As the air thickens with smoke and we all sit and wonder what is next... we realize we just need to breathe....

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2 a.m. and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake

"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?

I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season"

Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing, their eyes

Like they have any right at all to criticize

Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable

And life's like an hourglass glued to the table

No one can find the rewind button, girl

So cradle your head in your hands

And breathe, just breathe

Oh, breathe, just breathe

Ráj srdce každý v sobě má

Dnes pokusím se být upřímná

Upřímná? Vždyť to už se nenosí

Pokrytci na výsluní se honosí [Uvnitř]

~

There is the paradise of the heart in everyone

I try to be honest today

Honest? Nobody wears it anymore

Hypocrites in the limelight flaunt themselves ♡

~

dedicate to poet Sylvia Plath

Hello my amazing Flickr friends !

Today is a pink or purple day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Smile on Saturday is headwear in square. The fact that the picture must be a square is a bonus for me since all my pictures are squares ! In real life I’m a hat addict… Usually I wear a kitty ears hat or kitty ears cap if my day is more casual. I have a large collection of hats and I love them all unconditionally (yes, just like my kids LOL) !! What is awesome about hats, it is the fact that no matter what seize you are they will still fit you. That is why I consider hats to be the most loyal (with handbags, scarfs and shoes) fashion accessory ! Hats aren’t hypocrites like pants for instance. A hat will never pretend to fit you and then ending up too small ! I have hats from 15 years ago, fitting me like a glove. I can’t say that about pants … sorry pants but I like hats better !

As for my picture, I used Mr. Egg as model for one of his favorite hats. It was truly a longue time since we had an egg on this Photostream. I hope you will like it.

Today we have a family gathering in order to celebrate my Dad’s birthday and Polish Mothers Day. I’m pretty much sure I will not be able to answer your awesome comments… and I’m pretty much sure that my pants will not fit me anymore on Sunday. I’m telling you those pants are truly resentful …

Have a beautiful day !! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !!

FYI: because of my renovation project I have to, constantly, move our stuff from one room to another on a very short notice !! So once again, I have to apologize for not answering your comments… I will try to catch up very shortly but for the next few days I’m afraid I will be M.I.A. (missing in action) !!!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!

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"Got lemon juice up in your eye

When you pissed all over my black kettle

You must have been high high

You must have been high high

Who are you to wave your finger?

So full of it

Eye balls deep in muddy waters

Fuckin' hypocrite

Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?

Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent"

"The Pot" by Tool

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When you bitch, when you bitch, when you bitch

Counterfeit hypocrite holy shit

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the beam that in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck that is in your eye, but you do not see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to remove the speck from' eye of your brother. "

Gesù di Nazareth

"A child can take the father's nose, eyes and even intelligence, but not the soul. The soul is new to every man."

Hermann Hesse

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my second quote is dedicated to the children of madman

Дай, Боже, мне в душе построить храм,

В нем сохранить тепло любви всевышней,

И, прикоснувшись сердцем к образАм,

Обиды утолить святым затишьем.

Дай, Боже, канонически взрастить

Дух, упоенный чувствами и златом;

Он упрежден желаниям служить,

Забыв про силу истинной услады.

Дай, Боже, свить душою колыбель,

Где дух под звук божественных молений

Сознательно построит цитадель,

Как оберег от грешных устремлений.

Дай, Боже, не пропасть во тьме веков,

В эпохах деградаций, реках крови,

И дай услышать звон колоколов,

Вещающих об эре светлой нови.Дай духу, переполнив послушанием

Все фибры окрылившейся души,

Дышать с Тобой единственным дыханием,

Стремиться ввысь, минуя рубежи.

Дай, Господи, любить, как ты умеешь,

И ничего не требовать взамен,

А ближнего жалеть, как ты жалеешь,

Любовь беречь от боли и измен.

Дай, Боже, разучиться лицемерить,

Чтоб был твоим перстом благославен,

Дай духу в воскрешение поверить,

Внять вечности в надежде перемен.

Дай вере на пути преодоления

Освободиться от гнетущих нош,

Дай, Господи, найти предназначение,

Где нет обмена истины на грош.

