

digg:
Skipping a rock over a frozen pond makes the coolest noise.
stick around for the surprise ending
The surprise ending decimated my sides.
the wwf’s living planet report 2014, which discovered that we’ve lost half of all the world’s wildlife in the past fourty years, showed more specifically that the population of common dormice dropped by 43 percent between 1993 and 2010.
not only are dormice vulnerable to habitat loss, but they’re hesitant to cross open fields, and the grubbing out of hedgerows in recent decades has removed the wildlife corridors between woods that has allowed the dormice to move more freely to new habitat.
dormice have very specialized diets of berries and nuts, and with less habitat they are unable to seek out enough food to fatten up before their six month hibernation (which was featured in these two posts).
photos by (click pic) andrea zampatti, richard austin x, miroslav hlávko, bengt lundberg, david kjaer and ingo ardnt
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seeing Eye Cat Adopts Blind Dog As Best Friend, Guides Him Everywhere
This is the classic story of a dog chasing a cat, though it turns the convention on its tail, so to speak.
Sooo sweet
I’m not crying you’re crying shut up
i am forcing myself to meet face to face with my solitude. no matter how hard, i have to do it. it’s a way to know myself and there’s comfort in that. sometimes my loneliness feels so heavy, i can feel it gnawing away at me, but maybe if i sit with it and face it honestly and openly, i can come to an understanding with it and be okay with it. It’s always been about surrender and humbling yourself, even to the pain residing inside you. if i take the chance, i can seize it and use it as a catalyst for growth. we’re always craving honest human connections and feel lacking without, but life is so vast and full. when i get out of my head to pay attention to the life around me, i can start to see the beauty in seemingly small things, like the way clouds can just jut out and form hazy and unobtrusive all at the same time or how the sun saturates everything with a softness while it sets. it’s subtle but i can feel connected to it. in a way, my intimacy with myself and my aloneness can lead to an expansion of myself and my connection to everything and i’m looking up.
i feel ya.