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A stroll in the Garden of the Gods park on our last evening in Colorado...
Comprising 1,300 acres of sandstone formations, this Colorado Springs city park offers a visitor center, hiking trails, grand views and best of all, it's free to the public! 😊
Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
A couple takes a stroll along the Saint Augustine Harbour
as the Evening sky silhouettes the old city.
Inspired by the smooth sounds of Yusef Lateef & Quartet ~
“In the Evening”~ youtu.be/_pw1j0u0NzU
~Album Version~ youtu.be/PmT2b76WRQw
Taken with a Hipstamatic lens filter and retro film . Edited with
PICSPLAY , triple overlaid and digitally hand painted with a stylus.
From one photo by Tom. Version #3.
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As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking,
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
-Hermann Hesse, “Stages,” in The Glass Bead Game (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969), 444.
Garth Pier, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales.
Garth Pier Coordinates.... 53°14′18.58″N 4°7′26.76″W
Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet (460 m) in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles.
Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
In 1971, the pier closed on safety grounds, with ownership being passed to Arfon Borough Council in 1974. The council took the immediate decision to demolish the pier, but Bangor City Council objected, obtaining a Grade II listing for the structure, with the planning officer considering it one of the three finest surviving piers in Great Britain.
Purchasing the pier for a nominal 1p in 1975, in 1982 renovation, undertaken by Alfred McAlpine commenced, taking until 1988 to complete. Financial assistance was given from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Welsh Office and Manpower Services Commission. The pier was reopened by George Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey on 7 May 1988.
Refreshments are available in the pavilion café, at the far end of the pier ☕🍦
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Read some more Rilke last night. When one reads him, one does not always remember the details, but it is as if one grew more attentive all the time. As if you have to examine and approach everything reaching you from without much more attentively than you have ever done before, and as if everything welling up from within must be hearkened to more attentively, ever more attentively and earnestly.
--Etty Hillesum, Etty, The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum (4/5/42)
Let me introduce you to Maurice and his beloved French Bull Dog, Pierre. They are out enjoying a stroll in the cool night air of Paris.
He found them in a wilderness, *
a wasteland of howling desert.
He shielded them and cared for them, *
guarding them as the apple of his eye.
-Canticle: Deuteronomy 32:1-12
God’s kindness to his people (LOH, partial quote)
What matters is not the extent of the acquired knowledge, but that one recognizes values: the truth, the good, the beautiful. Learning must be directed to this goal. Learning should be an act that is valuable in and of itself. It should be an interaction with the object, interested in experiencing its form, its content, and its meaning. In the face of the assertion: “Knowledge is power,” Judaism must proclaim, “Knowledge is love.”
--In This Hour Heschel’s Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Foreword by Susannah Heschel
Bathe yourself in the ocean of matter; plunge into it where it is deepest and most violent; struggle in its currents and drink of its waters.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter
“Everything that happens is adorable”
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
Letters from a Traveler. Translated by Bernard Wall. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1962.
...his moments of anguish seemed to be the necessary complement to his moments of ecstasy—the agony in the garden that prepared him to be swooped away, like Elijah, to the heights of contemplation and into the arms of God...
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, letters (Jeanne Mortier, Lettre à Pierre Leroy, October 9, 1968, unpublished, Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC, 1. Translation by Mary Helen Kashuba, SSJ)
as the sun teeters on the brink of the horizon, its golden hues breathe magic into the iron lattice of a pathway in portixol's modest harbor. this isn't just a walkway; it's a corridor of time, capturing the essence of transition as day gives a slow nod to night. there's a solitary figure in the distance, perhaps a wanderer pondering the poetry of dusk, or maybe a local, steeped in the quietude of their regular passage. this place, where the sea's whispers meet the firmness of the land, becomes a canvas, the iron glowing like molten gold, reshaping a utilitarian structure into a spectacle of light and shadows. here is a moment of stillness, yet brimming with stories untold.
After having Fish and Chips on the seawall at Dawlish Warren...then taking the dogs for a swim at the far end of the beach...Exmouth can just be made out in the far distance.
