PERMA-GRIN...

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...is nothing to smile about.
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KNOT REALLY DEAD

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Tyler Warren crossed paths with a marooned angel last weekend and shared a moment with it comparing notes on the subjects of fin templates and the inevitable...
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"This is not a tear, I'm knot really dead... just turning into something else..."







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Note: Looks like Paul Gross & Spencer Kellogg shared a similar encounter sometime ago as well.
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DOWN PILLOW

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leg of a lizard
claws of a dog

snagged like a fish
washed up with the trash

flies on its breast
wing feathered pillow

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DEATH IS BULLSHIT (Sometimes, In Some Ways)

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Recently saw a documentary on PBS about Orca Whales— Their bodies are so full of high PCB levels that a washed up dead one needs to be treated as hazardous waste.
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A large number of the breeding adult males have died due to the effects of the PCBs, whereas the adult famales have not been so largely effected because the PCBs are fat soluble... So the nursing mother Orcas are able to rid their bodies of some of the pollutant through their milk.
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But the those PCBs are being passed on through the milk to the calves. Many of the calves never reach maturity now because the PCBs severely debilitates their immune systems. Along with that, the PCBs cause malformed reproductive systems in many of the calves that do reach maturity.
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All combined, a quagmire that is threatening the future of the species.
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Photo above from August 14, 2008 Seattle Times article, Newborn orca spotted in the San Juans
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PCB INFO LINK
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DEATH HOLDS BEAUTY (Sometimes, In Some Ways)

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Ironic how sometimes the only way we humans get the chance for a really close, naked eye, inspection of the beauty of a creature is through its death.
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And by the same token, how death sometimes offers the distance needed from something to finally be able to understand, or even appreciate it.
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On the subject of death, I've always found peace in a particular quote, by who and the exact words I don't recall, but it's something like...
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"Death is perfectly safe. It's just like slipping off a tight shoe."
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LIONS & HYENAS: JUST ANOTHER WEEKEND...

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...AT THE SERENGHETTI BEACH CLUB:
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