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Señor de la Pacencia / The Lord of Humility
Front View
18th Century
Soft wood and polychromy
Left arm missing.
Attributed to the Panay School
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Porfirio J. and Mrs. Socorro Rodriguez Callo
Purchased from Likhâ Gallery in the late 1970s.
National Museum registration sticker in back.
A small, table-top image of the Senor de la Pacencia made of soft wood with traces of original polychromy. The Christ figure is sitting on a piece of wood naturalistically painted to look like a stump complete with tree bole.
The left arm is screwed into the shoulder at the upper joint. Lower hand missing. Wooden screw still visible. This indicates that the arm may have been artuculated at one time.
The body color has faded to a pleasing brown color. The savage wounds inflicted on Christ's back is very much evident in the deep grooves incised into the back of the Christ figure. The hair of the patient Christ is carved into thick individual strands typical of sculptures of the 18th century.
(known as Fray broom) Your party is held on November 3.
Fray Broom San Martín de Porres was born in Lima in the year 1579. He was the son of a Spanish Hidalgo, D. Juan de Porres, and a mulatto girl, Ana Velázquez. Martín was baptized in the Church of San Sebastián, in the same baptismal font that seven years later would be Santa Rosa de Lima.
Since childhood Martin was very generous with the poor, who gave part of the money when he went shopping. His mother often carried him to the temple. His father, Governor of Panama, gave him a good education.
Martín learned the barber trade, which included surgeon and general medicine. He fulfilled his trade well, especially in favor of the poor, and took the opportunity to speak to them of God, and it was such his kindness that touched all. I worked for the day. At night he was engaged in prayer.
At the age of fifteen he entered as a Dominican tertiary in the convent of Rosario de Lima. There he was happy, serving with humility and charity to the inside and the outside. He turned the convent into a hospital. He collected sick and wounded in the streets, loaded them on his shoulders and laid them down in his own bed. He cared for them and pampered them like a mother. Some religious protested, because it violated the closing and the peace. The charity is above the closing, answered Martín. His rudimentary medicines, and even more his hands, worked cures and miracles. His charity extended to the poor little animals he found hungry and wounded.
There were a lot of homeless people in Lima. He sought money and founded the Santa Cruz Asylum for boys and girls. There he cared for them and taught a profession.
His favorite devotions were: Christ crucified, and in memory of the sufferings of Christ on the Cross, three daily disciplines were given. Jesus Sacrament, and spent hours before the Blessed Sacrament with frequent ecstasy. The Virgin Mary-especially under the dedication of the Rosary-with whom she chatted lovingly. And the Guardian Angel, who came very often. He fought tenaciously against sleep in prayer.
It reputó control over nature, the plants it sowed germinated before time and all kinds of animals tended to their mandates. One of the most famous episodes of his life is that he made eat from the same dish to a dog, a mouse and a cat in complete harmony. He was also attributed the gift of healing, of which there are many testimonies, the most extraordinary being the healing of hospice patients. «I heal you, God heals you» was the phrase he used to say to avoid samples of veneration to his person.
When smallpox started wreaking havoc in Lima, Martin's activity and care multiplied. Everywhere he had consolation and remedy. He was told that he enjoyed the privilege of multilocation (being in several places at once), seeing him healing and comforting simultaneously in several places. Everyone came to him. They all had him for a saint. It was the angel of Lima.
That superhuman effort came to weaken him dangerously. He fell ill. He knew he wouldn't come out of that disease. It suffered then many attacks of the demon, but felt the consolation and company of the Virgin.
When he saw that the happy moment of going to enjoy God was near, he asked the religious around him to entonasen the creed. As they sang it, he gave his soul to God. It was November 3, 1639.
His death caused deep commotion in the city. He had been the brother and nurse of all, singularly of the poorest. Everyone was disputing to get some relic. The whole city gave him the last farewell.
His cult has spread prodigiously. Gregory XVI declared it beatus on 1837. It was canonized by John XXIII in 1962. The Pope recalled, in the homily of canonization, the devotions in which the new saint had been distinguished: his profound humility which made him consider all superior to him, his apostolic zeal, and his continual sleeplessness to care for the sick and needy, which would It was worth, on the part of all the people, the beautiful nickname of "Martín de la Caridad".
(conocido como Fray Escoba) Su fiesta se celebra el 3 de Noviembre.
Fray Escoba San Martín de Porres nació en Lima el año 1579. Era hijo de un hidalgo español, D. Juan de Porres, y de una muchacha mulata, Ana Velázquez. Martín fue bautizado en la iglesia de San Sebastián, en la misma pila bautismal en que siete años más tarde lo sería Santa Rosa de Lima.
Desde niño fue Martín muy generoso con los pobres, a los que daba parte del dinero cuando iba de compras. Su madre lo llevaba con frecuencia al templo. Su padre, gobernador de Panamá, le procuró una buena educación.
Martín aprendió el oficio de barbero, que incluía el de cirujano y la medicina general. Cumplía bien su oficio, sobre todo en favor de los pobres, y aprovechaba la ocasión para hablarles de Dios, y era tal su bondad que conmovía a todos. Por el día trabajaba. Por la noche se dedicaba a la oración.
