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spontaneousmelgrace · 10 months

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The boy and the thousands of Starfish.

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said,

“It made a difference to that one!”

adapted from The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)

We all have the opportunity to help create positive change, but if you’re like me, you sometimes find yourself thinking, “I’m already really busy, and how much of a difference can I really make?” but it pops up all of the time in our everyday lives. So when I catch myself thinking that way, it helps to remember this story. You might not be able to change the entire world, but at least you can change a small part of it, for someone.

They say that one of the most common reasons we procrastinate is because we see the challenge before us as overwhelming, and that a good way to counter that is to break the big challenge down into smaller pieces and then take those one at a time–like one starfish at a time. And to that one starfish, it can make a world of difference.

“A single, ordinary person still can make a difference – and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.”

— Chris Bohjalian, Vermont-based author and speaker

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tumsozluk · 2 years

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'Fall for Sarasota' an opportunity to make a difference

‘Fall for Sarasota’ an opportunity to make a difference

Heather Kasten | Sarasota Herald-Tribune There is a great story to share that applies to this month’s column. Many of you may have heard it before – “The Starfish Story” (adapted from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley) – but I think it bears repeating. A man was walking along the beach one day when he noticed a boy picking up something and gently tossing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy,…

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian · 3 years

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May I ask what the star thrower story is?

It's an essay by Loren Eiseley that was adapted into a story by Joel Barker and has since spread through popular culture into a fairy tale of its own.

A wise man goes to the beach and sees a young man who seems to be dancing, but on closer examination is throwing starfish out to sea to save them from dying when the tide recedes. He mentions that the boy cannot possibly save enough starfish for it to matter, as there are miles and miles of beach and only one of him, to which the boy replies "It mattered to this one!" (Note: the line wasn't in the original essay, just the story, but it was certainly implied). The man goes home, troubled, feeling a bit pessimistic about how ultimately death will collect us all and how meaningless the thrower's actions seemed. But with time, he comes to a revelation, and joins the young man at the beach as another thrower. He contemplates how the young man is no longer alone, how there are others who will follow after them, how everywhere in the universe, in one way or another, life is giving to life in the same manner.

"....We had lost our way, I thought, but we had kept, some of us, the memory of the perfect circle of compassion from life to death and back to life again."

Most retellings lack the poetry of the original essay, but the message remains the same: Even if we can't save everyone, it matters that we saved someone, even just for a while.

So seeing little Ruby, having lost so many and yet saved so many more in the past few hours, wash up on a beach filled with starfish drying in the sun got me thinking about that story and what it could mean for her going forward.

#rwby theories

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ksjanes · 3 years

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The Star Thrower” by Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.

One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so he walked faster to catch up.

As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.

He came closer still and called out “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young man paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean.”

“I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?” asked the somewhat startled wise man.

To this, the young man replied, “The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them in, they’ll die.”

Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, “But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can’t possibly make a difference!”

At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, “It made a difference for that one.”

#photographers on tumblr #story #starfish #making a difference

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inknscroll · 3 years

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For this Friday, I felt that we needed this inspiring story adapted from "The Star Thrower" (or the "Starfish Story") written by Loren Eiseley. It's truly a treasure: 🌟 “Once upon a time, there was a wise man walking on the beach. He looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up. As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean. He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?" The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean." "I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man. To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die." Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!" At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one.” Always remember, You make a profound difference! 🌟(By, Loren Eiseley. Artwork: Pinterest; unknown artist. Text for this inspiring story from online gift store: "Smiling Wisdom")🌟 #StarThrower #books #story #amwriting #art #starfish #beach #ocean #goodreads #writersofinstagram #journals #artwork #StarfishCatcher #quotes #nonfiction #biography #memoirs #womenshistory #literature #writer #LorenEiseley #bookstagram #thankyouveterans #StarfishStory 📚🌟🖋 https://www.instagram.com/p/CSzWXpLnAA7/?utm_medium=tumblr

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pyroprincessaxandrela · 4 years

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I realize that power-wise Kresint is literally just a waterbender, even her name is a play on 'Cresent Moon'. And I think I subconsciously knew that when creating her. But I also based all characters off family members and assigned powers based on a multilayered criteria of personality, what would fit story wise, and what I thought would be funny, and picked names as anagrams with a letter or two added/removed/changed to help it flow. And I hadn't watched or even thought about Avatar in years at that point. Like yes, thanks to Netflix I've re-watched it several time since then, including with the cousin Kresint is based on, and I even jokingly call her my little waterbender. Kresint is also my 'thousands of hidden blades' knife thrower akin to Mai.

