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25.1.18.
I take down the dark icon and put up a smiling version of myself, but the weight I carry in my heart still threatens to overwhelm me. I am lightened only by the beautiful response of my friends. All those on this page, you are my true friends who walk beside me each and every day and I am very grateful ... <3
This is for you ... this is YOUR SONG
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa8U0Wa0q8
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" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed" - Paulo Coelho
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxWK3qACDGk&ebc=ANyPxKr3BZYrX...
IF IT'S LOVE by TRAIN
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9puxoJ1f6YU&app=desktop
ITHACA by C. P. CAVAFY
Recitation by Sean Connery
Music by Vangelis
(A gift from my friend Poppy Kalant - thank you <3 )
There was a fork in the road I took
I thought I was travelling straight
Do I go left or do I go right?
It's a choice I have to make
Walking by the ocean
or walking down the street
there's no such thing as chance encounter
If it's written in the stars we'll meet
Last night we threw away the rules
we had to shoot the breeze
I said will you marry me
You said get off your knees! ; 0))
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Actually what he said was ... ; 0)
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AP-BID - Boeing B-777-340ER - PIA - Pakistan International
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 33.780 - built in 2008
Substitution for the usual B-777-200LR
I'm in this week's Amateur Photographer - a weekly magazine here in the UK. Not particularly prestigious, but still pretty cool. Plus I get £50 and a shiny new backpack.
Material Circulante: CPA 4004
Hora: 13:52
Data: 14-10-2018
Local: Paialvo (PK 119 - Linha do Norte)
Serviço: AP 122 (Porto - Campanhã --» Lisboa - Santa Apolónia)
Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Thanks to all of you who constantly support me here on Flickr. I really do appreciate each and every one of you, my dear friends. I am struggling with a few things at the moment, so please excuse my absence and silence at times, but it is essential to my well-being for me to retreat sometimes; to recoup; recharge my batteries and put my house and thoughts in order.
Here is my cover of Diamonds & Rust, which I filmed on a British Summer's Day, hand on heart!!
“You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.”
F. Sionil Jose
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Thank you for your love, your friendship and wonderful support. Happy New Year to you all <3
p.s. THANK YOU FOR 3 MILLION VIEWS!!!!! XO
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkIou3WFnM
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND – JAMES TAYLOR
Somewhere under the rainbow
a seagull full of hope
flies low across a violet sky
telling me that I can cope
so many signs we see if only
we care to open our eyes and look
the tender pages of our stories
rest gently between a velvet-covered book
bookmarked by a wish; a dream
on a snow white angel's wing and prayer
we are capable of so many things
if only we be brave and dare
so many times I tumble down
so many times get up
the little precious many things
I find to fill my golden cup
I raise it now and wish you well
blow you a New Year's kiss
ne'er let Auld Lang Syne be e'er forgot
a cup of kindness is full of bliss
if love is a many splendoured thing
and music be the food of love
then I have eaten a banquet here
a feast lain down from Heaven above
and as the New Year begins again
I'll keep you always in my heart
and if sometimes it seems I'm scarce
remember these words of René Descartes
“He lives well who is well hidden”
as I seek the truth of my life in silent ways
with clear mind comes a revelation
that will buoy me up on stormy waves
when grey clouds loom; obscure my vision
I know the moon and sun still shine
and you will know too that I am here
just call my name; send me a sign.
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“The camel is a symbol of stamina, patience, endurance, and reaching long-term goals. ... Dreaming of a camel represents the need to work very hard and persistently to overcome obstacles to reach your goal.” - sleep culture
“There is no straw heavy enough to break a camel's back.
He is invincible. He is the ship of the desert that will not let you down.” - AP
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tkUY_GAJh0
DESERT DREAM – OMAR AKRAM
I am a Bactrian Camel
oh yes, I'll have you know
my weight is borne equally
on my third and fourth toes
I am an even-toed ungulate
or so the story goes
I am far superior to
the one-humped dromedary
I'm from ancient Bactria;
I'm kind and soft and hairy
my fur is like a teddy bear,
but don't cuddle me; be wary!
