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“Memory, all-night’s bedside tattoo artist.”
― Charles Simic, Jackstraws: Poems
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Trust in What You Can’t See — for Lent 4A
For Sunday Lent 4A
Collect
Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Reading
John 9:1-41
Reflection
It is hard to read the story of the man born blind and not…
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At some point, every dreamer learns this the hard way.
You share your big idea with someone you trust.
You explain the plan.
The vision.
The future you can already picture in your mind.
And they respond with confusion…
doubt…
or quiet disbelief.
Not because your dream is impossible.
But because they can only see life through their own limits.
People who have never imagined something bigger
will struggle to understand why you believe it’s possible.
And that’s okay.
Some visions are not meant to be explained.
They’re meant to be built in silence.
The truth is:
The bigger the dream,
the smaller the circle of people who will truly understand it.
So stop wasting energy trying to convince everyone.
Focus on the work.
Focus on the growth.
Focus on the future you’re quietly creating.
One day the results will speak louder
than every explanation you ever tried to give.
And suddenly…
people will say they “always believed in you.”
If this resonates with you,
save it or reblog it for someone chasing a dream others can’t see yet.
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Why aren’t mammals as colorful as reptiles, birds or fish?
Katherine Irving for Live Science:
Lizards, birds and fish often sport vivid colors, from neon pink to deep violet, but most mammals are fairly drab. So why don’t mammals match the vibrant hues of other animals?
A number of factors culminate in the browns, blacks and whites that make up most mammalian coats. The first has to do with color expression. Matthew Shawkey, an evolutionary biologist at Ghent University in Belgium, explained that animals generally express color in two main ways: through pigments and through structures. Pigments exist within the skin and coat of the animal itself and reflect and absorb light to create certain colors. Structural coloration, on the other hand, involves nanoscale shapes and patterns on top of skin, feathers or scales that can distort light to produce bright, iridescent colors.
Animals can use one method, or sometimes both, to express color. According to Shawkey, however, mammals don’t really use either. Of the many color-producing pigments — such as carotenoids, porphyrins and pterins — mammals have just one type: melanin. The presence of that one pigment generates all of the colors seen in mammals, Shawkey said, and its absence creates the white regions seen in animals like zebras and pandas.
Moreover, the composition of the hairs that make up mammal fur limits the structural colors mammals can display. Hair is not a complex structure like feathers, scales and skin are, so it’s not surprising that it cannot produce the nanoscale patterns necessary for structural color, Shawkey noted.
If you can’t think of any brightly-colored mammals, then you’re really just telling on yourself that you don’t know any furries
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On International Women’s Day I had the honour to see my interview broadcast on the Greek channel ‘Η Ναυτεμπορική’. Here I tell my story as the first woman with vision-loss to compete and complete Spartathlon, a legendary race in which runners go from Athens to Sparta in the footsteps of Pheidippides (or Philippides).
Once again, I thank all my friends for helping me achieve my goal and deliver a message of hope to people with vision loss, disabilities, and women.
#running #antiquity #greece #spartathlon #vision
