Creative Connections

07/27/2025

07/22/2025

☄️ The Sky’s Grandest Dance Returns — The Perseids Are Here
From July 17 to August 23, 2025, the night sky will once again come alive, as the Perseid meteor shower streaks across our view — with a dazzling peak expected between August 12 and 13.

Often called "the best meteor shower of the year," the Perseids are born from the ancient dust trail of Comet Swift–Tuttle. As Earth crosses its path, tiny fragments hit our atmosphere at 37 miles per second, igniting into fast, glowing trails — and, if you're lucky, a few spectacular fireballs.

🌕 Yes, the moon will compete this year. The nearly full Sturgeon Moon (84% brightness) will rise early and wash out fainter meteors — but the brighter ones? They’ll still blaze defiantly through the glow. Under dark skies, expect 50–100 meteors per hour during peak time.

🕐 Best time to watch?
After midnight, before dawn — when the constellation Perseus climbs high and the show reaches full strength.

But the Perseids won’t be alone.

🌠 Two other showers — Alpha Capricornids and Delta Aquariids — will be active too.

The Alpha Capricornids may only produce 5–10 meteors per hour, but they’re famous for brilliant fireballs.
The Delta Aquariids, peaking around July 30, deliver about 20 gentle meteors per hour, often leaving long, drifting trails behind them.
📍Tips for a magical experience:
Escape city lights — choose a rural or high-altitude spot
Bring a blanket, lie back, and give your eyes 30 minutes to adjust
No need for gear — just look up and take it all in
🌌 This is more than a meteor shower — it’s a cosmic tradition that has lit up human skies for over two millennia.

07/06/2025

Canada o’ Canada 🇨🇦 🎶

06/24/2025

Who wants to join me?!

05/28/2025

It’s true that these “little notes” mean so much…A special hug

Every Tuesday at 3 p.m., Mrs. Ellis, the silver-haired librarian, would slide a handwritten note into a random book before reshelving it. No one knew it was her. “You’re braver than you think,” she’d scribble on lemon-yellow paper, tucking it into a thriller. “The world needs your laugh,” nestled inside a joke book. She’d done this for 12 years, since her husband passed...

One rainy afternoon, 14-year-old Marco flipped open a dusty atlas and found a note: “Someone out there is proud of you.” He stuffed it into his pocket. That week, his mom had been laid off, and he’d been hiding lunch money in her purse. The note stayed with him, creased but unthrown, like a secret friend...

He started visiting the library daily, hunting for more notes. Mrs. Ellis watched him quietly, noticing how he’d linger in the cookbook aisle (his mom’s dream was to open a bakery). One day, she “accidentally” dropped a note near his feet: “Follow the recipe, kid. You’ve got the ingredients.”

Marco baked her a lumpy banana loaf the next week. “For the note person,” he mumbled, pushing the tin across the desk. Mrs. Ellis smiled. “They’ll love it.”

Years passed. Marco’s mom opened her bakery, “Yellow Note Cakes,” with recipes pinned beside customer orders. Graduation day, Marco left a note in the atlas: “Thank you for seeing me.”

Mrs. Ellis retired last month. At her farewell party, the library displayed a clothesline strung with hundreds of yellow notes—found in textbooks, romance novels, even a gardening guide. A nurse wrote: “This got me through night shifts.” A single dad: “I kept your ‘You’re enough’ note in my wedding ring box.”

Now, the library’s new intern, Marco’s little sister, starts her mornings the same way: watering plants, shelving books, and hiding scraps of sunshine...

Mrs. Ellis still comes in on Tuesdays. “Found one!” she’ll say, waving a fresh note someone left for her...

Funny, isn’t it? How words meant to heal others somehow heal us too...
SYL

My daughter sent me this from the page ‘Ashtonishing’ and it had definitely resonated with me for I believe we have power to change more things than we realise… when my daughter commenced her 6 year medical degree I started slipping notes in her lunch box to tell her, shes got this!

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05/22/2025

Magic.

05/21/2025

In a moment that brought the Kennedy Center Honors to a standstill, Bruce Springsteen took the stage with nothing but his guitar, his gravel-edged voice, and a heart full of reverence. Delivering a raw, soul-stirring rendition of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” Springsteen didn’t just sing—he channeled the spirit of a generation. Every lyric felt like a lightning strike, echoing Dylan’s timeless call for justice and change. As the audience rose in awe, tears flowed freely—not just for the song, but for the man behind it and the legacy he built. This was more than a tribute. It was a torch-passing reminder that music, at its most honest, can still shake the foundations of the world.

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04/28/2025

Beautiful moment 🐳