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“Lucy and I both felt that life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”

— When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)

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Give all your heart to your dreaming, desiring and loving

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Lion Kerub, Virgin Kerub, Eye Kerub for the Lovers Tarot card

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“Hey, wanna see a Pixie Frog?” I ask

“Sure,” you say, holding out your hands

I plop this into your arms.

“hold him like a baby, he’s heavy” I instruct you

“what,” you mutter “the fuck.”

congratulations, you have been forcibly introduced to the African Bullfrog, also

known in pet-owner circles as the Pixie Frog.

look at his little hands!

while they are indeed adorable, the nickname actually derives from the scientific name of the species (pyxicephalus adspersus), and not any positive qualities they possess.

hoo boy they don’t have many of those, lemme tell you

found throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pixie Frog lives in wet areas where they eat pretty much anything they can fit into those ginormous mouths. (this includes fish, other frogs, bugs, snakes, lizards, other frogs, rodents, unattentive birds, other frogs, and probably you too if you hold still long enough)

this is a creature born with neither fear nor conscience

and it’s no idle threat either, because Pixie Frogs can grow to 10 inches long, which is well within ‘unreasonably huge’ for an amphibian. also, unlike most frogs, Pixie Frogs have fucking teeth

ALL THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITH, MY DEARRRRR

in spite of all of this, Pixie Frogs remain popular pet animals, possibly because they will allow you to pick them up and carry them around like a newborn.

and we can respect that.

she has four of them and they’re named after her grandchildren

just, you know, make sure you count your fingers after you hold one.

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Let him in

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I guarantee he’s an asshole, don’t let him in

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Appalachian Summer, 2018, Volume Eight: Common Buttonbush. As Appalachia’s butterfly and bee magnets go, you can hardly do better than common buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), a spreading, deciduous shrub in the coffee family. Adapted to grow in the moist soil of wetland habitats, especially marshes and stream banks, buttonbush rivals and perhaps even exceeds milkweed in sheer wildlife value. An enormous variety of insects (including bees and butterflies) and hummingbirds seek the nectar from the plant’s unusual, button-like flowers, composed of numerous tubular corollas with protruding pistils fused to tightly-bunched sepals. The flowers are followed by nutlets, whose seeds are consumed by waterfowl and other birds. In addition to making a lovely (albeit somewhat rangy and irregular) ornamental shrub in native plant landscapes, the plant is used for erosion control and is cultivated as a “honey plant” by beekeepers. Due to the profusion of clustered, spherical flowers produced by the shrub in early summer and its popularity as a honey plant, buttonbush is occasionally referred to as honey bells.

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As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.