(Nikolai Artiukhov)........................................May God grant me to build a temple in my soul,

Keep the warmth of the love of the Almighty in it,

And touching the images with my heart,

To assuage grievances with a holy calm.

May God, canonically nurture

A spirit intoxicated with feelings and gold;

He is preemptive to the desires to serve,

Forgetting about the power of true delight.

God grant me to make a cradle with my soul,

Where is the spirit under the sound of divine prayers

Deliberately build a citadel,

As a talisman against sinful aspirations.

May God not be lost in the darkness of ages,

In eras of degradation, rivers of blood,

And let me hear the bells ringing,

Broadcasting about the era of bright Novi..Give to the spirit, overflowing with obedience

All the fibers of the winged soul,

Breathing with You is the only breath,

Strive upward, bypassing the boundaries.

Give, O Lord, to love as you know how,

And do not demand anything in return,

But pity your neighbor, as you do,

Protect love from pain and infidelity.

God grant me to forget how to be a hypocrite,

To be blessed with your finger,

Let the spirit believe in the resurrection,

Heed eternity in the hope of change.

Give faith on the way of overcoming

Free yourself from oppressive burdens,

May God grant us to find a purpose,

Where there is no exchange of truth for a penny.

(Nikolai Artiukhov)

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J'ai pas l'habitude d'écrire en dessous des mes photos… (Enfin, si je peux appeler ça une photo.)

J'aimerais tellement vous parler de ce que je ressent avec des mots et pas avec des images que certains d'entre vous ne comprennent surement pas. J'ai envie de crier, hurler, de déchainer toute cette haine au fond de moi qui m'empêche de grandir, d'être moi même et qui m'a fait évoluer dans ce personnage que certains appellent "Lulu" ou "Sam".

Cette photo est l'aboutissement d'une rage qui me ronge de l'intérieur depuis un certain temps. Cette colère que j'emmagasine et qui me fait faire n'importe quoi.

Je pense qu'il est temps pour moi d'affronter mes démons et mes peurs en enfer. Peut-être je deviendrais plus con que ce que je suis, peut-être pas, mais il va y avoir du ménage, quelque chose de divinement sadique.

Samaël, Lucifer, la même entité, mais deux différents visage d'un ange au cœur meurtri par les actions des autres. L'Ange lâché par ses plus proches amis, par ses plus proches amours, et le Diable entouré par des hypocrites, des rapaces et des vicieux.

Certains aiment un côté de la pièce, d'autre, l'autre. Mais au final, personne n'aime la pièce en elle même. C'est ce qui fait son charme. C'est un jeu dangereux pour ceux qui s'y aventurent avec trop de confiance.

Soyez prévenu maintenant.

Lucifer est de retour en Enfer.

[EN]

I'm not used to writing below my photos… (Well, if I can call it a photo.)

I would love to talk to you about how I feel with words and not with pictures that some of you probably don't understand. I want to scream, howl, to unleash all this hatred deep inside me which prevents me from growing up, from being myself and which made me evolve into this character that some call "Lulu" or "Sam" .

This photo is the culmination of a rage that has been gnawing at me from the inside for some time. This anger that I store up and that makes me do anything.

I think it's time for me to face my demons and my fears in hell. Maybe I would become more dumb than I am, maybe not, but there is going to be housekeeping, something divinely sadistic.

Samael, Lucifer, the same entity, but two different faces of an angel with a heart bruised by the actions of others. The Angel let loose by his closest friends, by his closest loves, and the Devil surrounded by hypocrites, raptors and vicious.

Some people like one side of the coin and the other the otherside. But in the end, no one likes the coin itself. This is what makes its charm. It is a wicked game for those who venture into it with too much confidence.

Be warned now.

Lucifer is back in Hell.

2017 08 19

No hypocrite is necessary.

The hurt deepens by the hypocrite.

very painful and sad...。

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Gods possessed spirit medium, Through sharp objects and explosives, Use their own body to accept the test, Indirectly proves the power of supernatural. This is a legend, Spirit medium may be possessed by gods, Or is God subordinates, Possessed by evil spirits also possible.

There is also a case, Spirit medium can not invite gods possessed, In order to satisfy the person seeking help, Or in order to earn some money, A few might do something hypocritical fraud.

