A good weekend too you. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. Love comes in all kinds of flavors, and I don’t mean caramel, marshmallow, and peppermint-filled, but love between crushes, sweethearts, spouses, and, as I write in a personal essay this week, my own divorced parents. A pair of cufflinks I found in my work wardrobe, collecting dust for two pandemic years, sparked memories, and a new gratitude.
The Super Bowl is today, but our family may just spend those hours watching this video of pandas going down a slide at the Chengdu Panda Base. The joy of their panda wrangler is as delightful as the winsome animals themselves. Game on!
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Our roads are killing wildlife. Multi-lane highways prevent animals from finding potential mates and endanger them (and drivers) when they try to cross. Wildlife bridges and underpasses in California, Wyoming and Utah have been shown to help — and soon there could be more: For the first time ever, Congress has allocated $350 million to fund projects in all 50 states.
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