At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned. “It doesn’t look like my doll at all,“ said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.
A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Just watering the “fawn” to help it grow. 😂
That is pure joy and happiness for that little one.
If this is your morning, you are truly rich in life. ❤️
A collection of motorcycle engines through the Veteran and Vintage years.
This video shows how the motorcycle engine developed over time - from its humble beginnings when engineering was simplistic in form, through to the 1920s when overhead valve technology entered the mix. The first machine is an 1896 Léon Bollée, the last a 1930 Velocette KTT that was raced in the Manx Junior GP.
Video Credit- The Girder Club.
This Mama fox relocated her pups to a new den and provided them with a variety of meals over the week, including rabbit, fish, snake, skunk, goose (or chicken), voles, and more. All seven pups are growing bigger and beginning to explore their surroundings
Los muros de vidrio transparente deberían estar prohibidos en todo el mundo, es una de las formas mas efectivas de convertir una estructura en una máquina de matar aves.
🚨: A groundbreaking fact has been revealed by Boston University research: during sleep, a "cleansing process forcibly flushes out waste products" in the human brain.
Not only does current evidence suggest the downward ballistic-arc droplet infection model is wrong, but a large portion of exhaled bioaerosols don't just drift laterally; they actually rise on the thermal plume of warm exhaled air and body heat, then fall back into the breathing zone as they cool. This is one of the factors that extends the infectious range of bioaerosols more than intuition might indicate.
Mono-culture farming devastates the rest of nature.
Farmlands continue to lose much of their wildlife, bees, birds, insects, amphibians. But each generation measures "normal" nature against what existed in their childhood; not what existed before.
So we don't mourn the Auroch, Quagga, Eastern Elk, or drained wetland. We never knew them. We each inherit a slightly emptier world & call it normal, a shifting baseline syndrome.
Humans are remarkably adaptive... dangerously so.