Surprisingly, the Great Plains region once upon a time was covered by a vast inland sea, filled with monstrous marine creatures. Many millions of years ago, the waters gave way to grasslands, which became home to woolly mammoths and other shaggy beasts. And in 1968, I was born. 

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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird which became extinct in the late 1600s and was the first bird conclusively destroyed by humans. This illustration was done from a stuffed specimen – note the two left feet and was used by Casey Wood as the frontispiece for his An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

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Used to Being

Celebrating the provisional wonder of existence

Mammoths used to roam. 

Kansas used to be a sea.

I used to not be.

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Surprisingly, the Great Plains region once upon a time was covered by a vast inland sea, filled with monstrous marine creatures. Many millions of years ago, the waters gave way to grasslands, which became home to woolly mammoths and other shaggy beasts. And in 1968, I was born. 



Used to Being

Celebrating the provisional wonder of existence

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