神明附身的童乩，通過鋒利的物體和爆炸物，使用自己的肉體去接受考驗，間接證明了超自然的力量。這是一種傳說，童乩可能被神明附身，或者是神的下屬，邪靈附身也是可能的。

還有一種情況，童乩無法邀請神明附身，為了滿足尋求幫助的人，或為了賺取一些錢財，有些人可能會做虛偽造假的事情。

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" All the human beings are a few hypocrites and insensitive that damage to everything what they find to your step and everything for an intention...

To damage the innocent ones "

" I shut in an armor for fear of the world; now the world is who is afraid of me "

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"Todos los humanos son unos hipócritas e insensibles que hacen daño que a todo lo que encuentran a su paso y todo por un proposito...

Dañar a los inocentes"

"Me encerré en una armadura por temor al mundo; ahora el mundo es quien me teme".

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Eye Of The Tiger www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4&list=PLmTzW86B5tu...

mankind with all its fake dreams, its hypocritical indignation, its ignorant anger and narcissistic public outbursts ... we are the makers of evil and yet stand open-mouthed in front of it and wonder where it came from ...

Look at you. You have become so pathetic, so derogatory, so mean to those who are close to you.

Look at you now, who have you become? You let yourself be overcome by a feeling of helplessness, of abandonment. You are jealous because they are good together, but you, what do you do so that they are good with you?

You put yourself out of the way, while trying to find yourself, and here is who you find. Your old you, the one who needed attention, the one to whom lust fits so well. But, that's not what you need, and you know it.

You've made so many people suffer in all this time, don't you think you should apologize? Why? You are ashamed? You are scared? You got it wrong, and it scares you to admit it.

Admit that she was your true muse. And you, like a hypocrite that you are, you abandoned her, it was not she who left you, it was you dark moron who abandoned her, leaving her alone, alone in her dark thoughts. And then you blame her because she was trying to make you react.

What did you do, put yourself apart, go look to the right and to the left? Go have fun? Supposedly to feel alive, but my poor ... You didn't understand anything, she made you alive, and you like an idiot you ruined everything.

Look at you now, who are you?

Gauze Bandage Mummy

When Valeria heard of todays Theme, she boldly stepped in and told me, that she'll handle things from here. I had to stop her once or twice, explaining that this is a family friendly group.

"Valeria dear, what about the 'no body parts' rule?"

"What about it? That's no body, that's my gimp, you know him."

"His hand is sticking out."

"Yes, he needs it to cut himself free. Eventually."

"And what about you?"

"I ain't no body either, I'm an attractive woman, and if they don't like it, they can kiss my a..."

"Can't say that!"

"Hypocrites!"

"Maybe you should go out of the picture?"

"...and leave him alone? That would be unsafe!"

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I absolutely love the Semipalmated Plover's distinctive behaviour. Cautious bird but curious enough to get very close to us in an hypocrital way (lack of a better term) but very cute moves.

Oh, I drink and take a sip of it

Feelin' like a hypocrite

Go for more and I don't give a shit

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I'll wear all pink to your white wedding

I'll dance too much and say something upsetting

I'll laugh when you kick me out

It's been the third time already

Running home, I laugh alone

At least I stole the show

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than being on the side of it

I'm a psycho, loving it

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than being on the side of it

I'm a psycho, loving it

Can’t wait to hear what they call me

Call me names and make up all these stories

I would kill for a life that ain't boring

I'm lots of things but not sorry

Running home, I laugh alone

At least I stole the show

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than being on the side of it

I'm a psycho, loving it

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than being on the side of it

I'm a psycho, loving it

Time of my life

We're all just skeletons

Joining the fight for the adrenaline

Time of my life

We're all just skeletons

Just joining the fight

Joining the fight

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than being on the side of it

I'm a psycho, loving it

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit

Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite

I like it way better than being on the side of it

I'm a psycho, loving it

I'm a psycho, loving it

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People come, people go

People high, people low

People stay, people change

People lie, people don't

I don't fulfill my potential

'Cause everyone around me is so self-referential

Hypocritical, maybe, a petulant baby

(Wah wah wah, shut up)

Shut up, you're driving me crazy

Call me a lowlife, that shit don't faze me

I'm alright on my own, I don't need you to save me

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

― Albert Einstein

"Thank you everyone for your comments... In our (flickr)world many people would rather prefer hypocritical adulation or meaningless courtesies but rarely honest opinion, especially if it all sounds quite unconventional"....b.mikich

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       puis se pique de douceur !

