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Joshua was born Oct 7, 2000 weighing 9lbs8oz. Shortly after coming home from the hospital, he was congested all of the time. We would take him to the doctor's every other week and all major holidays because of chronic colds and ear infections. The doctor's tested him for many things including cystic fibrosis, but not one doctor ordered a blood test.
Finally, one Friday night we took Joshua to the urgent care clinic...it was the last scheduled appointment of the night and decided that we would mention all symptoms that we knew of. His daycare provider mentioned his tummy felt hard so I told the on duty physician (now Josh's primary care doctor). He thought he felt something but wasn't sure. He ordered a blood test and scheduled an ultra sound for the following Monday. The phone rang at 12:20am...it was the doctor...our world changed when they admitted Joshua that night. His white cell count was 80,000 (normally approx 10,000). The following day, we met with the oncologist and he said that it was either a very severe case of mono or it was JMML...he had only seen it once before and the child did not survive.
On April 1, 2001, Joshua was diagnosed with JMML. We were also told that he had NF1. We were told his only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant. After diagnosis, he had 4 rounds of chemo, several returns to the hospital due to infection, and the BMT consultation at Lucille Packard Hospital. Then the wait was on...it wasn't long though...a 5/6 match was found and his transplant was on August 31, 2001. The treatments to prepare him for transplant were scary as he had a cold to deal with as well.
Joshua is now 5 years old and will celebrate his 5th year anniversary in August. We are working to get his donor to California to celebrate this very special occasion as he lives in Germany. The thought of meeting the man who selflessly gave to save your child is overwhelming. I just hope that we can show him how much we appreciate the great gift he has given us.
Jessica, Joshua's mom
May 2006
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O. M. Aïvanhov
11 décembre 2005
Et bien chers amis, je me voici réjouis de vous retrouver à nouveau ce soir. Nous allons ce soir vous enseigner un certain nombre de choses. Je dis nous car je ne suis pas venu seul. La Divine mère interviendra après ma prestation pour vous délivrer la radiation du cœur et un certain nombre de préconisations en rapport avec ce qui vient vers vous. Tout d'abord, il convient de comprendre que les vibrations sont en train de monter progressivement certes mais extrêmement violemment. Cela peut entraîner un certain nombre de déséquilibres, pour chacun d'entre vous, se traduisant soit au niveau des nuits, soit par des phénomènes de congestions, voire des contractions au niveau des organes internes mais aussi au niveau des fonctionnements des humeurs de vos corps. Cela est en rapport avec les échauffements des énergies qui est extrêmement important au niveau cosmique partout sur la planète.
Il convient de garder à l'Esprit qu'il vous faut boire beaucoup d'eau mais aussi entretenir en vous cette fluidité. Cela nécessite de faire extrêmement attention à ce que vous rentrez comme aliment dans votre bouche. Il convient aussi de faire attention à respecter les horaires de sommeil, à respecter votre corps, à respecter d'autant plus vos pensées, à essayer de rester le plus possible dans la joie mais aussi dans la positivité de la pensée et non pas d'entretenir des pensées négatives ou d'avoir des pensées de jugement envers n'importe qui. Cela est extrêmement important pour respecter l'harmonie des vibrations qui s'en viennent vers vous. Cela est même extrêmement fondamental pour les semaines qui viennent.
Il convient aussi de privilégier un certain nombre d'aliments. Ces aliments doivent être dépourvus de toutes protéines animales, excepté bien évidemment les œufs pour le moment et certaines formes de poisson. Mais les crudités, les légumes, les fruits, les céréales, pour ceux qui le peuvent, doivent être privilégiés de manière fondamentale et aussi les liquides.
Je vous conseillerais de prendre une fois par semaine une dose homéopathique extrêmement précise qui vous permettra de fluidifier encore plus le niveau vibratoire qui s'en vient vers vous. En cela, il convient de commander rapidement quelque chose de très simple que vous appelez silicea simplement en 5CH. Et silicea en 5CH devra être pris à raison de 5 granules tous les matins. Cela permettra d'entraîner une résonance beaucoup plus importante au niveau de vos noyaux carbonés et de permettre à la silice de créer une résonance vibratoire vers ce qui s'en vient vers vous, de manière à faciliter l'émergence de la cinquième dimension en vous, l'émergence des nouveaux chakras, l'émergence des nouveaux centres de conscience qui vous permettront d'œuvrer plus efficacement en vous et autour de vous.
