All the older women in my family had quick, uncomplicated, VERY painful childbirth experiences and weren't shy about telling me and my sisters all about it. Yes, it's painful, they would say. But then they put that pretty little baby in your arms and you forget all about that pain and by the time you leave the hospital, you're ready to do it all again.
It's Coconut Friday.
Wangalla enjoys these weekly coconut pampering sessions enormously – so much so, in fact, that when Keeper Misheck pauses to roll up his sleeves (with an assist from Simon), she comes trundling over to see what the holdup is. Why coconut oil? It is full of healthy fats and helps condition the skin for the youngest orphans, though Korbessa, who has outgrown Coconut Friday still wheedles her way into the tradition!
Little Wangalla just joined our foster program. Discover her incredible story and support her round-the-clock care through an adoption: https://t.co/loS0hJV6JZ
The weirdest chore my sisters and I had as children in the 60s was to clear the HUGE backyard of dog poop before dad mowed the lawn. We were each given a special teaspoon (kept in a bag in the shed) and a Ralph's paper grocery bag and we went around and picked up the little turds left by our four Dachshunds. For real.
@ThrillaRilla369 Medical terms: a woman telling me about a man she knows who was just diagnosed with "prostrate" cancer. That same woman was diagnosed with "dioticulitis." A man wearing a cast on his arm told me all about what his "gynecologist" said about the break while I tried not to laugh.
@willows_elise In the entire history of the Milky Way Galaxy, this has never happened. Women do this for themselves by themselves before they leave the house.
Zongoloni has always been a leader.
She stepped up to lead the 'nightclubbers' (a group of young independent bulls) out on their earliest nights away from the stockades, blazing the trail the others would follow. She came to us in 2013, rescued as an 18-month-old after poachers shot her mother. Fourteen now and entirely wild, she still brings her family and friends back to the stockades where she was raised, again and again.
Discover Zongoloni's journey to matriarch: https://t.co/l4iIAEGTj8
In 2013, a girl named Peh Yan Heng was walking along the beach when she discovered a stranded octopus stuck on the shore. It was very weak and struggling to breathe.
She gently picked up the octopus, carried it to deeper water, and released it back into the sea to save its life.
Once the octopus was back in its familiar environment, instead of swimming away immediately, it turned back toward the girl’s feet. It slowly extended one of its tentacles, gently touching her leg or almost “hugging” her in a slow, deliberate motion as if saying thank you for saving it. Only after that did it swim off into the ocean. 💓
A 3-year-old baby Joelle played Shostakovich’s Waltz No.2 with the orchestra at Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
When you’re 3 years old and already living your best life, playing Shostakovich with a full orchestra.
So much talent in such a tiny human. Congratulations, Joelle! You stole the show!