Alligator Snapping Turtles hunt by laying motionless and
wiggling the worm-like appendage at the tip of their tongue to attract
prey. (source)

“Childhood trauma can affect a person so greatly because
of its prescence in the time of developmemt. Events that would normally
change a person become embedded in every fiber of one’s identity. It is
this time of life which is so crucial to your entire future. This is the
unique nature of C-PTSD, which doesn’t merely change a person, it
creates them. It builds every trait, interest, and understanding of the
world with this toxin. Nothing is unaffected or unaltered because all
there is to alter was created by the trauma. Moving forward is not
moving back to before the trauma, it is in every essence a rebirth and
reeducation of life itself. To move on we can not erase, because to
erase trauma’s effect we in theory erase ourselves.”

— Understanding Childhood C-PTSD

NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.

The Ovei Pod is a self contained unit with a built-in 5.1. surround
sound system, variable lighting control, climate control, luxury leather
seating and the latest flat screen technology.

The Velveteen Rabbit as quoted in Beginners (2011)

Are You Listening? Hear What Uninterrupted Silence Sounds Like

In 2005, when Hempton founded One Square Inch of Silence, he
designated a spot, a few miles up the Hoh River Trail into the rain
forest, the quietest place in the U.S. and marked it with a small, red
stone.

“Even though protecting 1 square inch seems like a very small,
insignificant amount of space,” he explains, “due to the nature of sound
and silence, it’s preserving this whole ecosystem.”

If that inch stays quiet, that means that the entire valley, and
miles around it, will be similarly intact and free of intrusive noise.
Hempton defines a naturally quiet place as one where there are 15
minutes of non-human-made sound. He estimates that there are fewer than
10 such places in the U.S.

Woven (and combined technique) sample
collection inspired by primary forest in Yakushima, Japan. All yarns
except embroidery threads are hand dyed or painted.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

— Mahatma Gandhi

These are called sprites! They’re an
upper-atmospheric phenomena that occurs during thunderstorms, where
large lightning strikes can discharge some of their energy upwards
instead of down.

“It is always appropriate to ask for
love, but to ask any other adult (including our parents in the present)
to meet our primal needs is unfair and unrealistic. Most of us emerge
from childhood with conscious and unconscious primal wounds and
emotional unfinished business. What we leave incomplete we are doomed to
repeat. The untreated traumas of childhood become the frustrating
dramas of adulthood. Our fantasy of the “perfect partner,” or our
disappointments in a relationship we do not change or leave, or the
dramas that keep arising in our relationships reveal our unique unmet
primal wounds and needs. We try so hard to get from others what once we
missed. What was missed can never be made up for, only mourned and let
go of. Only then are we able to relate to adults as adults.”

— David Richo, How to Be an Adult