Excerpt from article:
"Over the past four decades, different administrations have used different estimates of the monetary value of a human life in cost-benefit analyses. But until now, no administration has counted it as zero."

Most folks who have seen an opossum’s pecker don’t know much about opossum biology, and they likely haven’t witnessed opossums doing the deed. This is how the backwoods lore about opossums breeding through the nostrils came about. Yes. This is a real thing. People really thought this. Some still do.

Five layin’ hens and full wood shed.

#blessed

Remnants of an old stone fence in the hills.

#ozarknationalforest
#ozarkmountains
#arkansas
#heritage

I wonder if this lineage of squirrels, living in these woods once hunted by my grandfather, became part of what made my dad. That would mean they are already a part of me.

The stove groans softly and rouses, taking shallow sips of air as the elemental in its belly nibbles on kindling. With each second the tiny flicker and its appetite grow.

What I find immensely interesting about the black panther legend is that a dab of critical but outside-the-box thinking often does not diminish the cat at all. It transforms it into something even more magnificent and powerful than a flesh and blood beast could ever be.

#blackpanthers
#rural