But surprisingly these were not some of my MANY intentional fandom references in this series, this one was completely subconscious.

She got water powers because somehow, even as a teenager, if this cousin has even a quarter of a glass of water, she ends up drenched head to toe, sitting there sputtering in confusion because "I was going to drink that..." but muscle memory insisted that she needed to be drenched. Because she's the girl who will starfish in a kiddy pool fully clothed, simply because she sees water and needs to be soaked. Because she's the kid who's favorite prank is to randomly put a few drops of water down the back of someone's shirt, and then falls over laughing at how funny it is. Because she's the kid who can be having the worst day, but will instantly perk up at the suggestion of swimming, and is always impossible to get out of the water because "I live here now." (until you point out that she can't read if she never leaves the water.) Because she's calm and cool, but a fridged tempest when provoked just like the ocean.

She has healing powers because she's the kid who always has bandaids in her pocket, and knows how to help even if she doesn't have the typical treatment for something. Because she's one of the biggest clutses I've ever met, and yet she rarely actually ends up hurt, and even then no where near as much as she should be. Because she's the one kissing the little kids' 'boo-boo's better before sending them back to play. Because if you're having a bad day, you go to her for a hug, and suddenly EVERYTHING is better.

She has water and healing because they just work together. Because I needed a healer and she made the most sense. Because I needed someone the same yet opposite to counter and compliment my own/Axandrela's fire, and she was the obvious choice. Because I had an idea in my mind for a scene where Xan’s fire and rage are out of control and literally burning her up from the inside, where she needs to be calmed, doused and healed all within seconds, and a hug from this cousin was the only thing I could think of that could calm me that fast.

And Kresint has a million knives, often stolen from other characters, because this is something 110% taken out of reality.

I make alot of intentional fandom references in this series. Because the people many of the characters are based on are major geeks. Because these fandoms have had a significant influence on both my life and storytelling style. And because its easier to adapt other fictional works to exist as such in a story than to create a million additional stories of your own to be merely referenced briefly. But this reference, as perfect and blatant as it is, was not intentional.

Though Vedon - Kressie's brother just older than her - wielding a boomerang was totally intentional. Since he's an aerokinetic it works really well with his powers too. We tried to convince the cousin he's based on to have fans as weapons as well, but apparently they're "too girly"

TlDR: Kresint is essentially a healing trained waterbender with as many knives as Mai. Vedon is an airbender with a boomerang, who thinks fans are 'too girly' of a weapon. Only the boomerang part was intentionally meant as a ATLA reference (the fans were intended as a reference to Kagura from Inuyasha, but he turned them down)

#am i a mess? yes.#my characters #my characters are disasters #kresint #vedon #axandrela #fandom references #atla reference #atla #accidental references #my books #my book is a mess

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theleafpile · 4 years

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I get so angry every time I come across another iteration of the starfish story—you know the one, where a guy is walking along a beach after a storm and someone is throwing back starfish, but there's so many and it isnt going to make any real difference but the guy says it makes the difference for that one.

I HATE that story.

Sure, I will concede that it does a lot of good as a parable, a reminder that small actions make a difference to individual lives. That's not what I hate about it.

I hate that it ERASES where the story comes from, an essay titled "The Star Thrower" by Loren Eiseley, a Nebraska author and naturalist who wrote award-winning scientific essays that humanizes and explores the concept of deep time and our relationships to animals and each other. I HATE that someone boiled down what is an intensely serious and thought provoking essay into an easily digestible tidbit, a literal throwaway and often Christianized story. It ERASES the fact that the story is REAL, that it happened to Loren, that he was there, that he witnessed this event on the beaches of Costabel. This is how he describes the encounter:

"There are not many come this far," I said, groping in a sudden embarrassment for words. "Do you collect?"

"Only like this," he said softly, gesturing amidst the wreckage of the shore. "And only for the living." He stooped again, oblivious of my curiosity, and skipped another star neatly across the water.

"The stars," he said, "throw well. One can help them."

He looked full at me with a faint question kindling in his eyes, which seemed to take on the far depths of the sea.