Pastel hypocrite…

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Nikon D610 - Jupiter-9 - 85mm f/2 - (avec bague allonge)

"I'm sorry but... I hate insincere relationships and people who lie over and over".

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"Lo siento pero... odio las relaciones no sinceras y la gente que miente una y otra vez".

P. Divine

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Greatest thrill, not to kill

But to have the prize of the night

Hypocrite, wannabe friend

13th disciple who betrayed me for nothing!

Last dance, first kiss

Your touch, my bliss

Beauty always comes with dark thoughts

I wish I had an angel

For one moment of love

I wish I had your angel

Your Virgin Mary undone

I'm in love with my lust

Burning angel wings to dust

I wish I had your angel tonight

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Matthew 6:16 “And when ye fast, become not like the gloomy looking hypocrites, for they make their faces unsightly, so that they may appear fasting to men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.”

and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries :-)

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Photo floue, photo ratée, photo moche pour certains ! Pas pour moi. Je fais ici l'éloge de l'imperfection en photographie, en réponse à un certain Christian G qui donne des leçons à mes amis, et à qui je rappelle que la critique est aisée mais l'art libre et subjectif !

L’Homme est par nature imparfait, ainsi soit-il de la photographie.

Je l'encourage et vous encourage à lire l'excellent papier de Benjamin Beaumont dont je vous livre quelques phrases à méditer..

"La photographie est imperfection.

Plus que les autres arts, l’imperfection n’est-elle pas ce qui donne à la photographie sa valeur ? La photographie échappe au contrôle total de son auteur : elle met en jeu une forte part de chance, et exige de composer avec le hasard des conditions de la prise de vue. L’imperfection est ce qui fait de nous des humains : une photographie inaboutie ou inachevée n’est pas pour autant à jeter. Si elle transmet auprès du spectateur une émotion aussi ténue soit-elle, alors elle a déjà accompli sa mission."

"Au fond, une photographie ne sera jamais qu’imparfaite. Elle ne tombera jamais parfaitement juste. Mais elle pourra néanmoins transmettre quelque chose."

"Peut-être faut-il admettre que la pratique de la photographie fait sens non pas au regard de la qualité de la production mais du processus en lui-même. Photographier c’est produire des images : on fera aussi bien qu’on le pourra, dans les limites de nos capacités et avec toutes les faiblesses de notre humanité. Mais photographier, c’est aussi et peut-être surtout se sentir vivant. En observant le monde autour de soi, on ressent la gratitude de pouvoir en témoigner. On accorde de la valeur à l’insignifiance des choses. On apprend à reconnaître la Beauté. Et on cherche à la saisir à travers le viseur. Voilà la puissance de la photographie : une façon de nous rendre plus intensément conscient du simple bonheur qu’il y a à vivre."

"Alors mettons un terme à ces grands discours vides de substance tels qu’on peut souvent les lire. Arrêtons les verbalisations fumeuses et les théories moralisatrices et définitives. Vivons plutôt l’expérience photographique au plus près du cœur, éveillés à nos sensations les plus brutes. Ayons l’humilité du débutant, la même que celle du bébé qui s’éveille au monde, sans cesse surpris, assoiffé de découverte et de nouveauté."

Et surtout surtout, ne changez pas de lunettes mais d'état d'esprit, monsieur qui-sait-tout et qui fait-mieux-que-les-autres ...

Un peu de respect, de douceur, de tolérance ferait du bien sur nos Flickr.

Ce que tu vois ne te plaît pas ? Passe à la suivante et abstiens toi d'emmerder ton voisin ... Perso, quand je n'aime pas, je ne commente pas, je passe. Ou alors, je fais remarquer une petite tâche sur l'objectif ou un horizon un peu penché, sans remettre en cause la qualité ou l'intention de la photo.

On peut se dire les choses gentiment aussi, ça ne coûte rien.

