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This quote hung on Dorothea Lange's dark room door:
"The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."
~ Francis Bacon
In our daily lives we may not particularly like what we hear and see, but when one has the courage to contemplate these things without error, confusion, or our imagination, then one is in a nobler place where compassion will come forth.
Compassion for one's self...,
Compassion for another...
Dorothea Lange held a compassionate eye behind her camera.
Our Daily Challenge
"Communication"
and
I Believe In Magic
Day 22... *Courage*
and
Working Towards a Better World
*Communication-Courage-Compassion*
A couple of students at the Compassion Project in the Mathare Slum. (Read more at: www.bradruggles.com/category/kenya-trip/)
compassion
is building bridges
from heart to heart
even though
they are oceans apart.
it is reaching out
and helping out
a nameless,
faceless
stranger. (ire for Haiti)
Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Four door cabinet painted with six acts of mercy (1684).
Today's word is mensch, from Yiddish mentsh (man, human being), from Middle High German mensch, from Old High German mennisco. Earliest documented use: 1911.
Learn more about today's word at: wordsmith.org/words/mensch.html
This child is a Compassion sponsored child. We met him and his mother the first day we were in Port-au-prince, when they told us their house was one of the many destroyed by the massive hurricane earlier this year. When the waters were rising, the mother held her new born child, but the water eventually became too strong and she lost control of her child. As the waters destroyed their home, this boy managed to grab on to a tree and held himself there praying for God to save him. He held on through the entire storm. Unfortunately his younger sibling didn't make it.
We traveled far to come to the sight of his old house to shoot video and I really wanted to snap this picture. The thing that struck me about this picture is the expression on his face. In the midst of the storm, not to mention the conditions of Port-au-Prince, this kid has hope... Real Hope.
Because of Compassion, this child is not bound to just living a life of poverty, and he knows it. If you'd like to learn more about Compassion, please visit www.Compassion.com.
Strobist -
hand held bare strobe (canon 430) camera right, firing about 1 stop over ambient.
Our compassion room provides a private, peaceful setting for owners and families to spend precious final moments with their pet.
This is a painting of an angel based on a photo I took of a sculpture in Rome, Italy.
Shown with a quote about Compassion.
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