#agonistic

I recently witnessed an amazing event in the park. I hung around a Badger den for approximately three hours in anticipation that the mom would show up with food for her pups. What I was ultimately treated to was an event no one I know has ever seen and one that I'm unlikely to ever see again. It turns out, mom was home, digging within the den. Out of nowhere appears a male Badger intent on raiding the den and killing the pups. Whether he knew that mom was home I'll never know, but exercising extreme bad judgement, the male assaulted the den only to be met by an extremely angry mom and an epic fight occurred between the two. As you have probably guessed, mom won hands down and later the group of photographers and onlookers had a chance to find the male off from the den about 100 yards licking his wounds. I never imagined seeing something like that and the battle, as the photos show, was vicious. Don't mess with mom! The photos were processed both quickly and unartfully because there just isn't time while here to do it any other way.

We're terrified of having to live

In an ever crumbling universe

In which no matter how bad it gets,

No matter how sickly it becomes,

It just won't die.

It just won't decompose

Into something better.

That's why we believe,

That's why we teeter delusion

That some ethereal, righteous figure,

Some all-knowing, all-forgiving being,

Will just swoop in and save us.

It's the only thing we can be patient on