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my introduction to this Swedish director- imagine Bergman but with more irony and a bit of camp - truly groundbreaking
A thought and prayer for Lori (Daylily18’s photostream)
You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume this one has suffered her share
Life will be kinder from here
Oh, but sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?
But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged
Emmanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
We never walk alone
And this is our hope
(from “Our Hope Endures” by Christa N. Wells, N. Grant)
"This very honest lyric was written for a woman greatly struggling with cancer. Life so often doesn't make sense, and I can relate to the Psalmist when he wonders why the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. But our Hope endures the worst of conditions. We serve an everlasting, all-knowing, all-sufficient God; our El-Shaddai, our Emmanuel; our only Hope in this life." - Natalie Grant
(Our Hope Endures - by Natalie Grant)
Always in my thoughts and prayers, Lori!
The Tug Ayton Cross and the Golden Endurer (probably the largest ship this part of the Clyde gets now)
Rockefeller Center
The spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral and the top of 30 Rock can also be seen.
Mamiya RZ67 Pro II Medium Format
Mamiya 37mm F4.5 fisheye leaf shutter lens
120 film back
Kodak Portra 400
Built in the 1930's, an old piano is about all that remains in this old schoolroom at Carden Bottom school.
This was shot in infrared and as high dynamic range.
Location: Arkansas.
Orig # IMG_6265-74hdr2
i used to detest winter...i'm still not a great snow lover but i am appreciative of the season nowadays...i can see the beauty in it and photography has probably helped that along too...the trees stand out there silent and aware that spring will follow soon enough, so if they can endure, so will i...and i see signs of spring already...
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ~ Rachel Carson ~
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Happy Valentine's Day!
On the eve of the beginning of a New Year, let us remember that HOPE hides the face of sorrow and gives us the PROMISE of a bright and new tomorrow. HAPPY NEW YEAR, my dear friends!!!!!
Explore: December 30, 2008 -- #122
Thank you, dear friends, for the kindesses shown to me since I have become part of the "flickr family." May you be blessed with a most joyful day today and the beginning of a bright and happy New Year! Love, Clara
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**Now at Salvage Station**
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Syndicate/103/47/15
Be sure to pick up the gift from Web Dew. It's pretty wonderful. :)
::WD:: Dress Juno. A dress of faded grandeur, patched seams and ragged lace, available in five color sets of three.
::WD:: Fishnet Jumpsuit. Threadbare, yet surprisingly warm. BOM
::WD:: Boots Daniel. Unisex, sturdy, and comes in 8 colors, or in a fatpack.
Web Dew Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lyra/162/247/25
Elsewhere:
.Shi : Eirene Hair
^^Swallow^^ Pixie Gauged Ears
rotten {sweet tooth} [s. gauged]
Apocalypse Goggles - Clover Denzo (Lucky Dip prize at Fallen Gods)
PIXEL BOX - Necklace Good Fortune Stone
::Rebel Yell:: - "CelticTwo" Bracelets
.ginchi. Bottle Cap Bracelet
[Bodlink] Dirty skin brown
LAL - Dirty face tattoo
YS&YS: Siri Immortal wound
[Rezz Room] Sakura Cat
Location: The Wastelands maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/North%20Yard/142/67/57
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
- Og Mandino
Explore #78 on September 4, 2009
We waited here for nearly three hours and endured a downpour and a lot of general boredom as we camped out for this train. We had good intel from a local railroader/fan that the Reading and Northern ran a PIME/MEPI turn 7 days a week from Pittston to Mehoopany up the old Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline to serve the massive Proctor & Gamble Charmin paper plant.
Luckily there are a lot worse places to wait since the road saw a lot more bicycles than cars, and we were surrounded by the hills, the Susquehanna River, and nice waterfall that we were parked next to. Coupled with the fact that there was no cell signal it made for a rather relaxing and peaceful morning.
I took the time waiting to explore the ghostly remains of the moribund and mostly abandoned old LV Coxton Yard. Amazingly this was a hump yard until 1965 but as the LV fell into bankruptcy like the rest of the northeastern roads and then got swallowed into Conrail the yard all but disappeared. In 1996 Conrail sold the line to The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern and it's seen a bit of a resurgence. There are still a lot of relics to be found in the yard including old light towers, foundations, decaying structures including a partial roundhouse and shop and other remains of a glorious past when Asa Packer's Route of the Black Diamond was a prosperous road.
