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 On this final day of Women's History Month, I found the perfect closing statement. In a letter dated March 31, 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, regarding the Continental Congress. "I long to hear that you have declared independency.  And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.  Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.  Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." History Of course, the right to vote wouldn't come until the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920. So we remember the ladies who helped shape our history - through activism and advocacy, education and academia, the...

 For nature, and for your health, go take a walk in the park today! These photos are from previous walks, but I do intend to follow through today as well. Rancho San Rafael here in Reno. A beautiful garden park in Spokane, WA. Golden Gate Park in San Francisco We didn't get to see much, but I got a few shots in Central Park, NYC. Strawberry fields forever... Days of the Year

  Regina King Tracee Ellis Ross Viola Davis Issa Rae Marsai Martin Cynthia Erivo Janelle Monae Brandee Evans Alicia Keys Novi Brown Nicco Annan Regé-Jean Page Eddie Murphy won the Hall of Fame Award. LeBron James received the President's Award. Stacey Abrams won the first Social Justice Impact Award.

 I have two cool bits for you all today. Two years ago, scientists caught a picture of the shadow of a black hole.  And now, they have measured the magnetic field around it, and have added those details to the  original  image. They had discovered that much of the light surrounding this black hole was polarized, which they were able to use to determine the magnetic field.   Light waves wiggle, or oscillate, in all directions.  But polarized light waves only wiggle on a single plane.  Interactions between light and matter can influence the direction it takes, and magnetic fields are among such interactions. Researchers believe that the magnetic field around this black hole (M87) are strong enough to push some of the gas falling into the hole back, allowing for some escape. Link Deep in the Earth's core, scientists believe that fragments of another planet may still exist from when the two collided long, long ago. The planet is called Theia, from Gre...

  March 25 marks the downfall of Sauron, and so we celebrate. I haven't actually read The Lord of the Rings  but I have The Fellowship of the Ring  on my bookshelf, and I have read The Hobbit . And I watched the movies, of course.   I was so in awe of Galadriel... Galadriel's Song I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew. Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea, And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree. Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone, In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion. There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years, While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears. O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day; The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away. O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor. But i...

  Korea's first professional female painter and first feminist author. She was born in 1896 and was known for her confidence, intelligence, and ambition - "qualities not typically hoped for in a young Korean woman of the era."  She didn't want to be a good wife and good mother, she wanted to be an intellectual, an artist. Her parents were fairly progressive for the time, and she went to Japan at age 18 to study at Tokyo Arts College, majoring in Western oil painting. Hwaseong Fortress Gate in Suwan Landscape Harbor in Spain Dancers Carriage Throughout her life, Rha became increasingly outspoken about the traditional roles of women.  She published an essay titled "Thoughts on Becoming a Mother" in which she criticized her husband's lack of involvement in raising their children.  She wrote articles for a women's magazine arguing for more practical and comfortable designs for women's clothing. She had an affair which tarnished her image some, she wa...

 We're checking in once more because we have an eaglet in Sauces Canyon! He stays hidden in the center there but he pops up now and then.  I did have to rewind the tape though. And the eaglets at Duke Farms are growing stronger each day. The Two Harbors nest appears to have lost an egg, possibly by an accidental talon strike while landing in wind. The eagles in Big Bear Valley lost an eaglet as it was hatching.  They have one egg left as well.

The escalators of Shibuya Hikarie.   Rynshu Hiroko Koshino Jotaro Saito Ka Wa Key Tae Ashida Complete collections available  Here