at the songbird cafe
extra pennies left
for those who might need them
along with a tiny paper crane
for those who might need this even more.
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“a master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life,
and the last thought before a man dies.”
-tor udall, a thousand paper birds
on yet another daylight savings time adjustment day
still the same number of hours in a day
no matter what you call them
each one equally valuable
priceless.
This image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park was created in the framework of the Voyageurs Wolf Project. It is an excellent illustration of how much wolf packs in general avoid each other’s range.
In Voyageurs National Park a typical wolf pack territory is somewhere around 50-70 square miles but that can vary from year to year. So that’s about the size of the areas marked with the different colors. The white line marks the boundary of the national park.
Wolf packs generally avoid being around each other unless they are fighting for food that may be in short supply. When that occurs, they may engage in battles with other packs in order to continue have their claim on a given location as well as the food found within it.
Wolves may need to shift their territory due to human activity as well. When people clear out part of their natural habitat they may have to find a new route to get to their food sources. This can also create conflicts among the various wolf packs due to overstepping their bounds.
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“for the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
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,image credit: thomas gable
sources: voyageurs wolf project, wolfworlds
spring conferences
a time for
sharing stories
of children and family.
“behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.”
-matthew jacobson
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image credit: animalchannel.com
an important kinder note.
i’ll be writing back.
—
“words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
-john dryden
an update of my progress on my book.
—
“i’m writing a book.
i’ve got the page numbers done.”
-steven wright
using
cocktail umbrellas
chop sticks
mini pumpkins
and
pancake mix playdough
kinder create something new.
—
“a child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude.”
-willa cather
never
in spite of all efforts
have i been able
to keep an orchid alive
somehow
in spite of a pot cracked
on the very first day
and
fingers crossed
trying to care for it
this tiny orchid
has survived
even thrived.
a surprise new flower emerges.
—
“patience is the art of hoping.”
-luc de clapiers
“It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before…
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field…
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now an universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
—It is the hour of feeling.’
~William Wordsworth (1770–1850), “To My Sister”
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art credit: ‘sing me a song,’ by caitlin welz-stein
my spirit animal.
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“today is an ephemeral ghost…
a strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not “exist.”
in mundane terms, it marks a “leap” in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!
but this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability…
a day of unlocked potential.
will you or won’t you? should you or shouldn’t you?
use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself.
take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”
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credits: vera nazarian, the perpetual calendar of inspiration, photo: livescience.com
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