Voilà, chers amis, les préconisations qui sont extrêmement importantes à respecter pour les semaines qui viennent. Je suis maintenant à votre écoute pour essayer, non pas de travailler sur vous mais pour répondre à vos interrogations mentales qui vous préoccupent et vous prennent la tête en ce moment. Ainsi, j'écoute vos questionnements.
Question : Pourriez-vous nous reparler de ce que vous appelez « la fessée cosmique » ?
Je peux vous dire, chers amis, qu'un certain nombre d'éléments que j'ai appelés, non pas de façon humoristique mais plutôt dramatique, la fessée cosmique, est effectivement en voie d'arriver. Les prémices se font sentir déjà à travers un certain nombre d'évènements liés au feu sur cette planète, que cela soit la destruction des avions en plein vol, que cela soit les explosions ou les incendies qui surviennent. Cela fait partie des prémices de ce qui doit se passer à partir du 21 décembre. Nous ne pouvons pas pour le moment préciser l'étendue des évènements, ni la nature précise des évènements. Mais il convient de comprendre que ceux-ci seront une occasion pour l'ensemble de l'humanité incarnée sur cette Terre, de décider de prendre conscience de la réalité des mondes différents, de l'absence de limitation de la vie, de ne pas la limiter à des finalités purement économiques, purement compétitives, purement diaboliques, mais aussi de comprendre qu'à travers cette fessée et ces évènements, il y aura une grande opportunité de prendre conscience et de poser ses choix pour l'avenir. Accepter de continuer sur un mode diabolique, séparé, divisé ou accepter enfin de rejoindre le chemin de l'Unité, de rejoindre le chemin de sa course, de rejoindre la Lumière solaire et enfin reconnaître ce que l'on est à l'intérieur : des êtres Divins (et non pas des êtres de division, et non pas des êtres en lutte, en compétition, contrairement à ce que l'on a voulu vous faire croire sur cette planète depuis fort longtemps).
Il faut bien dissocier l'évènement que, moi, j'appelle l'évènement initial (qui est la grande prise de conscience qui correspond à la fessée) qui va induire, sur un temps à partir de ce temps initial, un certain temps de remise en question, de remise en cause des fondements mêmes de la société actuelle (aussi bien aux niveaux économique, que de l'énergie, que des modes de propulsions, que des modes de déplacements) mais qui ne seront pas néanmoins les 42 jours de confinement. Mais encore une fois, cela dépendra de la nature précise que prendra ce signal que je ne peux pas pour le moment identifier, même à des kilomètres. Je ne peux pas pour le moment identifier de manière formelle ce qui s'en vient vers vous. Mais à travers les différents signes que vous vivrez dans les jours qui viennent, en vous, dans vos corps, mais aussi sur la planète à travers des prémices, vous aurez un petit aperçu de ce qui peut se passer durant l'apogée de l'énergie.
Après cette apogée viendra un phénomène d'amortissement durant lequel la conscience pourra s'éclairer ou s'assombrir pour tout être humain. Comme vous l'avez compris la période de Noël, depuis déjà de nombreuses années, est une période extrêmement importante et propice pour essayer de réveiller l'être humain, même si celui-ci ne voit rien. A force de répéter le signal et les informations, à force que l'énergie Mikaëlique entraîne des dévastations sur cette planète, l'être humain arrivera peut-être à prendre conscience.
Mais la dévastation cette fois-ci prendra une tournure autrement plus diabolique, autrement plus dévastatrice de manière à toucher toutes les consciences planétaires (et non pas uniquement une tempête comme cela s'est passé voilà quelques années, et non pas uniquement un phénomène limité quelque part sur un lieu de villégiature mais sur l'ensemble de la planète) en des stratégies et des cibles qui vont vous faire prendre conscience de la fragilité de ce que vous avez bâti sur cette planète, la fragilité du système économique, la fragilité du système d'aide et d'assistance, la fragilité de l'être humain aux éléments que vous vivez à l'heure actuelle, même en vos corps. Chacun d'entre vous sera touché sur la fragilité la plus importante de par votre constitution.
