Three-month-old Klavan Munyisa lays in a hospital bed after surviving a bus crash in Rusape, Zimbabwe, near where a head-on collision between two buses killed 47 people. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, AP, wsj.com November 8, 2018)
Tag: Photography
It’s been a long day
Some days are like this:
you can’t move.
Can’t be moved.
What growth there is, is imperceptible.
A slow efflorescence.
— Thomas Centolella, from “Setsubun”, in Terra Firma
Notes:
- Poem: Thank you Astonishments. Photo: Julien Magre in Fisheye Magazine (via Mennyfox55)
- Definition of “Efflorescence“: the action or process of developing and unfolding as if coming into flower: Blossoming
- Related Posts: It’s been a long day
Let’s just say…Wow. (28 sec)
Back story here: How Drones Are Helping Scientists Study and Protect Endangered Whales (Thank you Christie!)
Which Platform to Grand Central?
Which Platform?
30th May 1936: A very young passenger asks a station attendant for directions, on the railway platform at Bristol. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (via Newthom)
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
With new kids, a new album, and a new look, Jeff Goldblum says he’s just a late bloomer.
“Joe Brevac, my seventh grade teacher, used to write on the blackboard a quote from Abraham Lincoln: ‘I shall study and prepare myself so that when my chance comes, I will be ready.’ Seventh grade, and that’s still –”
“You still remember it?”
“I remember it. And I’m trying to apply it.”
“And you feel ready?”
“What I’m saying is that this late-blooming business, in all aspects of my personage, I’m flowering.
~ Anthony Mason, Jeff Goldblum, 66, Living life like a jazz piece (November 4, 2018)