Park Rangers Understand That Cryptids Can Share Traits With Their Mundane Cousin Species

Don’t be the reason someone feels insecure. Be the reason someone feels seen, heard, and supported.

Cleo Wade

Billionaires are a disease, not a success.

Robber barons of yore built hospitals and libraries, established public parks and museums. They felt bad for stealing.

Note: Andrew Carnegie built 1700 libraries across America.

Today's unethical and ruthless mega-rich do nothing.

Jane Austen’s handwritten manuscript of Persuasion

Am I a person? Or am I just a bunch of my favorite quotes glued together?

for Odysseus’ name to become synonymous with journey; Odyssey- he has lost his humanity; even after he dies and his body burnt to ashes on a pyre he won’t enter Hades. he will be damned to a thousand more journeys, a thousand more trials and a thousand more deaths. his spirit floats through the plays that recite his journey, echoes through the songs sung about him, his pain seeks through every epithet. Sacker of cities. Great glory of the Achaeans. Mastermind of war. Master mariner. Man of pain.

he will be damned time and time again to suffer and reach home for it to be torn out of his grasp each time. he will reach where the river styx fades into Hades and see the descent and before he can feel relief he is back where he started. He is in Troy. He is in a boat in an unfamiliar land, but it has his name. He is in Troy again, but not the same one he raided and burnt. he is floating through the aether. he is not a man anymore. nor is he monster. he is a Thing, an Ideal; akin more to Thanatos or Hypnos or Eris in he is no longer Odysseus he is the personification of journey.

If there truly are three deaths; one of the mind, one of the heart, and one of the memory. then Odysseus has become immortal and yet he begs for death. he no longer knows whether he begs for the peace of Hades or to truly be forgotten, to truly cease to be

A gathering of deities: Apollo (riding a griffin), Artemis, Leto (seated), and Hermes. Attic red-figure bell-krater in the manner of the Dinos Painter; ca. 420-410 BCE. Found at Agrigento, Sicily; now in the Altes Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

Donatella Versace, Capri, Italy, 1994 - Ph. Bruce Weber

Today's aesthetic is cassette futurism

New Penguin Shakespeare book covers by Paul Hogarth, 1984. Part 2/1

‘And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.’

Kurt Vonnegut - The Idea Killers, 1984.

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