Hoof capsule removed from a dead horse showing the laminar corium or sensitive laminae. The hoof capsule
forms
a casing on the ground surface of the limb that affords protection to
the soft tissue and osseous structures enclosed within the capsule.  

Photo credit: Barbara Dixon

I miss the side of you that you don’t show anyone else
that you won’t show
I miss showing you the love that has the patience to weather eternity
the love that can see everything for what it is
and is still there even after the light has gone

An ancient Peruvian mystery, involving one of the many creations by the
Nazca civilization, has been solved. By studying satellite imagery,
researchers have finally deciphered the true intention of Puquios, a
series of spiral funnels that bore deep into the soil and led to an
intricate maze of interconnected underground canals.

The system allowed the area, which faced year-long droughts, to have perpetual access to water through underground channels, reported the Huffington Post. The hypothesis will be published in Ancient Nasca World: New Insights from Science and Archaeology.

            In Your Life: A Softer Kind of Awareness

Certain eye exercises can teach people how to relax their vision
through “soft focus.” Because unhealthy energy is hard, rigid, and
stuck, it’s helpful to learn how to have “soft awareness.” I don’t mean a
woozy blissfulness, but a state of mind that is open, relaxed, and
receptive. In that state, you give yourself the best opportunity to flow
with life instead of putting up barriers and resistance.
  As
regards eyesight, hard focus is specific and particular. You take aim,
so to speak, and keep and object in your sights. Soft focus widens the
field of vision. Instead of isolating one tree, you see the whole
forest.  […]  A tightly focused mind becomes narrow and linear if it
can’t expand.
  […]
  Soft focus sees the mind as a whole. You
view thinking as if on a wide screen, accepting that any possible
thought can come along. Instead of being a problem, the endless flow of
thought becomes the fertile ground of change. The flood cannot be tamed.
Nor should we want it to be, because the glory of the mind is that it
draws from a thousand springs. Every mental event is temporary: it
exists in the moment and then vanishes. Yet, strangely enough, the
present moment is connected to eternity, because the present is the only
time that is constantly renewed.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
from ‘Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You’, (pg. 68-69); published in 2009.

Grecia the Toucan was brought to a Costa Rican animal hospital in
January 2015. He was missing the top half of his beak after being
brutally attacked by a group of young boys. After news of this cruel
attack on such a beautiful, innocent, animal gained widespread
attention, a number of 3D printing companies were eager to create a prosthetic beak for Grecia which was paid for by donations from the generous public.