BaHee and Gloria were best friends. These two gibbons shared a habitat at the Roger Williams Zoo in Rhode Island. When Gloria started exhibiting Parkinson-like symptoms, she had to be euthanized. Bahee, once a zoo favorite (his claim to fame was giving visitors a crazy grin and a “jail high five” through the enclosure’s windows), […]
Lose yourself in the moment, find yourself in the moment. ~Buddhist Koan When she was small, I bought Izzie a beautiful, vintage tea set from an antique store in Louisville. The shop owner told me that the set was Japanese. Each of the 15 pieces is made of bone china and hand painted with blue […]
“The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden […]
Quarantine, Day 8 I am thinking about zebrafish. If you raise a zebrafish in isolation, in a boring tank with nothing to look at, it becomes depressed. It will float listlessly at the bottom of the tank for hours, staring into a corner. Add some other zebrafish or some colorful pictures just outside the tank […]
Paul McCartney dreamed the composition of his hit song “Yesterday; ” he awoke and the lyrics poured out of him like water out of a pitcher. Similarly, it’s said that Dmitri Mendeleev dreamed the construction of the periodic table of elements. Director Christopher Nolan famously keeps a dream journal; one especially lucid dream became the […]
Morpheus, the God of Dreams, is the son of Hypnos, the God of Sleep, and Pasithea, the Goddess of Rest. The ancients tell that Morpheus dozes in a cave of poppies, and, lulled into trances by the flowers’ soporific effects, transmits messages from the gods through human dreams. The Greeks referred to deep sleep as […]
