Day 4913: The best 3 hours & The long-beaked echidna.

"Uncle Pete & Mom": junk collage, old photo, digital.

                                                                

  

Want music?

    Click: Roy Orbison, Only the Lonely.

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"If you come here often, you know I am rummaging through too much stuff, and I often get snagged on a good memory, so here it is, from 7 years ago."

The best three hours of my day today were from 10 - 1 pm, 

on the phone with good, good friend Denise.  I had called earlier, 

but she was en route from Washington to Yuma, AZ where 

they have a winter home. We texted and arranged a good time to call. 

 

 A friend for somewhere around thirty plus years.  Do you have friends like that?  Where you know you are there for each other but life gets in the way and that's okay because we understand? She and her husband had their 43rd anniversary Thursday and are genuinely good people.

I've been smiling all day remembering our discussion of everything from politics to movies. We are on the same page. So, friends, I wish for you that special unconditional friend, and if it's been a while, maybe give them a call? You don't have to talk for three hours, but it was surely good for my soul.

Throwback Thursday: Demura Sensei's 

Costa Mesa Dojo's team to the AAU Karate National Championships, Elizabeth, N.J. 1982

Nanette Taylor, Kekai Oliver, Debbie Lair, Erin long, Steve Sidawi, Erick Kand, Kiana Oliver.

This animal shouldn’t even exist anymore. And yet… here it is.

This is Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, one of the rarest mammals on Earth, so elusive that for decades it was known only from a single museum specimen. It belongs to a tiny, ancient group of mammals called monotremes—creatures that still lay eggs instead of giving birth.

Its body feels like a contradiction. Fur and spines like a hedgehog. A long, sensitive beak packed with electroreceptors to detect insects underground. And a reproductive system closer to reptiles than modern mammals.

Scientists believe fewer than a handful may remain in the wild, hidden deep in remote mountain forests. No zoos. No backups.

No second chances. This is what survival looks like when time almost runs out. Quiet. Ancient. Fragile.

 

  

 

A 4 minute video, Mattias Adolfsson sketchbook,  here.

 

 

Just because ...

Jungle Bush Quail

 Thursday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.