@MyGlendale What concerns me is that I live at the foot of Chevy Chase Canyon and somehow did NOT get the emergency alert - just the “disregard” message. 🤔
A beautifully written and moving essay in @Harpers on our ability to "leave behind a net-positive legacy, to grow something beautiful in death."
https://t.co/97ecxXrprp
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched a series of virtual and guided video tours of museums and archaeological sites around the country https://t.co/vv1sEX58FR
Amazing images of the Legendary Antarctic Expedition ship "Endurance" - that became icebound at the Antarctic in 1915. Photographer Frank Hurley took over 500 glass-negative photos. He and explorer Shackleton waded into the crushed wreck to retrieve them. They saved only 120.
"We talk about life, we talk about babies being born... we’re very happy to talk about those sides of life. We need to talk about the other side as well, we need to talk about that preparation for death. What is it that you want?" @ProfSueBlack in NP25 'Death'.
Art: @alvarotapiah
“Death doulas,” dinner parties, and conversation-starters all have the same goal: to help Americans emotionally embrace their own mortality https://t.co/VAwlhd9S16
Extensive archaeological research in southern #Victoria has again raised the prospect that people have lived in #Australia for 120,000 years - twice as long as the broadly accepted period of human continental #habitation:
https://t.co/ShPQAhkfmy by @PPDaley via @guardian
There are many cultures that celebrate death around the world. Could that make us rethink our distanced relationship to the dead? https://t.co/UW9NmJX5Lk