This beautiful image shows the comet Lovejoy as it moves past the Pleiades Cluster. While the Pleiades Star Cluster has been studied for thousands of years, the comet Lovejoy was only discovered in August of 2014 by the amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy. Terry’s passion for astronomy lead him to discover the first comet from ground-based observation in over 40 years.
I like how men tell us that periods are somehow simultaneously “not that bad” and also bad enough that we shouldn’t be allowed to hold positions of power.
Oh god guys. JK Rowling is a genius, and so is this person.
the thing I love about this fandom is that there are 7 books and 8 movies to observe. so every once in a while some blessed soul finds a piece of information that makes all the magic resurface again
Mind. Blown.
Oh Lord…it’s a metaphor too. It’s symbolic of Neville holding on to his past, the horrors of what happened to his parents, of being a passive vessel for that atrocity. As if the terrible thing kept happening and would never stop happening.
When he moves forward and becomes part of his own story instead of the story of his past, his strength surges.
Since 2008, I’ve started the new year not with resolutions, but with a focus word. This word embodies the one thing I want to develop in the twelve months to come.
The word for 2015 was Try, and even though I didn’t Try as well as I probably should have, I still attribute that word for much of 2015’s successes.
(Words for previous years include: Margin, Patience, Kindness, Dare, Write, Commit, Change.)
Coming up with a word for 2016 was difficult. I wrote down a lot of things, but nothing felt quite right. I even toyed briefly with the idea of choosing multiple words—four or so—but I figured that would defeat the purpose of choosing words over resolutions.
Finally, the last week in December, I found my word:
Embrace.
My natural inclination when life is scary is to go dark and possum out. And life right now? Pretty damn scary.
But I think I need to embrace the scary. And the wonderful. And the challenging. And the fan-freaking-tastic.