Question : Quel est votre lien avec l'intra Terre ?
L'intra Terre fait partie des entités que j'ai connectées de mon vivant parce que faisant partie des dimensions supérieures avec lesquelles j'étais en contact. Un lien extrêmement important. Il existe un certain nombre de gouverneurs situés dans l'intra Terre. J'ai eu la chance d'en rencontrer plusieurs dans les sous-sols de l'Inde. Je ne suis pas allé aux Etats-Unis mais néanmoins certains sont venus à moi. L'enseignement de l'intra Terre est unique car il correspond à une synarchie d'êtres qui se sont reliés, quelles que soient leurs origines intra ou extra Terrestre, voilà des temps forts anciens, de manière à être reliés à une fraternité universelle, fraternité de Lumière, fraternité bien au-delà de vos maximes dans ce pays (égalité, fraternité, liberté) bafouées depuis bien longtemps et qui n'ont jamais existé. Le règne dans lequel vous vivez est l'oppression par l'homme, pour l'homme. La synarchie est la liberté, la vraie fraternité, la vraie reconnaissance de la Divinité de l'homme, totalement bafouée aujourd'hui par les règnes économiques, les règnes financiers, les règles du chacun pour soi que vous avez sur cette planète, qui sont portées à leur paroxysme et qui doivent voler en éclat.
Au moment où cet évènement de fessée cosmique sera accompli, et avant les évènements beaucoup plus dramatiques qui surviendront dans les deux ans et demi, le maximum d'êtres humains devra être au courant qu'il existe autre chose. Je ne parle même pas de l'ineptie de votre système que vous avez bâti, de votre système capitaliste, libéral, mondial, global mais de l'ineptie globale de vos vies. Les gens devront être au courant, avant cette période beaucoup plus renversante, je dirais (non plus une fessée mais une grande transformation, un branle bas de combat, une mise à bas de toutes les valeurs de ce système), que les phénomènes d'ascension, comme le disait mon propre Maître, bien avant que vous en parliez beaucoup aujourd'hui à travers tous vos médiums, tous vos channels, est quelque chose qui est promis à l'être humain.
Vous allez redécouvrir la totalité de votre Divinité, vous allez découvrir et redécouvrir qui vous êtes réellement. En cela, effectivement, quand vous allez redécouvrir qui vous êtes, vous allez avoir besoin de nouvelles Sources d'information pour bâtir la nouvelle humanité, le nouvel homme. En cela, il vous faut nécessairement avoir des bases solides. Ces bases sont fournies par ceux qui vivent dans l'Agartha, quelle que soit leur race, leur origine. Ils vivent dans l'intra Terre. Ils sont en connexion directe avec la cinquième dimension, ascensionnés depuis fort longtemps. Mais aussi, ils doivent se révéler, se manifester à l'humanité souffrante afin d'établir ce que, de mon temps, j'appelais une forme de théocratie, c'est-à-dire une forme de démocratie, non pas par le peuple mais par la mise en résonance (non pas la soumission) à un gouvernement d'origine supra dimensionnelle, tel qu'il est fait état dans les écritures anciennes, qui doit prendre en charge le devenir de la nouvelle humanité. Les Maîtres éclairés des dimensions bien au-delà de la nôtre, de la vôtre, de la mienne, orienteront le développement futur de la nouvelle humanité sur la nouvelle Terre sur des choses beaucoup plus conformes à l'idéal de fraternité, tel que je l'avais appelé de mon vivant.
Ainsi cette forme de théocratie, que l'on appelle la synarchie, est quelque chose dont j'avais prédit l'avènement et qui doit se réaliser, sous peine d'extinction de la race humaine, avant l'année 2012.
Je vais maintenant vous saluer. Je vous embrasse très fort, je vous apporte tout mon amour et toute ma bénédiction.
