of this - perhaps it was the first time I had felt 'shaken' and truly moved by an image and a story. I could feel her (my) smallness and insignificance in the face of the whole universe, and the desolate loneliness that comes with being human. Sometimes, you die of hypothermia.
Anyway... I hope you enjoy the video!
3.
On our oneness — a quote from Edgar Mitchell
From the Library
"The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window, every two minutes: The Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the whole 360-degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful, overwhelming experience. And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the spacecraft, the molecules in the body of my partners, were prototyped, manufactured in some ancient generation of stars. And that was an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness; it wasn't 'Them and Us', it was 'That's me!', that's all of it, it's... it's one thing. And it was accompanied by an ecstacy, a sense of 'Oh my God, wow, yes', an insight, an epiphany."
— Edgar Mitchell
Isn't it kind of bizarre? That we can go outside and look up from anywhere in the world and there's a sky? There comes a point when I just think: "This makes no sense. Why am I here at all?"
That's a question of wonder, not a problem statement. Just saying, because sometimes I confuse the two.
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Meanwhile, all of this is happening in nature.
Thanks for the restock!