@Miraz oh my gosh these are beautiful shots! i LOVE herons, we used to see them here in the midwestern u.s. on the mississippi river and consider them very lucky
@Miraz i just love a little guy on spindly legs!! they're so funny and sweet. great shots
@cheribaker just seeing this post by chance, but i went to an ophthalmologist at maybe 30 for my worsening floaters and was truly worried i was going blind. the doctor reassured me everything was fine and they are normal for many people. like, annoying, but not necessarily anything more than that. so, you aren't alone in worrying about it, i don't think by a long shot!
from The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica Ward (aetabooks):
The attractive are often agents of the very thing that blesses them: stewardesses coming down the aisle with rolling carts of collateral damage.
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from Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi (aetabooks):
He’d been quiet, reclusive. David had always thought of him as distant and, quite frankly, strange. Consciously or unconsciously, he’d kept a wide berth of the boy, as had most of the others. A wallflower, yeah, but poisonous to the touch.
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from Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward (aetabooks):
Writers are monsters, really. We eat everything we see.
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from Revelator by Daryl Gregory (aetabooks):
Let’s just say it’s two parts science and one part mystery.
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from The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (aetabooks):
“Now you’re dead, trapped in the underworld. You feel empty, stuck. And you know what? It’s actually the most powerful place to be. You need only reach out to the pain and grab it, use it. But if you don’t?”
Her expression turned mournful.
“Well, then you stay dead."
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from Penpal by Dathan Auerbach (aetabooks):
Our lives are so short that it seems a crime to squander any of it by forgetting. Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer. And that’s what we want. So we try to remember. But sometimes, when we do, we wish that we could just forget again.
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from Scorpion by Christian Cantrell (aetabooks):
Arguing with someone you love is a form of hubris—a kind of baseless, arrogant confidence that you have so much control over your future and so much time ahead of you that you can afford to squander an entire day of emotional connection, or an hour, or even one goddamn minute.
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from Scorpion by Christian Cantrell (aetabooks):
Luxury is a type of meta-diversion designed to help us forget about all the things we had to do in order to obtain it in the first place.
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ejecta (aetawords):
(geology) Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
@Miraz i'm a new follower because of all your lovely photos -- what a cool and adventuresome life you and your partner seem to have! thank you for sharing. also, when dogs get a little silver on their snoots, i think that's the best.
from Followers by Megan Angelo (aetabooks):
More than anything else — to be an author, to have a boyfriend, to learn how it felt to breathe without being forty thousand dollars in debt — she wanted the answer to the question. She was living in the before of something, and she was getting tired of it. The dangerous thing about the way she felt, Orla knew, was that she didn’t know exactly what she wanted to happen, and she didn’t care that she didn’t know. Almost any change would do.
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from Followers by Megan Angelo (aetabooks):
Orla began the strenuous mental exercise of trying to come up with a restaurant that was inexpensive, close enough to walk to, and stocked with normal bread baskets, not focaccia or olive loaf or anything that might make her mother say, derisively, “Ooh la la.” Ten minutes later: “Ooh la la,” Gayle said as the waitress set down the bread basket. Orla sighed. “But it’s just rolls.” Gayle pointed at the dish next to the basket, which, instead of wrapped pats of butter, held a pool of oil and herbs for dipping.
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from The Couples Trip by Ulf Kvensler (aetabooks):
It’s not that I’m unhappy in our apartment, but I have sometimes wondered whether my yearning for nature and the mountains is heightened by a need to escape from digital numbers and buttons and menus and things that beep and efficient little electric motors that hum away discreetly.
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