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Last night, there was a very rare full moon. The moon of January 31, 2018 was a super moon (closest approach to Earth), a blue moon (second full moon in a month), and a blood moon (reddish color due to

As a public school teacher in Virginia, every work day begins with the reading of the Pledge of Allegiance over the PA system. No one is required to act in any certain manner, but the expectation for students

Meditation+ lotus tea light holder+ incense in the air=

(Goddess profiles is an ongoing series looking into the lore, attributes, symbolism, archetypal significance, and relevance to the modern world for a diverse range of divine females) Athena ( Athena Pallas

A Virginia sunset at the park down the road

Meet Katarandak: Team BLAM! planted this hibiscus bush on May 1st of this year in celebration of Beltane. This particular floral life form received its odd name as a result of the unmistakable shared feelings

Welcome to my classroom! My name is Mr. DaoDeSam. In English 11, we will cover American Literaure and its relationship to the development of our culture. We will work chronologically through the texts

Postive thoughts for the eclipse today! Let's focus on love and togetherness and start healing the world! Our intentions matter today! Team BLAM! loves you :)

this man is going to do work this year! ( Today marks one of the biggest days of the year for me: The Dad League Draft. Among the league members are many of my oldest and dearest friends, and one of their

A few months back while rereading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil I encountered a passage in the book that seemed especially relevant to the current situation of the world today. I do not recall it catching

( Cocreated with my beloved Blair, @theblairwitch44 and the Earth Herself. Three Saturday nights past, under the full Thunder Moon, BLAM married the planet. You should not feel offended that you were not

Team BLAM arrived in California yesterday for vacation, relaxation, and celebration. Here you see the sunset sky from the view of our balcony in Corona Del Mar. Light & Love y'all! ~

In tonight's absolutely mythic episode of Game of Thrones, "The Queen's Justice," (7:3) there was one line that particularly struck me. In conversing with Tyrion Lannister atop of Dragonstone,

"It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." -Thomas Jefferson So I was listening to Ben Shapiro the other day and he said something that surprised me.

Good day to all! First thing, I want to thank my followers who have brought me to the threshold of triple digits nine days after my first Steem post. In celebrating this, I wanted to introduce all my new

I saw this video posted earlier this week and can't get it out of my head. The filmmakers, Bruno D'Amicis and Umberto Esposito, kept a camera trained on an individual tree for a year straight then created

Earlier this week, I discovered a new app called Pl@ntNet (identify.plantnet-project.org). I have been waiting for this app since the dawn of smartphone technology. I remember going out into the garden

(photo by Pavel Filatov It was one of those days for Captain Kennard. A beat cop picked up a disheveled and confused man in an alley over on the wrong side of the tracks. Apparently, he was wishing people

In this post, I wish to bring your attention to a reported example of the Mandela Effect and its existing residue. For the uninitiated, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon involving a large portion of the

Greetings, Steemians. I am Sam. Sam I be. In introducing myself, I thought a good place to start would be explaining my username briefly. DaoDeSam loosely translates from Chinese to the Way of Sam. What