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my goal was to challenge readers on the definition of forgiveness and what it truly means to forgive.
she is all him and none of me. And that single thought terrifies me.
Being a mother is a lesson in impossible love.
as a child, bedtime stories consisted not of tales from Dr. Seuss or Walt Disney but of the poems of Frost, Tennyson, and Brooks.
in physics, entanglement. It’s when two subatomic particles interact. They can separate, but no matter how far apart they get, they are always connected.”
“Boats are like women,
They are unpredictable. You can’t figure either of them out by reading a book…
Feels true 😂
I engulf myself in Whitman, Yeats, and Dunbar anguishing over language I can’t fully comprehend, tamping down my desire for literal certainty with every stanza I read.
Castor and Pollux, two of the brightest stars in the Gemini constellation,
Trauma doesn’t punch a clock, but you can set your watch by it. It works overtime most of the time. But it can be smothered like a whisper in a storm.
the aurora borealis
In science, uniformitarianism is the idea that things change relatively slowly. Today is not very different from yesterday, which is not very different from the day before.
The idea of mortality affects everyone differently. Rarely are we privy to the moment of our death. Most of the time, death sneaks up on us like a sneeze.
engage visitors in the golden ratio and provide an opportunity for everyone to enjoy the wonder of mathematics
my heart aches that she doesn’t feel encouraged to exhibit her abilities, a condition I caused.
something about him intrigues me. There are not many people who can recite poetry from memory.
The Navier-Stokes equation is one of the Millennium Problems, seven of the most intriguing unsolved mathematical problems in the world. As an incentive, the Clay Mathematics Institute in Massachusetts has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who successfully solves one.
Whitman believed that the worth of life lies in life and suggested that in our brief time on earth, we should contribute to the greater good. We decide what happens.
Trauma changes you, hardens you, leaves its scars.
Celestial mechanics is a branch of astronomy that deals with the motion of objects in outer space and dictates that when two objects collide, there’s always collateral damage.”
to the photon, no time will have passed from when it was emitted to when you absorbed it. From the point of view of the photon, the time of its emission and the time of its absorption is the same. They happen simultaneously.”
when Uranus was forming, something, and we’re not sure what, smashed into it. The impact was so forceful that its axis tilted by ninety-eight degrees. It still spins but on its side. There’s no other planet in our solar system that’s tilted that much.”