Et ce n'est pas forcément hypocrite de lui dire qu'on aime sa photo ou son travail.

A bon entendeur ....

Référence :

benjaminbeaumont.fr/photographie-imperfection/

Blurry photo, failed photo, ugly photo for some! Not for me. I am here praising imperfection in photography, in response to a certain Christian G who is giving lessons to my friends, and to whom I remind that criticism is easy but art is free and subjective!

Man is by nature imperfect, so be it with photography.

I encourage him and you to read Benjamin Beaumont's excellent paper, from which I offer you a few phrases to ponder..

Photography is imperfection.

More than other arts, isn't imperfection what gives photography its value? Photography escapes the total control of its author: it involves a significant element of chance and requires dealing with the randomness of the shooting conditions. Imperfection is what makes us human: an unfinished or incomplete photograph is not necessarily to be discarded. If it conveys even the slightest emotion to the viewer, then it has already accomplished its mission.

"At the end of the day, a photograph will always be imperfect." It will never be perfectly right. But she will nevertheless be able to convey something."

"Perhaps we must admit that the practice of photography makes sense not in terms of the quality of the production but in terms of the process itself." Photographing is producing images: we will do as well as we can, within the limits of our abilities and with all the weaknesses of our humanity. But photographing is also, and perhaps above all, feeling alive. By observing the world around us, we feel gratitude for being able to witness it. We value the insignificance of things. We learn to recognize Beauty. And we seek to capture it thru the viewfinder. That's the power of photography: a way to make us more intensely aware of the simple happiness there is in living.

"So let's put an end to these grand speeches devoid of substance that we often read. Let's stop the smoky verbalizations and the moralizing and definitive theories. Let's rather live the photographic experience as close to the heart as possible, awakened to our most raw sensations. Let's have the humility of the beginner, the same as that of the baby awakening to the world, constantly surprised, thirsty for discovery and novelty.

And above all, don't change your glasses but your state of mind, Mr. Know-it-all who does better than others...

A little respect, gentleness, tolerance would do well on our Flickr.

What you see doesn't please you? Move on to the next one and refrain from bothering your neighbor.

We can also say things to each other nicely, it doesn't cost anything. Personally, when I don't like something, I don't comment, I just move on. Or, I might point out a small spot on the lens or a slightly tilted horizon, without questioning the quality or the intention of the photo.

And it's not necessarily hypocritical to tell him that we like his photo or his work.

A word to the wise....

Reference:

benjaminbeaumont.fr/photographie-imperfection/

I'm such a hypocrite. I complain about how many people they herd through Antelope Canyon...then I go there. I say that there are too many pictures of the place...then I post more. The thing is, I drive right next to the stupid thing whenever I drive up Route 89 towards Utah (which is often) and it's just such an amazing place.

To see more shots from this great trip please check out my set "Sandstone Gone Wild": flickr.com/photos/21059999@N08/sets/72157605474381535/

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

Previously unpublished shot from an awesome day of shooting in June 2019. I don't usually take shots of anyone that could be a street photographer themselves, as I don't like being photographed while shooting on the street (yeah, hypocritical I know), but I couldn't resist here - this shirt is epic! Enjoy.

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© 2011 tapa | all rights reserved

Just another day like any other ,

Nothing in the sky said "run for cover"

Just another reason,

Never thought it would end this way.

There was no parade

No lights flashing

No song to sing along the way

There was no parade.

___________________________

- I miss the rain :(

- I know the shot is kinda hypocritical cause the words are 3aks ilshot, bas whatever :P

Taken By: Me (Last Summer)

Edited By: Me

Description from the song No Parade - Jordin Sparks

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Note:

- Please Don't Copy and Paste things in your comment (This includes long decorations, Your recent upload and glittery graphics). If you do, I will delete the comment.

except on Sundays. There is always boozing and floozying....I don't have enough time to tell you everybody's name ;-(

William "Fishbait" Miller (1909 – 1989) an American who served as Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1953 and again from 1955 to 1974

HPPS! Character Matters! Resist!

iris, 'Sinfonietta', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

10 things about A

* wanted missy befor

* luv editing photos

*creative person

*always happy

* luv animals

* hate hypocrites

* normal person

* friend N

*A is the first letter of my name

* اخر العنــقود

10 things about N :

* miss puff befor

* luv taking photos

* funny & crazy

* faithful

* Canon user

* someone u can trust

* always there 4 my friends

* senior 2009

* N is the first letter of my name

* luv yew all (A)

& now u know us .. we want big welcome

ps: this photo is Taken by: N

& Edited by : A

IMPORTANT: for non-pro users who read the info on a computer, just enlarge your screen to 120% (or more), then the full text will appear below the photo with a white background - which makes reading so much easier.

