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like mothers pass down the promethean fire of heartbeats — an unbroken line of heartbeats since the first human was born — they also pass down the energetic templates for warmth, security, and being https://t.co/FgfsFDsuuG
but your candle can be lit by others https://t.co/h6aOhuk7nM
"the human body itself is an ancient tradition" https://t.co/4WMJQQ6y50
"Similarly: Body temperature. It fascinates me so much that there’s an unbroken line of core temperature like an Olympic torch." https://t.co/HevgjMnNNW
"shoutout to the ~700 million year long sequence of uninterrupted heartbeats that were the necessary precondition for yours to be beating right now 🫀" https://t.co/RwuZ7n9NqS
>the continuity of blood wi/ the ancient seas in which it first evolved + the corresponding salinity that it has maintained within us, ever since life moved to land >We literally carry the image of ancient seas in our arteries + veins https://t.co/vZdi6bypxx
we have rocks in our ears that know of the earth https://t.co/zYadi2jQgQ
there's the little fire of each individual human being; kept alive, passed on from mother and father then there's this: the great fire, of culture https://t.co/ilLAMQtt8o