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why is it

that mankind

still

stumbles

around in the darkness

never thinking

about switching

on a light

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every day i discover the meaning of life and then i lose it again and then again a new day and i discover the meaning of life and lose it by night time and then again and so on

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strangers being kind to you is one of the best things ever because you know that they gain nothing from it and they probably will never see you again but they just choose to be kind

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« Hibernation allows many animals to time-travel from difficult times to plenty […but] it is something that eludes us humans. […] Is there something special about our nature that prevents us from hibernating? Will we ever know what it is like to hibernate? […] Humans have always been remarkably creative and imaginative with respect to changing their state of body and state of mind, for example by taking mind-altering drugs, entering a state of deep meditation, or even willingly changing metabolic rates […]. The lack of scientific theory behind the induction of artificial hibernation, and a poor understanding of the underlying biology, is likely an explanation for the lack of progress in this area. […]

Naturally, we are envious that so many creatures, big and small, around us have mastered and perfected the skill of hibernation, which still escapes our understanding. Is it because we are too obsessed with trying to make sense of what we can see and measure […]? Our efforts to understand hibernation go against its entire idea—to disappear, to disconnect, to stop time, to become one with the world. Is this why understanding hibernation eludes us? »

— "Could humans hibernate?" by Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, professor of sleep physiology at the University of Oxford

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12/05/24

"When you laugh, I want to transform the entire world so it will mirror you."

- Vladimir Nabokov; Gods

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natalie jurrjens

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how it feels reblogging a post that i know will appeal specifically to a certain mutual

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You are not responsible for everyone else's happiness. You don’t have to pretend you’re happy, sacrificing your well-being to cater to others needs. Adulthood has taught me that sometimes, for your sanity, you simply must disappoint people.

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Rose Robins, one of these came to visit with me this morning. So pretty, delicate, pure, delightful !

Photo source rose robin entry on mdahlem.net

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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

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November 1st, 2024

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I woke in the night and heard the rain. No more sleep then, at least for a while, so wholeheartedly did I lie and listen. For doesn't the rain descend to us importantly? What have we, in the whole theater of our inventiveness—all five continents of it—so wonderful as this machinery of the wild world: water, falling out of the sky! The wheat and the lilies grow, or don't grow, depending on it. In autumn the trees fairly blind us with their color if the year's rain has been generous. The ponds freshen, or dry to a mere succulence-marshlands or even deserts—if rain has not come richly enough, or if it has come not at all.

Mary Oliver, from "Comfort" in Long Life : Essays and Other Writings

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a chorus of pacific tree frogs.