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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
–Victor Hugo
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Samantha at Sunset ....
At the reflective hour of sunset, Samantha often ponders the 3 questions that are closest to her heart ....
1) What is the Nature of the Universe ?
2) What is Truth ?
3) How can l catch more Mice ?
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Wishing you a serene and happy day :-)
-77- Mick Köhler (EC Bad Nauheim), DEL 2 - EC Bad Nauheim gegen Selber Wölfe, Bad Nauheim, Colonel-Knight-Stadion, 18.11.22
One place you might hope to find solitude and the mental room for contemplation is at a museum or art gallery.....places that seem to demand a different kind of behavior than in a restaurant or a mall or other bustling public space. This woman stands quietly, speechless, as she studies a 1967 self-portrait by American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) at the Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in San Francisco.
It is never too young for little ones to think about the sacrifices made by our forefathers. This little one understood what it was all about.
Earlier this month I was distressed by the behaviour of the president of our local university students' body, who didn't like a mural put on display especially for the 100 years remembrance of World War One. It depicts a line of students receiving degrees, one of which is an unknown soldier who couldn't collect his degree because he died in the war.
This young woman objected to the fact that a) they were all men, and b) they were all white.
She has since apologised but one wonders what exactly we are teaching our children in schools if this is their line of thought, wanting to change or eradicate any history which doesn't fit with their view of the world. History is history, you may hope to never repeat some of it but you cannot change what went before, and you should never interfere with people's grief nor disrespect the dead.