Juanalogues - Juana

ies                 4/18/21

possibilities 

reveling in melodies

and their remedies

since the jwst is on everyone's minds right now, i want to take a second to remember voyager i, our little interstellar probe that could. it's out past the sun's reach now, traveling away from us at nearly 40,000 mph. and it carries with it the "golden record".

we knew when we sent it that it would eventually leave the solar system, and would someday -- many, many years in the future -- find another star or solar system. eventually. the laws of physics demand it.

and so we put a record of ourselves with it. just in case -- in the highly unlikely, but still possible, event that it happened upon a world with intelligent life that could understand it. our message in a bottle, cast out into the endless sea of space.

we recorded our voices, in many languages. we recorded the sounds of wild animals, of insects, of water rushing. we recorded brainwaves.

ann druyan's brainwaves, in fact. an hour of them, as she thought of all kinds of things.

she and carl sagan worked on this project together, and over the course of their work, they fell in love.

she took the time, during the recordings, to think of him, and how she felt about him.

so that love -- not just earth's existence, or its sounds, or human voices, but love -- would be sent out in our message, cast out into the ocean of space, in the distant hope that someday, somewhere, something would see it and hear us, and know us, and know how we feel.

even if voyager i never finds another life in the universe, even if the golden record is never played, i think it's important that we sent it anyway. what it says about us as a people, our hope and our optimism and our faith and our love -- we cast this all out into the stars.

"dare to cast thy bread upon the sea," indeed.

dancing in the kitchen, 4/4/24

Fun Fact Friday: Marie Curie’s remains were interred in a lead-lined coffin, keeping the radiation that was the heart of her research, and likely the cause of her death, well contained.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose

Animation by Anna Nowakowska

do you ever just feel like Grace & Lilly. x

my nevermind

4/9/22

Dumbledore: The dark forest is strictly forbidden to all students

Dumbledore: Except for detention

Dumbledore: Where you will be forced to wander around when it's darkest and scariest

Dumbledore: Doesn't that make so much sense

Dumbledore: I'm so good at rules

Dumbledore: Ten points to Dumbledore

When I see this picture, I feel comforted. This feels so familiar.

Last night, I got into some conversations with my friends about life, heaven, past lives and future lives. I will never know who or what I lived in my past or future, because the only plane that we truly know is real, and the only one we have control over is the present. But I see an image like this, I know I’ve been these before. I’ve swam in these water, basked in these iridescent light beams.

And I look foreword to the moment I get to do it all again.

4/12/24

I wrote this haiku just looking around my room.

I used Picsart for the first time with this one, and was so intrigued by the eerie nature of this head-less figure that emerged from the haiku prompt, paired with the joyful nature of everything around it.