Hello, My Name is Betsy

Watched this documentary, ‘Blindsight’ last night (thank you netflix recommendations). Definitely a good dose of inspiration & reminded me how easy it is to take my health for granted. It also is interesting to see the stark cultural differences between western and eastern cultures and how they perceive things like blindness.

thedailywhat: Morning Fluff: Researchers in China donned panda suits last month to help a 21-month-old panda and its mother transfer to a new home; the costumes were meant to ease the process by limiting the animals’ interaction with humans. And the real pandas were like: “Really? How dumb do you think we are?” See the rest of the ridic pics here. [mercnews] omg. seriously?!

thedailywhat:

Morning Fluff: Researchers in China donned panda suits last month to help a 21-month-old panda and its mother transfer to a new home; the costumes were meant to ease the process by limiting the animals’ interaction with humans.

And the real pandas were like: “Really? How dumb do you think we are?”

See the rest of the ridic pics here.

[mercnews]

omg. seriously?!

thedailywhat: Letter Of Note of the Day: Wedding season once again is upon us, and a June 1971 letter from future U.S. President Ronald Reagan to his soon-to-be-wed son, Michael, contains advice for the groom that stands the test of time. An excerpt: If you truly love a girl, you shouldn’t ever want her to feel, when she sees you greet a secretary or a girl you both know, that humiliation of wondering if she was someone who caused you to be late coming home, nor should you want any other woman to be able to meet your wife and know she was smiling behind her eyes as she looked at her, the woman you love, remembering this was the woman you rejected even momentarily for her favors. Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. Read the letter in full here [lettersofnote].

thedailywhat:

Letter Of Note of the Day: Wedding season once again is upon us, and a June 1971 letter from future U.S. President Ronald Reagan to his soon-to-be-wed son, Michael, contains advice for the groom that stands the test of time.

An excerpt:

If you truly love a girl, you shouldn’t ever want her to feel, when she sees you greet a secretary or a girl you both know, that humiliation of wondering if she was someone who caused you to be late coming home, nor should you want any other woman to be able to meet your wife and know she was smiling behind her eyes as she looked at her, the woman you love, remembering this was the woman you rejected even momentarily for her favors.

Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Read the letter in full here [lettersofnote].

(via librarysciences)