Anti-communist resistance in Poland, 1980s

Don't bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars

Ernest Hemingway

A stellar structure known as the ‘Hand of God’ is a nebula of energy and particles blown by a pulsar left behind after a star exploded in our Milky Way Galaxy.

First, life has no meaning from a cosmic perspective. Our lives may have meaning to one another, but they have no broader point or purpose. We are insignificant specks in a vast universe that is utterly indifferent to us. The limited meaning that our lives can have is ephemeral rather than enduring.

Excerpt From: Benatar, David. “The Human Predicament”

Comet Leonard

Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971, Vietnam War

Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some stage set, and that’s our version of the past. Of course models decay, and they change. And so we’re constantly reshaping the past. Because the past is us. The past is our foundation

It did not scream, it did not run.  It only stood there, staring at the waters of salvation and refusing to enter, as the smell of burning flesh filled the air.

Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos (1960-63) in Madrid, Spain, by Miguel Fisac