My best photos (mostly not on Flickr) are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi...

THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:

At a first glance, the photo above may appear to show the slightly gruesome scene of a flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) munchin' on a hairy scoliid wasp (Scolia hirta), but that's in fact not what is happening here.

To provide some context: I'd discovered this beautiful female M. vatia a few days prior to taking the photo. I love photographing spiders, and particularly when I find one of the crab variety - of which there are at least 4 different species present in my garden - I make sure to visit it regularly, always in the hope of catching it with prey (somewhat morbid of me, I know, but the way these arachnids hunt is just endlessly fascinating and makes for great photos).

They are pretty territorial; once a spider has settled on a flower where the harvest is plentiful - which is to say the plant gets visited often by insects and thus provides a steady stream of fresh victims - it will try to ride that "gravy train" for as long as possible and remain lurking inside (or just underneath) that flower, which will allow you to locate it again.

The individual in the photo had chosen my peppermint plants as her hunting grounds, which made sense, because even though she wasn't exactly well camouflaged in them (as you can see here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... ), the flowers of this exquisitely fragrant herb attracted more insects than any other plant blooming at the same time in my garden.

But something was off in the land of mint: whenever I visited Mrs. Crab Spider over the course of several days, I never found her with prey. At first I thought she had chosen her hunting grounds poorly after all, because she was so easily visible the insects were probably thinking: "Nice try, but I know my peppermint flowers, and you sure don't look like one!"

Yet when I stuck around for a bit and closely observed her for a few minutes, this hypothesis quickly came undone, because there was certainly no shortage of potential victims landing right in front of the spider: one apparently suicidal honeybee even literally shoved its bum into the spider's face, and she didn't move a muscle! And the same was true for the hairy scoliid wasps, as you can see in the photo above.

This was very confusing behavior, because even if the spider hadn't been hungry when I first found her (maybe after just devouring a calorie-rich bumblebee), her appetite should have come back by now, and I witnessed no sign of it. It made no sense: was this perhaps a vegetarian spider? Had I come across the next step in arachnid evolution and found the first individual sticking to an exclusive diet of tofu and quinoa?

What I saw puzzled me, and I needed answers. If this crab spider was neither eating bees nor wasps (nor waiting for a flying soy bean to miraculously land on the peppermint flower) - what was going on here? Was this maybe a deeply spiritual spider on the path to enlightenment adhering to the ancient principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings?

Indeed, when I leaned in closer to better observe her, I thought I caught a whiff of incense sticks (granted, it might have only been the fragrance of the peppermint, but I started to like the idea of a "hippy spider" in my garden 😉 ). The longer I thought about it, the more it made sense: the spider's motionless pose wasn't that of a lurking predator ready to strike as I foolishly had been assuming - this spider was in fact MEDITATING (or at the very least doing Yoga).

The next day I wanted to visit my enlightened friend again, but to my chagrin I couldn't find her in the peppermint plants. After a careful search of the area I was relieved when I finally spotted her; she had climbed up into the phlox and now resided approximately fifty centimeters above her previous location, in the midst of the bright pink blooming flowers (I wouldn't have been surprised to find her reading a tiny version of Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha', holding it tight with all eight legs, but she was just doing her previous meditation/Yoga pose 😉 )

For what happened next, however, I was NOT prepared: as I was watching, a green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) landed right in front of my hippy spider - who caught the poor bugger faster than you can say "tofu" and immediately started sucking the life out of him.

