Scientists estimate that around 117 billion humans have ever lived on Earth since the dawn of Homo sapiens, approximately 192,000 years ago. Of course, this dramatic increase in the world’s population is a relatively new phenomenon. For many thousands of years, there were fewer people roaming the Earth than would live in a mid-sized city of today…
…However, there comes a point in time when we can no longer let TV, radio, newspapers and social media permeate our days and nights. In order to maintain our sanity in a world where we are bombarded 24/7, it’s okay to turn it off and continue to make our way through our own days. It’s okay to seek your own peace of mind. To focus on what’s good. On what’s best for our health, and those around us.
I’m not saying to stick your head in the sand, nonetheless, you have to find a happy medium. To be aware, but not to be consumed. To find sanctuary, while still remaining knowledgeable. You could call it escaping, and that’s okay. The human mind was never made to cope with the world of 2025, where every day we are force fed with negativity and lies, and made to hate our brothers, because turmoil makes great bedfellows for politicians…
What you read in the next few minutes might surprise you. It did for me, even as a lover of the study of biology and an avid birder.
As Eliot Miller stated in Living Bird (magazine presented by Cornell Lab), “Evolution works in somewhat mysterious ways.” Two birds that look alike, could be separated by millions of years on the evolutionary scale. The same goes for birds that are close evolutionary cousins, living on opposite ends of our planet…
The black-capped chickadees and rose-breasted nuthatch were photographed in our backyard during an 8-inch snowstorm in northern-lower Michigan, with my Canon EOS RP and Canon full-framed 100 mm lens.
This blew my mind when I watched it. We’ve been hearing so much trash about health insurance companies and how so many people are struggling with denials, etc. Well, this was a new one to me. What excuse will they …
