"i Have, In My Purse, A Whole Pocket Specifically To Hold Reasons To Live; It Contains, Hang On Now"

"i have, in my purse, a whole pocket specifically to hold reasons to live; it contains, hang on now"

she reaches down and hefts a small satchel-like bag, festooned with pouches and replete with pockets; she rummages into a smaller flapped exterior pocket, and extracts at first

"a letter from my husband," sent on new years of some year, undated

"a ticket from a boardwalk sideshow museum," from the last time she saw her husband, three years prior

seeds for various melon fruits, a packet for the vine of the sugar baby bush, and a packet for the fruit of the huerfano bliss plant

"and a --" her voice quavers, "an anatomical art piece,” inscribed with a prayer of well wishes from a creator held in esteem, personally received on her birthday five years prior

she pauses for several moments, wipes away some tears, sifts through the final bit of pile

"and finally this origami wallet, thing, that i made" at least four years prior, date unknown but "a couple months before" the appointment card for her hormone doctor, dated 29 july, four years prior "in the window here, at most; these things dont wear well past a season"

she holds open the pouch in one grip, carefully pushes the collection back in, chuckles to herself, extracting one last item, "a bunch of napkins i stole from a restaurant, probly fairly recently, its always a good idea to have a bunch of napkins on hand, you need 'em surprisingly often"

Masked Bobwhite Quail

.

Once thought extinct, these little feather balls are on the path to recovery. In their native home in southern Arizona there are efforts to reintroduce the species. Such a whirlwind of emotions researching them after getting to hang out with this cutie. Always incredible stumbling onto non-poster animal conservation stories after meeting them in a random place like Pennsylvania. 

.

Photographed at the National Aviary

Yaaaaalllllll!!!

CHICKENS ARE FLUORESCENT!!

Look. I’m unnaturally excited about this. I learned that owls fluoresce so I had to know: Do chickens? Google wasn’t helpful. But I have all the things I need for this experiment.

Please please please if you get photos or video of your chickens under a black light tag me or this post! I WANNA SEE!!!

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher & Peregrine Falcon

Beeper learning math. Its always so funny to me how she looks like she is paying attention 😂

king-mob

Introducing Space Tube, or Finally The World Shall Recognise My Important Ideas

For a long time, I have been excited by the idea of democratic groups (e.g. coops and unions) communicating AS groups, rather than relyin...

Wrote up my current project, group-to-group communication, called Space Tube. Can try it out by joining the demo discord servers