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Pacific Crest Trail, north of Chinook Pass, Washington.

‘Muppet of the sea’ can inflate its own body.

This unusual species of Gulper eel has the ability to engulf large amounts of water
both to help it hoover up smaller prey and to deter any would-be
predators by making itself look much larger than it actually is.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

“Everything about me is unfinished, insufficient.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé written c. December 1905

“We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters
and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and
destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners
mute as bottles, and we still will be no less afraid… We have been
socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and
definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of
fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”

— Audre Lorde, quoted in Loving to Survive

Pallasites are some of the most beautiful
gems in the solar system, and one of the rarest type of meteorite. Only
61 are known to date, including 10 from Antarctica.

The transparent crystals encrusted in the iron-nickel matrix are the
reason why this beautiful stony-iron meteorite is often called
“celestial stained glass”.

“An eating disorder is not usually a phase, and it is not
necessarily
indicative of madness. It is quite maddening, granted, not only for
the loved ones of the eating disordered person but also for the person
herself. It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of deadly
contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A
gesture of strength
that divests you of all strength. A wish to prove that you need
nothing, that you have no human hungers, which turns on itself and
becomes a searing need for the hunger itself. It is an attempt to find
an identity, but ultimately it strips you of any sense of yourself, save
the sorry identity of “sick.” It is a grotesque mockery of cultural
standards of beauty that winds up mocking no one more than you.
It is a protest against cultural stereotypes of women that in the end
makes you seem the weakest, the most needy and neurotic of all
women. It is the thing you believe is keeping you safe, alive, con-
tained—and in the end, of course, you find it’s doing quite the op-
posite. These contradictions begin to split a person in two. Body and
mind fall apart from each other, and it is in this fissure that an
eating
disorder may flourish, in the silence that surrounds this confusion
that an eating disorder may fester and thrive.”