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World Elephant Day: Family Bonds (Part 1)

Happy World Elephant Day! 🐘✨ A gentle moment on the African savanna as a mother elephant rests her trunk reassuringly against her small calf.

📸 Photographer: Neal Cooper

.. Sometimes we try so hard to find the right direction that we forget to listen to what our own heart is telling us…Life is not a map with everything drawn out in advance. Some paths we only understand the moment we start walking them…Maybe we don't always need to know exactly where we are heading. Sometimes it's enough to know that we don't want to stay where we've stopped being happy. Even a small step in the right direction is still a step ..

In the Maasai Mara, two elephants intertwine their trunks in a gentle moment of play. The black-and-white frame accentuates the texture of their skin and their shared quiet connection

Location Maasai Mara national reserve, Kenya

Rohan Shah

Some points of interest:

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Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages have risen 3 percent since the end of 2019, Ip noted. Corporate profits over the same period have risen 50 percent.

The Economic Policy Institute calculates that since 1979 the productivity of American workers has grown 90 percent while the pay of the typical worker has grown 33 percent. Had wages tracked output, the average worker would earn $16.40 more an hour today.

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