A los quince años entró como terciario dominico en el convento del Rosario de Lima. Allí fue feliz, sirviendo con humildad y caridad a los de dentro y a los de fuera. Convirtió el convento en un hospital. Recogía enfermos y heridos por las calles, los cargaba sobre sus hombros y los acostaba en su propia cama. Los cuidaba y mimaba como una madre. Algunos religiosos protestaron, pues infringía la clausura y la paz. La caridad está por encima de la clausura, contestaba Martín. Sus rudimentarias medicinas, y más aún sus manos, obraban curaciones y milagros. Su caridad se extendía a los pobres animalitos que encontraba hambrientos y heridos.
Había muchos vagabundos por Lima. Buscó dinero y fundó el Asilo de Santa Cruz para niños y niñas. Allí les cuidaba y enseñaba una profesión.
Sus devociones preferidas eran: Cristo Crucificado, y en recuerdo de los sufrimientos de Cristo en la Cruz se daba tres disciplinas diarias. Jesús Sacramentado, y pasaba horas ante el Santísimo con frecuentes éxtasis. La Virgen María -sobre todo bajo la advocación del Rosario- con la que conversaba amorosamente. Y el ángel de la guarda, al que acudía con mucha frecuencia. Luchaba tenazmente contra el sueño en la oración.
Cuando la viruela empezó a causar estragos en Lima, la actividad y los cuidados de Martín se multiplicaron. A todas partes llevaba consuelo y remedio. Se cuenta que gozó del privilegio de la multilocación (estar en varios lugares a la vez), pues le veían curando y consolando simultáneamente en varios sitios. Todos acudian a él. Todos le tenían por santo. Era el ángel de Lima.
Aquel esfuerzo sobrehumano llegó a debilitarle peligrosamente. Cayó enfermo. Él sabia que no saldría de aquella enfermedad. Sufrió entonces muchos ataques del demonio, pero sintió el consuelo y compañía de la Virgen.
Cuando vio que se acercaba el momento feliz de ir de gozar de Dios, pidió a los religiosos que le rodeaban que entonasen el Credo. Mientras lo cantaban, entregó su alma a Dios. Era el 3 de noviembre de 1639.
Su muerte causó profunda conmoción en la ciudad. Había sido el hermano y enfermero de todos, singularmente de los más pobres. Todos se disputaban por conseguir alguna reliquia. Toda la ciudad le dio el último adiós.
Su culto se ha extendido prodigiosamente. Gregorio XVI lo declaró Beato el 1837. Fue canonizado por Juan XXIII en 1962. Recordaba el Papa, en la homilía de la canonización, las devociones en que se había distinguido el nuevo Santo: su profunda humildad que le hacía considerar a todos superiores a él, su celo apostólico, y sus continuos desvelos por atender a enfermos y necesitados, lo que le valió, por parte de todo el pueblo, el hermoso apelativo de "Martín de la caridad".
Se le reputó control sobre la naturaleza, las plantas que sembraba germinaban antes de tiempo y toda clase de animales atendían a sus mandatos. Uno de los episodios más conocidos de su vida es que hacía comer del mismo plato a un perro, un ratón y un gato en completa armonía. Se le atribuyó también el don de la sanación, de los cuales quedan muchos testimonios, siendo los más extraordinarios la curación de enfermos desahuciados. «Yo te curo, Dios te sana» era la frase que solía decir para evitar muestras de veneración a su persona.
Según los testimonios de la época, a veces se trataba de curaciones instantáneas, en otras bastaba tan solo su presencia para que el enfermo desahuciado iniciara un sorprendente y firme proceso de recuperación. Normalmente los remedios por él dispuestos eran los indicados para el caso, pero en otras ocasiones, cuando no disponía de ellos, acudía a medios inverosímiles con iguales resultados. Con unas vendas y vino tibio sanó a un niño que se había partido las dos piernas, o aplicando un trozo de suela al brazo de un donado zapatero lo curó de una grave infección.
Fiestas en honor a San Martín de Porres
En Perú, gracias a los frailes dominicos de Lima, las celebraciones en honor a San Martín de Porres se celebran durante 40 días. Mediante esta extensa celebración, el objetivo de los dominicos es fomentar la devoción a este querido gran santo.
Las festividades comienzan el 31 de octubre dado que es el día previo en el que se coloca la imagen del santo durante todo el mes de noviembre en un trono especial en el convento de Santo Domingo, donde vivió y murió. Las celebraciones terminarán el 9 de diciembre, dado que ese día se conmemora el nacimiento de San Martín de Porres.
Las actividades programadas para esos 40 días están inspiradas en las obras de caridad del santo peruano y en su importancia cultural. Estas son algunas de las actividades que se realizarán en el Convento de Santo Domingo y en la Basílica del Santísimo Rosario ubicada allí:
El día 31 a las 6:00 p.m. se entronizará la imagen de San Martín de Porres y se celebrará una Misa en la Basílica del Santísimo Rosario.
El 3 de noviembre, día de la fiesta del santo, se celebrará una Eucaristía en el convento a las 7:00 p.m.
El 4 de noviembre se premiará a las 6:00 p.m. a los ganadores del Concurso de Pintura Rápida dedicado a San Martín de Porres, que se realizará el 29 de octubre en el claustro del convento.
