Something I found while researching mermaids. Isn’t that somethin’? (via amadgirl-withablog)
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"For centuries, in Japan and other Pacific island countries, female Ama divers would swim nude searching for shellfish. These divers slowly developed the ability to hold their breath for long periods of time and to survive in cold water that would kill most people from hypothermia. Women make better divers than men because of their physiological advantages in tolerating cold. After surfacing they would hyperventilate to restore their oxygen levels which would make a loud sighing sound referred to as the isobue or “sea whistle” or in Japanese as the “song of the sea”. They needed to rest periodically and so after diving, as aid to maintaining lung capacity, these women frequently would sing loud songs and this may have been the origin of the Siren myth."
"There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die."
Charles Bukowski (via beautemillesimee)
(via swordandcrown)
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Good morning
Woke up this morning with my handsome boyfriend wrapped up in golden silk sheets next to me. Before leaving for work, he left me a gram for the day. I don’t know of a better man. I know I’m his! I am, I am his!
Possibly traveling to Lake Norman today with a long-lost Anna Pate to awkwardly meet her kin at a family reunion.
Started reading a book for the second time yesterday: Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- math test: a farmer plants 7 crops of tomatoes and 3 crops of carrots what is the probablity his moms name is leslie
- history test: the american civil war ended in 1865, explain how this had a defining role in the extinction of dinosaurs
- literature test: explain what the author meant by, "the apple was as red as an apple"
- Physics tests: The aliens ate 3.4 doughnuts. Their crumbs fell to the Earth because of gravity. Calculate how many penguins are eating pancakes at the speed of light.
