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Saturday Surprise — Comedy Wildlife!
Every September for the past three years, I have posted some of the winning photos from the annual Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (links to prior years at bottom of post). The contest is open through June 20th, and winners are announced in September, but this year I have some preview entries that have already been received, and I thought they might make a good way to start the weekend with a smile!
“Quarantine Life” By Kevin Biskaborn
“Isolated inside with your family eager to get out and explore the world? These eastern raccoon kits are too. Just when you think there’s no more room in the tree hollow, mother raccoon appears and displays just how compact the space is. The babies clambered all over their mom and each another, struggling to take a look at the exact same time. This photo was taken in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. After…
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Al recorrer las estaciones de la vida
Google translation of title and first few lines of excellent article: As you tour the seasons of life
Live your childhood intensely, enjoy it as much as possible and make it the wonderful memory of your days, a real tale of your spring years. Live your adolescence fully, smile and be happy, and may everything be so healthy that it is noticed in your gaze, in your smile, in your words, in your dreams. Live your youth, which, slowly, like the other seasons, is brief, leaves and returns no more.
Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga
SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA
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Vive tu infancia intensamente, disfrútala todo lo posible y conviértela en el recuerdo maravilloso de tus días, en un cuento real de tus años primaverales. Vive tu adolescencia plenamente, sonríe y sé feliz, y que todo sea tan sano que se note en tu mirada, en tu sonrisa, en tus palabras, en tus sueños. Vive tu juventud, que ralmente, como las otras estaciones, es breve, se va y no vuelve más. No te quedes solo. Es triste la ausencia de recuerdos porque denotan, entonces, minutos, horas y días repetidos que, finalmente, suman años monótonos e improductivos, carentes de historia y de sentido, y peores son cuando no hay bien ni conocimiento adquiridos y practicados. Vívela con la energía e ilusión de una mañana y sin olvidar que próximos se encuentran el mediodía, el atardecer y la noche. Es inevitable…
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Knowledge
Knowledge opens the door to exploration. It is not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Master your communication skills with these small tips!
“Communication is one of the most important skills you require for a successful life.”
-Catherine Pulsifer
One word, just a word starts communication; and the unknown journey beings.
Communication is a skill.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if I called it, an indispensable part of life.
Today in my first blog ever; we are going to discuss how communication skills can be improved.
Master 7C’s
Clear (Speech)
Concise (Short & clear)
Concrete ( Fact-based)
Correct ( Grammar )
Coherent ( Logical )
Complete ( Don’t leave a topic in middle)
Courteous ( Be polite )

Listen to what people are talking earnestly.
Ask questions, relevant to the topic but don’t flood them with questions; trust me it’s intimidating!
Verbal communication Words contribute to verbal communication. Having a good vocabulary with correct grammar & sentence structure is the only thing you need for it.
Non-verbal communication It includes a couple of…
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More Police Misconduct
Insurers for the Robeson County (North Carolina) Sheriff’s Office are forking over $9 million for the role of two former officers in the wrongful convictions of two intellectually disabled men in 1983. The men were exonerated of involvement in a murder by DNA evidence in 2014. Not surprisingly, their lawyers have demanded and obtained compensation for the three decades on death row. (Note: in a state like Texas, the men might have been executed before their innocence was proven.)
The DNA evidence linked the murder to another man who lived next door to where the victim was found.
Police coerced wrongful “confessions” from the two men, then teens, which were the basis for the original conviction. The two men became suspects due to a “rumor” that they had been involved in the crime.
The town of Red Springs agreed to pay $1 million to settle its role in this case…
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Simply planting more trees isn’t going to fix climate change.
Planting a bunch of trees does not recreate a forest… A forest is more than trees… Cannot fix mechanically what we messed up by thinking about the ecology 0 earth mechanically…

Some climate activists advocate large-scale tree-planting campaigns in forests around the world to suck up heat-trapping carbon dioxide and help rein…
Simply planting more trees isn’t going to fix climate change.
Great memories at Watamu, Kenya
A few years back, we went to Watamu, a popular beach located at the coast of Kenya. Watamuis well-known for its white sand beaches and its deep blue sea. There is also the Watamu Marine National Park, a protected area and famous in Africa. Watamu is a charming town in the southern part of Malindi, which is located about 120km from Mombasa. One can take a domestic flight or a few hours drive from Nairobi to access Watamu, a place that is unique and memorable.

Since tourism is the main economic activity in this area, there is a lot to do. You can enjoy the white sand on the beach, the Indian Ocean breeze, and many activities like doing a tour of the sea with a glass-bottomed boat. Or visiting the Watamu resort, a reserve marine. TheMarine Parkis renowned and a…
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Children In Mourning
Virgin shrouds Mourning wombs Innocence cut short Parents' lap Empty broken Shoulders weary Eyes weighed Bullets strayed Nameless assail Hopes frail. When bombs fly And sirens cry Children cannot defy They wonder if they Will live to see Another dawn Play and run all day long And they wonder What the fighting is all about?
Does a Mask Really Work
It has been an even more stressful time for me as many of my relatives have been in isolation or tested positive for COVID. I know that everyone is working really hard to prevent the spread and one of the best ways we can help is by wearing our masks properly. So, in this post, I thought of writing something to aware people on the proper use of a mask.

Health experts say that wearing masks help to prevent the spread of COVID-19. And science supports the fact that using a mask could save lives, the more people wearing masks, the better. It decreases the chances of transmitting and catching the virus. But simply wearing a mask is not enough, you have to take other precautions as well, like keeping a distance from other people, keeping the room well ventilated, avoiding crowds, washing/sanitizing your hands frequently, andsneezing…
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