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She Hangs Brightly 🌙

"Whoever yous are, or whatever it is that you practise, when you actually want something, it'due south because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

― Paulo Coelho

Queen of the Jungle

I thought I had to rescue my inner child. Turns out she'due south been waiting to rescue me.

Guardian Angel (You Were Ever At that place)

She'south Come Undone (Daedelus' Daughter)

I don't know that Daedelus had a daughter, certainly there is no known myth nigh her. But we do know well-nigh the fate of Icarus, who flew also close to the lord's day….I tin can imagine his girl might have fallen from great heights too. Fortunately the sea is there to catch her.

Spread your Light. Exist the Lighthouse.

My Ever Irresolute Moons

"It isn't piece of cake to expose your soul to another, to risk such vulnerability, hoping that the other person will be able to tolerate your own irrationality. Information technology may also be hard, no thing how open minded you are, to be receptive equally another reveals her soul to you. Yet this mutual vulnerability is one of the greatest gifts of love: giving the other sufficient emotional infinite in which to live and express her soul, with its reasonable and unreasonable ways, and and then to hazard revealing your own soul, consummate with its ain absurdities." —Thomas Moore

Ariadne's Escape

The Threshold

I made this drawing based on a cool dream I had about a month ago, simply now it appears to take become almost something else—and information technology looks dissimilar than I first imagined it. Funny how working with dreams goes...fine art too. Similar engaged chat, the meaning changes as we become. Remembering the dream is just the starting point. Following the dream can take you anywhere...

In the dream, a doorway to outer space was open, all I had to do was walk through. Every bit I looked out into the darkness, I could see some others, hanging onto umbrellas, Mary Poppins fashion, which seemed to keep them from floating away entirely. I realized at that place was an umbrella waiting for me too, every bit if to tell me, if I stepped over the threshold into the unknowing, I would non actually be alone out there.

Heiros Gamos

The Matrimony of Opposites

"Encoded"

What's rising upwards in you? 🌳 Hasn't it ever been there?

Belfry of Power

The Divine Feminine

One night when I was putting my daughter to bed, we had a niggling conversation that went something like this...

Me: "You know we live in each other'south hearts, right?"

She: "Actually? And where do our hearts live?"

"They alive in our bodies."

"Where do our bodies live?"

"Our bodies live in our firm."

"Where does our house live?"

"It lives in our town."

"Where does our town live?"

"It lives in the state."

"Where does our land alive?"

"In our country."

"Where does our country live?"

"It lives in the continent."

(It was getting silly now, only we kept rolling...)

"Where does the continent live?"

"Information technology lives in the world."

"Where does the world live."

"Information technology lives in the Solar System."

"Where does the Solar System alive?"

"It lives in the Universe."

"Where does the Universe live?"

"It lives in God."

"Where does God alive?"

"In our hearts."

"So the Universe lives in our hearts?"

"Exactly."

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(And there you accept it.)

"Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion."—Rumi

"Twins" (Prints Available)

"What you seek is too seeking yous." —Rumi

"Dreams are Letters from the Soul" (Prints Bachelor)

"Behind your epitome, below your words, in a higher place your thoughts, the silence of another earth waits."—John O'Donohue

Moth/Bones

"The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the dominicus and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to lite. But depending on the amount of calorie-free you have inside, determines which lamp in the heaven your heart will swoon."—Suzy Kassem

Y'all Are What You Honey

Gratis Autumn/Sacrifice

"Falling in beloved is an enchanted feel, a sudden eruption of color in a previously black-and-white world. The alchemy of love transforms the ordinary into the mystical and the mundane into the charmed. Routine encounters suddenly occur as rich in nuance and possibility and commonplace tasks accept on new meaning and depth. Withal, merely as easy every bit we are caught upwards in this cyclone of delight, we can besides be dropped from the sky with naught but the cold, hard globe to suspension our autumn. Our dearest affair with dear affairs often forgets to take into account Plato's alarm in 'Symposium' that love is both the child of fullness equally well as of emptiness. Dear does not promise to heal all wounds and brand straight all kleptomaniacal paths. Rather, dear will oft escort you straight into the nearly wounded parts of yourself, leading you lot round and circular in some strange circuitous road right into the heart of disaster.

It is better, therefore, to divide the magic of enchantment from the experience of falling in love. We demand to know that the mystical heights to which we aspire are non necessarily dependent upon whatever ane person or any one kind of relationship. Love must be regarded every bit less the phenomenon of a particular connection, and more as a state of heart, body, mind, and soul that we are seeking to achieve. For information technology is this intensely alive country of existence, this thriving and optimistic perspective on life that nosotros enviously long for every bit we surreptitiously discover new lovers at play. We yearn to be so naive, then happy, so connected, then inspired. It is the brass ring, the gilt medal, the Academy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize rolled upwardly into one. Its source is not necessarily to be found in a lover, however. Its source can be establish within each and every one of united states."

