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Created for the "Award Tree" Groups challenge, "Autumn Diptychs".
Very early on a beautiful, idyllic, October morning I set out to "get" some Autumn shots. This particular park, Craigleigh Gardens, always yields up some wonderful images for me. I particularly love this gate to the western entrance.
Craigleigh Gardens is in a very exclusive neighbourhood called Rosedale and has always been for me a very special place. Every single time I come here, anyone who's there, usually walking dogs in the early morning sunshine, always says "hello" and "good morning".
No one seems to mind the wacky photographer waving his iPhone around in the air. Because of who the Rosedale residents are I think they're quire respectful of art and so they often smile and occasionally ask me what I'm doing. All with respect and genuine interest. It's quite striking for a city that's known for its Impersonality on the streets.
There is a calm here, a dignity and a wonderful atmosphere of welcome and civility. Would that the whole city was like this.
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Lilies - Santa Gemita - Dec 3 2022 - Enhanced-2
In today's world family is more important than ever, when there seems to be so little civility and little ability to reach out, with love and friendship. Save the Family is my original and continuing theme. It is of utmost importance to bring up our children to learn to love all, without preconditions and parents most definitely can achieve this and through doing so make our world a better world. It is also important for one's children, grandchildren, and the greater family to know that we are there for one another. The family unit is of utmost importance and we must educate our children to that effect.
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Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.
We need to show how we can be polite, respective, courteous, understanding & kind to all, no matter who they are! It is MORE THAN TIME FOR US TO COME TOGETHER!!!
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Flores de Vivero Liray - 040422 - Enhanced-11
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It seems to me as if friendship and respect are being thrown out the window in American politics. This presidential race is ugly and unpresidential. Let's get back to civility and debate the real issues, creating a more diverse and accepting population and throw the mud flinging out, it is petty, childish and puts the American people off politics! It is time for the presidential candidates to act presidential!
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Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
Emily Dickinson, Poem 479 (perhaps her most famous poem).
www.mentalfloss.com/article/63726/very-particular-details...
I've been wanting to do a series on death and Emily Dickinson for some time now. Finally the opportunity presented itself in the beautiful old graveyard of the old Evandale Presbyterian Church. In this monochrome (I had no choice!) we see the path where the horse and carriage of the old hearse would have driven up to the front of the church for a funeral. The gravestones are in shadow, the sky is full of premonition and the whitewashed church stands like a beacon.
If you really love Emily Dickinson then you must get the 3 volume "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" edited by R.W. Franklin (Harvard University Press). It is an investment in your soul.
To me it looks like this tulip is taking a deep bow, in French, une révérence…
A bow for gents, curtsy for the ladies, with a flourish?
In english: reverence is an ancient virtue that barely survives and often exists in half forgotten forms of civility.
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In Glasgow, Scotland, there is a charming & fascinating little museum called Tenement House that allows you to enter a time warp that allows you to experience life in a four room flat in the early 20th century. Home to a shorthand typist, Miss Agnes Toward and her dressmaker mother, it is perfectly preserved. Viewing the table set for tea, I felt like I was journeying back in time before an ignorant buffoon like Donald Trump could ever have been called our president. I long for the end of this nightmare that has descended on my country and pray for our national deliverance before too much damage is done.
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency." ~ Samuel Johnson
"I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture."
~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri
Fuji X-Pro1. This is a tale of how the Brits deal with authority and liberty - in several steps:
1. The authorities do road works on one side of the road, but close the road altogether. Traffic cones block the entrance to the road and a large signpost (left corner of the image) is placed in the middle of the road.
2. The authorities then do nothing for the next four days keeping the road closed.
3. On the second day, drivers, feeling the itch of liberty, remove the traffic cones and also the large signpost (left corner of the image). Traffic flows for the next couple of days as usual.
4. Day five, the authorities finish the roadworks.
5. End of story. Neither people nor animals were hurt in this process.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
John Cleese
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.
James McGreevey
I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.
Brad Pitt
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really? there seems to be some difficulty on the question of democracy. the point of civility was to advance society, to better meet the needs of all it's peoples.
genocide, and murdering dissenters, is not about promoting civil discourse. it's about stifling the discussion.
no need to ruminate....hate does not equate.
La promenade , NICE, fetards leaving rubbish bins everywhere after each night, lack of civility.
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And I ain't no communist, and I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist
and I sure ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat
And I ain't no republican either
And I only know one party
and its name is freedom
I am a patriot
And the river opens for the righteous, someday
Steven VanZandt
"can't we all just get along?"
Rodney King
As if to prove the point, little Max Brown screamed from the gaggle of boys below Jack with glee: "liar, liar, liar," at the moment Ralph blew the horn for all to listen.
"Liar," shouted yet another of Jack’s boys, Joe, over the announcements from the boy with the horn that he disagreed with.
A textbook sweep of Neoclassical elegance, Hillside Crescent forms one of the most graceful arcs in Edinburgh’s 19th-century New Town expansion. Completed in the 1820s and designed by the architect William Henry Playfair, this curving terrace was intended as an eastern gateway to the city’s grand urban grid.
The prominent fluted columns, ironwork balconies, and harmonious proportions reflect Playfair’s mastery of the Greek Revival style. Originally a fashionable residential address for merchants and professionals, Hillside Crescent still maintains its dignified air — and a well-earned 20mph speed limit.
