Beth Reese Cravey 🐘

Puffin season is upon us. You’ll want the sound on, trust me.

This is so wholesome. 48 years ago today, on the last ever Carol Burnett Show, Tim Conway surprised Carol with her idol, Jimmy Stewart. Her reaction transforms her into a kid again.

Someone said the social media manager should be fired because they're a waste of tax dollars, and that the police department should act better online. With that said, once in 7th grade, my buddy John and I succeeded at making funny fart noises on our trumpets in band class. The teacher was not amused but at the same time, they were kind of impressed. We continued that tradition into marching band which was super hard to do while walking but yet again, we pulled it off. Sorry, got sidetracked. We're going to keep doing what we’ve been doing. Thank you for your message though. 💅

The mascot never imagined that approaching this security guard would make history 😂

A man adopted this dog whose shelter card declared his love for water, so he brought him to this place.. This was his reaction.. 😊

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After being rescued from a petting zoo, a special camel had trouble fitting in with the other animals on the rescue farm. It wanted nothing more than to be friends with all the horses and alpacas, but they had never seen a camel before. After a while, they realized that it was just a funny version of them, so they began to warm up to it, and now it has become part of the herd ✨💖

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A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak." His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order. Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored. Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades. He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds. Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these. The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently. His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in. I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle. Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing. The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

omg this is one of the cutest things I have ever seen.. The little beaver temper tantrum noises … 🥹

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Finally captured the moment when two red-crowned cranes met and danced gracefully, truly worth my long wait in the snow!

If that brave corgi story is AI I'm going to burn everything down.