Here are 100+ flash fiction prompts to help you start your short short stories, drabbles and one page stories. Challenge yourself to write less & say more!
Because no one could ever praise me enough, because I don't mean these poems only but the unseen unbelievable effort it takes to live the life that goes on between them, I think all the time about invisible work. About the young mother on Welfare I interviewed years ago, who said, "It's hard. You bring him to the park, run rings around yourself keeping him safe, cut hot dogs into bite-sized pieces for dinner, and there's no one to say what a good job you're doing, how you were patient and loving for the thousandth time even though you had a headache." And I, who am used to feeling sorry for myself because I am lonely, when all the while, as the Chippewa poem says, I am being carried by great winds across the sky, thought of the invisible work that stitches up the world day and night, the slow, unglamorous work of healing, the way worms in the garden tunnel ceaselessly so the earth can breathe and bees ransack this world into being, while owls and poets stalk shadows, our loneliest labors under the moon. There are mothers for everything, and the sea is a mother too, whispering and whispering to us long after we have stopped listening. I stopped and let myself lean a moment, against the blue shoulder of the air. The work of my heart is the work of the world's heart. There is no other art. "Invisible Work" by Alison Luterman. Reprinted by permission of the poet. This poem originally appeared in The Sun magazine and in Alison's first book of poetry, The Largest Possible Life (Cleveland State University Press, 2001). For more information about Alison and her other books of poetry, essays and plays, visit her website. Art credit: Detail of mother and child, charcoal drawing by Egon Schiele.
Though viewers may not know the narratives of Karla Ortiz’s painted and drawn figures, her absorbing pieces inspire conjecture. Outside of her fine art work, Ortiz is a concept artist for Marvel Film Studios, and in the past, Industrial Light & Magic and Ubisoft. She's also illustrated products for Wizards of the Coast and Tor Books. All speak to Ortiz’s talent for storytelling, even when the subjects are unfamiliar to the viewer.
Siudmak is close to Dali by his brilliance in portraying the three-dimensional illusion of space, by his sense of light and shade as well as his linear and aerial perspective.
Sure, a blurry portrait of a fake nobleman just sold for a lot of money. But there's a lot more going on in the world of art and AI.
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire—and most critically, who was the first to brave the slimy, pale oyster? In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs deep into the latest research to uncover the untold stories of some of these incredible innovators (or participants in lucky accidents). With a sharp sense of humor and boundless enthusiasm for the wonders of our ancient ancestors, Who Ate the First Oyster? profiles the perpetrators of the greatest firsts and catastrophes of prehistory, using the lives of individuals to provide a glimpse into ancient cultures, show how and why these critical developments occurred, and educate us on a period of time that until recently we've known almost nothing about. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780143132752 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication Date: 05-05-2020 Pages: 240 Product Dimensions: 8.30(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.60(d)About the Author Cody Cassidy is the co-author of the popular science book And Then You're Dead, which was translated into more than ten languages, and a former bookstore clerk in Buenos Aires. While writing Who Ate the First Oyster? he attempted to shave with chipped obsidian like the inventor of the world's first razor, retraced the final steps of an ancient murder victim through the Pyrenees and the Alps, brewed beer by spoiling gruel, and fired a replica of an ancient bow and arrow, among other experiments. He lives in San Francisco.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt 1 Who Invented Inventions? This occurred 3 million years ago, which is before humans evolved. 3 million years ago The invention of inventions In October 1960, a then twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee she dubbed David Greybeard strip a long twig of its leaves, use it to probe a termite mound, and lick away the bugs he retrieved. It may have been just a snack for Greybeard, but to a scientific community who at the time defined Homo sapiens by their unique use of tools, it was earth shattering. Goodall immediately telegraphed the news to the paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, who famously responded, "Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human." After some scrambling among anthropologists to redefine the uniqueness of our species, they landed upon our ability to use tools to make other tools. David Greybeard may strip away the branches of his termite dipping-stick, but only hominins (a catchall word that refers to H. sapiens and all of our extinct ancestors after the split from apes) could invent a special branch-stripping tool. Many archaeologists I spoke with believe the ability to plan and solve a problem using a complex device does not merely define our species, but in a few instances made our species. Our inventions aren't the result of our evolution, they believe, but are instead the explanation for the route it took. In at least a few cases, the earliest first inventors did not merely enable a new way of life or allow new economic possibilities, as we would modernly think of a modern invention, but instead enabled our evolution. In no case is this truer than in that of the very first invention of all, made by an ancient ancestor of ours long before H. sapiens evolved. Who was the first inventor? I'll call her Ma, because she was a young mother, who like all inventors, had a problem. Ma was born approximately 3 million years ago and belonged to an ancient ancestor species of ours called Australopithecus. She was born in Africa, perhaps Eastern Africa, where archaeologists have discovered a concentration of australopithecine fossils, including the famous "Lucy" found in 1974. Three million years ago is approximately halfway from the time when our species first split from the chimpanzee and bonobo line to the modernday, so it's no surprise that in appearance and behavior, Ma represents a middle ground between H. sapiens and chimpanzees. She stood almost four feet tall, weighed a lithe sixty-five pounds, and other than on her hairless face she was covered in thick dark fur. Ma ate more meat than a modern chimp does, but she scavenged it rather than killed it. Ma supplemented her meals with roots, tubers, nuts, and fruits. In many respects, a modern observer might mistake her for a remarkably well-balanced, walking chimp, save for her peculiar, dexterous, and inventive use of rocks. To aid her work scavenging carcasses, Ma sharpened stones to cut into bones for marrow, which allowed her to eat meat other scavengers couldn't access. Ma was a clever ape, but to many of Africa's big cats, she was still lunch. During the day she walked upright in search of food, but at night she clambered back into a tree nest to avoid nocturnal predators. Archaeologists have found australopithecine femurs and arm bones in caves adjacent to complete predator skeletons, which is a clear but grim signal of who was eating whom. The predators interested in Ma were varied. She lacked fire and as a result found herself particularly vulnerable to a hunter similar to the modern panther, but she occupied a rung so low on the food chain that even eagles made the occasional meal out of australopithecines. Her inability to start and control fire had a far more significant implication: It meant she ate her food raw. The digestive system extracts fewer calories from uncooked food than raw and it is far more difficult to chew, which means Ma had to spend more time gathering and eating than a modern H. sapiens. Even with their large teeth and strong jaws, modern chimpanzees spend up to six hours per day chewing their raw food, while the average modern person's cooked diet allows them to eat a day's rations in a brisk forty-five minutes. Ma's raw diet meant she would have had to spend nearly her entire day gathering food and eating it while dodging eagles and panthers, clambering up and down trees, and roaming across open ground looking for carcasses and fruit. All of which would have become far more difficult when, in her early teens, Ma gave birth to a noisy, helpless, immobile infant. H. sapiens infants are an evolutionary curiosity. Most mammalian babies are born ready to walk, trot, or at least hold on to their moms. The reason is blindingly obvious: Every day a baby'spends unable to keep up is life threatening for both mother and child. A capuchin monkey's baby can grip its mother's fur almost immediately, while the bigger-brained chimpanzee's mother has to carry her newborn, but only for its first two months. H. sapiens babies, on the other hand, spend more than a year in almost complete helplessness, unable to walk, crawl, or even support their own body weight. While this would seem an evolutionary disaster, it is the downside to what is perhaps our greatest strength: oversize brains. Our extended weakened state is partially explained by the time required to develop trillions of synaptic connections within our brain. In all primates, an evolutionary trade-off occurs between larger brains and infant mortality, and each species has arrived at its own equilibrium. The question archaeologists have asked is how humans arrive at such a perverted one. Presumably, when hominins first branched off the chimpanzee line, hominin babies could soon cling to their mothers. Yet at some point this began to change. When