I Am Closer To Believing Than I Ever Was Before On The Crest Of This Elation Must I Crash Upon The Shore

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

–Edgar Allan Poe

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Oh! So, confirmed right?

(Interview with Greg Lake from Hit Parader, 1974)

I have to end the year by thanking all of you who like and reboot and respond to my obsessions. You truly saved my sanity this year. And thank you all for helping me to further understand the amazing diversity that exists in our world. My students, friends and colleagues will all benefit from what I’ve learned about neurodoversity and sexuality. This is such a brave and welcoming community, and I wish you all a very happy, and healthy New Year.

For purely selfish reasons, here’s some pics of the boys that made my year sparkle:

I rediscovered Jack! I listened to him constantly in college and spent this summer re-obsessing.

ELP. I’ve loved them for more years than I’d care to admit to. This is the year they really became part of my DNA.

They all look so happy here. Their silly goofyness makes my heart happy.

Carl. He is utterly beautiful here. My lord.

This is a favorite picture for so many reasons. They both look beautiful. Greg is just so heartbreakingly sweet, and he’s got a huge pupper in his lap.

Keith. In white. Smoldering. No other explanation needed.

Finally, my heart. The loss is still a fresh open wound.

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I’m sorry if I missed anyone! Happy New Year! 🎉

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms, was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

“It is incredible … a-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a ‘mother’,” ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , said.

“After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together,” the ecologist added. “The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,” Kahumbu added.

“The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years,” he explained.

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