Chapters From My Life.

Exercising in space – Quick video about my favorite fitness machine

#Fitness is critical in space! Watch this #SpeedyTime video as I transform the multi-modal ARED machine during my workout. The Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED), simulates free-weight exercises in normal gravity. In space we exercise 2 hours every day in order to maintain our muscle and bone mass. Our favorite part about exercising in space is of course, the view!

To learn more about the ARED, please visit https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1001.html

sometimes i just want to pinch myself - I can’t believe this is where I live & that these are the kinds of coffee shop views I get to experience on a daily basis. 

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Power should act and not talk.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (via philosophybits)

MoMA was magical ✨

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

here at last is a true lover

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) “Vase with Irises” (1890) Oil on canvas Post-Impressionism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

I got these from various used/rare book sales on campus 🍂 (fun fact, i got a 4$ hardcover copy of the secret history at one of those sales, which is great bc my paperback is super annotated and worn out)

Testing and Training on the Boeing Starliner : NASA astronaut Mike Fincke works through a check list inside a mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner during a simulation at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 21, 2019. (via NASA)