And this was a pic I took just seconds earlier as we approached the McD golden arches sign up ahead. I was frankly quite taken aback to see the Big Mac in this environment, so close to the Harmandir Sahib with it's free 'langar' (free community dining hall- more on that later) and other local eateries around, especially of the likes of the legendary Brothers' Dhaba. McD on the first floor hence appeared to be totally empty though, probably as a result. But it was the pedestrianized walking street we are on which really surprised me. This is indeed a total transformation from the congested and dusty city streets of Amritsar which I had seen on my last visit here, though that was way back in 1979. Note the stainless steel stumps in the picture, put up to prevent the entry of vehicles. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
After emerging from the narrow lanes and by-lanes and looking at cul de sacs in the congested Icheri Sheher old town quarter of Baku. we came to a steeply inclined cobble stoned main street, with the odd passing car. I was surprised at a trio of Russian ladies where one was sitting cross legged right in the middle of the street to get her selfie taken, with her other two companions warning her to get off the road when a car approached. While the cobble stoned street inclining steeply uphill would have made a good subject for a selfie, most of the cars were running downhill and were hence rather fast, meaning that it was a very dangerous thing to do. After watching their antics horrified for a while, we ended up in a small courtyard with a large bust of a well known Azeri poet Aliaga Vahid. Further information in the next caption. Note interesting scenes carved into his hair. (Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2017)
A view of the familiar Seattle landmark from the busy intersection of 45th Street and Interstate 5, in the University District.
A rather nondescript temple inside the Mahendra Gupha (cave) in Pokhara, Nepal was tucked away in one of the deep recesses of the cave, and going there would have meant a slight detour from the main path through the cave. The temple is seen at the far end, though rather out of focus due to the dark interiors of the cave and my trying to stabilize myself on a slippery patch of rock with water dripping on my head. Not that I would have gone near that temple- photography would have been prohibited there anyway, but there was a sloping and slippery patch before it which was all the more reason for me not to go there. While it was fun taking photos inside, with the religious angle of the cave mercifully rather subdued and tucked away in a deep recess of the cave, as seen here, some suggest that you could bring a headlamp because you'd want both hands free (and not holding the flashlight on your phone) in case you slip in the wet and uneven cave floor, made worse by smoothened bits of rock jutting out of the floor made slippery by the constant dripping of water from the cave roof. (Pokhara, Nepal, Oct/ Nov. 2019)
"People and taxis congest a crowded New York City street along Fifth Ave at 50th street in 1960."
Photograph: Leonard McCombe/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/sep/02/new-york-...
General F. Carter Ham (USA, Ret.), Association of the United States Army (top left); Kamissa Camara, USIP (top right); Ambassador George Moose, USIP (bottom left); David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (bottom right)
USIP hosted a timely conversation, moderated by Ambassador George Moose, with the lead author of “Global Trends 2040,” from the National Intelligence Council as well as a panel of global leaders and scholars from across the national security, development and private sectors. Panelists evaluated the findings from this year's report and consider how a range of actors can harness these trends to shape a more secure and prosperous future.
For more information about this event, please visit: www.usip.org/events/global-trends-2040-navigating-more-co...
Péage urbain de Londres, institué en 2003. La zone est traversée par un très grand nombre de lignes de bus, en rouge sur la carte
At open space public events valet bicycle parking encourages people to ride rather than drive to congested destinations.
Péage urbain de Londres, institué en 2003. La zone est traversée par un très grand nombre de lignes de bus, en rouge sur la carte
A Bit of Light Reading
12 February 2013 -- 43/365
North Providence, Rhode Island
With the public parking areas still pretty congested or inaccessible thanks to the huge mounds of plowed snow, I opted to stay home for one of my "safety shots" today. The setup for this was in my computer room, starting with a brown blanket for a background. I intentionally left a bit uncovered on the left to prevent the entire background from being completely black. (It needed something to add depth.) I used two drop lights on either side of the book stack to provide the lighting. The bulbs were 40 watt Philips daylight incandescent bulbs. They give a touch of a warm tone, but not as warm as a standard incandescent.
