Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 8th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

How was your Valentine's day, I hope well. Enjoy the Valentine day art below. Salvador Carnival began on the 15th and ends on the 22nd. I added a stream, that you can see live shows from Salvador, Bahia districts. My first stageplay is ready. Tell me what you think. It is a preplay to a larger work that will be in my JiHi series. Tell me what you think.

ROSES 

https://www.deviantart.com/thebootesartvoid/art/The-Petals-Of-Tradition-948755849

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10122011@N04/52677635512/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10122011@N04/52678144266/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10122011@N04/52678144691/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/belindavick/52687513991/in/feed-508775-1676330091-3-72157721657630675

If you like the cover, consider my commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Four days before Carnival in Bahia, this was Salvador

LINK

See the Carnival in Salvador Bahia

Enjoy my first stageplay

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Onto-the-53rd-Annual-President-s-Play-950123510

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Enjoy these post Valentine's day treats

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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 7th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

I offer others questions and my answers concerning Valentines Day. And Carnival is alive and kicking in Brasil. Are you ready for your local variant?  I offer others questions and my answers concerning Black History Month. I will love to know your answers, remember you can guest comment. If you want to read the 590 page civilian complaint review board assessment to the NYPD in 2020 read above IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR. 

Happy Besooned Valentine's Day

What medium or style of art are you most obsessed with?
None, I am not obsessed to any medium or style of art. But the art I will like to be satisfied in creating that I am farthest from is literature based games. But I am romancing it, so to speak.

What love-themed artwork(s) do you believe are the most powerful, and why?
I will say love songs are the most powerful from love themed artworks. Why? At their best they are a blend of two heart felt passions wrapped in one. 
The words when best, have a comprehension that can be sung by a mute lover through their eyes or a lonely yearning person calling out in isolation. 
But, when a vocalist is at their best, they can utilize the words to emit frequencies that massage the doubts or dismissals from one who has no memory of a loving touch or provide paths for memories in the wind to re-enter the silverhaired. 
Unlike the film, the song need not be seen. 
Unlike the painting, the song touches the body. 
Unlike the book, the song has a voice when one can't imagine it on their own.
If you are interested in some love songs, consider the list in the following work, I suggest Nat King Cole, Fly Me To The Moon

Has love or obsession inspired you to create a work of art? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it!
Yes, love has inspired the following work. I am a private person. It is a gif + poetry, click to see.

If you will like something to color for Valentine's day consider the following version, please share with me if you do

If you want to listen to the poetry , I offer the following

Referral Page
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Heart-to-HeArt-Share-love-for-Valentines-Day-944781878
 

Carnival 

Salvador Carnival begins on the 15th and ends on the 22nd

And honoring Yemanya never ends, Odoya Iemanja!

Video is available at the link below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2227&type=status
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH Q&A

What Black artists have inspired you, and what about their work do you find inspiring?

For writing: Zora Neale Hurston+ August Wilson+ Dwayne McDuffie

For drawing: Jean Michele Basquiat 

For sculpting: Dahomey sculpture artist , Edmonia Lewis

For dance: Sammy Davis Jr, Gregory Hines, Michael Jackson

For photography: Gordon Parks

For Music: Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey on the Rock, Sade 

I have more but they came first to mind

Zora Neale Hurston for cognizing the value of Black Art that was being forgotten or lost during her own time, while creating art that cherished an aspect of the Black community that wasn't as in favor as other black artist or white owned media cared for.

August Wilson for the way in which Black communal life is presented complexly while unaffrontingly, I find too many Black artists write Black people as weapons. 

Dwayne McDuffie for influence on Milestone and his width of imagination.

Basquiat for his unique art way and being a fellow New Yorker, surviving for a time, the life of an artists, which can be tough

Dahomey sculpture's for an art work I like a lot they made and it is poignant to me personally.

Edmonia Lewis for never quitting while having two elements of herself that she had to accept met various resistance, and her cleopatra is magnificent.

