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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

~ Lao Tzu

"If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."

~ Osho

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Dear Uncle Tio

Dear Aging,

Mum has been looking at herself strangely lately.

She pulls at the corners of her eyes and studies the little lines around her mouth.

Sometimes she squeezes her thighs, which I do not understand at all.

I have never once considered squeezing mine.

They seem to be doing their job.

Sometimes she gets very quiet after.

I do not think she is surprised that faces change.

I think she is surprised to see hers changing.

Knowing something will happen and seeing that it has begun are two very different things.

And I am starting to think…

the mirror is only part of it.

The older humans get,

the more lives they carry inside them.

But somehow,

the less of them the world seems to see.

People ask Mum how old I am too.

When she tells them, they smile at the gray around my face.

They rub it with their thumbs and call me handsome.

Mum notices the lines around her own eyes and tries to pull them smooth.

I have not figured out why age becomes precious on a dog

and something to hide on a human.

The funny thing is, I do not feel particularly old anyway.

Yesterday I threw my goose across the room and attacked it like I had a personal vendetta.

I chase squirrels in the backyard even though I will never catch them.

How strange to grow older in somebody else’s eyes

while still feeling so much like yourself.

So Mum, you can look at the corners of your eyes if you need to.

You can miss a younger face sometimes, too.

Just know that while you look in the mirror and notice everything that is leaving,

I look at you and only notice that you are still here.

I would hate for us to waste a perfectly good afternoon.

Love,

Uncle Tio

Reading

 

Sandy Karl

"In the end, we’ll all become stories."

~ Margaret Atwood

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."

~ George R.R. Martin

Make your story great and have a happy Tuesday!

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'Now, where's my nest?' Comedy Wildlife Award winner is announced... alongside other hilarious snaps

 By ELEANOR MANN

Published: 00:25, 29 April 2026 | Updated: 02:37, 29 April 2026

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Award winner this year has been announced - and it's a perfectly timed snap of a gannet on a very breezy day. 

The photograph, titled 'Now, where's my nest?' by winner Alison Tuck, shows the bird blinded by grass atop Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire. 

Other highlights included an elephant covering its eyes with its huge ears, two lemurs having a chinwag on a rock, and a marching gorilla. 

The hilarious entries from across the globe were shortlisted from the 2025 awards and voted on by the public earlier this year. 

The Category Winners and Overall Competition Winner were announced in December last year, but the People's Choice Vote is a stand-alone category where the judges step back and let the public decide. 

Crowned winner Alison Tuck said: 'Winning the Sterna People's Choice Award means a lot to me. 

'It was really exciting to get into the finals with my gannet and I was honoured to get a Highly Commended. 

'However, being awarded this category is something else and I am really chuffed and grateful to all the people who voted for me - not forgetting to mention how much fun I had - it is The Nikon Wildlife Comedy Awards after all!' 

The crowned people's winner: 'Now, where's my nest?' captured by Alison Tuck in Yorkshire

A shy Sri Lankan elephant played peek a boo for UK photographer Henry Szwinto

A pair of lemurs appeared to be having a chinwag on a rock in Madagascar 

This Amazonian Umbrella Bird from Brazil opted for a Claudia Winkleman-style hairdo

Left, right! Left, right! A marching gorilla showed off his high knees in Rwanda 

Hands up! This flying red squirrel in Belgium was in surrender mode 

Three foxes play about as one falls flat on its face in the sand in the Netherlands 

Alison, from the UK, exhibited her first mounted work at the age of 15 in London. She explained the process behind her winning image: 'My gannet image was taken on a very breezy day in Yorkshire on the Bempton Cliffs. 

'There was an onshore wind which meant we couldn't shoot from the boat, however the wind played to our favour as the gannets were being pushed towards and up the cliffs giving us ample opportunity to get some lovely close-up images of them collecting grass for their nests. 

'Thank goodness! I love taking lots of photos especially of wildlife, from a tiny ant to a large elephant on land, a small crab to an orca whale in the sea or a tiny sun bird to a soaring raptor in the air, they all have their own history to tell within the world and for me capturing their stories is something very special.' 

Other entries in the competition included a family of laughing lions, a flying red squirrel, a playfighting trio of foxes, and a bird with a Claudia Winkleman-style hairdo.  

The Comedy Wildlife Awards began its life modestly in 2015 as a photographic competition. 

Since then, under its founders, Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, it grew grown into a global competition with sustainability at its heart - in 2026, the competition is donating 10 per cent of its profits to the Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife charity rescuing and protecting wild animals from exploitation, and conserving threatened species and their natural habitats for generations to come. 

The free competition, open to wildlife photography novices, amateurs and professionals using any camera brand, 'celebrates the hilarity of our natural world and highlights what we need to do to protect it'. 

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15773965/Now-wheres-nest-Comedy-Wildlife-Award-winner-announced-alongside-hilarious-snaps.html

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