"I do not collect," I said uncomfortably, the wind beating at my garments. "Neither the living nor the dead. I gave it up a long time ago. Death is the only successful collector." I could feel the full night blackness in my skull and the terrible eye resuming its indifferent journey. I nodded and walked away, leaving him there upon the dunes with that great rainbow ranging up the sky behind him.

I turned as I neared a bend in the coast and saw him toss another star, skimming it skillfully far out over the ravening and tumultuous water. For a moment, in the changing light, the sower appeared magnified, as though casting larger stars upon some greater sea. He had, at any rate, the posture of a god.

But again the eye, the cold world-shriveling eye, began its inevitable circling in my skull. He is a man, I considered sharply, bringing my thought to rest. The star thrower is a man, and death is running more fleet than he along every seabeach in the world.

Does that sound particularly encouraging or joyful or uplifting to you? No?

BECAUSE IT ISN'T MEANT TO BE.

The story, the entire essay, is a meditation on death that does not allow a reader to come away with simple answers. Please, for the love of this essayist, don't let his writing be erased or plagiarized. Please think next time before you post another star thrower story, and educate those who do, because the essay it comes from is far too meaningful to be so blatantly and disrespectfully reduced.

#loren eiseley #the star thrower #nebraska authors #on writing #essays

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tlatollotl · 5 years

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A layer of aquatic offerings placed on top of the west-facing jaguar have also been identified, including a large amount of shells, bright red starfish and coral that likely represented the watery underworld the Aztecs believed the sun traveled through at night before emerging in the east to begin a new day.

Tomas Cruz, an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), works at a site where the 500-year-old interior of a partially-excavated stone box shows an Aztec offering that includes the bones of a jaguar with the circular emblem of the war god Huitzilopochtli, as well a layer of coral, the remains of a large number of starfish and shells and found at the steps of the Templo Mayor in downtown Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

A roseate spoonbill, a pink bird from the flamingo family, has also been found in the offering. It was associated with warriors and rulers, and thought to represent their spirits in their descent into the underworld.

“There’s an enormous amount of coral that’s blocking what we can see below,” said archeologist Miguel Baez, part of the team excavating the offerings at the base of the temple, known today as the Templo Mayor, located just off Mexico City’s bustling Zocalo plaza.

The Templo Mayor would have been as high as a 15-story pyramid before it was razed along with the rest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan after the 1521 Spanish conquest of Mexico.

Expanded by each Aztec king, the shrine was believed to be at the center of the universe and was crowned with two smaller temples, one on the north side dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc and one on the south to Huitzilopochtil.

The latest offerings all align with the southern temple.

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Several decades after the conquest, chroniclers detailed the burial rites of three Aztec kings, all brothers who ruled from 1469 to 1502.

According to these accounts, the rulers’ cremated remains were deposited with luxurious offerings and the hearts of sacrificed slaves in or near the circular platform.

In 2006, a massive monolith of the Aztec earth goddess was discovered nearby with an inscription corresponding to the year 1502, which is when the empire’s greatest ruler and the last of the brothers, Ahuitzotl, died.

Elizabeth Boone, an ancient Mexico specialist at Tulane University, notes that Ahuitzotl’s death would have been marked with lavish memorizing and that the jaguar may represent the king as a fearless warrior.

The 500-year-old interior of a stone box shows an Aztec offering including a set of black flint knives decorated to represent warriors with carved pearl, jade and green stone and used by priests in ritual sacrifices, in Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

“You could have Ahuitzotl in that box,” she said.

A smaller stone box next to the jaguar offering containing a top layer of copal bars, used by Aztec priests for incense, has also been identified, though it too has only been partially excavated as both were only opened earlier this year.

Next to it another stone box has been found containing 21 flint knives decorated to resemble warriors, including the same war god disk but made of mother of pearl, as well as a miniature wooden spear thrower and shield.

Finally, an adjacent circular offering holds an approximately 9-year-old sacrificed boy found with a wooden war god disk, a jade bead necklace and wings made from hawk bones and attached to his shoulders.

Like the jaguar, the boy likely had his heart torn out as part of a ritual sacrifice, though further tests will need to be conducted to confirm the theory.

The offerings also speak to the geographic reach of the Aztecs, a warrior society like ancient Sparta that conquered neighboring kingdoms to acquire tribute.

The starfish came from the Pacific Ocean, for example, while the jade was brought from Central America near present-day Honduras.

“The offerings provide a window not only into the (Aztecs) sacred world, but also their economic lives,” said Frances Berdan, an Aztec scholar at California State University, San Bernardino.

