The Night Sky, Energy & Dancing

A planet at 7 PM EDT
over Vermont

This winter is presenting as a winter’s winter, cold freezing temperatures with snow squalls and storms passing through the beautiful Champlain Valley of Vermont and Upstate New York. I be pleased. It is a relief to not see white sky dull light day after day, week after week.

The energy to continue blogging is nurtured by the sunshine I am grateful to see on many days this winter. Catching up on reading the many lovely blogs I follow is slowly returning as well. 

Engaging in social interaction online through blogging or the other social media platforms is important, I feel, to ones’s mental health when it is balanced with exercise and in person experiences. 

Exercise. It is not easy to be enthusiastic to layer up and get outdoors in freezing cold weather. Dancing, even in a chair, is the indoor fun that makes me smile.

The Night Sky

Earth’s satellite, the Moon 
7:00 PM EDT Vermont
facing up westward above Vermont
stars? lower left under Moon

 Last night I hurried out to empty the trash (forgot earlier). Coat zipped up. I braved the cold by the glow of the parking lot lights and scurried across the network of might be icy spots.

On the way back, I notice a very bright star in the West. It isn’t a star. The bright planet is Venus! Or is it? To the southeast, another bright object. It is a star called Jupiter, Mars or Sirius! 

Browsing online for night sky stars and planets is frustrating. Often I struggle to plot what I see with the information and photos that are posted online. I’m such a grump lately. (I shall not post on the subject of why.)

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Anyway, the night sky is full of marvelous lights. If you can get outside, and have clear skies, then consider having a look. 

Plot your location and the hour when taking photographs. Later, draw a night sky map to label the stars and planets. Note that some planets and stars are visible after sunset and before sunrise. 

Thoughts in February

 

A View Out a Winter Window

Well, here we are in the first week of February in the Northeast aka New England, maybe wondering when a blizzard will show up. I’m feeling late this month or mid March. 

Silly me.

Convoluted. An interesting word that has been showing up in my thoughts the more I watch television dramas. In acting, trying too hard, lines that are stiff like a first grader learning to read is uncomfortable to watch. Maybe the months of my not watching TV brings it out more now that I’m watching more. Some story lines regurgitate dialogue like too much sweet birthday cake sloshed down with tequila shots.

On the other hand, the television sitcoms I’ve viewed are of a much better quality. Monday night’s CBS comedy, “Poppa’s House,” is hilarious! I might use closed captions to read because I laugh so much I sometimes miss what they are saying. 

Any time if year is good to explore things for laughter and rewarding mental health opportunities. Community events can be especially comforting. Reading an in hand paper newspaper has a special feeling as does a visit to the local library.

I think we all need someplace to go besides the grocery store and dumpster to take out the trash. Our minds need other places as well.

I’ve even watched a fun game shows like “Hollywood Squares,” and “Rage the Cage.”