—Katherine Woodward Thomas

"Iceberg" (Print Available)

"The purpose of life is to exist defeated past greater and greater things."—Rilke

"Diving for Pearls" (Prints Available)

"The heart of man is very much similar the body of water, information technology has its storms, information technology has its tides and in its depths information technology has its pearls likewise."—Van Gogh

Void Moon

"Each time we deny our feelings, body, dreams, and intuition, nosotros serve (an) inner tyrant. The merely way a woman can heal this imbalance within herself is to bring the light of consciousness into the darkness. She must exist willing to face and name her shadow tyrant and let information technology go. This requires a witting sacrifice of mindless attachments to ego power, financial proceeds, and hypnotic, passive living. It takes backbone, pity, humility, and time.

The challenge for the heroine is not 1 of conquest simply one of acceptance, of accepting her nameless, unloved parts that have become tyrannical because she has left them unchecked. We tin can't get through life blindly. We accept to examine all the inner conflicting parts of ourselves. Each one has dragons lurking in the shadows. It is the job of the heroine to enlighten the world by loving it—starting with herself."

—Maureen Murdock, "The Heroine's Journey"

"An Octopus' Garden" (Prints Available)

"I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade." —Ringo Starr (the Beatles)

Caged

"There is no greater desperation than bearing an untold story within you lot."—Toni Morrison

"Roaaar!"

"The truth is like a lion; y'all don't have to defend it. Permit it loose; it volition defend itself."

― Augustine of Hippo

"Dreams: Journeys by Night " (Prints Bachelor)

"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the twenty-four hours."—Carl Jung

"Fall" 🍁 9x12" (Prints Bachelor)

'There is freedom waiting for you,

On the breezes of the heaven,

And you enquire, "What if I autumn?"

Oh but my darling,

What if yous wing?'

--Erin Hanson

Respiration

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
—Sylvia Plath

"The Treasure Is the Map" (Prints Available)

"Love is our true destiny. Nosotros do not discover the meaning of life by ourselves lonely - nosotros find information technology with another."—Thomas Merton

"Moisture/Dry"

"The desert and the sea are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a identify of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a identify of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and exterior in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only goad that determines the management of eco-move is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with subconscious life.

The simply veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your backbone.

Dare to alienation the surface and sink."

~Vera Nazarian

"Both Sides At present" (prints available)

"I've looked at clouds from both sides now/From up and downwardly and all the same somehow/Information technology'southward cloud's illusions I call back/I really don't know clouds at all" —Joni Mitchell

The Wounded Healer

Across the Universe (prints available)

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you lot dream together is reality."—Yoko Ono

"The Ocean in a Drop." (Prints Available)

"Y'all are non a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a driblet."—Rumi

The Great Escape

"Warrior: I Incorporate Multitudes" (prints bachelor)

"Do I contradict myself? Very well and then, I contradict myself. I am big, I contain multitudes." —Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

"Wolf Moon"

An one-time Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life:

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil–he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, imitation pride, superiority, and ego."

He connected, "The other is expert – he is joy, peace, honey, promise, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, pity, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you–and within every other person, besides."

The grandson thought about it for a infinitesimal and then asked his granddad: "Which wolf will win?"

The erstwhile man simply replied, "The 1 yous feed."

(Native American Maxim)

(Valley of the) Blue Moon/I'll exist Your Mirror (prints bachelor)

"I'll be your mirror/Reflect what you lot are, in case you don't know/I'll exist the wind, the rain and the sunset/The light on your door to show that y'all're habitation."—Nico, The Velvet Underground

My Soul is an Aquarium 1 (Prints Available)

"The Ocean, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." —Jacques Costeau

Mid-Life Moment

Microchasm

9x12" Acryla-gouache on newspaper

My Soul is an Aquarium 2 (Prints Available)

"I will sleep no more than but arise, You lot oceans that have been at-home inside me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms."—Walt Whitman

Information technology's Not the End of the World

"The Hero's Journey" (Prints Available)

"If the path before you lot is clear, you are probably on someone else's." —Joseph Campbell

"Brain Coral" (prints available)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." —Albert Einstein

"Sleeping Beauty" (prints available)

"Maybe all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, merely one time, with beauty and backbone. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."—Rilke

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?"

