Day 4864: Recycled greeting cards? Really? & Narwahls!

 

"Lucy": Postage stamp, junk paper collage.

                                                                       

  

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Recycled greeting cards? Really?

Yes! I have a choice, time-wise, I can either use some generic, on-hand cards and fixing them a bit, or no cards. So, I will fix a few and send on. I think I still have the labels from about ten years ago when I first did this? So be it. Here is a step-by-step. 

original, generic card

collage additions in progress

final

The above will go to Huntington Beach artist, Mitzi Winks. 

I have already received her recycled card.

original generic card

change of face

add glasses?

final

They don’t just survive the deep, they comfort each other in it. When a narwhal panics, the whole Arctic seems to hold its breath. A sudden noise. A moment of separation. A flash of danger in the freezing blue.

And then something extraordinary happens — something so gentle, it almost feels human. Researchers watching these elusive whales noticed a pattern whenever a narwhal becomes frightened, the others swim back toward it, not away.

They gather in a tight, protective circle. They touch tusks — those legendary spiral “unicorn horns” — and press their bodies softly together. A silent, floating embrace in icy water. Scientists have a name for it social reassurance. A phrase that sounds clinical… until you see what it means. In those slow, synchronized touches, narwhals are telling each other I’m here. You’re safe. We’re together.

For an animal so mysterious that humans still struggle to track its migrations, this tenderness is astonishing. In one of the harshest environments on Earth, the “unicorn of the sea” survives not only through instinct — but through connection.

Maybe that’s the secret no one expected Even in the Arctic’s freezing silence, compassion still finds a way to speak.

"Discover the hidden world of narwhals and their incredible social bonds. Join the journey of compassion beneath the Arctic waves:

 

Thirty-one years ago? Really?

Taylor Stewart, Philip Gerard, Jason Alduenda, Zoe Girard, 

me, David Alduenda, Vu Ho, Brandon Nomura

  

 

A 6+ minute video, Foil,  here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Saffron Toucanet.

 

Thursday's Smiles ... 

 

   

 Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.