The cobblestone streets of Brussels hold the quiet charm of a city that breathes history. Every corner reveals a piece of the past, with buildings that have witnessed centuries of change but remain as pillars of tradition and culture. Walking through these streets is like stepping into a time where architecture speaks, and the ground tells stories of old markets, artists, and gatherings that shaped Belgian identity.
Brussels, known for its blend of French and Flemish influences, preserves this essence in its alleys and hidden squares. The glow of cobblestones after a rainy night or the soft sound of footsteps echoing at dusk creates a unique atmosphere – melancholic yet warm.
These streets are not just pathways; they are living memories intertwined with the present. In Brussels, even the smallest alleyway seems to whisper that the past is never as far away as it seems.
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A couple of people out for a walk along the beach, just as the sun was beginning to set. Taken at La Pulente, Jersey.
Doctor Mouritz had testified: “If Damien was imprudent, it was a holy imprudence. Without it, Father Damien would not be Father Damien. . . . He was ready to run every risk, if he only could help his lepers—because, if he would have taken all the necessary cautions, the only solution would have been to leave Molokai . . . but for others [i.e., visitors, the other workers] he took every necessary precaution.” 41
As one consultant put it: “If there were some flaws, real or alleged, in the course of his life, that was so different from the life of common people; they were burned by the fire of his love, which pushed him always to go further, always to perform better. And this always for spiritual goals: ‘I want to give my life, in order to save your soul’, he said.” 42 The commission agreed, in fact, that prudence is not an absolute value: are the Gospel and Jesus’ love not always exaggerated?
-The Spirit of Father Damien JAN DE VOLDER The Spirit of Father Damien The Leper Priest—A Saint for Our Times Translated by John Steffen With a Foreword by John L. Allen Jr.
‘I think today it's more important for us to so let God live in us that others may feel God and come to believe in God because they feel how God lives in us.’
-Thomas Merton, From a lecture by Sister Mary Luke Tobin; fatherlouie.blogspot.com/2012/12/mertons-last-words.html
from my archives , moments captured during an " Evening Walk " through the " SkyWalk " here in Toronto !
Thanks for all the Fun and Joy through your Lovely Pictures and " Thank you " for all your
gracious and generous comments on mine ! Have a Wonderful Summer ! Friends !
Red adjusted... by popular request! ;-)
Edited in Lightroom and PS with a texture (a church wall I visited) added as a layer.
Christianity is an event. There is no other word to indicate its nature, neither the word law, nor the words ideology, concept, or plan. Christianity is not a religious doctrine, a series of moral laws or a collection of rites. Christianity is a fact, an event. All the rest is a consequence. The word “event” is therefore crucial. It indicates the method chosen and used by God to save man: God became man in the womb of a fifteen-to seventeen-year-old girl named Mary, in “the womb … where our desire did dwell,” as Dante says. The manner in which God entered into relationship with us to save us is an event, not a thought or a religious sentiment. It is a fact that took place in history, a fact that reveals who God is and points out what God wants from man, what man must do in his relationship with God. As a way of communicating Himself to man, God could have chosen direct enlightenment, so that each individual would have to follow what God suggested to him in his thoughts and in his heart. This would have been by no means an easier or safer road, since it would be constantly exposed to the fluctuation of feelings and thoughts. But the way God chose to save us is an event, not our thoughts! (Giussani, Alberto, and Prades, Generating Traces in the History of the World, 9)
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into the night, ....... probably less drama then the previous image ;-)))
the red light clarifies a lot ......... i think :-), or was it just a coincidence on this spot ;-)
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NO group invites of any kind, ........ would be very kind thank you
The monkey is reaching for the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him, he'll never give up. If he'd let go of the branch and disappear in the deep pool, the whole world would shine with dazzling pureness.
I did a drawing of it, though without the moon reflection. I said to Thay that it seemed to me that I had let go of the branch several times in my life, and several times briefly entered into dazzling pureness. I sensed Thay had let go of the branch once again that day. A new corner in his rebirth process had been turned. The seed had fallen into the ground, died, and now there was a bit of green breaking open the ground's surface. An Easter event.
-EYES OF COMPASSION Learning from
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jim Forest