This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a swimming pig.
Swimming Pig | Big Major Spot Island, Bahamas
The UK Telegraph has this lovely photoessay on the pigs, who live freely on the island and are obviously quite sociable with visiting humans.
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone
They all look as happy as pigs in mud. In one photo I notice two undersized pigs that have pigmentation on their pigskin. Are they pigmy pigs? And where is the photo of a piglet on piggy-back?
I picked up my copy of “The Road Less Travelled” last night to read for a few minutes before I went to sleep. And the chapter that I went to had this extract in it. Kind of serendipitous as I have a son about to turn 21 and I had been wondering what to say to him at his party (tales out of school excepting). It is beautiful and although I also have the source book I had forgotten about it.
An excerpt from “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,
“Speak to us of Children”.
And he said:
Your children are not your children,
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but are not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and
He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
So he loves also the bow that is stable.
I’m rather enjoying this Day-Night World Map for checking where exactly the sun is illuminating the planet right now, especially since Sprog the Younger is currently in Europe, so it makes it easier to visualise the time-zone difference.
That’s a handy map. Will use it when The Behemoth goes to the USA next year for college.
Those are about the happiest pigs ive ever seen tigtog.
Love it!
Should I blame my French great-grandfather for the facxt that I wear a black beret and enjoy revolutionary songs like La Marseillaise, L’Internationale and A La Volente De Peuple?
Those pigs are gorgeous, tigtog!
OK Go – White Knuckles
This clip made me rather happy
@3 Tigtog – Checking the map notes has allowed me a new description for my phase of life. I’ve decided I’m not edging towards old age but rather just in the “Civil Twilight”. This stage obviously allows me to gain enormous pleasure from something as simple as a pig in water. Like many of us it looks more like it’s paddling furiously underwater while all is calm above.
I am excited about Helen Dale’s next novel.