Undrowned by glfmoch 777

1: Listen

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:03:07 UTC

"It is dangerous to be discovered. Twenty-seven years. Who else could only tolerate twenty-seven years among western humans? Jimi Hendrix, Jean-Michel Basquiat, even Amy Winehouse, and Kurt Cobain. Twenty-seven years is such a short time. How do we mourn and survive the violence of being known?"

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of rock and metal so the 27 club was something I had to learn about since many of the artists I listened to were a part of it.

2: Breathe

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:03:09 UTC

I feel like the movie JAWS made people more afraid of sharks.

3: Remember

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:03:49 UTC

"Have you heard about Clymene? A popular name in Greek mythology (and the hair weave and wig marketplace, apparently), Clymene is also the name of the dolphin at the forefront of the minds of marine biologists studying hybridity. Who is she? A dolphin who escaped the record, only identified as a species in 1981. Mistranscribed when Europeans first identified her in the 1800s and then dismissed as a false identification. What is her range? The shape and trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade, West Africa to the Caribbean and North and South America. Height? About the height of a stolen person. Weight? About the weight of a stolen person."

4: Practice

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:03:49 UTC

"In September 2019, along with some folks with endometriosis or who walk with canes or who live with other chronic shapes of tilt and pain, sometimes as a result of trauma, I kayaked for a week. Not straight, but well. And I thought about how between each vertebra there is a story pinched and breathing. And I felt how far I really have to grow."

5: Collaborate

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:03:49 UTC

"If a school of Lissodelphis don’t want you to see them, you won’t. They will time their movements to the waves, they will breathe at the rate of the ocean herself. As above, so below. From the sky, they will look like the ocean, from the ocean they will look like the sky. And they stay in a tight formation. So they can move undetected."

7: Be Present

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:04:04 UTC

I had no idea that India had river dolphins but its unfortunate that they are endangered.

8: Be Fierce

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:04:04 UTC

"The leopard seal is not afraid of you. She is not afraid of you. She never was. She remains a mystery to you. You would have to study her on her own terms and you don’t know how yet. It’s okay. You can admit you’ve been afraid of how she knows exactly who she is. Her haunting song. All around Antarctica on pack ice and in water, she is in charge. If you come to hunt her, she will hunt you better, because she’s at home. Black and white? That’s a snack to her. A penguin or a random platypus, it all nourishes something deeper sleeker, older. Blacker than the Black of Black and white can handle, truth be told. She is indeed too cold to hold. Not yours to grasp."

10: Honor Your Boundaries

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:06:52 UTC

"The CIA has openly used sleep deprivation as an 'interrogation practice' since 9/11. I agree with the psychologists and human rights activists who insist that sleep deprivation is a form of torture."

The CIA has a history of unethical interrogation methods, and this quote made me look into their methods further.

11: Respect Your Hair

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:07:11 UTC

Bob Marley had reaaally long hair. I remember hearing about the failed assassination attempt and a myth about his wife Rita, being saved by her dreadlocks which slowed down the bullet when she was shot in the head.

The previous story I mentioned also made me think about a rapper named Denzel Curry. I remember watching an interview with him and he talked about some crazy story, and at one point he was climbing over the top of a bathroom stall when he fell and hit his head on a toilet, but because his dreads were so thick, he didn't hurt his head at all.

12: End Capitalism

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:07:37 UTC

Hearing about the threat of oil drilling and endangered habitats made me think about the Willow Project which got approved despite the protest and public push against it.

13: Refuse

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:07:51 UTC

"One thing is for sure: there is no evidence of this whale ever getting caught up in anyone else’s fishing gear or becoming available for any human use. I call it wisdom. The inner capacity that allows a mammal to breathe undetected on a world such as this. Could I ever learn to be so unencumbered, forsaking my lust for the surface? And what would I find at the bottom of this while no one was saying my name? All my love to the depth mammals. You who have learned to slow your breathing, take your time, be where you are, move undetected in a world so drunk on recognition that we drown."

14: Surrender

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:08:09 UTC

"Because indeed we are vulnerable to Sea World opportunists"

This quote made me think about the controversies Sea World has had. I honestly never thought too much about Sea World since I went there when I was 7, but after finding this article, I found out about an orca killing its trainer which is pretty scary.

15: Go Deep

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:08:23 UTC

The 7 steps made me think a bit about meditation, but it also made me think about the overall significance of the number 7. I found some information on the symbolism that the number carries however a potion of this article is locked and you have to make an account to see the whole thing.

16: Stay Black

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:08:36 UTC

"Turns out, one of the very first things Columbus and them did when they got to the Caribbean was to kill monk seals. Six of them. Immediately upon arrival."

My jaw dropped when I read this quote, I hate Columbus more now.

17: Slow Down

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:09:06 UTC

It really sucks to see such a cool species like these manatees be endangered. I feel like any time I find out about a cool animal of any kind it is always endangered. They seem like a really interesting species and they also look a bit funny.

18: Rest

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:09:13 UTC

"Thank you for all the forms of intimacy that teach me what my skin is not and what my armor never was. I wish for you the sacredness of rest, expansive sprawling rest uninterrupted. I love the part of you that is emerging under everything. You deserve to rest long enough to let whatever go. I put my skin right next to yours to let you know that even when you seem alone, I’m with you. And I will wait to see the silver next of you, before you dive again."

19: Take Care of Your Blessings

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-29 05:09:35 UTC

"For your sake, for our sake, I wish there was no such thing as code red. I wish this toxic situation didn’t explode and kill so frequently, publicly, unpredictably. Or is it really unpredictable, this red that makes it so hard to breathe today, so many days? Two things research contends about red tides.

1. you can feed it. toxic pollutants nourish naturally occurring toxins.

2. when they occur, it is because of a stirring up of what was already at the bottom of this context.

Which is to say, this is what it looks like when a context built on violence, fed by toxic garbage every day, blooms to the surface. This is exactly what would bloom here in the wake of genocide, and planted blood, bloody plantations, red lining, and red light criminalization."

6: Be Vurnerable

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-30 05:18:31 UTC

After reading about teeth in this chapter, it made me think about my experiences with teeth. My teeth were misaligned and I had braces in highschool. Now my teeth are pretty straight but my upper retainer doesn't fit well anymore since I have another molar still emerging. My mom got her wisdom tooth removed and now she can't taste or move half of her tounge due to nerve damage. I've had a mixed view on the dental industry.

9: Learn From Conflict

glfmoch777 — 2024-05-30 18:09:12 UTC

"Someone somewhere has a worldstar stopwatch, watching, timing, how long will we fight each other?"

I forgot about those worldstar fight videos so I liked this little reference that was included.