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  1. Glacial Grandeur

    In the Chugach Range lies the magnificent Matanuska Glacier. Creeping slowly forward at a rate of 1ft./day, this 27 miles long, 4 miles wide colossal frozen sheet births the headwaters of the Matanuska River, and is the largest glacier in the United States accessible by car. Practically in our front yard just 25 miles up the road, Ellie and I never tire of visiting this magnificent flowing river of ice. Here’s what transfixed our gaze in awesome wonder yesterday. We are blessed . . . May U […]

    abbasart.com/2026/08/24/glacia

  2. Glacial Grandeur

    In the Chugach Range lies the magnificent Matanuska Glacier. Creeping slowly forward at a rate of 1ft./day, this 27 miles long, 4 miles wide colossal frozen sheet births the headwaters of the Matanuska River, and is the largest glacier in the United States accessible by car. Practically in our front yard just 25 miles up the road, Ellie and I never tire of visiting this magnificent flowing river of ice. Here’s what transfixed our gaze in awesome wonder yesterday. We are blessed . . . May U […]

    abbasart.com/2026/08/24/glacia

  3. Glacial Grandeur

    In the Chugach Range lies the magnificent Matanuska Glacier. Creeping slowly forward at a rate of 1ft./day, this 27 miles long, 4 miles wide colossal frozen sheet births the headwaters of the Matanuska River, and is the largest glacier in the United States accessible by car. Practically in our front yard just 25 miles up the road, Ellie and I never tire of visiting this magnificent flowing river of ice. Here’s what transfixed our gaze in awesome wonder yesterday. We are blessed . . . May U […]

    abbasart.com/2026/08/24/glacia

  4. A quotation from Carl Sagan

    Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

    Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American scientist and writer
    The Demon-Haunted World, ch. 10 “The Dragon in My Garage” (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/sagan-carl/85616/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsagan #assertion #claims #disproof #disproving #excitement #inspiration #proof #proving #testing #theory #truth #validation #verification #wonder

  5. A quotation from Carl Sagan

    Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

    Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American scientist and writer
    The Demon-Haunted World, ch. 10 “The Dragon in My Garage” (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/sagan-carl/85616/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsagan #assertion #claims #disproof #disproving #excitement #inspiration #proof #proving #testing #theory #truth #validation #verification #wonder

  6. A quotation from Carl Sagan

    Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

    Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American scientist and writer
    The Demon-Haunted World, ch. 10 “The Dragon in My Garage” (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/sagan-carl/85616/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsagan #assertion #claims #disproof #disproving #excitement #inspiration #proof #proving #testing #theory #truth #validation #verification #wonder

  7. A quotation from Carl Sagan

    Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

    Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American scientist and writer
    The Demon-Haunted World, ch. 10 “The Dragon in My Garage” (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/sagan-carl/85616/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsagan #assertion #claims #disproof #disproving #excitement #inspiration #proof #proving #testing #theory #truth #validation #verification #wonder

  8. Seeing God

    Recently the sun has taken a hiatus behind the clouds, and Ellie and I took a short ride up the road for dinner. The food was scrumptious, but the cloudy day mountain vistas catered a celestial feast for the eyes no earthly menu could ever describe or serve up. The Good Book tells us, “No one has ever seen God” - 1 John 4:12 - but gazing out over creation draped in cloud shrouded wonder my soul wordlessly rejoiced ... and I caught mystical glimpse of my all loving, merciful, forgiving, […]

    abbasart.com/2026/08/20/seeing

  9. Seeing God

    Recently the sun has taken a hiatus behind the clouds, and Ellie and I took a short ride up the road for dinner. The food was scrumptious, but the cloudy day mountain vistas catered a celestial feast for the eyes no earthly menu could ever describe or serve up. The Good Book tells us, “No one has ever seen God” - 1 John 4:12 - but gazing out over creation draped in cloud shrouded wonder my soul wordlessly rejoiced ... and I caught mystical glimpse of my all loving, merciful, forgiving, […]

    abbasart.com/2026/08/20/seeing

  10. #ICYMI: A total solar eclipse + the International Space Orchestra + PJ Harvey's "Voyager" = #Science and #Wonder #SETILive

    Watch the full event: youtube.com/live/T-K8xHaOOTY

  11. #ICYMI: A total solar eclipse + the International Space Orchestra + PJ Harvey's "Voyager" = #Science and #Wonder #SETILive

    Watch the full event: youtube.com/live/T-K8xHaOOTY

  12. #ICYMI: A total solar eclipse + the International Space Orchestra + PJ Harvey's "Voyager" = #Science and #Wonder #SETILive

    Watch the full event: youtube.com/live/T-K8xHaOOTY

  13. #ICYMI: A total solar eclipse + the International Space Orchestra + PJ Harvey's "Voyager" = #Science and #Wonder #SETILive

    Watch the full event: youtube.com/live/T-K8xHaOOTY

  14. #ICYMI: A total solar eclipse + the International Space Orchestra + PJ Harvey's "Voyager" = #Science and #Wonder #SETILive

    Watch the full event: youtube.com/live/T-K8xHaOOTY

  15. “When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
    — Kim Young-ha

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ + 🌕 = 🌑

    A birdclipse. Obviously. 😉

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

    I love this question —

    #Birdclipse #Wonder #Language #Poetry #Eclipse #Sun #Moon

  16. “When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
    — Kim Young-ha

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ + 🌕 = 🌑

    A birdclipse. Obviously. 😉

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

    I love this question —

    #Birdclipse #Wonder #Language #Poetry #Eclipse #Sun #Moon

  17. “When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
    — Kim Young-ha