Sammy Davis jr for how multitalented he was while always a dancer at heart

Gregory Hines for how he always presented tap dance in a street way

Michael Jackson for making dance mandatory in musical acts after him

Gordon Parks for how long it took him to begin to make it, in his 40s but he never stopped trying and reached out creatively when he did, not settling

Louis Armstrong for being relevant artistically while watching his art form change/grow/morph throughout his entire life

Marvin Gaye for telling it like it is with his art

Sweet Honey on the Rock for the soul in their voice

Sade cause she never forces the sound. 

I have many Black artist I am inspired by. 

I hope I can do as they did to me to someone else Black.

What are some of your favorite artworks that depict African American culture?

The People Can Fly written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Dianne Dillon. Virginia Hamilton in the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston kept alive stories that many Black homes had forgotten on their own intention. And she rewrote them lovely. Leo Dillon cause working with his white wife, Dianne, they just had a great sense of making art that didn't seem imitative but was accessible in intent to all. 

A few private works in my home. :) 

In what ways do you think art can be used to foster understanding and appreciation across cultures?

Art by default is messages from one or many individuals about their heritage<what they carry > or culture < what they grow> to whomever access it. 

I argue that art is meant to convey, the comprehension or appreciation some want art to instill in those who access art must come from the accessors themselves. 

I like the works of Ravel or the marches of the national socialist part of germany. But neither of said artful acts is why I don't attack french people or why I don't concur to the Nazi party. 

Art unfortunately is asked to be the peaceful bludgeon and that is unfair. 

The best way to utilize art is to allow art, the freedom of art. Said freedom will generate art work that you may oppose or dislike heavily, in my case Birth of a nation by Demille. But, it exposes the truth of the communities that create them. 

And rightly or wrongly, the truth is the beginning to any peaceful comprehension or appreciation between any, even if said duo is never reached in part or whole by one who access art. 

If you are interested in my writing , consider the following

enjoy my interpretation of a mascot for deviantart

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IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Title: Ariel Artist: RaySeb

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Title: Blackity Black Artist: Coco Michelle

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Title:  A Champion <The artist said the sword is enchanted obsidian> Artist: GDBee

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It's about trust y'all

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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 6th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

This is the month of purification. What makes you feel pure? Purity defined as unchaotic internally, not unmixed. Enjoy the events and dates for the month, remember, even old dates may have informative or fun links. The 2nd is the Festival of Iemanja in Salvador Bahia, Odoya Iemanja!.  Odoya mean mother. And it is also groundhog day. A list of groundhog day events throughout the USA is linked below for you to connect to. Note in the EVENTS AND DATES below, the Green Comet. On the 21st is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, laissez les bon temps rouler!.  I share my submitted and late entries into the promoting positivity challenge in Deviantart. Check them out below. They are varied in nature or content. Hope you enjoy. At their terminal is a question to Black history month. And the main section ends with two covers , one of thriller from Michael jackson by Wayne brady side the Postmodern Jukebox, the other of nothing else matters from Metallica by Tia Simone side the Post Modern Jukebox. If you make it that far, enjoy the surprises.