🇫🇷 Un exemple classique d’élégance néoclassique, Hillside Crescent dessine l’une des courbes les plus gracieuses de l’expansion de la Nouvelle Ville d’Édimbourg au XIXe siècle. Achevée dans les années 1820 par l’architecte William Henry Playfair, cette terrasse incurvée marquait à l’origine une entrée est majestueuse dans la ville.
Ses colonnes cannelées, balcons en fer forgé et proportions équilibrées illustrent parfaitement le style grec de Playfair. Quartier prisé par les bourgeois éclairés d’autrefois, Hillside Crescent conserve aujourd’hui son allure distinguée — et un prudent 20mph imposé.
VRRROOOOOMMM!!!
Iron Man: URF!! HEY!!!
Thor: Verily!! Forsooth! Urfeth!!!
Ghost Rider: Outta tha way, Avengers!! I'm ROARIN THROUGH!!!
Captain America: You are uncivil!!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Mini Mates
Marvel
Ghost Rider
Thor
Captain America
Iron Man
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Human Family
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.
The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown and pink and beige and purple,
tan and blue and white.
I've sailed upon the seven seas
and stopped in every land,
I've seen the wonders of the world
not yet one common man.
I know ten thousand women
called Jane and Mary Jane,
but I've not seen any two
who really were the same.
Mirror twins are different
although their features jibe,
and lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
I note the obvious differences
between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
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Becoming—and breathing.
Time to move on from four years of angst and anger—and horror.
Embracing a new president and vice president, despite the crazies still protesting the legitimate election. Respect. Civility. Kindness. Truth.
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self.”
~Michelle Obama, Becoming, Epilogue, page 418
Into what
We do not know
Hopeful for a more peaceful existence
One that doesn't end sadly
But continues with compassion
For you
And me
To live in unity
With civility
This is my wish.
angie lambert
How was Mrs. Ross bearing up? She was like someone in mourning, only worse. When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace in the memories of close-knit days. But when your daughter runs away, it is the fond memories that have been laid to rest; and your daughter's future, alive and well, recedes from you like a wave drawing out to sea.
"Rules of Civility"
Amor Towles
On a damp Edinburgh morning, the gentle arc of Gardner’s Crescent maintains its quiet dignity—a Georgian sweep of symmetry and soot-stained stone, standing as testament to an era of architectural ambition. Even the bins can’t break the charm.
Par un matin pluvieux à Édimbourg, l’arc gracieux de Gardner’s Crescent conserve toute sa dignité — une courbe géorgienne de symétrie et de pierre noircie, témoin silencieux d’une époque d’ambition architecturale. Même les poubelles n’arrivent pas à ternir son charme.
Historical/Architectural Background :
Gardner’s Crescent is a fine example of late Georgian town planning in Edinburgh’s West End, dating from the 1820s. It was designed as part of the extension to the New Town, intended to provide elegant housing for the city’s growing middle classes. The crescent—named after local merchant and landowner George Gardner—forms a graceful curve around a private communal garden, a hallmark of Edinburgh’s enlightened urban ideals. Although soot-blackened by time and weather, the façades retain their classic proportions and sash windows. The nearby Fountainbridge area, once industrial and now reinvented, contrasts with the residential calm of the Crescent, creating a layered urban history within a few paces.
but a statement of one's politics :-)
Robert Brault, 2017
Resist!!
hybrid camellia, 'Shibori Egao', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
London Borough of Redbridge - Nu-Track Courtesy Coach
Date taken: 23/08/12
Location: Terminal 3, Camberley Road, London Heathrow Airport, Greater London, UK
Work has been very slow, so I made this to fill some time. A Full-blown CAD car was one of those things I never thought I'd do because they take so long... but... when you're stuck at a desk anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's a little difficult to capture the over all lay out of this area. The sunken area is for open mic poery and special readings. The rest of this room is for use for discussion groups planned for 2024. Please come participate with a love for the spoken word, an open mind, and civility and respect always
Visit this location at Better Together Forever in Second Life
Mexico City, MX
The Movimiento Estudiantil de 1968 (1968 student movement) was a social movement, sparked in part by the large amounts of public funding used to build Olympic facilities for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Begun by a broad coalition of students from Mexico's leading universities with widespread public approval, the movement advocated for political change in Mexico, especially the reduction or elimination of authoritarianism.
In the background, the movement was motivated by the global protests of 1968 and the struggle for a democratic change, more political and civil liberties, the reduction of inequality and the resignation of the government (the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party -PRI).
The political movement was suppressed by the government with the violent government attack on a peaceful demonstration on 2 October 1968, known as the Tlatelolco Massacre.
Although not immediate, there were lasting changes in Mexican political and cultural life because of the 1968 mobilization.
The recently completed curve of the new Visitor Centre in St Davids responded well to some early gloomy weather in this shot. It is a contemporary building but uses a deliberately rugged materials to achieve both a dignified formal feel whilst fitting snugly into it’s environment. Slight disappointment in discovering that these columns are cast and not real stone so it will be interesting to see how they weather in. The benches around the base are a nice feature too though are a little exposed and get wet easily.