[DOC] Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists by Pat Pattison in Arts-Photography

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The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade; artist Rachel Sussman has researched; worked with biologists; and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2;000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland; the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback; the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before; insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely; and spans disciplines; continents; and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussmanrsquo;s relentless curiosity. She begins at ldquo;year zero;rdquo; and looks back from there; photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century; to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America; a predatory fungus in Oregon; Caribbean brain coral; to an 80;000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5;500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites; primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43;600-year-old self-propagating shrub thatrsquo;s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planetmdash;and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the worldrsquo;s most extreme environments; yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs; Sussman relays fascinating ndash; and sometimes harrowing ndash; tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past; a call to action in the present; and a barometer of our future.