El 9 de noviembre a las 8:00 p.m. se celebra un cóctel benéfico titulado “Pan y Vino” que ha sido organizado por la Casa San Martín de Porres, una institución que atiende a los ancianos pobres. Los interesados en participar en la cena pueden escribir al correo casadesanmartindeporres@gmail.com.
El 10 de noviembre a las 8:00 p.m. el Nuncio Apostólico en el Perú, Mons. Nicola Girasoli, inaugurará en el convento de Santo Domingo una nueva capilla dedicada a Santa Rosa de Lima, que fue amiga de San Martín de Porres. Ese día también comenzará en la basílica el rezo de una novena al santo que terminará el 18 de ese mes.
El 12 de noviembre se celebrará a las 9:00 a.m. una Misa de Romería en el cementerio “El Ángel” en memoria de todos los miembros fallecidos de la Hermandad de Caballeros de San Martín de Porres y San Juan Macías O.P (Orden de Predicadores).
A la 1:00 p.m. en el atrio de la basílica miembros de la Asociación de Peluqueros y Estilistas cortarán el cabello gratis a quienes lo deseen y a las 3:00 p.m. los niños que pertenecen a la Hermandad de Caballeros de San Martín de Porres y San Juan Macías O.P realizarán una procesión por las calles cercanas al convento.
El 19 de noviembre a las 7:00 a.m. el Obispo Auxiliar de Lima, Mons. Adriano Tomasi, presidirá una Eucaristía en la basílica y una procesión con la imagen de San Martín de Porres por las calles del centro histórico de Lima.
El 25 de noviembre a la 1:30 p.m. en el atrio del convento se brindará atención médica gratuita. Al día siguiente habrá una campaña gratuita de atención veterinaria a la misma hora.
El 8 de diciembre se realizará a las 8:00 p.m. una “Serenata a San Martín de Porres” y al día siguiente los dominicos celebrarán una Misa Solemne por el aniversario del nacimiento del santo y como cierre de los 40 días de festejos.
En los días 31 de octubre y 4, 11,18 y 25 de noviembre se realizarán por la noche conciertos gratuitos y los dominicos han pedido que las personas traigan víveres que se destinarán a la Casa San Martín de Porres.
Además, durante ese periodo de tiempo, se instalará un muro de peticiones en el atrio de la Basílica del Santísimo Rosario.
This is "Dunnock Day" in the Bothy.
AKA Hedge Sparrow, an unassuming and little noticed wee bird, content to live in the undergrowth on crumbs from the rich birds' table.
SHAME Definition: A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
For one that truly feels shame, humility, and emptiness inside from their own poor wronging actions, the feeling around you is a dark lonely sick feeling... a sense of internal cold chills flushing through you. Like you are exposed and standing alone in a cold damp misty darknesses of an erie forest. A place you really wished you were not surrounded by but one you know you fully deserve for whatever pain you inflicted on another / others. Children tend to more purely express all emotions - including shame. But you see these signs in many adults that truly feel shame.
Shame has the reputation of being a clearly negative emotion - one that most of us would immediately label as a "BAD" "Unhealthy" emotion. But when one takes a moment to ponder, Shame - if its a true emotion and not an act to fool others - is a very good and healthy emotion. For it is a person that can feel the deepest pains and feelings of shame that you should know has flaws but also has inside him/her a core value of morality somewhere inside. Be fearful and stay clear from any human that cannot truly understand nor feel the pains of SHAME - for these are people that can easily step across the clear lines/borders of cultural moralities and execute some of the sickest act of pain upon fellow humanity.
So how does one artistically express these feelings of shame? Well, for me I believe it can often be seen in many ways - be it a child or an adult. The head hung down in almost an unconcious attempt to hide ones face from public and to want to crawl into obscurity. The eyeslids partly closed - eyes looking even further down to ensure no direct eye contact is possible. Mouth neutral expression or sad - almost as if one is mixed between sad and puzzlement. As if you can see this person arguing and scolding him/herself by replaying the pain inflicted and asking oneself "why would I have done this??".
When I looked at a small cheap plastic garden statue that has stood in our garden for several year from just the right angle, I saw this exact set of SHAME symbols in her. I took photos of her from the angle that would provide this shame effect the strongest. Then cropped out the rest of her body that would destroy this "shame" emotion. Next I cropped her from the background and applied background layers of one of my Secondlife forest landscapes and real life clouds to create this damp cold dark scary forest scene she stood within.
I then used 3 layers of the girl ontop of herself to give me the darkness and shadows in her face I wanted. Finally I applied a mix of my own personal stock textures and a couple of the amazing textures I so love from Pareeerica (credits below) to further enhance the "sick" greens and "acidic" yellows (like the bile one thinks of when they feel queezy inside from doing wrong).
I hope my artistic expressions of SHAME has come across to all of you.
CREDITS & PERMISSION:
Real Photo of "garden girl" ornament is my own photo: toysoldierthor.deviantart.com/art/Garden-Girl-Raw-210859301
Real Photo Clouds & crackled glass are my own private stock photos
PAREEERICA texture - Touch of LAce 2: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/2799028367/
PAREEERICA texture - FireWalker: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3861893046/
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“We're sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and humility ~ all the beautiful attributes that we've been given. So turn to one another; love one another; respect one another; respect Mother Earth; respect the waters - because that's life itself!”
