"When you have a bad day, give up. Go home and sleep. Fuck it. Try again tomorrow. Not every bad day, some days are fvcked and cannot be unfvcked. When you have a day that is fvcked beyond repair, that is the universe speaking to you, sending you a message. Listen to the universe, go home, save your energy, tomorrow is another day. For no, just fvcking chill"
Words to live by 🤣
@stormydaycuddle Lol Cali must of went to that acting class
In 2005, a six-month-old kitten named Oscar was adopted by a nursing home in the United States to raise him as a therapy cat. Workers, however, noticed something peculiar about him. Although Oscar usually preferred to be alone, he would occasionally crawl into a resident's bed and snuggle by his side.
The unsettling thing about this is that the resident Oscar hugged usually died within hours. At first, the staff didn't give him much attention, but after this happened 20 times, they started to believe Oscar knew when someone was about to pass away, so when they noticed the cat next to a resident, they called their loved ones to warn them.
Researchers speculate Oscar could smell the biochemicals released by dying cells and that's why he decided to comfort the lonely residents. At one point, the staff were convinced a resident was about to die, but Oscar refused to sit with them. Instead, he chose another resident who seemed healthier and that person died first. Oscar died in 2022 and during his lifetime he accurately predicted over 100 deaths.
@MissAdventurous I heard about Oscar
Anita Blair was the first guide dog handler in El Paso, Texas, when she graduated from The Seeing Eye in March 1940 with Fawn, a German shepherd. The photo is a black and white photo of Anita being guided by Fawn across a bustling city street in the early 1940s.
Just a month later, Anita and Fawn were crossing a street in El Paso when a car nearly hit her. “Fawn, the fawn-colored German shepherd, with perfect timing checked her mistress’s pace, so that the car sped past without the driver being aware that the young woman could not see,” the El Paso Times reported on April 19, 1940.
Fawn was at her side when she graduated from the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy – now known as the University of Texas at El Paso, or UTEP – with a bachelor’s degree in 1944. She later earned a master’s degree from Texas State College for Women, now Texas Woman’s University, in Denton.
In 1946, Anita and Fawn were again in the news during a tragic fire at the 23-story Hotel LaSalle in Chicago. According to the June 6, 1946, issue of the El Paso Times, Anita was awakened by screams. “When I opened the door the smoke was so heavy I could taste it,” Anita told the newspaper. “I closed the door but did not want to get Fawn excited. Because of her I remained calm – and probably because of me she did the same.”
Fawn led Anita out the window and down the fire escape – 11 stories down – while the fire raged. Sixty-one people were killed in the fire.
In 1952, Anita became the first El Paso woman – and the first blind woman in any state – to be elected as a state representative. During her time in office, Anita fought for funding for the State School for the Deaf, teacher pay raises, and a bill that allowed women to serve on juries.
Anita returned to The Seeing Eye five more times to be matched with successor Seeing Eye dogs. Her last was Beryl, a black Labrador retriever, in 1990. Anita died in 2010 at the age of 93, and in recognition of her service as a state legislator, is buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
Short hair.
The modern men’s cut and the even women’s hair is born from the French Revolution.
Almost overnight! The short hair style that was very popular in the early 19th Century was called "à la victime". The "victime" meaning those that were sentenced to die via the Guillotine during the French Revolution. Those that were victims of the Revolution were mostly the nobility who were accustom to wearing wigs.
To wear a wig properly in the 18th C, both ladies and gentlemen shaved their heads to be completely bald. The wig was meant to fit perfectly and sort of be suctioned to the bald head (you can read a bit more here).
Since the nobility all had bald heads and couldn't take their wigs with them in prison, they would have a short crop of hair by the time Madame Guillotine came a-callin' a few weeks later.
To have the "à la victime" look, both men and women in the 1790's-1800's would chop their hair super short. Men's hair never recovered from this fashion. After this, men were encouraged to keep their hair off their collars. Women's hair did recover - but only for about 100 years.
So, the reason men wear their hair short is all due to looking like a noble about to get his head chopped in the late 18th/early 19th century
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
I’m not as young as I used to be, but I’m not as old as I’m gonna be!
Hägar the Horrible (Dik Browne)
My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. And the gardens, too. Not many gardens any more to sit around in. And look at the furniture. No rocking chairs any more. They're too comfortable. Get people up and running around. ~Ray Bradbury
(Art: Photograph by Sonny Lee)
"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain." -Charles Bukowski