Litsy

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future | Gloria Dickie

I am challenging myself to stay on track this month.
(My husband and I were just now talking about how we are doing these kinda things as a way to cope with stuff like… our son‘s small business and the recent effects…enough said)

Prompt: Wildlife
#Falling

Found this in my Audible Library …. I have not transitioned to Audio books yet though… they put me to sleep…I think it has to do with my ADHD

See why I like stream of consciousness? 😂

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🐻 🙌🏻🤎 1w

Eggs Sounds good 👌🏼 1w

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kelli7990

Horses! | Gail Gibbons

I colored this picture and wrote a story about it.

A mama horse and her baby colt or baby filly
Another horse is photobombing them by showing their ass
The other horse was told not to show their ass on picture day but they did it anyway
The other horse said,”It‘s picture day. I have to show my ass. I‘m not getting my picture taken but at least my ass will be in the picture.”

#haiku #haikuhive

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JenlovesJT47 😅😅😅 love ♥️♥️♥️ 3w

IriDas lol. 😂 😆 too funny 3w

lil1inblue 😂😊😂 3w

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AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝🐴👍🏼🐝💝 3w

CBee 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w

Jari-chan 🤣🤣🤣 3w

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kelli7990

Lions | Ann Elwood

I cross stitched a picture of this lion on a cross stitching app I use called Cross Stitch World and I decided to make up a story about this picture. I‘ve seen nature shows with lions and it‘s true. The male lions are lazy.

#haiku #haikuhive

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Susanita, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, The_Book_Ninja, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

CBee Girl power 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo

lil1inblue I love your stories! 💓 💓 💓 1mo

JenlovesJT47 This is adorable!! 🥰 1mo

dabbe 🧡🦁💛 1mo

AnnCrystal Epic 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🦁🐈🐝💝. 1mo

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kelli7990

Horses! | Gail Gibbons

I colored this picture on one of my coloring apps and I wanted to share my personal experience with horses for today‘s haiku.

#haiku #haikuhive

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Susanita, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, The_Book_Ninja, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

AnnCrystal Beautiful Experiences 👏🏼🐝💕🐎🐝💝. 1mo

CBee Lovely! That sounds like a really cool experience 🐴 😊 1mo

TheBookHippie Horses are so healing. How wonderful you got to do that. 1mo

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JenlovesJT47 This is lovely 🥰 1mo

lil1inblue How cool! 😍 Horses are so majestic. 🤎🐴🤎 1mo

julieclair Thank you for sharing your personal experiences! They make the horses in your beautiful picture seem even more real. 💙 1mo

Itchyfeetreader This is v cool thanks for sharing (I am a bit afraid of horses) 1mo

dabbe 🤎🐴🤎 1mo

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kelli7990

Horses! | Gail Gibbons

I colored this picture and I wanted to write a story about it.

Mama and daddy horse running in the water with their little colt
It‘s a beautiful day for horses to run around outside
Nice weather makes horses feel frisky
Go horses, run. Enjoy the day running around with your baby

#haiku #haikuhive

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Susanita, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, The_Book_Ninja, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

JenlovesJT47 🐎🐎🐎 1mo

lil1inblue 🤎🐴🤎 1mo

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🐎🐴🐎🐝💝. 1mo

dabbe 🩵💙🩵 1mo

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Bookwormjillk

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future | Gloria Dickie

#FoodAndLit #Peru

I couldn‘t not read Paddington, the most famous bear from Peru, this month. I followed that up with the chapter in the tagged book about the bears in Peru. (A re-read from #Naturalitsy) And for lunch today we went to a Peruvian place near our hiking trail that we‘ve been meaning to try.

Texreader, Catsandbooks

TheBookHippie Love it all!!! 1mo

Texreader This whole post: brilliant!! 1mo

AnnCrystal 😍🐻💝💝💝. 1mo

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Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie @Texreader I have so much fun with this challenge 1mo

Butterfinger Are you the one who eats vegetarian? I bet Peruvian food had a lot to offer. 1mo

Bookwormjillk @Butterfinger yes I am. This was a chicken restaurant but they still had a few things for me. I think Peruvian food in general is very veggie friendly though. 1mo

Catsandbooks Wonderful! 🇵🇪 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future | Gloria Dickie

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Well thank goodness I had the audiobook and housework to do because there's no way I would have survived reading that much distressing material if I had to sit still. 😮‍💨
I understand the author's goal, to bring greater awareness about the plight of each bear species to a broader public, and maybe appeal with both the harsh realities and the remembrances of how the bears have been significant in lore and in history as well, but it is both 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? a credit to her ultimate purpose and a harm to the balance of the text that no benign anecdote stays in the mind in the face of the cruelties suffered and the violence inflicted by the bear populations.
It's very clear that humans are, unsurprisingly, the problem. I think it's incredibly equanimous of the author to acknowledge the sloth, grizzly and polar bear attacks against humans, in fairly traumatizing detail. To recognize the costs for 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? both species in situations where the populations clash.
Climate change, population growth and habitat loss, as the epilogue states, are the three key factors, beyond trophy hunting or bile harvesting or any other deliberate action by humans, that will threaten bear species' continued existence. Just as it is our actions that are endangering, it's our actions that may yet save them. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? For all the dire reporting this book contains, it is often focused on conservation efforts, but it does not lose sight of the larger threats that helping individual bears cannot resolve.
It's a solid book within the genre of 'act before it's too late', even as I always worry this type of work is usually preaching to the converted, it's heartening to see documented the efforts and progress on conservation fronts. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 By that same token, it's a book that you can't help finishing with the need to express the thought: if you can help, in any way, do so. ❤️‍🩹
⚠️animal cruelty, animal death, descriptions of injuries sustained during bear attacks
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