~ Phil Lane, Sr., YANKTON SIOUX
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Boy I think about it every night and day
I'm addicted wanna jump inside your love
I wouldn't wanna have it any other way
I'm addicted and I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
Honey got a sexy all steamin
She givin hotness a new meanin
Perfection mama you gleamin
Inception you got a brother dreamin dreamin
Damn baby I'm feignin
I'm trynna holler at you, I'm screamin
Let me love you down this evenin
Love you love you ya you know you are my demon
Girl we could form a team and
I could be the king you could be the queen and
My mind's dirty and it don't need cleanin
I love you long time so you know the meanin
Oh baby I can't come down so please come help me out
You got me feelin high and I can't step off the cloud
And I just can't get enough
Boy I think about it every night and day
I'm addicted wanna jump inside your love
I wouldn't wanna have it any other way
I'm addicted and I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
Honey got me runnin like I'm flow joe
Signs her name on my heart with an X-O
Love's so sweet got me vexed oh
I wanna wish it right back like presto, yes
Meantime I wait for the next time
She come around 'fore I toast to the best time
We lol back and forth on the text line
She got me fishin for her love I confess I'm
Somethin bout her smile and that combo
Got me high and I ain't comin down yo
My heart's pumpin out louder than electro
She got me feelin like Mr. Roboto
Oh baby I can't come down so please come help me out
You got me feelin high and I can't step off the cloud
And I just can't get enough
Boy I think about it every night and day
I'm addicted wanna jump inside your love
I wouldn't wanna have it any other way
I'm addicted and I just can't get enough
*this is mega switch up*
switch up
switch up
I just can't
switch up
Not
Sunk in your bed rock
Caught
Up in your love shock
Knocked
Out by your cold shot
I'm stuck in your head li-
switch up
Can't get out won't when
Makin me feign, give it to me
I want it all, know what I mean
Your love is a dose of ecstasy
switch up
Addicted
I can't get
Away from
You
Afflicted
I need it
I'm missin
switch up
I want your lovin right next to me
And I can't
Erase ya out of my memory
I just can't
switch up
* Just Can't Get Enough * ~ by Black Eyed Peas
This humility before God is basic to all our relationships in life. We cannot begin to experience humility in any other relationship until we experience a deep and profound humility in our attitude toward God. When we are conscious of our (sinful) creature relationship to an infinitely majestic and holy God, we will not wish to selfishly compare ourselves with others. And to the extent that our awareness of our lowly place before God is an abiding one, we will avoid the temptations of pride and competition.
Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness (Colorado Springs, CO: Navpress, 1983), 75.
In all necessary humility I regard this photograph one of my best images ever. Maybe I love it so much because it conveys what I tend to call the "essence" of Wuppertal's Nordstadt quarter. The photo looks like a photomontage, but it is "real". The condensed effect has been created with a telephoto lens. The shot might give you an idea why so many film crews come to Wuppertal and choose the city as a movie location.
Humility
What is humility,
If not our soul’s nobility
Revealed in and through
Our lives?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 268, Agni Press, 1998
Between South Lake and Long Lake, Inyo National Forest, California.
Obtaining our wilderness permits and setting up the car shuttle took longer than planned so we set out from the South Lake Trailhead in mid afternoon. The original plan was to hike into Dusy Basin but due to the late start we elected to set up camp at Long Lake instead of trying to tackle Bishop Pass in the late afternoon / evening.
This image was captured on the first day of a five day backpack from South Lake to North Lake. It's hard to describe the humility I experience on the first day of a multi-day Sierra Nevada trip. Usually, the preceding hours or days are spent in the hustle and bustle of modern day, urban life and then, suddenly, you're surrounded by the raw beauty that is the Range of Light. It's hard to take in this much beauty in such a short time.
Nikon D40 and Nikkor 18-200mm.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
The gangling New Zealander devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal and took his fame in stride, preferring to be called "Ed" and considering himself just an ordinary beekeeper.
"Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity," Clark said in a statement.
"The legendary mountaineer, adventurer, and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived," she said.
Hillary's life was marked by grand achievements, high adventure, discovery, excitement — and by his personal humility. Humble to the point that he only admitted being the first man atop Everest long after the death of climbing companion Tenzing Norgay.
He had pride in his feats. Returning to base camp as the man who took the first step onto the top of the world's highest peak, he declared: "We knocked the bastard off."
The accomplishment as part of a British climbing expedition even added luster to the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II four days later, and she knighted Hillary as one of her first act.
But he was more proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing Norgay, the mountain guide with whom he stood arm in arm on the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953.
He wrote of the pair's final steps to the top of the world: "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky. There was no false cornice, no final pinnacle. We were standing together on the summit. There was enough space for about six people. We had conquered Everest.
"Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation — these surely ought to be the confused emotions of the first men to stand on the highest peak on Earth, after so many others had failed," Hillary noted.
"But my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained. And surprise, because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of the Tuakau District School, but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar (high school) and a no-hoper at university, first to the top of Everest. I just didn't believe it.
He said: "I removed my oxygen mask to take some pictures. It wasn't enough just to get to the top. We had to get back with the evidence. Fifteen minutes later we began the descent."