EVENTS AND DATES

• 1-Space Shuttle Colombia disaster 2003
• 2-Moon rides high- highest angle above equator ; Festival of Yemenya ; Groundhog day; A Green Comet will approach earth that hasn't been as close to earth < 42 million kilometers > since the stone age. LINK LINK2 LINK3 
• 3- New York State  prohibited slavery on this day The 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery in the United States of America outside the encarcerated, was proposed on January 31, 1865. New York is the 5th state to pass the law on Feb 3, 1865. If you live in the USA , do you know when the state you live in prohibited slavery? 
• 4- Moon at apogee from Earth, farthest from Earth in its elliptical orbit
• 5-Full Snow Moon - most snow in northern hemisphere, sometimes called a hungry moon cause food was scarcest.
• 7- First ballet performance in Bowery Theater , New York City , 1827, it was the Deserter, by Jean Bercher Dauberval, some say the first ballet performed in the United States of America LINK
• 8- College of William and Mary chartered in 1693, its wren building is the oldest college building in the United States of America<U.S.A.>. The college itself is the second oldest in the U.S.A. If you want to read their original charter use the following LINK
• 9- Moon on Equator- a line of the equator from earth is through the virtual center of the moon
• 10- Mercury+Pluto conjunction ; The Treaty of Paris 1763 was signed which ended the Seven Years War <1756-1763> LINK The funny thing is the USA in the Treaty of Paris 1783 became officially recognized by England, thus accepted.  The Seven Years War was a prelude to what will later be called the War to end all wars LINK
• 12-Moon at descending node- moving north to south of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky ; Abraham Lincoln born 1809
• 13- Chuck Yeager born 1923 LINK
• 14- Valentine's day LINK and ENJOY
• 15- Venus = Neptune conjunction
• 16- Moon runs low- greatest angle beneath the equator for the moon; Saturn = Sun conjunction; Nylon or Linear Condensation Polymers patented1937 #2,130,948 to Wallace Carothers , he committed suicide drinking Potassium cyanide LINK
• 17- Pluto + Moon conjunction
• 18- Mercury + Moon conjunction ; Louis Comfort Tiffany born 1848 LINK
• 19- Moon at Perigee- moon closest to earth in its orbit ; Saturn + Moon conjunction; Copernicus born 1473  he would write the De revolutionibus orbium coelestium or On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Title , Order of spheres 
• 20- Frederick Douglass died 1895 writer of Composite Nation LINK ; New Moon - Earth blocks sunlight to the moon ;  Presidents day in the USA, did Frederick Douglass's Composite Nation speech make him President Worthy ?
• 21-Neptune Moon conjunction; Mardi Gras, earliest news Link1 Link2 Link3  ; 1857 Half cent denomination discontinued in the U.S.A. 
• 22- Moon on Equator ; Venus+Moon conjunction ;  Jupiter+Moon conjunction ; Ash Wednesday ; George Washington born 1732
• 24-Moon ascending node- going from south to north of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky; Sid Meier born 1954- cocreator of the Microprose company co-developer of the Civilization game 
• 25-Uranus+Moon conjunction; Christopher Wren died 1723 the exterior of pembroke college chapel that he designed LINK
• 27- Mars+Moon conjunction

February 2nd was Yemenya Day

let us honor the Spirit of the Sea

A child of Earth

Granddaughter of the Sun

Great Grand Daughter of Nature

https://www.deviantart.com/oradiancporciuncula/art/Iemanja-829291882 

May she give me more luck 

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunset-children-stories

Do you know where the nearest Groundhog day is to your location?

https://countdowntogroundhogday.com/groundhogs-from-around-the-world

PROMOTING POSITIVITY ENTRIES

• Section 1: Prompt 1 - comment on any art I wanted , to see the various entries commented on utilize the following journal link  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-1-941477089
• Section 1: Prompt 2 - comment of unique art forms, to see the various entries commented on utilize the following journal link https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-1-Prompt-2-941478176
• Section 2: Prompt 1 - use 4 colors for 4 seasons
  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-1-947227324
• Enjoy the seasons image and the 4 seasons rondo poem

• Section 2: Prompt 2 - remake an artwork in a style- view the following journal link  to compare the original and the remake https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-2-947230376
• The remake, the character is Wise Alek, I am slowly building him or his world. I finally has his theme song

• Section 2: Prompt 3 - remaking an older art work in another style, use the following journal link to compare the older to the newer https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt-3-947235678
• The remake- a pregnant woman serenaded by a cloud

• Section 2: Prompt 4 - 5 random items to make a story, details in the process in the following link https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Positivity-December-2022-Section-2-Prompt4-947552463
• The story of, The Final Distance of The Twenty Third I.R.C.L. Tour of Earth

• Late Entries
  • Section 4: Prompt 1 - asking the composite about the black concerning the arts https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/politics/2691569/
  • Section 5: Prompt 1 - on promoting positivity https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/My-Final-Thoughts-on-Positivity-Challenge-2022-947598367

Black History Month Questions

1. Regardless to who you are, composite nation members look above to Frederick Douglass in the 20th of EVENTS AND DATES, can you name an art form that originated in the Black community in the U.S.A. that has not been embraced by other communities, non black or black from somewhere else outside the U.S.A.?
   • For example: Rap or Hip Hop or Jazz of the Banjo do not count as answers.
2. If you are Black, whether African /Asian/Indigenous to America/ male/female/young/old/latino/sino/anglo or any other non phenotypical association, are you a member of a Black owned website? 
   • What would happen if every Black person on earth joined at least one Black owned website? I am a member of the African American Literary Book Club. Owned and Administered by Troy Johnson. Let us try to get every Black person in the internet to join at least one Black owned website.

