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A local university student feeding stray cats on campus. Attitudes towards animals have greatly improved here over the last decade:)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (June 30, 2021) The United States Naval Academy welcomes the incoming 4th class midshipmen, or plebes, of the Class of 2025 during a two-day induction process. I-Day marks the beginning of a demanding six-week indoctrination period called Plebe Summer, intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth D. Aston Jr/Released)
p. 322 in: The Quiver (1888) - An Illustrated Magazine. Sunday and General Reading. Cassell & Company. Ltd.
Who are we? Part of what we are comes from our parents, by their teachings, by their teachings, by their example, by their suggestions, from the passions that they have given us. The parent-child relationship is marked by reciprocal gifts that help both to grow, but at some point, they are obstacles to the development of the single person, who, inevitably, will have to take her decision, to follow her way. The project “exploring emotions” started on myself , now develops and takes new form going to investigate the emotions related to the relationships between children and parents, starting from my family of origin. I recognized the importance of emotional, rational curiosity and respect heredity that was given to me by my parents and I found the same feelings in my sister, who also represents me in the images I shot. Re-cognize ourselves through others, means to me, to accept myself, be aware of who I am, and feel a deep sense of gratitude for having received so precious gift. “Exploring emotions – the family” is a project consisting of seven images, each representing the parent-child relationships in several aspects.
01_Identity – The identity of the child, created over the years, thanks to the help of a parent, is now being returned to the parent as a precious gift. The gift, as a necessary act for the autonomous growth of the child who, grateful, begins his intimate and erosional, physical and thought journey. The parent, in turn, will keep this gift in her womb: the gift that she had already received in the past, by his mother and his father.
02_Compassion – The love for animals, for all living beings, is one of the greatest gifts a parent can offer to her child. To emphatize with the world around us will lead us to have a great respect and a non-violent behavior towards others.
03_Outside world – To observe the world around us, to love its nature, be soaked and to experience it. These are teachings usually given by fathers who help their children to discover all what it is outside the “house”: the world outside, made of other emotions, other experiences, other relationships that allows us to grow and take our dimension within it.
04_En-joy – How to face life? Smiling, with enthusiasm and joy, appreciating the little things, because the purpose of our existence is to seek happiness and in this journey of experiences we need to maintain a positive attitude.
05_We’ll be here, forever – During our life journey we were often faced with situations where we were afraid, and the same happened to our parents. Sometimes we thought we would have been able to solve problems by our own, without the help of anyone, but soon we realized the importance of dialogue, confrontation, aid that can come right from our family, from the closest people, that will be here, next to us, for us, forever.
06_Origin_mother – A look to the past, to my mother’s parents, who gave her important values that she, in turn, was able to pass on to us. A look full of affection, respect and gratitude.
07_Origin_father – The childhood memories of sometimes painful experiences that have allowed us to grow, to learn to love, to donate, to thrill and to excite.
Taraka Mask
Papier mâché, clay, fibre and silk
from the workshop of Sri Kajal Datta
West Bengal, India
1994
In Hindu myth monsters often personify the triumph of emotion and self-interest over acceptance and composure. In the Hindu epic poem the Ramayana (650–350 BC), Taraka was a beautiful nature spirit with the strength of 1,000 elephants. When her husband was killed by a sage she attempted to avenge his death, but in doing so was punished and transformed into a monstrous fesh-eating ogre – an outer refection of her inner rage. She was eventually defeated by Rama, the poem’s hero.
This mask depicts Taraka with bloodshot eyes glaring from beneath unkempt hair and a red tongue hanging between tusks. Such masks are worn to re-enact scenes from folklore and epic poems at community-wide celebrations marking the Bengali New Year.
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Hannya Mask
Wood
by Suzuki Nohzin
Japan
1994
In Japanese folklore women who express negative emotions, especially jealousy, turn into demons. In Noh theatre, Hannya masks are used by performers to convey the woman’s physical transformation, as well as their inner turmoil. This mask refects the moment when the character is neither fully demonic nor fully human. When viewed face-on, her gaping mouth and glaring eyes express rage, yet when tilted, her deeply furrowed brow conveys suffering and despair.
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Taken during from the exhibition
Feminine Power the Divine to the Demonic
(May to September 2022)
The first exhibition of its kind, Feminine power took a cross-cultural look at the profound influence of female spiritual beings within global religion and faith.
Visitors were invited to explore the significant role that goddesses, demons, witches, spirits and saints have played – and continue to play – in shaping our understanding of the world.
