A 99 million year old Baby bird, Burma, motivating yourself during trying times, Iceland, Refueling jets mid-flight, Adopting a pet? Tips, Good Math Apps to help you in the Learning Process, Bertolt, A book about a Friendship with a Tree, Iceland's Ring Road, Sleep on the Great Wall of China, and #FriendshipRocks

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Friday
5/22
I think if you listen closely
In the sweet, glad days of spring,
With the song of the brook,
the breeze and the birds,
You can hear the flowers sing.
–Helen Isabel Moorhouse (b.1876)



This day is a very special day in our world.
There once was a beautiful girl named Rebecca who lived next door. Her family made a scholarship Fund for her and it is given out at Awards Night at the High School each year. All the proceeds from her Mom’s flower stand and gifts go to this fund. Faith in the Universe has helped us cope.
She has been sewing Masks most recently, selling seeds, and there is a little Library there too. 
We talk about Rebecca often, as if she is here with us, and yet, missing her will always be a part of our lives.
She was the sweetest child and a wonderful person who loved Learning and Animals. She would come over in the Morning for me to braid her hair before school and spent lots of time here playing with her “little Sister”and companion, my daughter. 
Today she would have been 31. She died at 11, The day before school resumed in the fall. It was shocking to loose her. Even though her family and her community worked to educate her to always “Land on your feet.” Sometimes the best preparation and education isn’t enough to save someone who you love as your own from a devastating accident. These are the lessons in life we wish to never experience, and yet, one arrives and we real. Try to make sense of the loss, and learn to live with and go forward, and to celebrate what we had for a little while, lost in an instance of fate. This is life, precarious and precious.
She was riding a horse and had an accident. She didn’t have her Helmet on, even though she had one.
Please wear a Helmet in her Memory. 
To protect yourself to the best of your ability from a traumatic Brain Injury. 
Any helmet. But a new one is worth the investment for the most important part of your body. 
Don’t let your kids stand up in the grocery store cart, I know of 2 children who had TBI from falling out of carts. 
Teach safety and self protection at every opportunity you can. 
Sometimes this is all your kids will have in the split second instance they need it. 
I taught my kids about strangers from the moment I could, hand washing and safety around water, home rules and city rules. 
Incredibly, moments of shear panic happen in everyone’s lives. Preparedness can be what saves you. I taught car rules, house rules and school rules. 
Make up your own family rules and sign them. 
Keep a copy on the fridge, or somewhere visual. Reinforce your beliefs and safety protocols often. You will be happy when your kids start exploring the world on their own.
And, Have a Strawberry Shortcake, love your animals, and smile today. You are alive and that is an immeasurable gift.
There are so many ways we keep her a part of our lives. I have prayer flags on my garden, fluttering in the wind to bring her love all the time.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for Kindness
- Lucius Seneca
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5 tools to motivate yourself in these trying times




A mid-Cretaceous enantiornithine (Aves) hatchling preserved in Burmese (Myanmar) amber with unusual plumage





Myanmar, also called Burma.

Have you eaten Rangoon. anything?
this comes from a Burmese Name.
also, Burmese Python...
Buddahist temples

Stretching from latitude 10° N to about 28° 30′ N, Myanmar is the northernmost country of Southeast Asia; it is shaped like a kite with a long tail that runs south along the Malay Peninsula. The country is bordered by China to the north and northeast, Laos to the east, Thailand to the southeast, the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal to the south and southwest, Bangladesh to the west, and India to the northwest. Its total length from north to south is about 1,275 miles (2,050 km), and its width at the widest part, across the centre of the country at about the latitude of the city of Mandalay, is approximately 580 miles (930 km) from east to west.

Can you imagine living 99 Million years ago? 
This baby bird did.
Write a story about her/his life among dinosaurs and what he/she has seen and watched while suspended in Burmese Amber.

FIELD TRIP to the Baby Bird’s Homeland.
Burma is Near CHINA.