Cover of Thriller featuring Wayne Brady aside the Post Modern Jukebox

And Nothing Else Matters featuring Tia Simone side the Post Modern Jukebox

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Enjoy more Lunar New Year Celebration craft

Mui Gwai by Alice Meichi Li LINK

https://www.myplasticheart.com/214-mui-gwai-by-alice-meichi-li/ 

Red Envelope show celebrating chinese new year
https://www.myplasticheart.com/red-envelope-show-2023/

The following is Filigre Inlay from a person whose online name is Grandma Handicraft.

youtube-gyroscope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImZF2QsDk7o
tumblr- pendant
https://www.tumblr.com/ilikeit-art/705775479278452736?source=share

I read from somehwere but I have no idea if true, the following...Filigre Inlay is an intangible cultural heritage of China. This form of art was invented during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period (770-221 BC), and peaked during the Mid-Late Ming Dynasty (1435-1644).

The following is more legitimate information

The Filigre Inlay technique discussed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX41yWwGsm8

Pele saw his two grandchildren from the daughter he had out of wedlock with his maid and put said daughter in his will
https://www.ladbible.com/sport/pele-secret-daughter-will-inheritance-151288-20230117

Double dutch queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smn4juIHtuI

If you like my storytelling , consider the two following books to be read

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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 5th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

Happy Year Of The Rabbit

To any Black reader whose forebears were enslaved in the usa a question of what will you do if you got some of what is owed you? And to all artist ponderences on what will happen to Deviantart and the usage of computer programs to generate graphical content based on text prompts.

新年快乐 ( xīnnián kuàilè ) 

Happy New Year

It is the year of the Rabbit

The following are photos from Sulamain Ellison at a festival and art from cited individuals, plus a half surprise

Here is the part surprise, for those who know , it was bound  to be presented

Click the video below to hear+ see but if you want the original the following is a anchor LINK

The film

And if you are more into serials

BUT WITH ALL THIS TALK OF RABBITS... it is also the year of the cat!

Black Descended of Enslaved May get reparations for Reconstruction and post reconstruction periods like the failed war on drugs, what will you do if you were given five million dollars?
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Deviantart has been sued, so I wonder what that will mean for the website where I host alot of my art and have great art connections

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-filed-against-stability-ai-midjourney-and-deviantart-for-dmca-violations-right-of-publicity-violations-unlawful-competition-breach-of-tos-301721869.html

Some Book Reviews from Thistle and Verse

At the end of every newsletter entry this month I will post the 2022 year in review 

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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 4th edition in 2023 of the Richard Murray Newsletter. 

For all in humanity the elemental ideas of Martin Luther King jr are: Learning how to uplift every human being regardless of any racial variance to oneself, being honest about conditions between peoples or in any peoples, accepting the long process of slow change. None of said ideas are easy for most to manifest. How about you?

When I think of Marcus Garvey it is with sadness but not from failure as much as the wisdom in his elemental idea. Human beings can combine personally , individually, in all ways, but communities or collectives have their own life, their own relationship, and if you the community you are in is being oppressed by another community, you are not helping your community by fighting to remain side the community that is oppressing. In some ways, one can argue that Marcus Garvey's ideas are similar but contrapose to Martin Luther King jr's. The same in that both men truly preached non violence. But, contrapose in that MLK jr felt non violence was best when communities mixed and figured out how to be nonviolent. While Garvey , in greater wisdom, realized that the  mixing of communities is the source of the violence. Human history proves Garvey correct in that way far more than any words from me or any other.

