Humility photos on Flickr

In Memoriam -- for Peg June Adams, aka Ven. Choenyi. Who let go of the tree September 12, 2009, in Dharamsala, India. May your transition bring you to land in a place full of possibilities for growth.

We will miss you here. Thank you for all.

With Big Love.

See photos of Peg here: www.flickr.com/groups/choenyi/pool/

Oh, the humility by Sacred Jinx

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This was one of the last series of photos shot of the gent on the right. ~RIP~ Animal, you'll not be forgotten...

Humility_Sept2014 by Cj Pate

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Block for Humility Circle

With age comes wisdom, senility and a growing capacity for humility. by clamshack

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With age comes wisdom, senility and a growing capacity for humility.

ohso_feisty by success quotes

Continue to practice humility with every success. It can all be easily taken away as it is given. . Continue to be strong at heart through the failures as they are stepping stones to achieving whatever your heart desires. . #success #successquotes #oola #oolalife #balance #innerpeace #quotes #quoteoftheday #quotesgram #photooftheday #picoftheday #happy #amazing #humility - ohso_feisty

Humility by gwilsonnz

Old street art in Wellington, NZ from 2006

Humility by Photoprincess2006

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2015/04 - Amy Saidman by CreativeMornings /DC

This CreativeMornings/DC event featured Amy Saidman of SpeakeasyDC on the theme of 'Humility.'

This event was generously supported by Huge, Capital One Digital / Capital One Labs and TrackMaven and was hosted by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center on April 23, 2015.

Photos by Lexey Swall

Humility: Charlie Brown, April 2015 by CreativeMornings Portland

The global theme for April 2015 was “Humility” and our speaker at Portland/CreativeMornings was Charlie Brown, CEO and Founder of Context Partners. We were hosted by PNCA and sponsored by Create Legal and 52 Limited, and Razorfish. With thanks to Pro Photo Supply for the photo & video gear.

Photo by Scott Larsen. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

IMG_1491.JPG by Adam Brown

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Anna walking through the Door of Humility, the entrance to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine

2015/04 - Amy Saidman by CreativeMornings /DC

This CreativeMornings/DC event featured Amy Saidman of SpeakeasyDC on the theme of 'Humility.'

This event was generously supported by Huge, Capital One Digital / Capital One Labs and TrackMaven and was hosted by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center on April 23, 2015.

Photos by Lexey Swall

With humility and privately by The Daily Reminder

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Call upon your Lord in humility and privately; indeed, He does not like transgressors. [7:55]

DSC_0078 by Andre Thomas

For Immediate Press Release

NENE LEAKES uses Star Power to raise money for kids impacted with #HIV/#AIDS

NeNe Leakes is a proud black sister with absolutely no barriers when it comes to success and living the life of her dreams. Her life in itself is a blessing to millions of people across the world. Over the years, Nene has developed a multi-million dollar brand and despite her busy Hollywood schedule, NeNe continues to use her platform to help those in need.

The former Real Housewives of Atlanta star used her celebrity platform and name to help raise awareness that children are impacted by HIV/AIDS. NeNe Leakes joined Level XIII founder Antonio Brown on stage to donate a $5,000 check to Hero for Children, an Atlanta based non-profit organization.

Last night Birmingham’s Favorite Entertainment Blogger tag-teamed with The Jena Green Show to capture amazing photos and videos of NeNe showing the world that she still has a beautiful heart. NeNe humility when it comes to her family and extended family (her fans) is world class.

About Andre J. Thomas - Andre J. Thomas is a 5x Award Winning producer for the hit show, College Talk. Andre is a featured writer for Black Moguls Magazine , Gumptown Magazine, Beats Bang Blog, Birmingham Times and Swurv Radio.

Andre also is a contributing blogger for The Stardome Comedy Club and the Vault Bar & Lounge in Birmingham. Andre serves as the official publicist for rapper Q Dot Davis.

You can listen to #AndreTheBlogger on Superstation 101.1 FM on Saturdays from 4pm – 7pm CST as part of The Joe Lockett Show on-air team. If you liked this story and would like to read more stories by Birmingham’s Favorite Entertainment Blogger, please visit andrejthomas.com.

My Leaning tower of Bottle by El

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This was a lesson in humility for me. I was comissioned to make this cake and all went well. However, before it was picked up, the bottom layer started sliding out and the whole thing toppled. The cake was about 3 feet high and I guess the bottom layer couldn't handle all that weight....even though I re-inforced it with wooden dowel rods throughout.

