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[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In the Himba tribe of Namibia, a child’s birth is not marked by the day they enter the world, nor even by conception. It begins much earlier, on the day the child is first imagined...

When a woman decides she wants a child, she sits beneath a tree and listens. In the stillness, she hears the song of the child who wishes to be born. She carries that melody back to the man who will be the father and teaches it to him. When they come together to conceive, they sing the child’s song, inviting the spirit into life.

During pregnancy, the mother shares the song with midwives and elders. And when the baby is born, the community gathers, singing the child’s song to welcome them into the world.

As the child grows, everyone learns the melody. If the child stumbles or is hurt, someone sings their song to lift them up. If they succeed or pass through rites of passage, the song is sung to honor them.

There is another moment when the song is sung. If a person commits a crime or acts against the community, they are brought to the center of the village. The people form a circle around them—not to punish, but to remind. They sing the person’s song, calling them back to who they truly are.

For the Himba, correction comes not through shame, but through love. To remember your song is to remember your essence and to live in harmony with others. And when age has taken its toll, and a man lies ready to die, the villagers gather once more. They sing his song one final time, carrying him out of this world with the same melody that first invited him in.

© Reddit

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[OBAMA🇺🇸🇬🇭 @yo_obamaa]

This February month is special

4 Mondays
4 Tuesdays
4 Wednesdays
4 Thursdays
4 Fridays
4 Saturdays
4 Sundays

This only happens once every 823 years!

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Jordon King was told "no" 40 times looking for a professor to mentor him. Now he's researching the Everglades, inspiring thousands on social media, and showing young people that scientists don't all look the same. When barriers try to stop us, we break through them anyway.

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[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

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Some hydrate.

Some support electrolytes.

Some are for taste — not health.
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Salt isn’t the enemy.
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[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

🚨Cece Doucette just demonstrated the dangers of wireless earbuds.

This should terrify you:

“We want to be in the green on this meter.”

“I'm going to show you what happens when I open up this ear pod [case].”

“We are flying into the flashing red here—as bad as it gets.”

“We want to be at 10 [microwatts)] or less.”

“If I take them out of the case … just like we would put it right up to the brain … in the case, it was just shy of 200,000.”

“This single earbud topped off my meter at 3.18 million microwatts.”

“We want to be under 10.”

“Not 10,000—10.”

“We have a whole generation putting these ear pods up to their brains.”

“Some of them are probably falling asleep with them at night when their bodies need to be doing cell repair and regeneration.”

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