Hillary's life was marked by grand achievements, high adventure, discovery, excitement — and by his personal humility. Humble to the point that he only admitted being the first man atop Everest long after the death of climbing companion Norgay.
His philosophy of life was simple: "Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself," he said in a 1975 interview after writing his autobiography, "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win."
Close friends described him as having unbounded enthusiasm for both life and adventure.
"We all have dreams — but Ed has dreams, then he's got this incredible drive, and goes ahead and does it," long-time friend Jim Wilson said in 1993.
Hillary summarized it for schoolchildren in 1998, when he said one didn't have to be a genius to do well in life.
"I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it," he said before planting some endangered Himalayan oaks in the school grounds.
The planting was part of his program to reforest upland areas of Nepal.
Hillary remains the only non-political person outside Britain honored as a member of the Britain's Order of the Garter, bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II on just 24 knights and ladies living worldwide at any time.
He reached the summit of Everest four days before Elizabeth was crowned Queen of Britain and the Empire on June 2, 1953. She immediately knighted the angular, self-deprecating Hillary, who was just 33.
Throughout his 88 years, he was always the atypical "typical New Zealander" who spoke his mind.
In his 1999 book "View from the Summit," Hillary finally broke his long public silence about whether it was he or Norgay who was the first man to step atop Everest.
"We drew closer together as Tenzing brought in the slack on the rope. I continued cutting a line of steps upwards. Next moment I had moved onto a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing by space in every direction," Hillary wrote.
"Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realized with had reached the top of the world."
Before Norgay's death in 1986, Hillary consistently refused to confirm he was first, saying he and the Sherpa had climbed as a team to the top. It was a measure of his personal modesty, and of his commitment to his colleagues.
He later recalled his surprise at the huge international interest in their feat. "I was a bit taken aback to tell you the truth. I was absolutely astonished that everyone should be so interested in us just climbing a mountain."
Hillary never forgot the small mountainous country that propelled him to worldwide fame. He revisited Nepal constantly over the next 54 years.
Without fanfare and without compensation, Hillary spend decades pouring energy and resources from his own fund-raising efforts into Nepal through the Himalayan Trust he founded in 1962.
Known as "burra sahib" — "big man," for his 6 feet 2 inches — by the Nepalese, Hillary funded and helped build hospitals, health clinics, airfields and schools.
He raised funds for higher education for Sherpa families, and helped set up reforestation programs in the impoverished country. About $250,000 a year was raised by the charity for projects in Nepal.
A strong conservationist, he demanded that international mountaineers clean up thousands of tons of discarded oxygen bottles, food containers and other climbing debris that litter the lower slopes of Everest.
His commitment to Nepal took him back more than 120 times. His adventurer son Peter has described his father's humanitarian work there as "his duty" to those who had helped him.
It was on a visit to Nepal that his first wife, Louise, 43, and 16-year-old daughter Belinda died in a light plane crash March 31, 1975.
Hillary remarried in 1990, to June Mulgrew, former wife of adventurer colleague and close friend Peter Mulgrew, who died in a passenger plane crash in the Antarctic. He is survived by his wife and children Peter and Sarah.
His passport described Hillary as an "author-lecturer," and by age 40 his schedule of lecturing and writing meant he had to give up beekeeping "because I was too busy."
By that time he was touring, lecturing and fund-raising for the Himalayan Trust in the United States and Europe for three months at a time, speaking at more than 100 venues during a tour.
He was known as ready to take risks to achieve his goals, but always had control so that nobody ever died on a Hillary-led expedition.
He was at times controversial. He decried what he considered a lack of "honest-to-God morality" in New Zealand politics in the 1960s, and he refused to backtrack when the prime minister demanded he withdraw the comments. Ordinary New Zealanders applauded his integrity.
He got into hot water over what became known as his "dash to the Pole" in the 1957-58 Antarctic summer season aboard modified farm tractors while part of a joint British-New Zealand expedition.
Hillary disregarded instructions from the Briton leading the expedition and guided his tractor team up the then-untraversed Shelton Glacier, pioneering a new route to the polar plateau and the South Pole.
In 2006 he climbed into a row over the death of Everest climber David Sharp, stating it was "horrifying" that climbers could leave a dying man after an expedition left the Briton to die high on the upper slopes.
Hillary said he would have abandoned his own pioneering 1953 climb to save another life.
"It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by," he said. "Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain."
Named New Zealand's ambassador to India in the mid-1980s, Hillary was the celebrity of the New Delhi cocktail circuit. He later said he found the job confining.
He introduced jetboats to many Ganges River dwellers a decade earlier, in 1977, when his "Ocean to the Sky" expedition traveled the Ganges by jetboat to within 130 miles of its source.
The last segment was by foot, and two mountain peaks near Badranath, where the Ganges rises, were also climbed. He sought adventure in places as distant from each other as the Arctic and Antarctic.
Hillary didn't place himself among top mountaineers. "I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm and I'm good on ice," he said.
Despite his fame, he spoke of being "really embarrassed" even when introduced at a lecture.
"I really am an ordinary person with a few abilities which I've tried to use in the best way I can," he said.
The first living New Zealander to be featured on a banknote, he helped raise nearly $530,000 for the Himalayan Trust by signing 1,000 of the sparkling new five-dollar bills sold at a charity auction in 1982. They were snapped up by collectors round the world.
