The long and short of it is this, today one man’s suicide changed the lives of possibly hundreds of people. When I first heard it my heart went out to the man who sat on top of a parking garage, shot himself then fell 8 stories to the pavement. I know the kind of depression and anger towards life in general that can drive a person to want to die. I just said it the other day and in fact I’ve been seriously suicidal for two long months. I know how it feels to be driven to the edge, so when I heard a man killed himself today my immediate response was sorrow and understanding, that is until I heard the details.
Daily Archive for August 27th, 2010
I saw this beauty on my screen door Monday morning and hoped my camera batteries would charge fast enough to catch him on film. What a beauty. After looking up info on the Pale Green Luna Moth I discovered that this is an adult male who will live for only about 7 days. In addition to his short adult life he doesn’t eat because he doesn’t have a mouth, none of the adults do. I guess when I saw such a large hairy creature I figured the information would say he’s predatory and can eat small mice or something. Who knew these large gentle, short-lived creatures eat nothing at all in adulthood. Continue reading ‘Stuff In My Yard: Pale Green Luna Moth’
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