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Look at the rainbow. Nature has filled the Earth with beauty. Perhaps humankind should have appreciated the beauty that Nature provided rather than create a consumer economy which perpetuates itself by destroying and polluting the planet.
Can you live without oil? It really doesn't matter in the least even if you cannot. You are going to lose oil anyway. Oil is a finite resource subject to depletion. Peak Oil has occurred. If you need oil to survive you are really out of luck.
Can you live without plastic? I know, I know ... life without plastic is impossible. Who cares that floating plastic trash is polluting lakes, rivers, wetlands and the ocean? Americans need their plastic!
Humankind has treated the Earth like a worthless planet. Humankind will discover in the years ahead that living on an unhealthy inhospitable planet is quite a bit more impossible than living without plastic, oil, SUVs, consumerism, capitalism and the American Way of Life.
Protecting the environment is a life or death matter for humankind. Extinction happens. Humankind has gambled with the entire planet and it is humankind which will end up the ultimate loser in the bet. You cannot destroy your only home without suffering consequences.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 22 - Drew Gagner and Martha McCoy attend Humankindness Gala on May 22nd 2024 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
Helping the breeze lift the bride's veil... [ Calke Abbey, NT ]
[ idea borrowed from the sound stage/dream sequence in 'Singin' in the Rain' - ? ]
Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012
Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012
This powerful verse calls on us all to recognize the truth of our humble beginnings. We are dust and fluids. Which Allah The Creator fashions into this glorious diversity known as humankind. The creation of human beings and all their faculties is a great mercy in itself. The fact that we can get out of bed, work, eat, play and sleep should make us grateful.
Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?
―Quran 19:67
Have We not made for him two eyes? And a tongue and two lips?
—Quran 90:8-9
Do they not reflect on themselves? Allah created the heavens and the earth and whatever lies between them in Truth and for an appointed term. And truly many of the people are disbelievers in the meeting with their Lord.
—Quran 30:8
Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm Belief.
—Qur'an 52:35-36
Allah has created you from dust, then from a drop of semen, and then He made you pairs. No female conceives or gives birth without His Knowledge. No aged human is granted a long life or the life is cut short but is written in a book. Surely, that is easy for Allah.
―Quran 35:11
And He has granted you all that you asked Him for. If you tried to count Allah’s blessings, you would never be able to number them. truly, the human being is unfair, ungrateful.
—Quran 14:34
It is Allah Who has endowed you with the faculties of hearing and sight and has given you hearts. Scarcely do you give thanks.
―Quran 23:78
Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs, not knowing anything; and He gave you hearing and sight and hearts, so that you might be grateful.
―Quran 16:78
According to Islam, one of our foremost duties is to be grateful to God for all of His blessings. We can describe three levels of thankfulness:
1. To realize and appreciate all blessings by and within the heart.
2. To say thanks with the tongue.
3. To express gratitude by doing righteous deeds.
In other words, the first level is the appreciativeness and gratefulness that we feel in our hearts. Then we fortify that thankfulness through our speech. And the third level is when we prove by our deeds that we are truly thankful to God.
If you were to count the blessings of Allah, never would you be able to number them.
―Quran 16:18
You’re here for a reason. You’re not a coincidence. You were created for a purpose.
Watercolour on wove paper
Painted during an 1873 visit to the village of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the smaller figure here appears to eye the dead shark ahead, while his older companion looks back, while his older companion looks back, seemingly at the sailboat behind them. Such details subtly allude to threats the youth of this fishing village might someday face at sea.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Pretty interesting clouds rolling over the landscape surrounding the Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng.
More on the Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng
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Watercolour and selective scraping with touches of gouache, over graphite on textured cream wove watercolour paper.
In the late 19th century, The Bahamas encouraged tourism. The Caribbean had previously been seen in the US as a disease-filled 'torrid zone'. Advertising aimed at wealthy North American visitors rebranded The Bahamas as a tripical paradise with a restorative climate. Intended for viewers back home, Homer's watercolour celebrates the verdant landscape. But it also suggests the exclusion of Black islanders from aspects of Bahamian society. The coral and limestone wall, traditionally used to enclose the gardens of Nassau's wealthy private residences, separates the child from the landscape beyond.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle.
Graphite on paper
Homer may have made this quick sketch as he sailed between The Bahamas and Cuba in early 1885. One or two figures are tossed on a boat with a broken or missing mast as they head into an ominous storm. This disaster inspired the painting The Gulf Stream 15 years later. Homer would also incorporate elements of this composition into the watercolour Sharks.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Every year on 18 April, The humankind celebrates the “International Day for Monuments and Sites”, which was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General Conference in 1983.
The International Day aims to encourage visiting Monuments and Sites in local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives, identities, promoting awareness of how to protect and conserve the antiquities.
According to UNESCO World Heritage list, there are 981 monuments; Egypt in this list has 7 sites:
Abu Mena
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Historic Cairo
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
Saint Catherine Area
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
The photos show Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, precisely The Pyramid of Djoser (or Zoser), or step pyramid which is located in the Saqqara necropolis. It was built during the 27th century BC for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser. Zoser Pyramid is considered the first Egyptian pyramid consisted of six mastabas built atop one another in what were clearly revisions and developments of the original plan.