I am silky soft like my ancestors
who travelled the Silk Road
climbing up high mountains;
cold; carrying their heavy load
or moving across inhospitable deserts;
screeching in camel code
I am feeling very lazy today
relaxing in the rain
it's stopped a little while;
these tourists are such a pain
leaning out their windows
taking my portrait again and again
I am sighing with contentment
as they pass me by
there is no resentment;
I pretend to them I'm shy
showing them the back of me;
well that's as much as I can try
I doze; I dream; I long to be
in the silence of the night
but oh those shrieking jackanapes
now hidden from my sight
I fall asleep at last and wait
for the new dawn to break light.
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Thanks for visiting. I am very grateful for the very kind comments and faves.
Since returning home I am experiencing a lot of computer and internet connection problems. It is very frustrating. I comment a few pictures and then have to reboot or constantly refresh the page and then the comment does not always print. I do not know if it is problems with Flickr or my internet or with my computer or a combination of all three, but I do apologise sincerely and will try to catch up as and when I can. Thank you for your patience with me <3
This is the nearest visual and audible representation I can produce, with my fairly limited technical know-how, to show how I feel the world and the daily struggle within myself to survive in a world that is both beautiful and at the same time profound; the confusion I feel when I struggle to understand where I fit into the world and if I ever really will.
This cover of a beautiful song, Just When I Needed You Most, I had never heard before when it was suggested to me, by my friend, Dave, who truly understands what it is to be me. Thanks Mate! : 0)
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
LET ME ...
LET ME give you a piece of my mind
meander through my neural pathways
LET ME offer you the peace I find
when the outer turmoil fades away
and I can hear my thoughts aloud
a million things that I must do to
drown out the infernal madding crowd
and let the signs and creative process through
LET my eyes glaze over like ice upon a lake
LET the snows and mists descend
don't come near or I will break
my tears a waterfall, my friend
LET ME stand quietly by the door
gazing through the fugue of time
parallel lines bend; fall to the floor
and suffocate me in this paradigm
this is a typical day for ME
and it continues; invades my dreams and then
the darkness falls like a dying tree
crashing through my world again
some days in a lucid moment I
see clearest after the rain has stopped and
pale yellow sunshine dapples softly as a sigh
while the sweet breeze of change whispers and ...
… gently reaches out to touch my hand.
LET ME be free to be who I am
because that is enough struggle for ME
I cannot be someone stuck in a traffic jam
what does that taste like; it feels like I am all at sea
LET ME taste the sweets of living
without the bitter fruits of despair
Friday's child is loving and giving
if you love me LET ME be there
when I can find the time is right
for ME to be the best I can
time for me is different and flight
or fight reminds me of the Bogeyman
that feeling as a helpless child
wide-eyed and trying to figure so many things out
things beyond me; beyond all reason and filed
under the heading of 'What was that all about!'
I think the best of everyone, you see
though I am in constant doubt
about what on earth is the point of ME
I feel too much; my thoughts are endless
the world and it's problems magnify
and I am left bereft and breathless
knowing there is too much to rectify
so I see a bird and I fly away
I see the sky and cloud-watch and dream
the fog becomes thicker and I run away
caught in the headlights powered only by my own steam
but what if the steam dissipates
and I am left drained and bewildered, like you
I will still see the world as a beautiful place
even when the chaos continues and my head is all askew.
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Thanks for visiting. I am very grateful for the very kind comments and faves.
Enjoy a very happy weekend, dear friends <3
AP-BGY - Boeing B-777-240/LR - PIA - Pakistan International Airlines
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 33.781 - built in 2005
Mazda Roadpacer AP (1975) at the Mazda Classic - Automobil Museum Frey in Augsburg, Germany.
The Roadpacer was Mazda's unique attempt to enter the Japanese market of luxury sedans, rivaling the Toyota Century or Nissan President. The car was not developed by Mazda but an Australian Holden Premier with a Mazda 13B Wankel engine: engineless Holdens were shipped to Japan, where they were fitted with engines and transmissions and recieved luxurious equipment. However, sales were slow and only around 800 units sold, few of which remain today.
Mazda Roadpacer AP (1975-1977)
1.308 litre two-disc Wankel engine
100 kW
Vmax: 166 km/h
Material Circulante: CPA 4004
Hora: 14:17
Data: 11-11-2021
Local: Salreu (PK 285 - Linha do Norte)
Serviço: AP 132 (Braga --» Lisboa - Santa Apolónia)