Meticulous sifting through the latest offerings is expected to continue for at least several more months, though practical hardships weigh on the archaeologists.

Mexico’s new government has cut the project’s budget by 20 percent this year, according to several archeologists who work on the excavation, and nearly all members of the 25-person team have not been paid since December.

Leonardo Lopez Lujan, a lead archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), speaks to Reuters during an interview next to a site where the 500 year-old interior of a partially excavated stone box shows an Aztec offering that includes the bones of a jaguar with the circular emblem of the war god Huitzilopochtli, as well as a layer of coral, the remains of a large number of starfish and shells and found at the steps of the Templo Mayor in downtown Mexico City, Mexico, March 14, 2019.

A general view of the ruins of the Aztecs’ most important temple, known as the Templo Mayor, where the latest sacrificial offerings were found in downtown Mexico City

Tomas Cruz, an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), works at a site where a 500-year-old partially-excavated stone box contains an Aztec offering that includes the bones of a jaguar with the circular emblem of the war god Huitzilopochtli, as well a layer of coral, the remains of a large number of starfish and shells and found at the steps of the Templo Mayor in downtown Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

The 500-year-old interior of a circular stone offering shows the bones of a sacrificed young boy dressed as a warrior and dedicated to the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli, in Mexico City, Mexico in this handout photograph released March 15, 2019 to Reuters by Courtesy of the Templo Mayor Project of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)/Mirsa Islas/Handout via REUTERS

A 500-year-old partially-excavated stone box containing an Aztec offering including bars of copal used by Aztec priests for incense in ritual ceremonies in Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Tomas Cruz, an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), works at a site where the 500-year-old interior of a partially-excavated stone box contains an Aztec offering that includes the bones of a jaguar with the circular emblem of the war god Huitzilopochtli, as well a layer of coral, the remains of a large number of starfish and shells and found at the steps of the Templo Mayor in downtown Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Antonio Marin, (L) an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), works at a site where the 500-year-old interior of a partially-excavated stone box contains an Aztec offering including bars of copal used by Aztec priests for incense in ritual ceremonies, in Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Miguel Baez (L) and Antonio Marin, archaeologists with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), work at a site where the 500-year-old interior of a partially-excavated stone box shows an Aztec offering that includes the bones of a jaguar with the circular emblem of the war god Huitzilopochtli, as well a layer of coral, the remains of a large number of starfish and shells and found at the steps of the Templo Mayor in downtown Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Antonio Marin, an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), works at a site where the 500-year-old interior of a partially-excavated stone box contains an Aztec offering including bars of copal used by Aztec priests for incense in ritual ceremonies, in Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

A 500-year-old partially-excavated stone box contains an Aztec offering that includes the bones of a jaguar with the circular emblem of the war god Huitzilopochtli, as well a layer of coral, the remains of a large number of starfish and shells and found at the steps of the Templo Mayor in downtown Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. Picture taken March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Antonio Marin, an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), works at a site where a 500-year-old partially-excavated stone box contains an Aztec offering including bars of copal used by Aztec priests for incense in ritual ceremonies, in Mexico City, Mexico March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

#archaeology #arqueologia #aztec #mexica #mesoamerica #templo mayor #mexico city #mexico df #history #historia

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fcc-art · 4 years

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Starfish Thrower by me

#badly drawn forest mansion #art #digital art #kai #fcc art

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kootenaygoon · 5 years

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So,

It didn’t take me long to find him on Facebook.

The neighbours had given me a name, so the first thing I did when I got back to the Star office was look him up. The guy killed in the trailer fire was named Ryan Tapp, and we had over 80 friends in common. He was a former Selkirk College music student, a Shambhala fixture deeply embedded in the local scene, and he worked at Reo’s Video with my friend Lauren Herraman. He was handsome, with a cleft chin like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, and in one of his photos he was posing on a red carpet, at some film festival. Already people were starting to post on his wall, so I kept a window open to see the comments as they scrolled in.

As I begun to prepare the breaking story for the website, I chatted logistics with Greg on the phone. Were we okay to go ahead with publishing his name, since it was his trailer and only one person was killed? I told him people were already posting about it, and it would feel silly to have to wait until after his funeral to acknowledge he’d died, just because we were waiting for the coroner. We decided to go ahead with publishing his name, based on the fact he was already being openly mourned on Facebook.

