Ripples on a Pondering

Ranchipur celebrates his 50th birthday and proves that age is just a number at the San Diego Zoo. Watch on YouTube.

Tony Ward RTW S/S 2016

REEM ACRA Pre-Fall 2016

Cute illustrations by Ms. Cat

Though Spazuk has spent the last 14 years developing and perfecting his soot painting technique, the creation process always has an element of random spontaneity and improvisation. source: boredpanda

Reflections of Wyoming’s Grand Tetons mountains can be seen in the Snake River. At 13,770 feet it’s peak is the second highest peak in the U.S. Photograph by Susan Taylor

There is someone out there for everybody.

Park Ave, in New York City, as seen from above where there is a split between the architecture of the city and the green of Central Park. Photograph by Kathleen Dolmatch

(noun) A German untranslatable word, vorfreude is defined as the intense euphoric sensation you experience from thinking about future plans and daydreams. This beautiful feeling is a natural reaction the human mind manifests from expectations of future pleasures and joyful anticipations, such as planning a trip, going on a date, and many other fulfilling, life-changing events.  (via nikkiharlow)

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“We broke up when she left for the Peace Corps, with the agreement that we’d revisit things when she came back from Mali. But a few days after she got home, she fell seven stories off a roof and died. She actually wrote me a letter from Mali, but it took so long to be delivered that it arrived a few days after she died. She wrote about how her anti-malarial medication was giving her these vivid dreams. In one of her dreams she was trapped in a falling elevator, and she said the last thing she thought about before she hit the ground was me.”