"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
- William Wordsworth
http://themodernword.com
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail."
- Helen Keller
"I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship.
The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.
Learned and leisured hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship.
I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community."
- Ivan Illich (Died December 2, 2002)
"Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief."
- Benazir Bhutto (became first female Prime Minister of Pakistan on 2 December 1988)
"It is not enough to have a beautiful voice. What does that mean? When you interpret a role, you have to have a thousand colors to portray happiness, joy, sorrow, fear. How can you do this with only a beautiful voice? Even if you sing harshly sometimes, as I have frequently done, it is a necessity of expression. You have to do it, even if people will not understand. But in the long run they will, because you must persuade them of what you're doing."
- Maria Callas (Born December 2, 1923)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/December#2
Hartley 2 Star Cluster Tour
Image Credit &
Copyright:
Rolando Ligustri
(CARA Project,
CAST)
Explanation:
Early in November, small
but active
Comet Hartley 2 (103/P Hartley) became the
fifth comet
imaged close-up by a
spacecraft
from planet Earth.
Continuing its own
tour
of the solar system with a 6 year
orbital period, Hartley 2 is
now appearing in the
nautical
constellation Puppis.
Still a target for binoculars or small telescopes from dark sky
locations, the comet is captured in this composite image
from November 27, sharing the rich 2.5 degree wide
field of view
with some star clusters well known
to earthbound skygazers.
Below and right of the comet's alluring green coma lies
bright M47,
a young open star cluster some 80 milion years old,
about 1,600 light-years away.
Below and left open cluster
M46 is older,
around 300 million years of age, and 5,400 light-years distant.
Hartley 2's short, faint tail even extends
up and right
toward another fainter star cluster in the scene, NGC 2423.
On November 27, Comet Hartley 2 was about 2.25
light-minutes from Earth.
Sweeping toward
the bottom of this field, by November 28 the
comet's path had carried it between M46 and M47.
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