The myth of Medusa is often used to limited the Shadow function of ourselves, which holds elusive, shame-riddled traits, that for whatever reason, we banished from our witting sensation when we were young. It's the function that we deem then unacceptable that we cannot even look at it (lest we turn to stone?) but will project it on others instead, seeing it out in the world so nosotros can reject it again and again, or at least collaborate with information technology in the prophylactic of separation. Nevertheless, it is still part of usa, whether we admit it or not (no ane is all good....or all bad.) Everything casts a shadow in the light, after all. Medusa is seen as irresistible beauty, tragic victim, horrible monster, and mortal threat. In the myth, the hero Perseus, with the help from the gods who accept given him some symbolic tools, holds upward a mirrored shield so that he tin see her reflection without looking directly at her, and cuts off her head.

Of grade, we tin can never kill our Shadow, but nosotros can learn to accept it so it doesn't keep wreaking havoc on our lives (and civilisation.) Taking a long look in the mirror is a first. And there are rewards for integrating the rejected parts of ourselves. After all, when Medusa's head was cutting off, Pegasus flew out of her neck! 😳 Seriously, who wouldn't want a flight horse? You lot just never know what magic the Shadow has been hiding.

Finding Her Roots

Dreamcatcher

"Y'all Hold the Keys"

"Everything in the Universe is within y'all. Inquire all from yourself." — Rumi

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your eye and try to beloved the questions themselves." — Rilke

"Thunderhead: the Collective Unconscious" (Prints Available)

"Until you brand the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and y'all will telephone call it fate"—Carl Jung

Hunter Moon

"We don't find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we discover it with another."—Thomas Merton

"There's No Place Like Habitation" (Prints Bachelor)

"No one belongs here more than than you."—Brené Brown

"Kindly Moon" (Prints Available)

"You've always had the power my honey...you lot've had information technology all forth!" —Glinda of the North (The Magician of Oz)

Keyhole/Compass/Tides/Moon (Prints Available)

"Allow's swim to the moon/Let's climb through the tide/Give up to the waiting worlds/that lap confronting our side."—Jim Morrison

Finding Balance

"Our mind must make peace with our heart before we can witness peace in the world." —Thich Nhat Hahn

Strawberry Moon

June 2020—Eclipse season

Birds of a Feather

"To confront a person with his shadow is to bear witness him his own calorie-free."—Carl Jung

"It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... Light, dark. Fearfulness, courage. Common cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself. Both and ane. A shadow on snow." —Ursula K. Le Guin

I've been thinking nearly how when we spend time solitary without distractions, we are more likely to recognize our shadows. And since nosotros are ALL going inward, literally and figuratively, nosotros are ALL going to experience elements of this. Allow them bear witness up—this is a healthy thing, if not comfortable. If you don't acknowledge and integrate these shadows, they will discover a way to make themselves known another way. Information technology'southward much easier to projection them on others, to blame, fright, judge. Information technology's as well easier to shame, repress, or run away from our "weaknesses" and less admirable parts than to learn to love (and know) ourselves more completely.

Tunnel of Love

"The ear is the avenue to the heart."—Voltaire

Drawbridge

"Your chore is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and notice all the barriers inside yourself that y'all have built against it, and embrace them."—Rumi

Mirrors

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." -Rumi 🦢

"The Mothership"

"I am certain of nothing only of the holiness of the centre's affections and the truth of the imagination."

--John Keats

Phoenix Ascent

"In order to rise / From its own ashes / A phoenix / First / Must / Fire." — Octavia Eastward. Butler

"And one time the storm is over, you lot won't recall how yous fabricated it through, how you managed to survive. You won't fifty-fifty be certain whether the tempest is really over. Only ane thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you lot won't exist the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all most." — Haruki Murakami

The Irresistible Unknown (Black Hole with Sprinkles)

Mood: Hermit

"A dreamer is one who can simply find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." —Oscar Wilde

Allison Moore Adams In world folklore, the hermit classic is known for spending his days solitary, often on a spiritual quest, split up from the ways of the globe, forging his ain path. I intended to brand the trounce on his back more than like a hermit crab vanquish, to make a joke and speak to the idea of carrying his "home" with him. But information technology looks to me more similar a snail trounce now, lighter and less protective perhaps—this too might point to the irksome-moving free energy that I relate to so much now. The pack on his back also reminds me of a bed-whorl, signifying that his option of rest is always with him. Another thing well-nigh the hermit grapheme is that once he is ready, he returns to others every bit a wise mentor, sharing what he'due south learned on his personal journey. There is a cycle to everything, he won't wander alone forever.

