HeyJaredA Lizard's Tale: Reflections on Resilience
A Lizard’s Tale: A substack with an emphasis on some of lizards’ magic-like traits of renewal & resilience via stories, actions, & humor, commentaries on these trying times.
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Orangutans, Friendship, & Resilience (opens the original)
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My friend Nick Di Carlo sent me the video below; it offers an interesting and inspiring example of resilience displayed by two orangutans.When their mothers were killed, these two infant “forest people” were orphaned and sold into illegal wildlife trafficking. Both were severely injured, but they eventually found friendship and freedom when rescued by a nonprofit called The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation. Th
Bubbles (opens the original)
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Last weekend, I watched a bubble man releasing bubbles for children and adults to pop. The anticipation was part of the excitement.Arguably, we adults forget the joy of silliness. We forget the fun playing the kazoo, singing jump-rope songs, drawing with chalk on a sidewalk, making a drip-drop castle. What have you done recently that awakened a forgetten pleasure?Leave a commentSubscribe now<
What Music Represents You? (opens the original)
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Listen to a moment of Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters, the “Philadelphia-based jazz collective led by wordsmith and rhapsodist Yolanda Wisher.” The beat, the words, even the pauses collaborate to create something with more depth than any of it alone. I love this description of their show: “Blending jazz, soul, and spoken word, the group creates rhythm-driven performances rooted in Black history, liberation, and joy.” (Yoland
A Quiet Moment (opens the original)
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This week, I’m taking time to pause. Below is an image I saw on an evening walk near my home; the egret is pausing too. Wishing us all a peaceful week. Leave a comment<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q__m!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd384293d-b43e-468a-8ff3-1c841016cd64_3024x4032.jpeg" target="_bl
Inspiration from Sunflowers (opens the original)
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Cheerful pops of color that attract pollinators, sunflowers provide long stalks to steady climbing vines as well as producing edible seeds that regenerate plants. I recently learned that sunflowers also improve soil quaity. Helianthus, the genus name for sunflowers, “can bind, extract, and clean up contaminants such as pesticides, petroleum, pollutants from oil spills, and vehicle emissions metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic.” What an inspiration! They’re a reminder of go
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