Endings are cathartic. Without an ending there can’t be a new beginning. We have to celebrate every season of our lives.
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Daily Archives: February 2, 2024
Tragic, Quaint and….Funny? | NANMYKEL.COM
One of my favorite pasttimes as a child was reading a sad story to my sister and bawling together at the top of our lungs. The most effective vehicle for this cathartic endeavor was entitled The Dog of Pompeii, in which a boy is forced to leave his dog behind on the shores under erupting Vesuvius.
Our imaginations constructed with horrified relish the scenario in which the dog arrives on the scene, finds his master has left him, and is engulfed in flames with great sorrow.
One can only speculate as to the needs for grief expression that were met by us in this tragic-quaint and somewhat comic manner… (More)
(3) Ep 41 – The Midnight Special Episode | November 9, 1973 – YouTube
Poetoholic – yaskhan
In my heart Words break down They fall apart I nurse them back to poetry
Source: Poetoholic – yaskhan
Richard Scolyer: Melanoma doctor’s high-stakes gamble to cure his brain cancer
Neurosurgeons soon confirmed it wasn’t just any brain tumour, but “the worst of the worst” – a subtype of glioblastoma so aggressive most patients survive less than a year.
Devastated but determined, he and Dr Long set out to do the impossible: to save his life by finding a cure.
And it may sound crazy, but the Australian researchers have done it before, with melanoma.
“It didn’t sit right with me… to just accept certain death without trying something,” Prof Scolyer says.
“It’s an incurable cancer? Well bugger that!”
Source: Richard Scolyer: Melanoma doctor’s high-stakes gamble to cure his brain cancer
Ban on Chinese land ownership in Florida blocked by federal court – AsAmNews
New single-dose dengue vaccine shows 80% protection | CIDRAP
Source: Carl Weathers dead: Rocky’s Apollo Creed, Mandalorian star dies – Los Angeles Times RIP
Cal Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” films and starred in “Predator” and “The Mandalorian,” died Tuesday at age 76.
(Richard Shotwell / Invision / Associated Press)
Source: Carl Weathers dead: Rocky’s Apollo Creed, Mandalorian star dies – Los Angeles Times
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