Tananarive Due has a new short story collection. Do you have a favorite short story collection? The People Could Fly link is my favorite for it is one of the best mixed media black short story collections you will find. I read High john the conqueror tales earlier on but it was text only. The earliest Black short story collection I can think of that reflects descended of enslaved culture is Every Tongue Got To Confess link , originally collected in 1927 by Zora Neale Hurston.  I can go on a joyous rant about every tongue so I will simply say I love that book. I need to get it in a paper version one day.  If you like non english consider La Cenelles link, the earliest book of Black poetry in the usa. If you like stage or screen plays consider Black Theater USA. It has two volumes, I have both but I suggest you start with 1847 to 1938 link.  If you are still undecided have you read my short story collections? I have four 1)  Sunset Children Stories 2) Looking West and West 3) Poetry or more 3) Concrete Fables . The key to a short story collection isn't to love each story, the key is to have at least one. For example, I remember in The People Could Fly the story of the devil's daughter and the task her lover has to accomplish to satisfy her father. She helps him and they go off together.  A guilty pleasure is Le Jester from Alice Dunbar Nelson in her collection link . You may have seen a work from Tananarive Due side her husband Steven Barnes if you are a fan of the most recent Twilight Zone reboot.  Look at the clip below.

And happy year of the rabbit,the next edition i will share content to it.

Well, if any of you are Kobo writers or writers in general. Consider the Kobo Writing Life setting up for publishing success below. And, I have a few invitationals to tell you about. I will apply myself to the stageplay. I can not recall creating a stageplay before, definitely not recently. I have made screenplay's recently, but they are not the same.

Be Safe, always

MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR’S DREAM LIVED AND LIVES IN F.I.F.A. 

https://rmfantasysetpieces1.over-blog.com/2021/01/martin-luther-king-junior-s-dream-lived-and-lives-in-f.i.f.a.html

Marcus Garvey birthday note of the past

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Tananarive Due has a new short story collection coming out called The Wishing Pool.
The link to getting it preordered as well as joining in a game to make a new cover based on communal discussion , is at the following
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Writers check it out

Kobo Writing Life Question and Answer, Setting up for publishing success.
If you can't make it you can question in the kobo link in the post linked below. 
+
Finding your readers , a Kobo Writing life recap
The elements they cover and the link to the original post where you can go to the one you chose is linked below

All details in the link below, Kobo writers take advantage
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BEST FIRST SENTENCE CONTEST
Each winner will receive a 10-page critique from one of the teachers of the Master Class. The deadline for entries is May 1, 2023.

To enter the 2023 Best First sentence contest, please email your submissions to bestfirstsentence@gmail.com. You may only submit one entry. To qualify for entry you must be an ITW member or registered for ThrillerFest XVIII (2023). Winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at the CraftFest Luncheon and on social media. All winners will be notified shortly thereafter via email.
 
A few winning samples from the 2022 cohort:

I was eight years old when I decided to kill my mother; I was twenty-five when someone else did it for me. – Marie Still

She's the kind of girl who leaves graffiti on a church wall. – Amy Pendino

Nobody oversleeps the day they come to release you from prison. – David Taylor
https://thrillerfest.com/master-class/best-first-sentence-contest/
 

Holiday Royale Scriptastic Tournament

So, what do you have to do for a chance to win these fantastic prizes?
You will have to write an original script that meets the following parameters:

incorporates the theme of “celebration,” which you are free to interpret as you wish

takes place during or around a holiday, such as Valentine’s Day, Lunar New Year, a made-up jubilee, etc.

includes a castle, such as a royal palace, a sandcastle, a character named “Castle,” etc.

has at least two (2) speaking characters, so no monologues will be accepted

is between 300 and 1000 words, including any extraneous text, such as character descriptions and stage directions

NOTE: Contestants will only be allowed to enter one script each into the competition, so it’ll be important to turn in your best work!

Contest Timeline:
October 18 through February 18:
You will let us know that you want to enter the contest by commenting below.

You will write your script according to the contest guidelines listed above.

February 18:
At 11:59 p.m. (International Date Line) on February 18, the contest will end. Your script must be submitted to the Contest Folder by that time.

If you have any questions or comments,
feel free to post below or

If you have any questions or comments,
feel free to post below or
reach out to the admins,
@same-side or ChalklineChickadee, directly.

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IN AMENDMENT

If sex sells, why is it the internet has so many sites that refuse to sell it? Remember to click read more at the link

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Never Forget Hayes Pond

https://www.lumbeetribe.com/single-post/2019/01/18/this-year-marks-the-61st-anniversary-of-the-historical-battle-of-hayes-pond

Happy Birthday to Caron Wheeler of Soul 2 Soul

Here is my third creative table to see activities you may have missed

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Read Me Next Time

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If you live in the USA do you know when the state you live in passed the 14th amendment? 