Honored by the United Nations as one of its Global 500 conservationists in 1987, he was also awarded numerous honorary doctorates from universities in several parts of the world.
One of his accolades was the Smithsonian Institution's James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his "monumental explorations and humanitarian achievements," awarded in 1998.
Throughout his life Hillary remembered his first mountain he climbed, the 9,645-foot Mount Tapuaenuku — "Tappy" as he called it — in Marlborough on New Zealand's South Island. He scaled it solo over three days in 1944, while in training camp with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. "Tapuaenuku" in Maori means "footsteps of the Rainbow God".
"I'd climbed a decent mountain at last," he said later.
Like all good mountaineers before him, Hillary had no special insight into that quintessential question: Why climb?
"I can't give you any fresh answers to why a man climbs mountains. The majority still go just to climb them."
"Humility has as its object to eliminate that which is imaginary in spiritual progress. There is no harm in thinking ourselves far less advanced than we are: the light is in no way decreased thereby for its source is not in opinion. There is great harm in thinking ourselves more advanced, because then opinion has an effect."
~ Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
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I find in regards to 'myself' that this approach presents more
positive possibilities in life... too many humiliations have brought me to this.
Our Daily Challenge
C'est Moi...
Last night, I did another series of dramatic floral macros, all using a single glorious sunflower I got at the 99Cents Only store. Such beauty to be found in things from humble, every day circumstances, now celebrated here in grand style...
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- Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable.
-Thomas Merton
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In-between or a Gentle Parting
More beautiful than a face are you
Bargaining with time to seek a liturgy
Owned is your journey without invitation
Retreating, this monk slowly disappears
Following his heart an ancient song is heard
A journey such as this can take no friend
-Robert Cowlishaw
Even if you have defeated one, the mountain remains the greater one in the end.
Photo taken after climbing the Lärchenturm mountain (1967 m).
Where are you going? Wait! Don’t you see how beautiful I am?! WHAT? That the true beauty is hidden inside? …
Don’t go away - PLEASE - stay here for a while with me.
I … I will learn a humility …
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"He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8 ESV
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Coachwork by Vanden Plas
Chassis n° LM1342
Registration n° F8689
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais
Bonhams
Estimated : € 650.000 - 850.000
Sold for € 701.500
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2018
- One of 513 Speed Models built
- Rare original aluminium body
- Full matching numbers
- Exceptionally original
- Well documented history
- Restored by Graham Moss
- Pebble Beach 2015 Class Award
With characteristic humility 'W O' was constantly amazed by the enthusiasm of later generations for the products of Bentley Motors Limited, and it is testimony to the soundness of his engineering design skills that so many of his products have survived. From the humblest of beginnings in a mews garage off Baker Street, London in 1919 the Bentley rapidly achieved fame as an exciting fast touring car, well able to compete with the best of European and American sports cars in the tough world of motor sport in the 1920s. Bentley's domination at Le Mans in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930 is legendary, and one can only admire the Herculean efforts of such giants as Woolf Barnato, Jack Dunfee, Tim Birkin and Sammy Davis, consistently wrestling the British Racing Green sports cars to victory.
W O Bentley proudly unveiled the new 3-litre car bearing his name on Stand 126 at the 1919 Olympia Motor Exhibition, the prototype engine having fired up for the first time just a few weeks earlier. Bentley's four-cylinder 'fixed head' engine incorporated a single overhead camshaft, four-valves per cylinder and a bore/stroke of 80x149mm. Twin ML magnetos provided the ignition and power was transmitted via a four-speed gearbox with right-hand change. The pressed-steel chassis started off with a wheelbase of 9' 9½" (the 'short standard') then adopted dimensions of 10' 10" ('standard long') in 1923, the shorter frame being reserved for the TT Replica and subsequent Speed Model. Rear wheel brakes only were employed up to 1924 when four-wheel Perrot-type brakes were introduced.
In only mildly developed form, this was the model that was to become a legend in motor racing history and which, with its leather-strapped bonnet, classical radiator design and British Racing Green livery, has become the archetypal Vintage sports car.
Early success in the 1922 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, when Bentleys finished second, fourth, and fifth to take the Team Prize, led to the introduction of the TT Replica (later known as the Speed Model) on the existing 9' 9½" wheelbase, short standard chassis. Identified by the Red Label on its radiator, the Speed Model differed by having twin SU 'sloper' carburettors, a higher compression ratio, different camshaft and the close-ratio A-type gearbox, the latter being standard equipment prior to 1927 when the C-type 'box was adopted. These engine changes increased maximum power from the standard 70 to 80bhp and raised top speed to an impressive 90mph. Other enhancements included the larger (11-gallon) fuel tank and (usually) André Hartford shock absorbers. Bentley made 1,613 3-Litre models, the majority of which was bodied by Vanden Plas with either open tourer or saloon coachwork, 513 of which were to Speed Model specification.
Vanden Plas had been founded in Belgium in the 19th Century, gaining a British offshoot when Warwick Wright obtained the UK rights to the name in 1913. After an uncertain start and numerous changes of ownership, the British firm went on to forge its not inconsiderable reputation by a most fortuitous alliance with Bentley, bodying some 700-or-so of the latter's chassis during the 1920s, including the Le Mans team cars.
