"This is your life, and it’s ending one moment at a time."

Chuck Palahniuk, from Fight Club

theanimalblog:

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) kit. Photo by PixelHawk

I DIE!

Lil’ Nessie, an African Penguin chick being fostered by a pair in our permanent resident group.

"Chuck couldn’t remember why she was so desperate to leave this life behind. She missed her aunts, she missed her bees, she missed everything she was."

The Narrator, Pushing Daisies Pilot

Built To Spill // “Traces,” from You In Reverse

“You do your best to avoid assimilation,
Guess that’s the best you can do.
And all the parts of it that matter change,
All traces disintegrate…”

(Source: Spotify)

View while wine tasting near Stellenbosch. Whatever. (at Fairview Wine and Cheese)

This day in history: 5 May 1909. Dean William Park, III tragically died in a bicycle accident before he was to attend his 25th class reunion. 

Remember that little antique prayer verse book I have with the inscriptions and pressed plant? I loved the illustrations (as I am not religious), and was able to take it from the Women’s Museum of California (formerly Women’s History Museum, in their original Golden Hill location) in San Diego several years ago after serving as a student intern and sorting through historical books.

I decided to do some digging to possibly get more information about the story of the previous owners. And…et voilà! Google delivered (surprisingly, as they were very common names and limited locations). Turns out the original owner, the father, went to MIT with the Class of 1884, and eventually migrated to Northern California for mining. Now I just wonder how the book made it’s way South…

This concludes the random historical tidbit post that is likely of no interest to anyone but myself.

(via meowzermix)

"If we see a light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of an oncoming train."

Robert Lowell, from “Since 1939,” in Day by Day

Juvenile Southern Giant Petrel. A baby dinosaur the size of a Border Collie.

Oh hai, Rocky!

"It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

Chuck Palahniuk, from Diary

Sunset over Robben Island from Dolphin Beach on Table Bay. #nofilter (at Dolphin Beach)