The 13th amendment made slavery illegal except in incarcerations or prisons. But, the 14th amendment guaranteed the rights of all citizens or other persons in the usa. Note all other persons extends to criminals or illegal immigrants or civilians. 

The 14th amendment was proposed on June 13th 1866, New York State passed it in January 10th, 1867

Women abused in the military

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My Reply to his speech prefaced by thoughts on his time

The 12th was the Lavagem de Bonfim in Salvador

Bonfim is another name for Oxala or Obatala

Happy Belated Perihelion

It was January 4th 2023 11:17 am and the earth was 91,403,034 miles from the sun, at that moment, the Earth continued its elliptical turn but now going slightly farther from the sun to the perihelion, which will be July 6th 2023  at 4:06pm with a distance of 94,506,364 miles. To do a general thought experiment, the Earth in the year 2023 will have a solid three million mile  difference in distance to the sun. Think on that, three million miles. 

Pokemon Plushie for Charity

Bedtime with Sudowoodo 

A bookreading list is available in the description of the plushie to consider for your child

A coloring page version is linked below as well for your enjoyment

BLACK ART

click on the images for more information

Monthly Notes

• 8th - Moon at Apogee - moon is furthest from earth, elvis presley born 1935
• 9th- Connecticut became 5th U.S.A. state 1788
• 12th - Mars stationary in the sky, before appearance of retrograde/backward or  forward motion in the sky among stars; Charleston Museum, 1st museum in the USA founded 1773
• 13th- Moon on equator ; Meeting to organize the national geographic society 1888 ; saint hilary catholic saint's day, considered by some to be the patron saint of lawyers
• 14th - 40,000 pounds of liquid chocolate flooded I-40 due to overturned tanker near flagstaff arizona
• 16th - Moon descending node, crossing north to south of the ecliptic, the path of the sun in the sky ; Martin Luther King jr. Day ; 
• 17th ; Eartha Kitt born 1927 ; Benjamin Franklin born 1706
• 18th - Pluto+Sun conjunction ; Mercury  stationary in the sky, before appearance of retrograde/backward or  forward motion in the sky among stars; A 0.66 pound meteorite crashed through a doctors office in lorton virginia in 2010
• 20th- Moons run low , lowest point under the celestial equator, the imaginary expanse from earth's equator outward to infinity ; mercury+moon conjunction ; Naomi Fraley- inspiration for the 1942 poster "we can do it" spirit flew in 2018
• 21st - New Moon , sunlight blocked by earth most greatly; Moon at Perigee, moon is closest to earth; pluto+moon conjunction
• 22nd- Lunar New Year - Year of the Rabbit, everyone!... BRIGHT EYES!!!; Venus+Saturn conjunction; Uranus stationary in the sky, before appearance of retrograde/backward or  forward motion in the sky among stars
• 23rd- Venus+Moon conjunction ; Saturn+Moon conjunction; 
• 24th - Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California, 1848, starting the commonly called california gold rush
• 25th- Jupiter+Moon conjunction; Neptune+Moon conjunction ; conversion of Paul- circa 34-37 Anno domina , year of god, when Paul stopped persecuting the followers of Jesus and became a follower of Jesus
• 26th- Moon at the equator
• 28th-  Moon ascending node, south to north of ecliptic, path of sun in the sky; Uranus+Moon conjunction; Helen Hogg astroner who did important research in variable stars or globular clusters spirit flew in 1993; Thomas Aquinas, whom bertrand russell claimed in more words was a semi charlatan, saint day, gardless of criticisms, aquinas is arguably a large advocate of main structures in white european culture, like natural law, that are now throughout humanity
• 30th- the moon will eclipse mars , some call an occultation , occult comes the word meaning to hide; Mercury will have its greatest elongation to the sun, its visual distance in the sky, 25 degrees west; aviator orville wright's spirit flew 1948
• 31st- Raccoons generally mate now, the word raccoon is from a native american tongue which means one who scratches with hands; Explorer 1, first successful usa satellite launched in 1958

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HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE HIGHLIGHTED WORK OF 2022

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