Now for a bit of background on the books... I majored in Chemistry in college, and every now and then I still update my Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. That is pretty much the chemist's Bible, and I made heavy use of it back in my beer brewing days! It provided more than enough detail to replicate the various amounts of minerals in water for different beer styles. The two mathematical formula books above it stem from my interest in astronomy. At one point, I was writing a lot of software (for my own use) to calculate asteroid and comet brightness. Of course, now you can get plenty of software to do that for you, but hey, it was fun writing my own. The top two are from my web development dabbling days. Yes, folks, writing software really can be fun...
Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I then adjusted color sensitivity sliders followed by adaptive exposure, boost black, boost white, protect highlights, and contrast. I added a levels adjustment and a sepia photo filter in PSE.
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Feeling congested today. What better way to spend the time, than under a quilt-in-progress, learning how to finish the binding?
Late morning on Monday, October 5, and we step off the train into yet another quite warm autumn day, this time in hectic Varanasi, at the eastern edge of Uttar Pradesh. Though we’d be going to Delhi/New Delhi on the noon train tomorrow, I didn’t realize at the time that this would be the last of my photo shooting in India for this trip. (We were in Delhi for roughly 48 hours, but I got sick from train food on the 18 hour journey between Varanasi & the capital. Since the capital seemed way too smoggy, dirty, congested, disorganized…I didn’t feel like I’d missed out terribly, though there were a few places I would have liked seeing there.)
I’ll finish this posting on a good note, though, and focus on Varanasi. Before getting there, I wasn’t terribly excited about the tourist attractions I’d read about, but that’s not why people come to Varanasi. Varanasi is to Hindus what Mecca & Medina are to Muslims, or Jerusalem to Christians. It’s their holiest city. On the banks of the Ganges, people come here to die, then have their ashes spread in the river.
Varanasi has a lot of poor and indigent people as well, who come and hope to be cremated and buried in the river, and there are a few places that serve as pseudo-hospices to help them. They tend to try to collect donations from anyone to afford to pay for the wood – it’s a specific wood they use for the cremation – so they can help these people.
So Varanasi is an interesting place. There are many ghats (ghat is like…a pier, or a place where you can access the river), and the most famous are probably Dashashwamedh Ghat (the liveliest and most colorful) and Manikarnika (the Burning Ghat). There are many other ghats, as well, and some have specific histories attached to them.
For me, the best plan was to stay in a hotel near the ghats in the Old City so we could enjoy the sunrise and stroll around. The Hotel Alka was my random choice, and it turned out to be good. It’s cheap, riverside, has a decent restaurant (though, as it’s a hotel restaurant, not as good as many of the others where we’d eaten in the past two weeks), and overall a comfortable room.
After getting checked in (and this place was pretty crowded), I took a shower, then headed off with a local guy who gave me a tour of the Old City. Now, a word on that… It’s not recommended that you go with any local who offers because most of them will steer you into various businesses, or towards people who are all too happy to try to get your money. I was very firm with this guy, though, and told him the maximum price I’d pay regardless of what he showed me, and that he should plan accordingly. He didn’t, and was a bit disappointed when I paid him exactly what I said I would.
The tour included stops at a few temples – they all started to look a bit alike after the second one – and at Manikarnika (one of the places where you’re herded and they try to make you feel guilty if you don’t fork over five million dollars to pay for everyone’s cremation). The last stop was at his boss’s store, well away from the old city, over in the Muslim Quarter, where I had to sit patiently through a whole lot of lecturing on textiles and their pleading that I buy the entire building. I tried to be as polite as possible with the last part, stating up front that I wouldn’t buy a thing before going in, though that disappointed them to no end. In the end, perhaps it’s better to go on your own…
After about four hours with my guide, it was already dusk and the city actually felt less safe than others. (There were a lot of police out and about.) It turns out that there wa s a religious ceremony that the police were banning this particular year for some reason, so there was a bit of tension. And since Varanasi isn’t a city that is lit up much at night, there wasn’t much to see, so I was glad to just get to my room and call it a day.
Waking early on Tuesday morning, I caught the sunrise over the Ganges, then wandered up and down the ghats for an hour or so. This really was an interesting experience as it seems the entire city comes to bathe in the river, and everyone seems pretty happy. There are plenty of boat tours, too, which I skipped, as I just wanted to take a walk.