Artists studios and blossom - London by Jonathan Polkeast

St. Martin in this new dignity continued the same manner of life, retaining the same humility of mind, austerity of life, and meanness of dress. He lived at first in a little cell near the church, but, not being able to endure the interruption which he met with from the many visits he there received, he retired to a monastery which he built two miles from the city, which is the famous abbey of Marmoutier, the most ancient that now subsists in France, and belongs to the congregation of St. Maur. The place was then a desert, inclosed by a high steep rock on one side, and by the river Loire on the other, and the entrance into it was only by one very narrow passage. The holy bishop had a cell built of wood: several of his monks had cells made in the same manner, but the greater part took up their dwellings in narrow holes which they dug in the side of the rock: one is still shown in which St. Martin is said to have lodged for some time. He had here in a short time about fourscore monks; amongst them no one had any distinct property; no one was allowed to buy or sell, as was the practice of the greater part of the monks with regard to their work and sustenance. No art or business was permitted amongst them, except that of writing, to which only the younger were deputed; the more ancient attended to nothing else but to prayer and spiritual functions. Very rarely any went out of his cell, except to the oratory where they assembled at the hours of public prayer; and they ate all together in the evening after the hour of the fast. Wine was never afforded to any one, unless sickness required it. Most of them had garments of camel’s hair, that is, of coarse camlet, and it was esteemed a crime to wear any soft clothing. There were, nevertheless, many persons of quality amongst them, who had been educated in a tender and delicate manner. Many bishops were chosen out of this monastery; for there was not a city which did not desire to have a pastor who had been bred under the discipline of St. Martin. The bishop himself was frequently employed in visiting all the parts of his diocess. Not far from his monastery stood a chapel and an altar, erected by the concession of his predecessors, over the tomb of a pretended martyr. The place was much reverenced by the people; but St. Martin, who was not over credulous, would not go thither to pray, not hearing any assured account of the relics. He asked the eldest of the clergy what they knew of them, and not receiving satisfaction, he went one day to the place with some of his brethren, and, standing over the tomb, besought God to show him who was buried there. Then turning to the left he saw near him a pale ghost of a fierce aspect, whom he commanded to speak. The ghost told his name, and it appeared that he had been a robber who was executed for his crimes, whom the people had honoured as a martyr. None but St. Martin saw him; the rest only heard his voice. He thereupon caused the altar to be removed; and freed the people from this superstition. 2 Formerly bishops canonized saints, or declared them such; but to prevent the danger of abuses, this has been long since reserved to the most mature discussion and solemn approbation of the apostolic see of Rome. To honour relics without a prudent or moral assurance of their authenticity, or without the due authority of pastors as the canons require, is to fall into superstition. Where these rules of prudence are observed, even though a mistake should happen, it is of the same nature as if a person by inculpable inadvertence, kissed some other book instead of the bible; and the primary object of such religious actions, which is to glorify God in his saints, is always certain, whatever mistakes may happen in facts, or such like human means which excite our devotion. But the example of St. Martin, St. Gregory the Great, St. Charles Borromeo, and all other holy prelates ought to excite all pastors to be diligent and severe in examining and removing relics which are not sufficiently warranted.

2015/04 - Amy Saidman by CreativeMornings /DC

This CreativeMornings/DC event featured Amy Saidman of SpeakeasyDC on the theme of 'Humility.'

This event was generously supported by Huge, Capital One Digital / Capital One Labs and TrackMaven and was hosted by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center on April 23, 2015.

Photos by Lexey Swall

2015/04 - Amy Saidman by CreativeMornings /DC

This CreativeMornings/DC event featured Amy Saidman of SpeakeasyDC on the theme of 'Humility.'

This event was generously supported by Huge, Capital One Digital / Capital One Labs and TrackMaven and was hosted by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center on April 23, 2015.

Photos by Lexey Swall

2015/04 - Amy Saidman by CreativeMornings /DC

This CreativeMornings/DC event featured Amy Saidman of SpeakeasyDC on the theme of 'Humility.'

This event was generously supported by Huge, Capital One Digital / Capital One Labs and TrackMaven and was hosted by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center on April 23, 2015.

Photos by Lexey Swall

2015/04 - Amy Saidman by CreativeMornings /DC

This CreativeMornings/DC event featured Amy Saidman of SpeakeasyDC on the theme of 'Humility.'

This event was generously supported by Huge, Capital One Digital / Capital One Labs and TrackMaven and was hosted by Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center on April 23, 2015.

Photos by Lexey Swall

Humility by FabulousArmyLife

2018 Pre-CoC Reception by Los Angeles District USACE

If there is any advice Col. Kirk Gibbs can give to his successor, it is this: Lead with honor and humility.

As Gibbs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s 61st commander, prepares to relinquish command of the LA District July 19 to Col. Aaron Barta, he offered up some advice and reflected on the past three years as the leader of one of the largest Corps districts in the country.