But the weedy tracks with trees growing between the ties and rows of stored tank cars that have not turned a wheel in years sure does make for some compelling imagery.
Here is the northbound (westbound) train heading out with a sparkling newly rebuilt and painted GP38-2 in the lead.
Duryea, Pennsylvania
Saturday August 17, 2019
collage i made as a donation for "Rockin for Joplin" a event raising money to help Joplin Missouri after the recent disaster. another piece is soon to follow once photographed
Water flows through Glacie Creek on its way to Sprague Lake near the Glacier Gorge trailhead on an autumn day - Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
High Kingsdown is a post-war inner-suburban housing development that lies less than a kilometre north of Bristol's city centre, and to the east of St Michael's Hill. The estate occupies an area of approximately 3.25 hectares containing (mainly) low-rise houses arranged in a herringbone layout that can only be fully appreciated from an aerial viewpoint. Walled gardens, alleyways (like the one visible in the photograph) and courtyards combine to create a degree of privacy for residents that is unusual for high-density housing of this era. The scheme was constructed between 1971 and 1975, based on an overall development plan produced by Anthony Mackay of Whicheloe, Macfarlane and Towning Hill, with later re-planning by JT Group to increase the level of pedestrianisation even further. Following completion High Kingsdown won several national and international awards for the quality of its design.
The site had previously been developed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those predominantly Georgian buildings first suffered bomb damage in the Second World War, were then neglected in the years that followed and finally succumbed to demolition by Bristol City Council after it acquired the site in the late nineteen-fifties. However, the housing renewal here could have turned out quite differently; initial plans covered the site with three slab blocks each of sixteen storeys. Concerned pressure groups protested against those plans with such vigour that they were never pursued, and ultimately the successful outcome we see today was realised.
The period of High Kingsdown's construction fell neatly within the time of my secondary school career, endured enjoyed just a few streets away from here. If I'd been interested in such things back then I could have easily made a detour from my normal route to the bus station and observed the work in progress.
Photograph made Thursday 2nd July 2020.
Sources:
Foyle, A. (2004). Pevsner Architectural Guides - Bristol. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 255-6.
www.highkingsdown.co.uk/history
Kentmere 100
Pentax SP1000
Takumar 55mm f/2.0 lens
Epson V600 scanner
Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 5 minutes, 20º C.
Alaa is a British-Egyptian political prisoner in Egypt. This photo was taken during the ongoing encampment protest by Alaa's two sisters - Sanaa (top left) and Mona (second from the right) Seif - outside Britain's Foreign Office.
Alaa Abd El-Fattah has endured much of the last twelve years in some of the worst prison conditions anywhere for his brave work in promoting democracy in Egypt. He was last arrested in September 2019 while attending Cairo's Dokki Police Station and in December last year was sentenced to five years imprisonment for "spreading false news undermining state security." More precisely, he had shared social media posts explaining the hell-hole reality of Egyptian prison conditions.
PROTEST OUTSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE
When this photo was taken Alaa's two sisters, Mona and Sana'a Seif, were staging a protest in London's King Charles Street outside the British Foreign Office in the hope that the Egyptian government can be pressured to release him, as media attention began to focus on the upcoming COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
UPDATE AS OF WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022
Starting from Sunday 6 November, Alaa escalated his hunger strike, and stopped taking water. His sister Sanaa Seif took a flight the same weekend to attend the COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh in a last-minute effort to save Alaa's life.
For the latest on Alaa's situation listen to his sister's Sanaa Seif's speech to journalists attending the conference on Tuesday 8 November - "They are very happy for him to die. The only thing they care about is that it doesn't happen while the world is watching."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqXibJ7PUTY
TORA PRISON - "A DAY HERE, IS LIKE A YEAR IN BELMARSH"
In April, Alaa began his hunger strike in a cell in one of the most secure sections of Cairo's sprawling and notorious Tora Prison - a maze of grim high concrete walls and watch towers, which strike fear into even the thousands of commuters who have to pass daily.
In 2012, one young Londoner confined to one of the least uncomfortable and most survivable wings of Tora prison, contrasted it with his own previous experience at Britain's high security Belmarsh. I can never forget his exact words. "A day here, is like a year at Belmarsh!" A little over 12 months later, he died of TB - the prison authorities had refused to listen to the pleas of his aunt, who fell on her knees during a rare visit, begging that he be admitted to the prison hospital.
ALAA'S HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES AT WADI EL NATRUN PRISON
More than 200 days have passed since Alaa started his hunger strike. He has now been moved to the Wadi El Natrun prison complex in the desert north of Cairo, dubbed by inmates as the "Valley of Hell."
