Suspiciously chunky ghost fish...
we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!! we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!
This is so violently hopeful and uplifting everyone needs to see it
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
IT'S TV TIME!
Today's bug thing is this felt embroidered snail!
My mom and her bestie have this running joke about danger snails right now and so I couldn't resist making some patches based on this little friend for the two of them!!
They were super fun and took less than an hour each, entirely out of the stash so free entertainment!
[ oc ] join the parade!
Brook's Squat Frog aka Brook's Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus brooksi), family Microhylidae, Sarawak, Borneo
- This species had not been seen for 14 years, when this individual was observed in the forest after a heavy rain. (2025)
- Max length of up to 7 cm.
photographs by Forrest Galante
Canyon wren