hNii’t – Not old enough to love as yet, but old enough to die, indeed
I’ve been rereading Young Wizards can you tell
Tag: deep wizardry
—strength is no use. Give over the vain strife that saves no one, keeps no old friend alive, condemns the dear to death. Take but my Gift and know long years that end not, slow-burnt days under the Sun and Moon; not for yourself alone, but for the other—
Diane Duane, Deep Wizardry
(Those moments when you are painfully reminded that these kids are what, 13, 14, maybe 15? He’s being offered the very thing he wants most—an out—and Kit has to make the choice to let his partner and best friend go to her death.
Because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
or the one)
“And though those who swim are swift to forget, the Sea forgets neither Song nor Singer.”
The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
Wow
i hate tumblr because of stories like this like i can’t mY FEELS
Oh. That unexpectedly punched me absolutely everywhere.
For the sake of those who want to fact check, here’s the article on it: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Daring-rescue-of-whale-off-Farallones-Humpback-2557146.php
So good to see something like this be real 🙂
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