Altitude Adjustment

"The mountain stands eternally in our awareness, calling us toward its peak. It stirs upwards stoic and regal feelings reminding us of the long line of spirits, sages, sadhus, and gods that made their humble thrones within its snowy peaks. Beware though, as the mountain can affect u.s.a. in two ways: information technology can inspire and enliven us to rise to new heights and superlative feel…nonetheless it tin also create isolation, competitiveness, and inflated sense of self. Standing upon its heights can activate the purist and the perfectionist in us, creating separation from those we deem to be "below." No matter how high y'all arise, remember that information technology is inside the core of the mountain that the gems, minerals, and jewels reside. If yous think it's all nearly going up, yous're following the fool's path and missing the miner's magic."—Kim Krans

Sophia (Divine Wisdom)

Cosmic Mother

"We are born of love. Honey is our mother."—Rumi

The Earth of Venus

"I am rooted, simply I flow." —Virginia Woolf

"I'm Every Woman"

I noticed that a statue of a goddess that I saw in a museum recently had missing hands, arms, and head. That'south not and then unusual in itself, but it struck me every bit an classic for the Wounded Feminine in ourselves and our civilisation/world. Even if we hold her up as a mirror, she has so many faces because information technology'south been shattered. Our vision isn't clear....just i gift is that information technology IS diverse. We can collectively heal as we look at the reflections of other faces mixed with our own. I'thousand interested in brokenness as the path to wholeness....so here's trying to explore this theme. Hope it makes sense to someone else too. (At the very least, I'thousand grateful to have artillery, easily, and an actual head.) Every bit Jung said, "I would rather be whole than good."

PS This isn't but for women...we all have a feminine side that'due south survived the wars...if simply barely.

"Forget not that the earth delights to experience your blank feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
Khalil Gibran

Heart Beet

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat lucifer the beat of the universe, to lucifer your nature with Nature."

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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that'south what nosotros're really seeking. I remember that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, and then that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will accept resonances with our ain innermost beingness and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of existence alive."

—Joseph Campbell

"Where is my listen?"

"Where is my mind? Way out in the h2o, come across it swimming..." - Frank Black (The Pixies)

Echolocation (Calling All Angels)

In the Heart of a Whale

I had a dream, years ago, before my girl was born, and while I was living in England, abroad from a view of the ocean, that stayed with me for awhile. In information technology, a whale and its calf had escaped from a captivity-tank (maybe Body of water World in San Diego) and was trying to discover its way due north in the Pacific Ocean. I recognized that they were pond fairly shut to the shore by the area I'yard from and where I live again now. At the time, I wasn't having a lot of dreams that I remembered, so the fact that information technology stayed with me was something. The images bothered me. I felt concerned for them, every bit they seemed sick-equipped for the journey and the mother didn't seem to know where she was going, except that it was toward her natural state of freedom. We visited the Museum of Natural History shortly afterward and I saw a model of a pilot whale (the blazon it may have been in the dream) hanging from the ceiling. I had no answers but I think that compressed the image in my mind a niggling more.

A couple years later, visiting California, I went whale watching for the kickoff time. By now, my girl was born and I felt like I was breastfeeding 24-7 (I may accept been) which was at once life-affirming, bonding, and frustrating. When I saw the magnificent shape of a blue whale moving through the choppy h2o, I remember offset thinking: "THAT is a big breastfeeding creature…isn't that what female mammals are?" In that moment, I related to the whale as if we were sisters—it was a powerful connection for me.

The captain of the gunkhole educated us with this fun fact: The heart of a blue whale is the size of a Volkswagen Beatle. Incredible! I happened to ain a Volkswagen (a blueish 1968 Karmann Ghia) of my own when I was young…information technology was my showtime car and took me through many adventures over the years. I was very fastened to it, and all the same would dream of it years after information technology was gone.

When I began dreaming again of the sea earlier this year, I remembered these dreams and put them together. In this painting, the auto holds my girl and myself, and the mother whale is bringing us through the depths of the sea as her child stays nearby. I don't know where nosotros are going, but I feel safe. She may not know where she is going either, but she'south moving away from captivity and she'southward knows how to survive and protect her child.

Whenever I see an image of a mother whale and child together, I indicate it out to Justine. Now she also thinks of this equally our special spirit-paradigm equally a duo.

When I see an image

"Face to Face"

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every human being the reflection of his ain face up."