"And there goes the ancient principle of nonviolence right out the window...", I thought to myself as I went to get the camera. Either I had been wrong in my previous assessment, or Mrs. Crab Spider wasn't a strict ideologue (or just a good ole' hypocrite like the rest of us 😉 ); in any case, she obviously enjoyed her meal very much, even spinning the fly around like a corn cob (here's a photo, in case you're interested: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... )

What I eventually did realize though, and I'm not joking for once, was that I had indeed observed a very interesting behavior: this flower crab spider had specialized on a particular prey. Over the course of two weeks, I only ever saw her catch flies (who were omnipresent on the phlox, but rarely visited the peppermint), while she ignored any insect with a sting, regardless how close and easy to grab it might have been.

To my knowledge, this was very unusual. Misumena vatia is a notorious bee killer, and I myself had witnessed many a careless honey bee fall victim to this highly skilled predator in my garden over the years (here's just one example: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-... ).

Although I have zero proof for this, I suspect my choosy spider simply wanted to avoid the risk of getting stung; perhaps because she'd learned from past experience that the pointy end of bees and wasps can be quite painful - or maybe this was innate behavior that occurs in some individuals but not in others.

In any case, I was half relieved and half disappointed by this outcome; on the one hand it was good to know this beautiful arachnid wouldn't starve to death in my garden for a lack of tofu - but on the other I had really liked the idea of a spider on the path to enlightenment and was now a bit saddened that there would probably never be a commune of tiny, eight-legged hippies in my garden. 😉

As always, many thanks for reading and commenting: have a great remaining week everyone! And on a very personal note, let me again express my gratitude for all the best wishes I got from you after my hand surgery (which thankfully went well: as you can see, I'm already able to bore you with my usual overlong photo descriptions again ;-) - thank you guys, so, so much!! ❤🙏😊

Selma, AL | March 04, 2007

"Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I'm going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every day, not just in Capitol Hill but also back here in the district. Please give a warm round of applause for your Congressman Artur Davis.

It is a great honor to be here. Reverend Jackson, thank you so much. To the family of Brown A.M.E, to the good Bishop Kirkland, thank you for your wonderful message and your leadership.

I want to acknowledge one of the great heroes of American history and American life, somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage, somebody who I have admired all my life and were it not for him, I'm not sure I'd be here today, Congressman John Lewis.

I'm thankful to him. To all the distinguished guests and clergy, I'm not sure I'm going to thank Reverend Lowery because he stole the show. I was mentioning earlier, I know we've got C.T. Vivian in the audience, and when you have to speak in front of somebody who Martin Luther King said was the greatest preacher he ever heard, then you've got some problems.

And I'm a little nervous about following so many great preachers. But I'm hoping that the spirit moves me and to all my colleagues who have given me such a warm welcome, thank you very much for allowing me to speak to you here today.

You know, several weeks ago, after I had announced that I was running for the Presidency of the United States, I stood in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois; where Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech declaring, drawing in scripture, that a house divided against itself could not stand.

And I stood and I announced that I was running for the presidency. And there were a lot of commentators, as they are prone to do, who questioned the audacity of a young man like myself, haven't been in Washington too long.

And I acknowledge that there is a certain presumptuousness about this.

But I got a letter from a friend of some of yours named Reverend Otis Moss Jr. in Cleveland, and his son, Otis Moss III is the Pastor at my church and I must send greetings from Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. but I got a letter giving me encouragement and saying how proud he was that I had announced and encouraging me to stay true to my ideals and my values and not to be fearful.

And he said, if there's some folks out there who are questioning whether or not you should run, just tell them to look at the story of Joshua because you're part of the Joshua generation.

So I just want to talk a little about Moses and Aaron and Joshua, because we are in the presence today of a lot of Moseses. We're in the presence today of giants whose shoulders we stand on, people who battled, not just on behalf of African Americans but on behalf of all of America; that battled for America's soul, that shed blood , that endured taunts and formant and in some cases gave -- torment and in some cases gave the full measure of their devotion.

Like Moses, they challenged Pharaoh, the princes, powers who said that some are atop and others are at the bottom, and that's how it's always going to be.

There were people like Anna Cooper and Marie Foster and Jimmy Lee Jackson and Maurice Olette, C.T. Vivian, Reverend Lowery, John Lewis, who said we can imagine something different and we know there is something out there for us, too.

