A Sunday Smile you wore it for awhile.

Just a girl eager to learn who likes to sit on roofs and soothe her strawberry plant.

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On Call In The Wild: Animals Play Doctor, Too

Wild animals use all sorts of plants and naturally occurring substances to ward off illness. There are chimpanzees that eat rough leaves to purge themselves of parasites and bees that coat their hives with resin to beat back bacteria.

"It may actually open our eyes to finding drugs that we could potentially use," says de Roode. After all, animals "have been studying medicine much longer than we have."

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30 Things People Don’t Realize You’re Doing Because You Actually Have Self-Respect Now

Taking control of your narrative. Correcting people when they misspeak, or have incorrect assumptions about you and your life.

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Invisibilia

What happens when you discover a part of yourself that is so different from who you think you are? Do you hold on to your original self tightly? Do you explore this other self? Or do you just panic?

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Remembering the World’s Oldest Person, in the Objects She Left Behind

Emma Morano’s singular achievement in life may have been perseverance. She lived for 117 years, crediting her longevity to raw eggs and her lack of a husband. She died on April 15.

Secret to longevity...never getting married?? I buy it. 

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No bills, and so many riches: the lessons of living like a prince outside cyberia | Mark Boyle

Reading Thoreau by the fire, fishing for trout, and playing chess over blackberry wine are just some of the pleasure I’ve found since I turned my back on tech

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“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/12/the-missing-piece-meets-the-big-o-shel-silverstein/

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How To Knoll, from Tom Sachs.

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Bohemian Grove ~~~~ Freaky deaky stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove

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Meet the New Generation of Gender-Creative Kids

Lindsay Morris photographs a rural retreat where kids are free to be themselves

[mikeseriously]

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Stranger Things did things to me. 

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The Dangers of Using a Sticker Chart to Teach Kids Good Behavior

Priming children to expect rewards for doing what they're told can harm their social skills in the long term.

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The Last Word: Bev Bos

I’ve been working with preschoolers for 50 years. When Roseville Community Preschool first opened, what the parents really wanted was a place to take their children so that they...

“If you really want to be a good parent, set some time aside every single day to lie on the bed and just listen to your kid. Make it their time. Don’t be in a rush. Time is fleeting, so you really need to pay attention.”