There are many things Gibbs said he is proud of when it comes to the LA District, but three things stand out: the District being recognized two years in a row as a "Best Place to Work" in the Corps; completing Weed Army Hospital at Fort Irwin, California – the Department of Defense’s only Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Platinum, carbon-neutral, net-zero certifiable hospital – on time and within budget; and the one-on-one time he was able to spend with employees in the District.

It is the people Gibbs said he will miss the most – the employees and the District’s close partners across the four-state area.

“I have never focused on relationships like I have here in this District, and I sincerely believe it is part of the District's culture,” he said. “When projects are tough, the close relationships get us through those challenges and ultimately deliver the program.”

During his time with the LA District, Gibbs has overseen a multimillion-dollar program that provides engineering, construction, planning, contracting, real estate, emergency operations, environmental and regulatory services to military, federal, state and local governments across a 226,000-square-mile area of Southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. That also includes leading about 750 military and civilian personnel with a wide array of expertise.

But leading people is nothing new to Gibbs, who has served for more than 24 years as an active-duty Soldier, leading both military and civilian personnel.

“Each person is different, and I have learned that good leaders get to know each person individually and then lead them in a way that brings out the best in that employee,” he said.

Providing priorities and a solid intent on the District’s missions, particularly disaster response operations, helps employees stay focused on what’s really important, he said.

Gibbs will now serve as the chief of staff at the Corps’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. There, he said, he hopes to be an advocate for all of the Corps’ districts nationwide.

“I feel that this District and the great people are responsible for giving me the incredible opportunity of being the Corps’ chief of staff,” he said. “The people have taught me so much, and I will take that with me to make a positive impact on the Corps’ enterprise and help our Districts deliver our programs in civil works, military, Interagency and International Services, real estate and regulatory.”

Gibbs knows how the importance of mentors and having a good support system have played in shaping his career, and he credits his parents with instilling in him respect for others; his wife, Kim, who taught him to endure all challenges, no matter how great, with grace and dignity; and his former chief of staff – Col. Steve Hill – for giving him tough jobs to prepare him for success.

“(Hill) gave me tough jobs that I thought he could have done at the time, but as I look back, the toughest assignments he gave me in that civilian organization at the Corps headquarters prepared me for District command and enabled me to achieve the goal of commanding at the battalion, brigade and District levels,” he said. “I also remember he told me I would be a chief of staff for the Corps one day. He was preparing me for that. I didn't believe him, but that is my next job.”

And, as for additional advice he can share with Barta, Gibbs provided these words of wisdom:

- Be prepared to change leadership style when leading a District of professional civilians. Don't lead them in the same way as Soldiers;

- Engage with people and get around to see them across the District's entire area of operation. Don't sit behind a desk;

- Study hard initially and learn the policies, processes and programs. “You will never be the expert, but you must prepare yourself to make effective decisions as quickly as possible”;

- Always provide a commander's intent and an end state. The civilian workforce appreciates that; and, lastly,

- Lead with honor and humility. “It isn't about you. It is about the District's people and our vital mission.”

As for the future of the LA District, Gibbs said he hopes future leaders continue to change the culture to an organization that is more risk tolerant in streamlining processes and moving projects forward; deliver the Department of Veterans Affairs and Customs and Border Protection programs phenomenally – on time, within budget and to the highest quality; and to remain a "Best Place to Work" in order to retain and recruit talent to the high-cost living area of Southern California.

“I want the District to do what it always does and ‘knock those programs out of the park,’” he said.

Humility: October, Flying Geese by LizzieQuilter

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humility i like ♥ by watchasayv4le?

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Madonna of Humility by twacar

Andrea di Bartolo

Active in Siena, 1389-1428

About 1400

Tempera on wood

56.2 x 38.4 cm

Purchase, John W. Tempest Fund

Inventory 1954.1099

Representations of the Madonna of Humility seated in a flowery context became quite popular in Europe in the fourteenth century as a private, meditational counter-image to the formal representations of the Enthroned Madonna, expressing one of her own attributes and alluding to the enclosed garden of her virginity. Few biographical details are known about this Sienese Master from whom we identify thirteen autograph panels of this Madonna of Humility. The Child clutches a goldfinch, an allusion to His Passion (goldfinches eat thorns). The rooster on the virginal robe suggests the Resurrection. These poignant references to His Death change the tenor of the painting from one of familial intimacy to that of pietistic reverence and reflection. The work maintains the lyrical and tender depiction of human relationships characteristic of the Sienese school, and the figure of the Virgin appears as an elegant silhouette, its treatment of surfaces more decorative than in Florentine painting.