—William Makepeace Thackeray

I'g utterly fascinated by masks and the meanings people give them. The crazy thing is that people have been wearing invisible masks all along, but at present that nosotros are asked to wear newspaper/cloth masks temporarily in public to slow the spread of a virus there is yet no cure for, there is some outrage. Some see them as an act of compassion, some as a badge of fear. Persona is such a strong force...and won't be let go easily. I too find information technology interesting that beingness inside for so long has forced a lot of us to wait deeper within ourselves and find what may have been hiding in our ain shadows, what may have been masked by distractions, limiting stories we've told ourselves, and the personas we build to more hands/safely interface with others. Within, it'south a lot harder to embrace up our reality: fifty-fifty Zoom calls these days tin reveal how out-of-control our lives really are at abode (once our "safe places.") I personally detect it refreshing to encounter the natural —if sometimes frazzled—sides of others showing up. There's new vulnerability in the world, and I wouldn't listen keeping that. To me, this time brings forward the complicated concept of real self/false self....we don't even realize virtually of the fourth dimension which 1 we are showing. Ironically, often the people who discover us can see information technology more than we can ourselves. But that'southward how it'south always been, faces covered or non. 🎭

The Fountain

"You can never love another person unless y'all are equally involved in the cute merely difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself. There is within each of united states, at the soul level, an enriching fountain of honey. In other words, you practice not accept to go outside yourself to know what love is. This is the wellspring of beloved within the heart. Through their need for dear, people who lead alone lives ofttimes stumble upon this great fountain. They acquire to whisper awake the deep well of dearest inside. This is not a question of forcing yourself to love yourself. It is more a question of exercising reserve, of inviting the wellspring of love that is, afterward all, your deepest nature, to flow through your life. When this happens the footing that has hardened within yous grows soft again. Through a lack of love everything hardens. In that location is nothing as lone in the earth as that which has hardened or grown cold. Bitterness and coldness are the ultimate defeat.

You can search far and in hungry places for love. It is a great alleviation to know that there is a wellspring of dear within yourself. If you trust that this wellspring is at that place, y'all will and so exist able to invite it to awaken." —John O'Donohue

Man (ta) Ray

Trap Door

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear equally information technology is: infinite." William Blake

"In that location are things known and things unknown and in between are doors." -Jim Morrison

"Masked, I advance." —Rene Descartes

(mid-May 2020)

I painted this one, or at to the lowest degree started to, concluding July, when I had no thought how important masks would get within a year. I was interested in the concept of shared environments—in this case, one alien to the swimmer. If she swims with a mask, she tin detect longer in this watery globe and the giant turtle may experience safely curious with her. She may even first to blend in a bit, merely of form we know she tin can simply survive in the body of water temporarily. Her mask helps a lot.

Right at present, masks are a large deal. There's been a lot of buzz around them in America over the past few months, and information technology seems there is a bit of stigma around them still. I personally don't mind wearing one in public, but I know some people practise. We make our attachments to them for various reasons. I was trained equally an role player, and so you know I accept a LOT of ideas effectually masks and their meanings. What a loaded symbol.

Besides the obvious safety reasons, I think I like them because, for a while, I tin hide a little from the globe and non striking it so face-forward with my heart on my sleeve. This is a welcome shift.

Cosmic Crab

"Oh, mirror in the sky what is dearest?

Can the child within my eye rise to a higher place?

Can I canvas through the changin' sea tides?

Can I handle the seasons of my life?"

—Stevie Nicks

"Life is a journey upward a screw staircase; every bit we grow older we encompass the ground we take covered before, only above; every bit nosotros expect downward the winding stair below us we mensurate our progress past the number of places where we were just no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward."

—William Butler Yeats

"Fine art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement." --Joseph Campbell 🦋

Matryoshka

"Y'all accept to keep breaking your heart until it opens"—Rumi

Head/Centre/Soul

But In that location Exist Monsters!

notes, April 27

"The Thinker" in the basement. Between a rock and a hard place (a phrased based on Scylla and Charybdis myth in Homer's Odyssey) Sea Monster/Whirlpool: Major choices, both unsafe. Facing the unknown or staying in a locked house on fire? Unknown depths. Escaping the Ego. "Growing Downwards."

Sunfish

First I see sunfish, groovy unfinished mass…

Circumvoluted slowly clockwise,

I laugh in humor and horror at once…

Which part of me is this foreign beast

this surprised-looking tailless pancake head

that dives down deep to feed

Than back up to the surface into the sunday

where the birds pick parasites off it's skin?

It offers it'due south spoils to the sky earlier moving down again,

this is its gift, this is its life.

"Flower Moon"

"The moon, like a flower in sky's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night."

— William Blake

May total moon, 2020

Duality

"Duality is always secretly unity."—Alan Watts

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Theories of Relativity

"Time is an illusion"—Albert Einstein

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Theories of Relativity

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take yous everywhere."—Albert Einstein

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