Owned by Pierre Cardin, the Palais Bulles or Bubble Palace, is one of several bubble homes designed by architect Antti Lovag. Built in 1978 it is located close to Théoule-sur-Mer in the south of France and was bought not-quite-finished, by the designer in 1992. From the outside it’s dome structures look like an igloo on Mars, and from the inside the curved lines seem comfortable and welcoming.
Trauma often messes with one’s ability to say “no”.
You either consciously or subconsciously think, “I don’t want to hurt this person’s feelings” or “If I say no, then they’ll hurt me” or “It won’t really be that bad” or “I can handle this” or “I need to do this to prove myself” or “I deserve this”, or you forget that “no” is even an option.
It’s still not your fault if you didn’t say “no”, even if you think maybe you could have. It’s still not your fault. You didn’t deserve what happened to you and you didn’t bring it upon yourself. It was never your fault.
10 years ago at the 50th annual Grammy Awards, Amy Winehouse won five awards out of the six she was nominated for. She tied the record of achieving the most wins by a female artist in one year.
lachryphagy is the term used to describe the behaviour of tear drinking in nature, typically in environments - like the purvian amazon shown here - where sodium and other micronutrients are hard to find.
bees and butterflies need sodium for egg production and metabolic purposes, but their diets of nectar are low in salt. so the orange julia and sulfur yellow butterflies you see here turn to the salty tears of often stationary turtles and caiman.
and though the caiman and turtles seem to receive no reciprocal benefit from the interaction, they’re apparently happy enough to just help out. (x, x, x, x, x, x)
