Cartoon – Beached
Author: Antarctica Journal
Quote – It Smelled Like A Camel
Five blind men met a camel. Each one touched a different part of the animal. Afterward all of them recognized it as a camel. “How did you know?” someone asked. “It smelled like a camel,” said the five blind men.
Read moreCartoon – Inconvenience Stores
Guatemala: A nation in the grip of depression
Guatemalans are suffering from “an epidemic of chronic pessimism,” said Jose J. Camacho. We all seem to agree that “everything is bad, nothing is certain, everyone has a price, and something evil lurks behind every good deed.” The media fuel these perceptions by covering every new incidence of violence exhaustively, lavishing special attention on the most frightening and lurid details […]
Read morePoem – Elephant Grief
We are all creatures of this great earth — interconnected in ways beyond understanding. Take elephants. So big. So strong. And yet, when a member of the herd passes, even elephants mourn. They gather around, extend their trunks, and gently touch the tusks of their fallen friend. It’s their ritual. It’s how they heal. And it’s sad. And it’s beautiful. […]
Read moreHow elephants defy getting cancer
As the world’s largest land mammals, elephants should suffer one of the highest cancer rates—they simply have far more cells that could potentially mutate and become malignant. But new research reveals that elephants rarely get cancer—and the reason why may help in the search for human treatments. Only about 4.8 percent of elephants die from cancer, compared with up to […]
Read moreCartoon – Moving Forward
Poem – CLAIM FOR THE MEEK (By John Biscello)
CLAIM FOR THE MEEK (By John Biscello) I do not want to see the face of God. I want to see her mask, where and for whom it cracked, the causal history of lines and fissures; want to trace, with blind mute innocence, the light quartered and drawn in Braille, its grooves holding, without strain or regret, Mercy’s hidden […]
Read moreDisappointment is a part of life, but misery is by choice
“Disappointment is a part of life, but misery is by choice.”
Read moreGuns Used For Self Defense
Number of times guns are used in self-defense each year in the U.S.: 180,000
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