How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
- Arthur C. Clarke
My name is Kerry Cox and I live in Seattle. This is a collection of photos, songs, links, quotes and poems I like. I post my original poetry and photos here:
http://kerrycoxpoetry.tumblr.com
May 17th, 2013
Of Being
I know this happiness
is provisional:
the looming presences—
great suffering, great fear—
withdraw only
into peripheral vision:
but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:
this flood of stillness
widening the lake of sky:
this need to dance,
this need to kneel:
this mystery:— Denise Levertov
(Source: fourteenth, via semper-evolvere)
May 17th, 2013
semper evolvere: growing-orbits: Pulse
This is not how hearts beginto beat, in...
Pulse
This is not how hearts begin
to beat, in twos
sitting in trees. Soaked birds say
we’re cold, and go inside.
No one around us has a problem
breathing. Whole branches
collapse under the weight of ice
and skin. Nations cave
in the time it takes a heart to stop
beating….
(Source: versedaily.org)
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May 16th, 2013
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
May 16th, 2013
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?
(Source: pigmenting, via gnostix1)
May 16th, 2013
Amphioctopus marginatus, commonly known as Veined Octopus or Coconut Octopus, dwells in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean. The Coconut Octopus is named so for a very peculiar behavior: it carries coconut shells and clam shells across the ocean floor and uses them to build fortresses. it is the only invertebrate known to use tools, and one of only two octopuses known to exhibit bipedal behavior by “walking” on two of it’s legs.
Although octopuses often use foreign objects as shelter, the sophisticated behavior of Coconut Octopus when they select materials, carry and reassemble them, is far more complex. Coconut Octopus’s use of coconuts shells and clam shells has fascinated scientists, mainly because this is the first invertebrate known to carry and maintain objects for future use. Interestingly, while the octopuses are transporting the shells, they receive no protection from them. This is highly unusual behavior.
Photo 1:serge_mondial & 2: Matt Kaplan // Source
I love science,
May 16th, 2013