After an hour or so of wandering the riverside, I went back to the Alka, had breakfast, and enjoyed my remaining few hours just watching the sun rise higher before heading to the train station for the unofficial (though still unbeknownst to me) end of this trip to India.
In hindsight, this was a terrific two weeks. Though I enjoyed Uttar Pradesh, I wouldn’t go out of my way to return here – unless going to different parts of the state, and I would certainly include a trip to Agra in that – but Rajasthan…I would gladly go back to anytime. However, India has a lot to offer, and I’m not sure if I’ll return here or go to different parts of the country. Anything is possible…
Even this store window was vulnerable to the raging congestion and traffic that plague London. Fortunately, these cars were models, and small enough to confine to a store window.
Sneezing? Coughing? Just feeling congested? Reach for a bar of Cold Season Soap.
Breathe deeply.
The eucalyptus and spearmint will break through and start to make you feel better again. The mixture of essential oils in this bar makes a great stress reducer.
Ingredients: Distilled water, olive oil, coconut oil, palm kernal oil, castor oil, cocoa butter, jojoba oil, sweet almond oil, certified organic hemp oil, sodium hydroxide, tea tree essential oil, rosemary essential oil, spearmint essential oil, clary sage essential oil, clove leaf essential oil, eucalyptus essential oil, lemongrass essential oil, lemon essential oil, sage, thyme, basil, parsley, organic jasmine green tea, organic chinese green tea, organic Japanese green tea, jasmine flowers, organic sugar.
now instead of getting irritated about how congested the traffic is on my drive to work, i take pics when I am stopped for what seems like eternity. - photo taken and edited on my iPhone.
Stockholm Metro station T-Centralen, the central hub and the busiest station (read: most congested) of the metro.
Late morning on Monday, October 5, and we step off the train into yet another quite warm autumn day, this time in hectic Varanasi, at the eastern edge of Uttar Pradesh. Though we’d be going to Delhi/New Delhi on the noon train tomorrow, I didn’t realize at the time that this would be the last of my photo shooting in India for this trip. (We were in Delhi for roughly 48 hours, but I got sick from train food on the 18 hour journey between Varanasi & the capital. Since the capital seemed way too smoggy, dirty, congested, disorganized…I didn’t feel like I’d missed out terribly, though there were a few places I would have liked seeing there.)
I’ll finish this posting on a good note, though, and focus on Varanasi. Before getting there, I wasn’t terribly excited about the tourist attractions I’d read about, but that’s not why people come to Varanasi. Varanasi is to Hindus what Mecca & Medina are to Muslims, or Jerusalem to Christians. It’s their holiest city. On the banks of the Ganges, people come here to die, then have their ashes spread in the river.
Varanasi has a lot of poor and indigent people as well, who come and hope to be cremated and buried in the river, and there are a few places that serve as pseudo-hospices to help them. They tend to try to collect donations from anyone to afford to pay for the wood – it’s a specific wood they use for the cremation – so they can help these people.
So Varanasi is an interesting place. There are many ghats (ghat is like…a pier, or a place where you can access the river), and the most famous are probably Dashashwamedh Ghat (the liveliest and most colorful) and Manikarnika (the Burning Ghat). There are many other ghats, as well, and some have specific histories attached to them.
For me, the best plan was to stay in a hotel near the ghats in the Old City so we could enjoy the sunrise and stroll around. The Hotel Alka was my random choice, and it turned out to be good. It’s cheap, riverside, has a decent restaurant (though, as it’s a hotel restaurant, not as good as many of the others where we’d eaten in the past two weeks), and overall a comfortable room.
After getting checked in (and this place was pretty crowded), I took a shower, then headed off with a local guy who gave me a tour of the Old City. Now, a word on that… It’s not recommended that you go with any local who offers because most of them will steer you into various businesses, or towards people who are all too happy to try to get your money. I was very firm with this guy, though, and told him the maximum price I’d pay regardless of what he showed me, and that he should plan accordingly. He didn’t, and was a bit disappointed when I paid him exactly what I said I would.
