Even Koko, the gorilla made famous for learning American Sign Language, has been caught red handed. After tearing a steel sink from the wall in the middle of a tantrum, she signed to her handlers that a cat did it, while she pointed to her kitten. It is unclear if this was a joke or a genuine attempt at blaming her tiny pet.
We are but
air and weight
I’d like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
You know, I don’t think my music is important, I don’t think it’s changing the world, I don’t think it’s art. I just think it’s music. It is what it is.
I wish they’d change the word love - its used two much by the rong pepul.
Amanda aged 6
No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.
Three years after the attack, he and Angela had a daughter, whom they named after Jane Pitken, the first paramedic who reached him and inserted a fluid line. The memory of that moment he describes as going “from darkness to light”.
“I survived because people saved me,” he says now, calling those acts of bravery and kindness “so much love”.
Children should grow
up surrounded by
animals, not cars
What would have become of Hercules, do you think, if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously, he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So, by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort, he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir him into action?