34. This Is How You Rescue A Giraffe
Friends,
Happy Sunday.
Please enjoy actual footage of my reaction every single time I encounter snow.
Here’s five special snippets for your Sunday.
1. A Daring Giraffe Rescue In Kenya
“In 2011, some Rothschild’s giraffes were relocated to Longicharo Island in Lake Baringo. At the time, the island’s landmass was larger and connected to the mainland, making it a peninsula. But recent intense flooding around the lake has threatened both the nearby wildlife and local villages. That includes eight giraffes that became stuck on the island.'“
“Conservationists, government officials, and local community members are banding together to pull off a rescue of eight giraffes stranded on a shrinking island in Kenya. In order to save these animals, they created a giraffe-safe barge to get them across to safe land. They made the first successful rescue of a giraffe named Asiwa today, with more planned in the coming days and weeks.”
“We sailed Asiwa over a mile of crocodile-ridden waters to the newly established Ruko giraffe sanctuary, and our team was there the whole way to ensure Asiwa was safe,” O’Connor said. The 4,400-acre giraffe sanctuary nestled into the Ruko conservancy was recently completed and includes fencing that should keep Asiwa and her friends safe from predators and other hazards. A 20-person team at the conservancy will also be on hand to protect the animals.”
Love Giraffes? Check out this beautiful organisation and help this endangered animal.
2. Reading
Officially MY FAVOURITE BOOK IN 2020.
“If you’re not feeling ‘Hell Yeah’ then say NO. Most of us have lives filled with mediocrity. We said yes to things that we felt half-hearted about. So we’re too busy to react when opportunities come our way. We miss out on the great because we’re busy with the mediocre.
The solution is to say YES to less.”
"We do so many things for the money, whether we need it or not. But what if you had so much money that you couldn’t possibly want any more?
What would you do then?
What would you stop doing?”
3. An unlikely ode to the random joy of public transport
This delightful short video by Anna Ginsburg makes me strangely nostalgic for a London I haven’t quite left yet.
The finished short, aptly named Just the Two of Us, honestly had us welling up slightly at its ability to induce nostalgia for something that was so familiar just a few weeks ago. At a time where there’s really quite a lot to dislike about being in London, being in the UK in general, and the absolute mess of our government, it shows a snippet of what daily joy we will have to look forward to again – even though undoubtedly wherever we are in the world, public transport won’t be an experience sought after.
“I’m from London and there’s a lot I hate about it,” adds Anna on this subject. “I hate being stuck in someone’s sweaty armpit, unable to even take my rucksack off without elbowing an old woman in the groin. But, listening to this recording every day for weeks made me feel nostalgic for the bustling hum of the city. A hum which is currently not possible.”
4. Match Made In Hell
Ryan Reynolds is a goddamn genius.
5. A Quote
"Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world."
— Don Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements