 |  Adam Southworth: Hello MrsSelfridge! I wrote here because I could not get through to you any other way. I believe the site deleted my response to you again. Thankfully, I kept what I wrote this time. Thank you for such a kind and reflective response 1 day ago • Report • Link  0  Adam Southworth: This defies belief : ) The oldest trees I had heard of were the bristle-cone pine, which were said to be over 5,000 years old. This one precedes the first known civilizations!  couchpotatoewannabe: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄ Adam Southworth: Beautiful. I could get lost forever in those interlocking clusters of twigs and branches. Adam Southworth: I read that ants use light from the sky and are thought to have a kind of pedometer in their brain, which allows them to plot a precise course from one place to another, without retracing their steps. Some German and Swiss scientists extended and shortened the length of the legs of some ants; none of them made it back to their nest. Ants can travel as far as 160 feet from their nest to scavenge a carcass and search for food, and then return to a nest entrance less than a mm in diameter.  MrsSelfridge in reply to Adam Southworth: Humans think they are the brightest and best, but get lost without GPS lol.  MrsSelfridge: To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness. ~Heidi Priebe View all 4 posts MrsSelfridge: I have, more than once. Yet I think of all the internal deaths I've attended, emerging into someone exciting and frightening to discover. Adam Southworth: I'm sorry you've lost people you were close to, MrsSelfridge That must have been hard. The world is fierce and dark; though I feel this might increase strengths like courage, resilience, openness and knowledge. I can tell it takes more to make you flinch. You take things in stride that make others recoil - which makes me keen to explore your depths and reveal your ravening demon MrsSelfridge: Thank you, losing loved ones is difficult. I wish we were a culture who knows how to celebrate what we had rather than keep mourning. It is said that our emotions are a choice....but every song we loved together, every situation that reminds of a private joke, etc. etc., keeps the relationship very much alive. MrsSelfridge: " But, on the other hand, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." Albert Einstein |
