Shot by my mother on my phone.
This photo from several years ago was taken in Kyoto, my birthplace. Though they may not fully understand what I do, I feel fortunate to have family that are proud of me and my endeavors.
Just 18 months ago, rescued tiger Maruay only knew a concrete floor and a small cage.
This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay with his beloved ball.
[📹 wildlife_friends_foundation]
New Huberman Lab podcast out now:
THE BIOLOGY OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS & EMOTIONS w/@kaymtye@salkinstitute
• Neural Basis of Loneliness
• Making Social Media Positive
• Social Ranking
• Biology of “Abundance vs. Scarcity”
• Work-Life Balance
https://t.co/5MhwvGlyPO
The awakening : a poem by Rumi.
in the early dawn of happiness
you gave me three kisses
so that I would wake up
to this moment of love
i tried to remember in my heart
what I’d dreamt about
during the night
before I became aware
of this moving
of life
i found my dreams
but the moon took me away
it lifted me up to the firmament
and suspended me there
i saw how my heart had fallen
on your path
singing a song
between my love and my heart
things were happening which
slowly slowly
made me recall everything
you amuse me with your touch
although I can’t see your hands.
you have kissed me with tenderness
although I haven’t seen your lips
you are hidden from me.
but it is you who keeps me alive
perhaps the time will come
when you will tire of kisses
i shall be happy
even for insults from you
i only ask that you
keep some attention on me...
the awakening...
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art by ron hicks.
‘It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.’
Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
during his 1849 voyages (ed. Francis Steegmuller 1972)
📷 Reinfried Marass @ReinfriedMarass
‘Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.
Man is the only being who knows he is alone…’
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950
📷 Jan Scholz
One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate the seed of a plant, silene stenophylla. Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed from its stomach. This silene stenophylla just bloomed. It is 32,000 years old.