"I watch it break and slide."

[greygirlbeast]

This will probably come out all higgledy-piggeldy. this journal entry. But I will persevere, nonetheless. Any day that begins by reading a report of new fossils of the Early Miocene-aged bird Pelagornis chilensis, confirming that it had a wingspan of 5.2 meters (about 17 feet), can't be all bad. That's a wingspan roughly double that of an albatross

Comments

[rozk]

You absolutely need to write a decent chunk of it down now, and get it out to a few trusted friends. All of us are frail and potentially suddenly dead and there is too much in the way of wonderful stuff in what little I know of your life to risk losing those lights.

Please.

[greygirlbeast]

All of us are frail and potentially suddenly dead

That's a beautiful line.

You absolutely need to write a decent chunk of it down now, and get it out to a few trusted friends.

There's just so much of it. It's like a space ark or something. How do you decide what's worth saving, given finite time and resources?

[rozk]

As someone with my own space ark problems, whose friends shout at one reguarly about this, I know this. All we can do is make a start.

[greygirlbeast]

All we can do is make a start.

Yep.

[cimeara]

She has said it so much better than I. But yes, seconded, thirded, how-every-many'd, without the starting, there will be nothing.