A 1927-specification Speed Model on the 9' 9½" wheelbase chassis, 'LM1342' is a late example and thus represents the best and most sought-after 3-Litre variant, having the 'big sump' engine with its stronger crankshaft, two-bolt direct-metal con-rods, and Duralumin rockers in separate boxes. Numbered 'LM1348SS', the engine is original to the chassis and would have been built with the Speed Model's high-compression pistons, BM1800 camshaft, and drilled valve caps. When new, these 'SS' engines were said to produce around 86bhp.
'LM1342' was bodied by Vanden Plas with its standard open four-seater sports coachwork (body number '1306', still fitted). This particular body is unusual in being panelled in aluminium (most were fabric-covered), and has an unusually low windscreen (around 1" shorter than normal) giving it more pleasing proportions. The car was ordered new by Gilbert & Sons Ltd of Pelham Street, Lincoln, and given a Lincolnshire registration, 'FE 8689', which it carries to this day. Subsequent owners listed in the Service Record are A C Scott (1928), A Staveley Hill (1929), Major G E L Pardington (1930), and J Shakespeare (1936). The Service Record is continuous through to December 1936, with only minor works carried out (no replacement of major components or accident repairs).
Correspondence on file indicates that by 1945 the Bentley was owned by a Captain M E Webbe, while an old-style continuation logbook lists two subsequent owners: Thomas Walker (from June 1946) and Frank Wood, who purchased the Bentley in January 1967 from a local farmer who wanted to buy a new Ford. There is a charming photograph in the file depicting Mr Wood's two daughters sitting in the car. After Frank Wood's passing, the family offered the Bentley for sale at a UK auction in March 2012 where it was purchased by the present owner.
The Bentley was then despatched to renowned marque specialist Graham Moss for total restoration with no expense spared. Examination revealed the 3-Litre to be exceptionally original - unlike so many of its ilk - retaining the original Supersports engine, A-type gearbox, front axle, steering box, differential casing, the correct number, 'LM1342', being found stamped on all of these components. Graham went to extraordinary lengths to maintain authenticity, even going so far as to reproduce the lead seals for the steering box, magneto turret, and crankcase; these were routinely fitted by Bentley Motors and removing them would void the guarantee.
As the car had been re-upholstered, the owner researched the original colour scheme and leatherwork, enabling the original manufacturer – Connolly – to reproduce the correct material. Many more such instances of this admirably fastidious approach are detailed in the vendor's wonderful illustrated book documenting the history and restoration of 'LM1342'. The car also comes with a copy of Bentley authority Dr Clare Hay's typically thorough - and very favourable - illustrated report on its specification, originality, and 'as purchased' condition, concluding: 'Overall this is a very original chassis with few minor changes from new, with all its original numbered parts and with its original Vanden Plas sports four-seater body'. Perusal of both is highly recommended.
In addition, the car comes with an original owner's instruction manual, a selection of accessory manuals, and a full set of genuine 3-Litre tools. There is also a letter from the first owner, and even a (replica) list of 'Don'ts', which would be hung on the starter switch to help new Bentley owners care for their cars correctly!
The extensive restoration works, carried out over a period of three years, are detailed by Graham's bills totalling some £475,000, while a further £25,000 was spent on obtaining correct parts such as the lights, correct magnetos, etc. Since completion, 'FE 8689' has covered around 2,000 miles and is fully sorted, having recently been serviced by Graham Moss.
Nobody seeing this magnificent Bentley today would question that the cost of its restoration was money well spent. Indeed, if proof were needed, in 2015 'LM1342' received a richly deserved 2nd-in-class award at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Élégance. There can be no better way to enjoy the many celebrations planned for Bentley's 100th anniversary in 2019.
"Humor and humility were essential aspects of Norman Rockwell's character, so when asked to do a self-portrait that would announce the first of eight excerpts of his 1960 autobiography, 'My Adventures as an Illustrator,' the result was lighthearted and self-deprecating." - from the museum label
The Door of humility - at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem,
one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world...
Hiding ourselves can be hard to resist, but taking joy in living should be our best cosmetic. Is it yours?
Last week they put up a Christmas tree at work in the cafeteria and I went to see it and I was very happy to see it. It did not say anything about Jesus Christ, nor did it have any Bible verses but I was still very happy to see it. On the weekend I was driving alone and I turned the radio to a Christian radio station (Joy 1250 AM) and a pastor with an African accent was preaching. He was not saying anything “deep” spiritually as some of us would define “deep”. He was not going to the original meaning of the words in Greek, or giving the historical background of the biblical story, or giving different meaning to the verses, etc. He was simply saying in a very gentle voice to be courageous, to be joyful, to do not fear or worry. And I was very happy to hear that message.
Both incidents surprised me because these incidents would not have made me happy about 8 years ago. About 8 years ago I was very legalist in my understanding of Christianity. I had hard time enjoying things because I always saw the negative side of things, always complained, always judged, and always criticized. If I saw a Christmas tree I would moan about why it did not show the nativity scene, or why did not some people say “Merry Christmas”. If I heard such a simple (yet powerful) message by a pastor I would moan about it being shallow! It is good to be zealous for God, but with what attitude are we being zealous for Him? Is it motivated by love for God or ignorance of God’s love? (Do we realize God’s love is patient and gentle?) Is it motivated by love for others or controlling others? Is it motivated by patience and gentleness or anger and self-righteousness?