“We’ll put this version up now, then we’ll want to add an interview with the fire chief before we go to press Wednesday,” Greg said.

“Apparently it was quite an operation. It would be good to get into the details of how they extinguished the blaze, because from what I understand there was a fair amount of coordination involved. They were some distance from a water source.”

That afternoon I didn’t touch my arts stories. Even after posting the fire story, I kept compulsively reading it over and over. I checked the Facebook comments, looked for Twitter engagements. I reached out to to some mutual friends to fish around, but mostly got conflicting and confusing information. One of my friends, the lead singer of a local band, posted a giant tribute on his wall that moved me to tears at my desk. My fingers shook as I tapped away, sobbing to myself alone in the office, as Hozier sung from my speaker. Every Sunday's getting more bleak, A fresh poison each week. The questions began to swirl: was this a suicide? A homicide? An accident? I felt like this story required a real reporter, and that wasn’t me. I was just some dude who got off on seeing his byline in print, a gossip queen from a sheltered suburb on the coast. I didn’t know if I could handle this.

I took a deep breath. I knew I had two choices: engage or don’t. I’d come to the Kootenays to learn how to be a reporter, and here was my fucking chance. Who else would do it, if not me? In big cities reporters were always fighting over scraps, but in small towns it wasn’t the same. There were two local radio stations that would read the provided press releases and a shitty website that might cobble together something semi-accurate, but really the Nelson Star was the only place higher-minded journalism was being done. I thought of that stupid Christian parable you see on church posters, the one about throwing starfish back into the ocean after they get stranded on the beach. The way I heard it, someone said to the thrower “there’s too many, you can’t make a difference.”

“It made a difference to that one,” he replied.

The next morning I connected with Nelson Fire Chief Len MacCharles, who had fought the blaze alongside departments from Beasley and Blewett. This was a guy who had been on the front-lines of the forest fire that took out Slave Lake in 2011, but it had still made a huge impression on him.

“There was a lot of destruction. There were butane canisters sitting outside, the size of hairspray bottles, stuffed into cardboard boxes,” he said.

“When the place got fully involved it started sending canisters shooting out like missiles, ranging from five to ten to over 100 feet.”

MacCharles was severe-looking and ultra-fit, with a sharp pointed nose and hair spiked with military precision. He told me one of the canisters rocketed past his ear, so close he could feel the singe. Had it been any closer, he figured, it would’ve easily decapitated him. His crews struggled to work around a downed power line as full-sized propane tanks exploded, sending shrapnel hurling into the night. Luckily no firefighters were harmed. He expressed relief at that, saying it could’ve easily gone another way.

MacCharles guessed approximately 40 to 50 canisters were fired into the surrounding area. Resident Ming Kwan mistook the sound for fireworks, and wasn’t alone in the observation.

“I heard sirens and shortly after a sound like fireworks going off,” Heather Salikin wrote on the Blewett Bulletin Board Facebook page. “When I looked out my window I could see explosions of fire. It was very surreal.”

MacCharles said though the fire had a tragic outcome, the extinguishing effort and collaboration between departments went well.

“I was really impressed with how everyone was able to work together.” The Kootenay Goon

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aztecnews · 2 years

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March 25, 2019

INAH May Have Found the First Aztec Royal Burial.

Archaeologists in Mexico have been looking for an Aztec royal burial for decades. New sacrificial offerings have been uncovered at the Temple Mayor site. They have uncovered the remains of a young boy dressed as a warrior and the Aztec war god and solar diety, and a set of flint knives with mother of pearl and precious stone inlays, a spear thrower and a carved wooden disk placed on the feline’s back that was the emblem of the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli, the war and sun god, and bars of copal. The remains date to 1500 CE. The offerings were found in a stone box in the center of a circular platform. Only one tenth of the artifacts have been uncovered so far. Aquatic offerings include shells, bright red starfish and coral. A roseate spoonbill that is associated with warriors and rulers, which represent the spirits of warriors as they descend into the underworld. There is a starfish from the Pacific and jade from Central America. This could be the royal grave of the Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl.

Mexico has cut the budget for the project by 20%. Workers on the find have not been paid since December. So work on this discovery is proceeding very slowly.

Reuters has the report here. https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1R60FT

The Daily Mail has excellent photos of some of the finds; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6846405/Aztec-war-sacrifices-Mexico-point-elusive-royal-tomb.html

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invokingthewriter-blog · 6 years

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NaNoWriter Introduction!