He may not survive much longer. However, as he holds British-Egyptian nationality, one would hope that the British government would be doing everything they could to secure his immediate release and it would be reasonable to suppose that the Foreign Office could get an immediate pledge in this regard, especially given that the British companies, including the likes of British Petroleum and BP, are the biggest investors in Egypt.
NO CONSULAR ACCESS
However, the British government have failed even to get him any consular access - think about that. That's an outrage. Even a convicted mass murderer, if British, would be entitled to consular access while in prison. That meeting would obviously not take place in his cell - but in a designated room in the prison or the highly supervised prison visiting area.
British men and women convicted of drug smuggling and other crimes in Egypt have received consular visits, so why not Alaa? The answer is because Alaa's crime is that he dared to tell the truth about Egypt, and the injustice both inside and outside its many prison walls. Nobody knows exactly how many political prisoners Egypt now has, but the number is estimated to be at least 60,000.
ALAA WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was one of the leaders of arguably the most inspirational democratic revolt the world has seen in the last hundred years. Although the first phase of the 2011 uprising in Egypt lasted just 18 days, and although it followed the toppling of the dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia - the streets and bridges around Tahrir Square became a deadly stage watched by the world, where protesters from every walk of life were pitted against Egypt's feared state security forces. Against all the odds, and at the cost of many lives, Egyptians refused to leave the square, sleeping in front of the tanks and fending off attacks from government militia.
The Egyptian people's initial success in toppling the dictator Mubarak led to further revolts not just across the Middle East (most notably in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria) - the highly organised Tahrir-Square sit-in provided the inspiration for strikes and workplace sit-ins against austerity across the United States and Europe and to the Occupy Movement of the same year. The people of Egypt showed that it does not matter how brutal, feared and authoritarian a government is, it can be toppled if people act collectively.
THE MILITARY BACKLASH
It's true that Egypt's flirtation with the path to greater freedom seemed to be only temporary - the Egyptian authorities deployed the usual divide and rule tactics - encouraging the less committed protesters to return home - and then rushed to elections without allowing time for genuinely democratic opposition parties to develop.
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood won the presidential election in 2012 - the Brotherhood (contrary to the perception many people have here in the West) had genuinely progressive elements within it, but the chance for any transformative radical programme was prevented partly by the corruption and self-interest of some of the main political actors and partly by opposition to its democratic mandate from the deep state (the military, the Interior Ministry, State Security, the police etc.)
The army, seeing its chance, seized power in 2013, superficially in the name of the people, but in reality, to advance the interests of the generals. The new president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, moved quickly to crush all opposition, and ordering his security forces to attack Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had gathered in eastern Cairo at Rabaa al-Adaweya Square, killing at least 800 people - the bloodiest massacre of civilians in Egypt's modern history.
DON'T ALLOW EGYPT TO USE COP27 TO GREENWASH ITS REGIME - AND PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE ALAA
Now COP27 is scheduled to take place in Sharm El-Sheikh and Sisi has been given a golden opportunity to greenwash his murderous regime, which has also seen ever increasing levels inequality and corruption. While British representatives at COP27 will be given accommodation in the most luxurious five star hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh and fall asleep listening to the sound of the waves, another British citizen, Alaa Abdel El-Fatah is near death, on a painful hunger strike in the darkest of places - his dimly lit cell. The only thing he might hear at night is the desperate cry from some prisoner in another cell appealing for medical help which most likely never comes.
If we care for freedom, real democracy and justice, we can't allow the British Foreign Office to forget Alaa - especially if it's simply not to upset the highly profitable relationship British multinationals have with one of the world's most authoritarian and corrupt regimes - a relationship which only benefits the wealthiest of Egyptians.
If you live in London, please show your support at the protest at King Charles Street - and wherever you live please sign the petition -
www.change.org/p/help-free-my-brother-before-it-s-too-lat...
You will find 200+ of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html
On the best days
On the best days
You can see forever
Like a rose in sharp focus
A bird on the wire
A flame burning blood orange
On the best days
You can taste dreams
Like classic dry martinis
Up
With blue cheese stuffed olives
On the best days
You can feel her hand
In yours
Wake to her gentle
Breathing
At your side
But the best days
Sadly
Rarely last
Forever
Or endure
The best days
Delight
But often tease
A brightly lit
Spring morning
Giving way
To afternoon showers
© Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved
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