The tour included stops at a few temples – they all started to look a bit alike after the second one – and at Manikarnika (one of the places where you’re herded and they try to make you feel guilty if you don’t fork over five million dollars to pay for everyone’s cremation). The last stop was at his boss’s store, well away from the old city, over in the Muslim Quarter, where I had to sit patiently through a whole lot of lecturing on textiles and their pleading that I buy the entire building. I tried to be as polite as possible with the last part, stating up front that I wouldn’t buy a thing before going in, though that disappointed them to no end. In the end, perhaps it’s better to go on your own…
After about four hours with my guide, it was already dusk and the city actually felt less safe than others. (There were a lot of police out and about.) It turns out that there wa s a religious ceremony that the police were banning this particular year for some reason, so there was a bit of tension. And since Varanasi isn’t a city that is lit up much at night, there wasn’t much to see, so I was glad to just get to my room and call it a day.
Waking early on Tuesday morning, I caught the sunrise over the Ganges, then wandered up and down the ghats for an hour or so. This really was an interesting experience as it seems the entire city comes to bathe in the river, and everyone seems pretty happy. There are plenty of boat tours, too, which I skipped, as I just wanted to take a walk.
After an hour or so of wandering the riverside, I went back to the Alka, had breakfast, and enjoyed my remaining few hours just watching the sun rise higher before heading to the train station for the unofficial (though still unbeknownst to me) end of this trip to India.
In hindsight, this was a terrific two weeks. Though I enjoyed Uttar Pradesh, I wouldn’t go out of my way to return here – unless going to different parts of the state, and I would certainly include a trip to Agra in that – but Rajasthan…I would gladly go back to anytime. However, India has a lot to offer, and I’m not sure if I’ll return here or go to different parts of the country. Anything is possible…
Bodensee Trip, October, 2011.
The view of the Birnau Pilgrimage Church from across the congested and loud highway.
Péage urbain de Londres, institué en 2003. La zone est traversée par un très grand nombre de lignes de bus, en rouge sur la carte
A worker pointing out a congested service line at a CWSSIP construction site, Madampitiya road, Colombo 15
My Mom had to put down her 14-year-old Chihuahua, Sara, this morning due to congestive heart failure. I took this photo of Sara 10 days ago when I was at Denton, with my folks, visiting my daughter at UNT. Sara was a feisty, rather bitey dog, but she will be very much missed. Sara had spent almost an entire day struggling for each breath. However, before her final decline, she rallied enough to eat her breakfast with gusto and have one last trip outside. It's always sad to lose a dog, even when it is the right thing to do. Sara passed in my Mom's arms, with my Dad right next to her.
Stockholm Metro station T-Centralen, the central hub and the busiest station (read: most congested) of the metro.
Chalmers Street can get a bit congested at the best of times, therefore Citybus's VDL YJ06 LDV deciding that it liked this spot that much it refused to budge an inch caused it's share of problems for a while
The congested street in Old Delhi
As you can see here, the cycle taxi drivers, passersby and a carrier walked through a dusty street at a brisk pace.
The fresh orange juice shop in the street, serving a cup of orange juice for just 5 rupees, re-energized many exhausted people in traveling.
You are able to feel at peace only there.
Sugar loading complete, to give us energy for the rest of our trek back into the congested back streets of the Amritsar old town, we spot this corner 'gurudwara' with a stainless steel dome. Our guide mentioned something about it which I do not immediately recall. The stainless steel dome did give the gurudwara a very attractive look, but it's beauty was obscured by the grey plaster of the freshly rebuilt buildings behind it. A gurudwara is a Sikh place of worship. The Harmandir Sahib or Golden Temple for instance is one of the largest Gurudwaras in India. Other large gurudwaras in India are one in Delhi and another one in Nanded in Western India. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
The 7617 tip toes through downtown Sunbury PA in this July 1983 view. Once clear of the congested area of downtown it will be throttle 8 all the way to Harrisburg and a recrew.
Species from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia
I've always called this plant by this name. Googling around I see a variety of plants, mostly not this one. If you know more about this species please comment!