How do different traditions view femininity? How has female authority been perceived in ancient cultures? For insights, the exhibition looked to divine and demonic figures feared and revered for over 5,000 years. From wisdom, passion and desire, to war, justice and mercy, the exhibition sought to show how the diverse expression of female spiritual powers around the world prompts us to reflect on how we perceive femininity and gender identity today.
Worship of Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, reveals how her destructive capacity is venerated alongside her ability to create. The Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, who transcends gender and is visualised in male form in Tibet and female in China and Japan, uncovers the importance of gender fluidity in some spiritual traditions. And the terrifying Hindu goddess Kali, depicted in art carrying a severed head and bloodied sword, is honoured as the Great Mother and liberator from fear and ignorance.
Enhanced by engagement with contemporary worshippers, faith communities and insights from high-profile collaborators Bonnie Greer, Mary Beard, Elizabeth Day, Rabia Siddique and Deborah Frances-White, the exhibition considered the influence of female spiritual power and what femininity means today.
Bringing together sculptures, sacred objects and artworks from the ancient world to today, and from six continents, the exhibition highlighted the many faces of feminine power – ferocious, beautiful, creative or hell-bent – and its seismic influence throughout time.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (November 25, 2020) NMA Award Ceremony. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey/Released)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 21, 2020) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, from the United States Naval Academy Class of 2024 participate in swim training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey/Released)
Originally posted here on May 17, 2006:
Yesterday afternoon when I was leaving work, I witnessed some kids harassing a homeless man standing on the corner asking for money. The parents were nearby, talking to the concierge of the hotel next to my building. I stopped and watched for a few seconds, and then quietly told the kids to leave the man alone. They turned towards me and began saying, "He's a crack addict, he's a loser, he lives on the sidewalk" and numerous other taunts.
The parents finally walked over to see what was going on, and asked me why I was talking to their children.
"Your children are harassing this man," I told them.
"That man is begging in the street to buy booze and drugs," they told me. "You're no better than him if you try to take up for him."
The whole scene angered and saddened me.
"First of all, why are you wasting time arguing with me instead of focusing on what was happening? Your children were harassing a man in the street who had done nothing to them. I witnessed the whole thing."
"Why don't you just move along, bitch, and not tell me how to raise my children? And why don't you just let all these losers move in with you if you love them so much?"
I just shook my head and walked away, feeling myself starting to cry. As recently as Monday night, I listened while Maya Angelou spoke of how proud she was of the residents of Houston for opening their doors and hearts to so many Katrina victims. Yesterday, I witnessed the opposite: total lack of compassion for a fellow human being.
What kind of example are we setting for our children when we teach them intolerance?
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (June 30, 2022) The U.S. Naval Academy welcomes the midshipman candidates, or plebes, of the Class of 2026 during Induction Day 2022. I-Day marks the beginning of a demanding six-week indoctrination period called Plebe Summer, intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
Roger van der Weyden (ca. 1435): El descendimiento de la cruz / The deposition from the cross.
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Kuan Yin in my garden sending peaceful, happy Thanksgiving wishes to you..
Posted for Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Compassion.' I;m so sorry that I'm just barely visiting and leaving comments. The new format is so terrible, ugly and confusing. I'm still doing ODC's daily challenge rather than stopping taking and posting pix altogether.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Feb. 2, 2023) U.S. Naval Academy staff and guests prepare for ship selection night and await the arrival of the midshipmen from the Class of 2023, who will serve as surface warfare officers upon graduation and commissioning, select their first ship assignment at the academy’s annual Ship Selection Night in Alumni Hall. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth Aston Jr.)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 14, 2023) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 13th & 14th company from the United States Naval Academy class of 2027 participate in swim 3 training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth D. Aston Jr.)
Act like the sun in love and compassion.
Act like a river in friendship and fraternity!
Act like the night in covering the faults of others!
Act like the soil in humility and selflessness
Act like dead one in anger and furry!
Either act in accordence with the way you look,
or look in accordance with the way you act!
RUMI
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 10, 2023) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, from the United States Naval Academy class of 2027 participate in participate in physical education program (PEP) training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Annie Quo)
Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Round glass window with the act of mercy (Antwerp, 19th century).
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 11, 2023) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 27th company from the United States Naval Academy class of 2027 run through the obstacle course during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy Photo by Ensign Annie Quo)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 11, 2023) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 27th company from the United States Naval Academy class of 2027 run through the obstacle course during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy Photo by Ensign Annie Quo)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 10, 2023) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, from the United States Naval Academy class of 2027 participate in participate in physical education program (PEP) training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Annie Quo)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 13, 2022) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 7th and 8th Company from the United States Naval Academy Class of 2026 participate in survival swimming lessons during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth D. Aston Jr.)