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Hi, folks. :)

Whenever it is afforded, I pick up a Newsstand subscription here.
It's my way of staying abreast of the things on the other side of the concertina wire, of not being drowned in the current, should I be freed earlier than my sentence currently mandates.
This is how I learned of H5N1 Avian Flu and its devastating effects on chickens here in the USA, resulting in the significant elevation of egg prices nationwide, and of the impending closure of Joann, a fabric retailer I grew up with, and even of the continuing struggles of The Associated Press over their Stylebook guidelines -- it's the Gulf of Mexico, and no one humanoid can change that unilaterally for eight billion people, #justsaying.

But that's not why we're here today.

We're here for Puppy Mountain! ❤️
In the AP Newsstand the other day, they shared an article about a place that has earned the name Puppy Mountain. It's found along the Yangtze River in the town of Yichang, in the Hubei province. A photo was provided, and it was so puppy that I couldn't help but smile and share it with a few others in here: "You need Puppy Mountain in your day."
Those who I showed Puppy Mountain agreed they needed it in their day, just as I predicted.

A thought. Maybe a few of them.

I believe we all could use a little good in our lives, something to smile about. We also need to take the time and effort to protect nature, to ensure that those positive things endure. While everything, even this sentence, is impermanent, it does not behoove us to work diligently to hasten the destruction or departure of nature's available splendour.
I hope that we, as humanity, will turn down our destructive ways through whatever means we can devise.

Let's slow ourselves down, just a little, to experience the full flavour of the world instead of bolting it down just in case someone tries to take it from us.

Just my thought. :)