In the same vein of cave paintings having children’s handprints higher than their height suggesting them being lifted up or sitting on the shoulders of adults, there’s footprints in Australia dating to the Ice Age showing a group of adults and children walking to a body a water, and one child breaking away from the group to seemingly skip in a wavy path until rejoining the group
This is like 20 thousand years ago! And the joy and happiness of going to water made this child playfully skip along! It’s universal! Dancing their way back to their family!
In a language we will never hear, a culture we’ll never know, with thoughts and ideas we can only imagine! There are millennia of untold moments of happiness, of human connection and warmth that are gone forever. But they still happened! Did that family even notice the tracks they left? How could they have known that that one day their impossibly distant descendants would be able to see the imprints they made?
Another set of tracks in the same area shows three men hunting a giant kangaroo, running at incredible speeds, but one of them had only one foot! They jumped along on one foot, every so often an imprint from a stick appearing. How did they lose their limb? An accident? A fight? A predator? Was it completely gone or maimed? Was it from birth? Either way this person was cared for by their family and was able to heal and participate fully in life! They most likely felt grief when their family member lost the use of their limb! Who cared for them? Who gave them the stick to help them walk? What kind of joy did their family feel when they made a recovery? Did someone shape and carve the stick? They certainly worked all of their other wooden tools, something as essential that would have been too.
This was during the ice age when Australia became a brutally cold, dry desert. Their entire food system had to change. By all indications it should have been a stark and difficult life of little resources. But no! They worked together! They looked after their wounded and sick! The speed that these hunters were running at was incredible and means they were well fed and healthy! A millennia of helping one another and caring for one another and all we can get are tiny glimpses of these moments did they catch the kangaroo did they laugh and congratulate each other when they did how happy were they to bring it back to their families I just
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
I am a preschool teacher and it is so expensive and we are of a lower price in my town because we are associated with the public school. I also have my associates and cannot pay for the rest of my bachelors which would bump my pay. Round and round we go.
the bait and switch way this is written literally made me laugh out loud
Blender - mingling with others; stirring up energy
Cookbook - Book of Shadows, excellence, virtue
Cookie Tin - sweet things in life; pleasure
Crisper - invigoration and restoration
Cupboards - storage; savings; supplies; providence
Dish Towel - determined precision
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Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts
These matcha green tea and chocolate icypoles! Made with @kenkotea matcha greentea, coconut milk, maple syrup topped with dark chocolate. Honestly these ended up quite bitter with both the tea and 90% chocolate so I ended up adding a bit of honey mixed with the chocolate the sweeten them up a little 💚☀️ #health #healthfood #healthy #cleaneating #chocolate #icypole #iceblock #superfood #tea #summer #food #foodblog #blog #fitspo #healthspo
Another one with classic and lovely #illustrations new in the shops! #vintage #halloween #childrensbooks #70s
Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.
for when you still want to work a little magic in desert, for when you have a sweet tooth!es! here’s just a couple of suggestions with ice cream flavours, toppings and their correspondences, but you can totally come up with your own ideas!
here are just a few recipes / ideas:
3 scoops vanilla ice cream, milk, caramel sauce, salted pretzels for cleansing and positivity
3 scoops mint ice cream, milk, chocolate chips, chocolate syrup for love and wealth, fortune
3 scoops strawberry ice cream, milk, crake crumbles, fresh strawberries. for friendship and young love
3 scoops vanilla ice cream, milk, brownies, 3 spoonfuls of peanut butter for frivolity and general happiness/prosperity
3 scoops cookies ‘n cream ice cream, milk, 3 spoonfuls cream cheese, crushed oreos for youth and memory
3 scoops vanilla ice cream, milk, mini marshmallows, crumbled graham crackers, chocolate syrup for domestic magic, and familiar bonds
3 scoops vanilla ice cream, milk, 1 banana, ½ packet vanilla pudding mix for prosperity, protection, and happiness