Burma is known for it's Sapphires and Rubies


Take a road trip along Iceland's Ring Road. The Land of Fire and Ice




The only inhabitable section of Iceland is its edge -- pretty much everything else is either a volcano or a glacier -- and the road that encircles it is a trip you can take only one place on the planet. That ring road trip is a big reason why American tourists to Iceland annually outnumber the number of living Icelanders. Give yourself a week to make the full trip and to get acquainted with the bizarro nature and the friendly small-townsfolk of the world’s edge. -- Sam Eifling

Located on two tectonic Plates moving apart, the opposite of yesterdays tectonic plates under the Himalayas which are moving together to form the Himalayan Mountains.

Iceland is full of Geothermal activity. 
ge·o·ther·mal| ˌjēōˈTHərməl | (also geothermic | -ˈTHərmik | ) adjective relating to or produced by the internal heat of the earth: some 70% of Iceland's energy needs are met from geothermal sources. DERIVATIVES geothermally | ˌjēōˈTHərməlē | (also geothermically) adverb


Refueling jets mid flight



Popular Science

Thinking of adopting a pet?

Some tips.
Classes for pet owners
And free online classes for you and your pet.


Math apps to help explain and solve


From Brain Pickings by Maria Popova
Art by Jacques Goldstyn from Bertolt, an uncommonly tender illustrated story about of the friendship of a tree.
Crowning the canon of arboreal allegories is Bertolt (public library) by French-Canadian geologist-turned-artist Jacques Goldstyn — the uncommonly tender story of an ancient tree named Bertolt and the boy who named and loved it. From Goldstyn’s simple words and the free, alive, infinitely expressive line of his illustrations radiates a profound parable of belonging, reconciling love and loss, and savoring solitude without suffering loneliness.


SCIENCE
Grow produce from your kitchen scraps

ART

Draw a self portrait like Norman Rockwell’s and then recreated the same portrait in your house with your family.


ECOSYSTEMS and Pollination of our FOOD SOURCES
Learn about Honey Bees and their Hives

Honey is the only food that never spoils

life cycle





EXPERIENCE
Whitewater paddling, From Home


Crossword
National Parks

Can’t breathe in your mask?
Here are 4 steps to strengthen your lungs


To Italy with LOVE


PROJECT #KindnessRocks

In our community people make rocks and leave them on the beach, in front of our school, most recently someone spread love though our community by leaving heart shaped rocks out in front of everyone's homes, on our tree stump at the end of our driveway, on stone walls, by flowers, one little heart even got painted on a fire hydrant. TodayI saw two late heart rocks on the Bike path.
These little reminders and visual sweet spots bring  j o y  as you walk around the neighborhood. It’s amazing the  j o y  that a Little Rock and paint can bring. Interestingly, I have seen more people walking, riding bikes and running now than I have ever before and it feels like a healthy and happy shift in what was, to what will be.




Have an Epic Virtual Family Game night


Before you go to bed, Think about…
Sleep on a watchtower of the Great Wall of China

A trip to China would be incomplete without a visit to the Great Wall, but to take it to the next level, camp overnight on one of its watchtowers. A handful of guide operators lead groups to the Wall at sunset, where you can legally and safely spend the night in a sleeping bag, catch a gorgeous life-affirming sunrise, then set out on a three hour hike. Added bonus, there will be hardly any tourists. -- Lorenzo Ferrigno


One to think on.
Incredible kindness returned by Ireland.
Returning the favor: The country of Ireland has sent along a seven-figure donation to Navajo and Hopi families to help them get through the COVID-19 pandemic. KNAU reports the contribution drive came in gratitude for a donation by the Choctaw Nation to the Irish more than 170 years ago, when Ireland was starving in the 1845-1849 Great Potato Famine.

Be Kind, Wear a helmet for every sport, pads and guards. 
Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. Remember and pay your respect to those people who have served and given their lives for us to live freely in the USA.
Thanks for stopping by.
Eliza

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