I asked Cara Wall-Scheffler, a biologist at Seattle Pacific University, when young hominin mothers would first have been strained to the breaking point by their helpless babies, she said she believes the switch to bipedalism nearly 3 million years ago would have placed mothers and their newborns in a dangerous position. Her reasoning is straightforward: Walking upright would have made it far more difficult for a baby to cling onto its mother. In addition, upright walking requires narrow hips, which would have narrowed the birth canal and necessitated smaller-headed babies. But instead of hominin heads shrinking, and hominin babies becoming more capable, the exact opposite occurred. Head size increased, and babies became even weaker. Today, H. sapiens have one of the largest body-to-head-size ratios in the animal kingdom despite walking upright. It's an oddity biologists call the smart biped paradox. The evolutionary explanation for the paradox is that hominin mothers like Ma birthed their babies earlier in their gestation. Essentially, Ma's baby was born two or three months premature, before its head could outgrow the exit. Since Ma, the change has only become more pronounced. If H. sapiens birthed babies at the same developmental stage as chimpanzees, pregnancy would last twenty months. Not only would a baby that large not fit the birth canal, but the strain on the pregnant mother would be far too great. The result is that a human baby's first seven months are spent as if it were still in the womb-helpless and completely dependent on its mother-while the baby adds more than a billion synapses to its brain every minute. Ma's helpless baby would have posed the greatest challenge to her while she gathered food. No modern primate species, with the exception of ours, shares parenting duty, so she is unlikely to have received help from the father. Nor is she likely to have even set her child down for longer than a few moments, because no primate in the wild ever parks their baby. It's simply too dangerous. If Ma left her baby while she gathered food, her baby's reaction would have been quite like what you would hear from a human baby in a similar situation today. Eventually, her baby probably wouldn't have
Headcanon: Carlos kept science kits for kids in his lab so that when Cecil visits at work, he can pretend to do experiments and such while Carlos works on his projects, but it usually ends up with...
Postcard 1 - Map of Great Britain Received this card inside an envelope. Postcard 2 - Scotland A beautiful map of Scotland. Scotland has over 800 islands and 5.1 million of Scotland's population live in only 3% of total land area. Thanks to Irene for sending from Scotland, United Kingdom. Postcard 3 - Scotland Thanks to Sarah of North Uist, Scotland Postcard 4 - Wales Nice map card of Cymru (Wales) showing Welsh castles, cathedrals and landmarks. Thanks to Phillippa of Wales. Postcard 5 - Northern Ireland Thanks to Leila from Northern Ireland.
This book is meant to liberate humanity and make the world a better place not only for my son, but all future generations. My message to the world is that love is the key that unlocks us to our fullest potential. We can accept the universe as one shared existence, this way no one would miss treat another as it would be like miss treating oneself. We can unify through love and acceptance, as we learn to view the world through the eyes of non-domination. We can consider our relationships with one another, and not only with people but with minerals, plants, animals and the entire cosmos as we are all relative to each other. We can heal each other with our Toroidal energy fields/Magnanimous auras when we love. "Therefore you will know the Torus and the Torus will set you free. " - Santos Bonacci Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781667891231 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Embodiment Celestial Publication Date: 04-04-2023 Pages: 246 Product Dimensions: 10.96h x 8.52w x 0.49dAbout the Author I am Julio Castro 25 years young, most know me by my social media name Divine Being Being Divine. I am an Independent Researcher/Syncretist. The subject of SYNCRETISM is one of expansive and comparative studies which I discovered through Santos Bonacci/Mr. Astro Theology, an amazing soul whos ambition like mine is to cherish preserve and spread the truth as much as possible.Most know me as Embodiment Celestial on social media. If you have a hard time understanding this book I do extensive break downs on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter with over 1 million followers collectively. I also am the founder of Celestial University on Embodimentcelestial.com housing multiple web courses and currently sitting at more than 30,000 enrollments. There is this unspoken thing that is all around us, you cant quite put your finger on it but you know its there. The system can separate you from your divinity. Everything that we teach is meant to bridge you back.
𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 (𝐘/𝐍)𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐍𝐀𝐏 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 ᴏʀ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 (𝐘/𝐍) 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 [DISCONTINUED] [if any ccs are uncomfortable with this story i'll take it down] [sapnap x fem! reader] [lowercase intended] ©-LILYISCRYING
ANDY J. PIZZA ; SOPHIE MILLER This creatively wacky exploration of the invisible things that make up the human experience encourages readers to look past the visible and connect with the things that are not seen.If we could put on a pair of magical invisible glasses and see all the feelings, ideas, and other invisible things that populate our world, what would they look like? Could you see an itch? Could you describe hope? From the sound of a dog barking to the rainbow-MAGIC taste of a lollipop, from gratitude to grit, this book will help you meet the many interesting sensations that follow you every day, even if you can't see them.Explore the way a sad song can sometimes make you happy and discover that laughs—even fake ones—can multiply faster than you'd imagine. As readers give these unknown forces a name, they'll also find a gentle invitation to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on the invisible things at work in their own lives.
The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians of the 16th and 17th Centuries is a book published by the Rosicrucian Order, edited by H. Spencer Lewis. It contains (among others) reproductions of Rosicrucian charts and symbols from the above era. The 21st diagram of the first part of the book (seen to the right) visibly served as an inspiration for the Plane chart, a diagram describing the hierarchy of the mazoku in the worlds created by the Lord of Nightmares. Two symbols in particular, the one in the
The natural landscape of Lake Constance, or Bodensee, is home to one of Germany's 39 UNESCO World Heritage sites but it also offers a chance for time travel
Take a look at the things to believe They say that to grasp the Absolute Blind Faith is the way But Blind Faith for whom? For the Flute-playing cowherd? For the Unseen? For the Formless? For the…
Finfolk are a breed of mythological creatures unique to the Orkney and Shetland Islands. They're similar to mermaids and other mythic sea creatures and have connections to Norse mythology.
Так называемый "Тоннель любви" находится в местечке Клевань, Ровенская область, Украина. В теплое время года, когда распускаются в полную силу листья
Lori Berd Fortress, Lori, Armenia by Mriganka Kalita
Encouraging travellers to ditch the museum and head off the beaten track, author Dana Arnold reveals to MailOnline Travel the world's best places to discover remote art and architecture.
Do you need a good laugh? Well, you’re in the right place.These funny crochet memes show how obsessed we crocheters are with our yarn, our projects...
Hey people! This inspiration post features amazing visionary paintings by John Stephens. Dive into the post to see several extremely luminous, view and mind expanding artworks! Друзья! Этот пост посвящен невероятной визионерской (честно, не знаю подходящего слова по-русски, а словарь выдает какую-то ерунду) живописи кисти John Stephens. Ныряйте в пост и насладитесь невероятно светоносными, расширяющими взгляд и сознание работами!
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We ate, then ran to the river to wash. I savored the miracle of being able to watch him openly, to enjoy the play of dappled light on his limbs, the curving of his back as he dove beneath the water....
A woman launched a thousand ships. Men traveled far to rescue her, though her motives and intentions were shrouded in haze. But when one warrior quit, it did not take a woman to bring him back to the battleground. It took the death of one very important, sexually ambiguous man to make the war worth fighting for once again.
Become a confident, strategic coach who provides maximum value to your clients. Learn the strategies that top professional coaches use that keeps the phone ringing with a steady stream of clients.
A group of enormous megalithic structures stand tall in Tarxien, on the southeastern part of the main island of Malta. Called the Tarxien Temples, the huge structures remain as a testament to the architectural, artistic, and technological abilities of the ancient islanders who constructed them.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that love and kindness have managed to survive in our dog-eat-dog world. But seeing people taking care of World War II veterans or seeing a son switching shoes with his mom because her feet sore can restore anyone’s faith in humanity and make anyone overflow with love.
Beautiful windows in natural homes around the world illustrating some of the patterns from 'A Pattern Language'.
These stunning relics of the not-so-distant past are insane.