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ + 🌕 = 🌑

    A birdclipse. Obviously. 😉

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

    I love this question —

    #Birdclipse #Wonder #Language #Poetry #Eclipse #Sun #Moon

  18. “When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
    — Kim Young-ha

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ + 🌕 = 🌑

    A birdclipse. Obviously. 😉

    🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

    I love this question —

    #Birdclipse #Wonder #Language #Poetry #Eclipse #Sun #Moon

  19. Curiosity is our mind’s foundational attraction toward the unknown—a drive to explore reality and integrate it into a corresponding internal model of understanding. Its evolutionary counterpart is fear—not as an opposite force, but as a conditional outcome: a withdrawal from the unknown when we cannot bound the implications of engaging with it enough to guarantee perceived safety.

    athinkerinnature.substack.com/

    #curiosity #wonder #presence #neuroscience #childhood

  20. Curiosity is our mind’s foundational attraction toward the unknown—a drive to explore reality and integrate it into a corresponding internal model of understanding. Its evolutionary counterpart is fear—not as an opposite force, but as a conditional outcome: a withdrawal from the unknown when we cannot bound the implications of engaging with it enough to guarantee perceived safety.

    athinkerinnature.substack.com/

    #curiosity #wonder #presence #neuroscience #childhood

  21. Curiosity is our mind’s foundational attraction toward the unknown—a drive to explore reality and integrate it into a corresponding internal model of understanding. Its evolutionary counterpart is fear—not as an opposite force, but as a conditional outcome: a withdrawal from the unknown when we cannot bound the implications of engaging with it enough to guarantee perceived safety.

    athinkerinnature.substack.com/

    #curiosity #wonder #presence #neuroscience #childhood

  22. Curiosity is our mind’s foundational attraction toward the unknown—a drive to explore reality and integrate it into a corresponding internal model of understanding. Its evolutionary counterpart is fear—not as an opposite force, but as a conditional outcome: a withdrawal from the unknown when we cannot bound the implications of engaging with it enough to guarantee perceived safety.

    athinkerinnature.substack.com/

    #curiosity #wonder #presence #neuroscience #childhood

  23. Curiosity is our mind’s foundational attraction toward the unknown—a drive to explore reality and integrate it into a corresponding internal model of understanding. Its evolutionary counterpart is fear—not as an opposite force, but as a conditional outcome: a withdrawal from the unknown when we cannot bound the implications of engaging with it enough to guarantee perceived safety.

    athinkerinnature.substack.com/

    #curiosity #wonder #presence #neuroscience #childhood

  24. Fourteen Paintings for No One: The Most Somber Art Ever Made

    Sad art is everywhere, and it comes cheap. Somber art is rare, because somber means sorrow that keeps its shape after the tears dry, sorrow with gravity, no laugh track, no lifeline. Ask which art is the most somber of all and the question sets a brutal standard: the winner must be born of grief, must depict grief, must refuse every exit from grief, and must offer no joy and no gesture of human harmony anywhere in its making or its reception. That last clause is the killer. Art is a social act before it is anything else. A song wants an ear. The play wants a house. Every poem wants a voice to carry it. Harmony rides along in the address itself, before a single consoling note gets played, and so nearly every candidate for the darkest art in the world fails on delivery, whatever horrors it contains. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/04/four

  25. Fourteen Paintings for No One: The Most Somber Art Ever Made

    Sad art is everywhere, and it comes cheap. Somber art is rare, because somber means sorrow that keeps its shape after the tears dry, sorrow with gravity, no laugh track, no lifeline. Ask which art is the most somber of all and the question sets a brutal standard: the winner must be born of grief, must depict grief, must refuse every exit from grief, and must offer no joy and no gesture of human harmony anywhere in its making or its reception. That last clause is the killer. Art is a social act before it is anything else. A song wants an ear. The play wants a house. Every poem wants a voice to carry it. Harmony rides along in the address itself, before a single consoling note gets played, and so nearly every candidate for the darkest art in the world fails on delivery, whatever horrors it contains. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/04/four

  26. Fourteen Paintings for No One: The Most Somber Art Ever Made

    Sad art is everywhere, and it comes cheap. Somber art is rare, because somber means sorrow that keeps its shape after the tears dry, sorrow with gravity, no laugh track, no lifeline. Ask which art is the most somber of all and the question sets a brutal standard: the winner must be born of grief, must depict grief, must refuse every exit from grief, and must offer no joy and no gesture of human harmony anywhere in its making or its reception. That last clause is the killer. Art is a social act before it is anything else. A song wants an ear. The play wants a house. Every poem wants a voice to carry it. Harmony rides along in the address itself, before a single consoling note gets played, and so nearly every candidate for the darkest art in the world fails on delivery, whatever horrors it contains. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/04/four

  27. Fourteen Paintings for No One: The Most Somber Art Ever Made

    Sad art is everywhere, and it comes cheap. Somber art is rare, because somber means sorrow that keeps its shape after the tears dry, sorrow with gravity, no laugh track, no lifeline. Ask which art is the most somber of all and the question sets a brutal standard: the winner must be born of grief, must depict grief, must refuse every exit from grief, and must offer no joy and no gesture of human harmony anywhere in its making or its reception. That last clause is the killer. Art is a social act before it is anything else. A song wants an ear. The play wants a house. Every poem wants a voice to carry it. Harmony rides along in the address itself, before a single consoling note gets played, and so nearly every candidate for the darkest art in the world fails on delivery, whatever horrors it contains. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/04/four