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Who knew the call of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō could cause tears 😭

I can’t wait to tell Frank what I just learned about Monopoly

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him...”
- Robert Penn Warren

“It’s hard to trust the world like that, to show it your belly. There’s something deep within me, something intensely fragile, that is terrified of turning itself to the world[…] I think I’m just scared that if I show the world my belly, it will devour me. And so I wear the armor of cynicism, and hide behind the great walls of irony… But I want to be earnest, even if it’s embarrassing.”

“[My dog] would roll over onto his back, and present his soft belly. I always marveled at the courage of that, his ability to be so absolutely vulnerable to us. He offered us the place ribs don’t protect, trusting that we weren’t going to bite or stab him.“