Eight years later I am starting to realize spiritual maturity in Christ is about being gentle, understanding, not judgemental, patient, caring, and above all loving toward people especially the children of God. There is no excuse for judging a man of God who is preaching the Word of God just because we do not like his “style”. (I am not talking about someone who is teaching false teachings.) Spiritual maturity is not about knowing the Bible in Greek or forcing people to say “Merry Christmas” but to be Christ-like. Isaiah 40:11 says about our Saviour:
“He tends his flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
he gently leads those that have young.”
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I remember one man from my aunt’s church complaining about all denominations others than his. So my aunt told him, “Well, you are going to hate heaven because all those people you don’t like are going to be there because they are saved too!” That answer kept him quiet.
(Toronto, ON; winter 2012.)
Introduction to the Franciscan Order in Provence around 1500
The Franciscan Order (Ordo Fratrum Minorum, OFM), also known as the Greyfriars, was one of the most influential mendicant orders in medieval Europe. Founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi, the Franciscans emerged as a response to the Church's wealth and focus on material goods. They sought to live in simplicity, following Christ's teachings on poverty and humility.
Lifestyle and Practices: The Franciscans were renowned for their itinerant preaching. Unlike most monastic orders that resided in fixed monasteries, Franciscans often lived as wandering monks without permanent homes. They relied on alms and preached the Word of God to the people, both in cities and rural areas. Known for their kindness and openness, they often cared for the sick and the poor.
Presence in Provence: In Provence, Franciscans were present in various towns and villages. They interacted closely with the local population, often serving as spiritual guides and counsellors. The Franciscans' popularity among the people stemmed from their simple and humble lifestyle, as well as their willingness to assist everyone, regardless of social status.
The Monk's Role in the Village: In your series, the monk embodies this tradition of charity and openness. As a Franciscan hermit, he could be part of a small friary or perhaps reside in a modest hermitage near the village. His kindness and storytelling would attract the children, while his wisdom and prayers would be appreciated by the adults.
Poem for a Storytelling Session
"The Light Within"
In the stillness of the night, a whispering breeze,
Speaks of love and hope, carried through the trees.
In every heart, a candle softly glows,
A beacon in the dark, where grace bestows.
Children gather 'round, eyes wide with wonder,
To hear the tales of heaven's mighty thunder.
In each soul, a seed of light does lie,
Waiting to bloom beneath the endless sky.
Haikus
Silent paths we walk,
In shadows, the light appears—
Peace in every step.
Autumn leaves whisper,
Tales of old and new rebirth—
Life's eternal dance.
Silence is loud
Humility is so proud
Nothing is innocent now
~Over the Rhine
Cahoon Hollow Beach. Cape Cod, MA
Rolleiflex 3.5F using Rolleinar 3, natural light from a nearby window.
Fuji 400 ASA
Got the idea for this shot while watching one of my all time favorite movies, 'The Nun Story' with Audrey Hepburn…turned out just the way I wanted.
The actual nun figure is only about 3.5 cm tall folded from two pieces of paper…
Church of the Nativity is a Chrisitan holy site, marking the birthplace of Jesus. Built in 530AD, it is one of the oldest surviving Christian churches.
The Door of Humility is a small rectangular entrance to the church, created in Ottoman times to prevent looters driving their carts inside and to force visitors to dismount from their horses before entering this holy place.
The pointed arch of an earlier Crusader doorway can still be seen above the current door. The outline of the original square entrance can also be seen above these two smaller doors.
The Door of Humility, Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank, Israel (Saturday 27 November 2010 @ 2:50pm).
Bluebells has long been symbolic of humility and gratitude. They are associated with constancy, gratitude and everlasting love. Bluebells are also closely linked to the realm of fairies and are sometimes referred to as "fairy thimbles." To call fairies to a convention, the bluebells would be rung. Bluebells are widely known as harebells in Scotland. The name originated due to the hares that frequented the fields covered with harebells. Some sources claim that witches turned themselves into hares to hide among the flowers.
Another name for bluebells is Dead Man's bells. This is due to the fact that fairies were believed to cast spells on those who dare to pick or damage the beautiful, delicate flowers. The people of Scotland are fond enough of the flower to continue this tradition in the hopes of protecting the little flower.
A favourite flower around the world for many centuries, the bluebell is a particularly beloved flower in Britain.
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
//J.M. Barrie
"Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot."
//Thomas Moore
"Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility."
//Franz Kafka
I'm reporting in Scottsdale, Arizona, this week and so could sneak away to Frank Lloyd Wright's desert masterpiece slash architecture school, Taliesin West. The design follows what Wright called "the organic commandment."
(Hard for me to buy in fully 'cause a cactus attacked me this morning and the guide had to stop and use PLIERS to get all the evil barbed spines outta me. He made city-girl jokes to help me ignore the rivulets OF BLOOD.)
Taliesin's living room is a modest little 1900-square-foot affair. Wright held black-tie cocktail parties here (mid-desert, completely off the grid) twice a week.
"Wisely invest in beauty," said the man who left it everywhere, leaky roofs notwithstanding.