I Feel Blessed Knowing This Meeting Exists And Being Able To Witness It

Frederick Douglass, February 14, 1818* - February 20, 1895

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879 Series: Portraits, 1862 - 1884. Collection: Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862-1884 

Born into slavery in Maryland two hundred years ago in 1818, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, author, orator and statesman.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

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(*While the actual date of Douglass’ birth is unknown, he reportedly chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14.)

22.4.18 // ivy league dreams

January 1st, 1818 - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is published

💀 Happy 200th anniversary Frankenstein💀

breakfast in bed & monday’s WSJ

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

ig: herdrafts I’ve been reading so many ebooks during the lockdown that I’m almost get accustomed to them, despite I miss the feeling of printing papers under my fingertips. I often read in English because it appeal to me better but often I struggle when it comes to approach a book; regardless of genre, choosing what language you want to read, it has a great influence on the reading itself and perhaps on the outcome of the review. Translation sometimes can be better than the original version, maybe when you can’t enjoy the author’s writing you can read the same novel ‘touched’ by the translator work, but you can’t really understand the meaning of the prose or the difference of styles between an author to another, if you are interested in this aspect as well. In short, this was my ranting because often I can’t decide in what language to read.

What we call a “shooting star” is actually a meteor burning rapidly in our atmosphere. Here’s a picture taken by astronaut Ron Garan of a “shooting star” … from space. 

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please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future.