She….
It’s funny how life works out. A few years ago, I would have laughed at even the possibility of being any more responsible for a child than keeping an eye on my nephews or niece for a period of time shorter than 45 minutes. The appeal of being able to pass a child back to their much more capable parent was too great.
And then four years ago, I had a relationship with a woman that I am realizing now served the mere purpose of allowing me an opportunity to change my absurd view. I’m not quite sure what clicked. I still think even the term “biological clock” is ridiculous, especially for men (apologies in advance for any perceived misogyny).
Now I wake up everyday next to a woman that I never deserved to meet, who has changed not only my view on what constitutes a family, but also has radically changed my desire to be a more integral part of my own future.
She loves me. I feel when she loves me. I hurt if I hurt her in any way. And even though she is two years younger, she has taught me so much about patience and kindness by simply allowing me to be around her and her wonderful son.
She is sleeping as I write this. She sleeps incredibly hard. I tried to wake her to tell her even half of this as it began to fill my brain. She murmured a brief recognition than she was being abruptly disturbed from her slumber, but she didn’t bother to open her loving blue eyes. I left the lamp off, slowly undressed from my work clothes as quietly as possible and meandered into the kitchen to rummage for a late dinner.
One of these days I’ll find a fitting way to express all or any of this. But for now, I’ll quietly crawl into bed next to her and wait for the sun to come up so she can kiss me goodbye before she has to leave for work.
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From Twitter* user Thomas Stephenson @tstephenson:
“We leave NPR radio playing when we leave our dog, Zuul, home alone. It took a few interesting car rides (with NPR playing) to figure out that Zuul had taught herself to sing to the Talk of the Nation theme song.”
We love it! Great job, Zuul! If NPR made collars instead of tote bags, we’d send her one for sure.
— Sarah
*Yep, Talk of the Nation is on Twitter! Find us here.
I don’t know what’s cooler: a singing dog? Or a dog named ZUUL!!?!?!?!!!
Via NPR
Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today
What?
(Source: goodnamesgone)
Via NPR
Will Ferrell delivers “More cowbell!” at the Krewe of Bacchus parade on Sunday, Feb. 19 in New Orleans.
Teehee.
Of all the years to have thought of finally going back home for Mardi Gras and actually not having gone…..
Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway
Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.
Amazing photograph.
I can’t stop looking at these.
Reeeeally looking at these.
Stunning.
Amazing. Can I get prints of these?
(Source: ollymoss)
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I wonder if they are Chewie? — Tanya
Darth Vader and Jedi Hamburgers at Quick in France
Not sure how I feel a out the bread being black….
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Orangutans, With iPads
The BBC writes of an experiment at the Milwaukee zoo where orangutans are given access to iPads so that they use basic drawing apps, and kick back and watch some primate video.
The next goal is to wire the zoo and have the orangutans video chat with others elsewhere.
Via the BBC:
“Orangutans love looking at each other,” said [conservationist Richard] Zimmerman, adding that one of the apes, 31-year-old MJ, is a fan of David Attenborough programmes.
“The orangutans loved seeing videos of themselves - so there is a little vanity going on - and they like seeing videos of the orangutans who are in the other end of the enclosure.
“So if we incorporate cameras, they can watch each other.”
Other centres, zoos and sanctuaries are said to want to get involved “immediately” and are just waiting for more devices to become available.
“We’ve been limited to Milwaukee because we haven’t been able to get enough iPads,” Mr Zimmerman said.
“We’ve been waiting for the iPad 3 to come out to make the iPad 1 really obsolete, so we can pick up a few.
Image: An orangutan, with an iPad, via ExtremeTech
Man. Primates get iPads before I do…boo.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx1ad6yt7e1qedj2ho1_1280.jpg)
Orangutans, With iPads
The BBC writes of an experiment at the Milwaukee zoo where orangutans are given access to iPads so that they use basic drawing apps, and kick back and watch some primate video.
The next goal is to wire the zoo and have the orangutans video chat with others elsewhere.
Via the BBC:
“Orangutans love looking at each other,” said [conservationist Richard] Zimmerman, adding that one of the apes, 31-year-old MJ, is a fan of David Attenborough programmes.
“The orangutans loved seeing videos of themselves - so there is a little vanity going on - and they like seeing videos of the orangutans who are in the other end of the enclosure.
“So if we incorporate cameras, they can watch each other.”
Other centres, zoos and sanctuaries are said to want to get involved “immediately” and are just waiting for more devices to become available.
“We’ve been limited to Milwaukee because we haven’t been able to get enough iPads,” Mr Zimmerman said.
“We’ve been waiting for the iPad 3 to come out to make the iPad 1 really obsolete, so we can pick up a few.
Image: An orangutan, with an iPad, via ExtremeTech
Man. Primates get iPads before I do…boo.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
Dream Big - Rubik Cube Martin Luther King Portrait
Designer Pete Fecteau, spent 40 hours configuring a monumental mosaic of Martin Luther King Jr. made entirely out of Rubik’s Cubes called Dream Big. Each cube was “reversed solved” or twisted so that one of the faces maps it’s nine stickers into the total image, that’s 38,178 stickers in total!
With a computer generated draft as his blueprint, Pete used 4,242 Rubik’s Cubes to construct the 18’ 6” x 9’ 8” piece that, once completed, weighed about half a ton.
Which leaves only one question. WHY???
So that’s how you make up for not actually being able to solve one of those….
Via NPR
About me
I am a singer/songwriter, just like everyone else here in Nashville, TN. I strive to remain creative. I seek out a muse. I hope something I have done, or will do, will interest you.