Hello everyone! My name is Austin Roberto, and I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo this year with the goal of completing the book I’ll be publishing for my writing debut (at least the first draft).

I’ve done a lot of personal writing over the years, and while I’ve kept most of it too myself I intend on using NaNoWriMo as an opportunity to finally put myself and my writing out there and connect with other writers along the way.

If you’re a NaNoWriter who’s also looking to connect with other writers, I’d love to get to know you and keep up with your progress in the coming month, and would appreciate a follow, a reblog, a comment, or even just a like to help me with some leads as to where all my fellow writers are on this website! I’m super excited for this upcoming month, and I’d love to share in the excitement with as many of you as possible :)

Anyway, here’s a quick synopsis of the novel I’ll be writing for NaNoWriMo this year, “The Invokers”, in TL;DR form:

TL;DR young adults with superpowers following timeless coming-of-age tropes, inspired by My Hero Academia, Bungou Stray Dogs, and The Starfish Story / The Star Thrower, all of which are my favorites.

If any of these are your favorites too I’d love to talk about any of these so don’t hesitate to shoot me a message at any time! :)

Instagram: @InvokingTheWriter

NaNoWriMo Profile: Austin J Roberto

#nanowrimo #nanowrimo 2018 #nanowrimo prep #nano 2018 #nano prep #writeblr #nano announcement #writing #wip #writers on tumblr #writer #preptober #my hero academia #bungou stray dogs

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bgallen · 3 years

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A Friday list for you to peruse

Here’s a list of ideas, books, music, hope, etc. that has been on my mind lately. I hope that you’re able to find something to enjoy and even to grow from. I’ve also included some pictures below. In one you will see a driveway, do you see the nice yellow hue? It is pollen season in MS and when I say everything outside has taken that nice yellow hue, I mean everything.

Books I am wanting to read:

· Zora and Langston by Yuval Taylor

· My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World by Mikhail Borisovich Dr. Piotrovsky (Author), Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)

· Brother & Sister by Diane Keaton

Products to purchase:

· Smeg Coffee Grinder, 50’s Retro Style (it’s never good when you’re unable to find a price listed)

· Moonman M8 Fountain Pen, Black & Gold – Fine Nib

Ideas to check out:

· The Daily Dozen fitness program It was created during WWI after finding that draftees were unsuited to fighting in battle, then after the war adapted for busy office workers.

· A guerilla gardener in South Central LA. Yes to giving people health and power!

Beautiful art:

· Chickasaw Map Blanket. Handmade in the USA, this map blanket based on The Chickasaw Map of 1723 “is an illustration of how the Chickasaw people visualized relationships with other tribes at the time. The map delineates an adept understanding of population, power, influence, and diplomacy within a 700,000 square mile area.”

Plans:

· When to plant Forget-Me-Nots. There is a sweetness in old style flowers.

Show to watch:

· Arthur & George. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a real-life case tracing a string of crimes involving an attorney named George.

Hope:

· Tajik Couple Leaves Free Bread in a ‘Magic Box’ for the Poor

· We don’t “move on” from grief. We move forward with it.

· We need to keep dreaming, even when it feels impossible. Here’s why.

Pay attention to:

· After Fleeing China, An Ethnic Kazakh Works to Expose Xinjiang ‘Reeducation Camps’

· The Starfish Throwers. I really, really like people. Check out the documentary website here.

Fascinating:

· Old Believer Agafya Lykova moves into new house in the remote area of Western Sayan mountains. Agafya is a fascinating woman, with a strange and unbelievable story. I am glad that she has a new home.

People:

· Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused to Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up. “Do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people; And you will have no regrets for the rest of your life.”

· Akbar the Great – the ultimate Renaissance ruler. “… the possibility of ascertaining the truth, which is the noblest aim of the human intellect… Therefore we associate at convenient seasons with learned men of all religions, thus deriving profit from their exquisite discourses and exalted aspirations.”

· Pete McBride. A photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker with National Geographic. See some of his work here.

Music:

· Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony. I don’t know that I can convey the actual grandness of this video. The 7th symphony was written during the Siege of Leningrad, whilst being sieged by the German army. This orchestra in the video playing the symphony is German. The Finnish composer is a 25 year old man that looks strikingly similar to the Russian composer of the piece, Shostakovich.

· The Temptations. Papa Was A Rolling Stone, My Girl, and one of my favorites….I Wish It Would Rain.

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