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Red pandas (#3 in Sichuan series)

Red Pandas are their genus’s only (two) species; further, they are the only living members of their family, Ailuridae.

They are only very distantly related to Giant Pandas.

Giant Pandas are bears, members of the Ursidae family.

Red Pandas are more closely related to weasels, skunks and raccoons, as fellow members of the superfamily, Musteloidea.

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Happiness, joy, contentment…(#73 In “a shining moment series”)

 

It is a great pleasure to encounter a non-gloating, happy person – one who appears comfortable in their own skin, who requires “no particular reason” to be happy, who radiates contentment, is fully alive, and not “on guard”.

Such encounters do not require a common language, nor any words to be spoken.

Typically, no commercial transaction is involved, no contest, no “big event”…

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“Ugly Beauty” (#55 in “a shining moment” series)

 

Ugly Beauty is a composition by Thelonious Monk.

Received notions, prejudices and phobias can prevent people from seeing or hearing clearly.

Less so posthumously, but very much so during his lifetime, many just did not “get” Monk’s music – for reasons not hugely dissimilar to those which can blind people to an arachnid’s or a reptile’s beauty.

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Daylight’s opening hour: upland (#54 in “a shining moment series)

 

Today’s song with words is a lovely celebration of daybreak on “the spine of England”.

Its image comes from “the roof of the world”, where even flat, “low” places are several thousand metres higher than England’s Pennine Hills.

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