Thank God, He's made us in His image and we reject the notion that we will for the rest of our lives be confined to a station of inferiority, that we can't aspire to the highest of heights, that our talents can't be expressed to their fullest. And so because of what they endured, because of what they marched; they led a people out of bondage.

They took them across the sea that folks thought could not be parted. They wandered through a desert but always knowing that God was with them and that, if they maintained that trust in God, that they would be all right. And it's because they marched that the next generation hasn't been bloodied so much.

It's because they marched that we elected councilmen, congressmen. It is because they marched that we have Artur Davis and Keith Ellison. It is because they marched that I got the kind of education I got, a law degree, a seat in the Illinois senate and ultimately in the United States senate.

It is because they marched that I stand before you here today. I was mentioning at the Unity Breakfast this morning, my -- at the Unity Breakfast this morning that my debt is even greater than that because not only is my career the result of the work of the men and women who we honor here today. My very existence might not have been possible had it not been for some of the folks here today. I mentioned at the Unity Breakfast that a lot of people been asking, well, you know, your father was from Africa, your mother, she's a white woman from Kansas. I'm not sure that you have the same experience.

And I tried to explain, you don't understand. You see, my Grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya. Grew up in a small village and all his life, that's all he was -- a cook and a house boy. And that's what they called him, even when he was 60 years old. They called him a house boy. They wouldn't call him by his last name.

Sound familiar?

He had to carry a passbook around because Africans in their own land, in their own country, at that time, because it was a British colony, could not move about freely. They could only go where they were told to go. They could only work where they were told to work.

Yet something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, 'Ripples of hope all around the world.' Something happened when a bunch of women decided they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry, looking after somebody else's children. When men who had PhD's decided that's enough and we're going to stand up for our dignity.

That sent a shout across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son, who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world had a chance.

What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, “You know, we're battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we're not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites. So the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.

This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama.

I'm here because somebody marched. I'm here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we've got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn't cross over the river to see the Promised Land. God told him your job is done. You'll see it. You'll be at the mountain top and you can see what I've promised. What I've promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I've fulfilled that promise but you won't go there.

We're going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens. There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed. Like Moses, the task was passed on to those who might not have been as deserving, might not have been as courageous, find themselves in front of the risks that their parents and grandparents and great grandparents had taken. That doesn't mean that they don't still have a burden to shoulder, that they don't have some responsibilities. The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90% of the way there. We still got that 10% in order to cross over to the other side. So the question, I guess, that I have today is what's called of us in this Joshua generation? What do we do in order to fulfill that legacy; to fulfill the obligations and the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today?

Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back; but, there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year, we occasionally celebrate the various events of the civil rights movement, we celebrate Dr. Kings birthday but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means is an everyday activity.

Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back, but there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year. We occasionally celebrate the various events of the Civil Rights Movement, we celebrate Dr. King's birthday, but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means, is an everyday activity.

Moses told the Joshua generation; don't forget where you came from. I worry sometimes, that the Joshua generation in its success forgets where it came from. Thinks it doesn't have to make as many sacrifices. Thinks that the very height of ambition is to make as much money as you can, to drive the biggest car and have the biggest house and wear a Rolex watch and get your own private jet, get some of that Oprah money. And I think that's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with making money, but if you know your history, then you know that there is a certain poverty of ambition involved in simply striving just for money. Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence. You have to fill that with something else. You have to fill it with the golden rule. You've got to fill it with thinking about others. And if we know our history, then we will understand that that is the highest mark of service.

Second thing that the Joshua generation needs to understand is that the principles of equality that were set fort and were battled for have to be fought each and every day. It is not a one-time thing. I was remarking at the unity breakfast on the fact that the single most significant concern that this justice department under this administration has had with respect to discrimination has to do with affirmative action. That they have basically spent all their time worrying about colleges and universities around the country that are given a little break to young African Americans and Hispanics to make sure that they can go to college, too.

I had a school in southern Illinois that set up a program for PhD's in math and science for African Americans. And the reason they had set it up is because we only had less than 1% of the PhD's in science and math go to African Americans. At a time when we are competing in a global economy, when we're not competing just against folks in North Carolina or Florida or California, we're competing against folks in China and India and we need math and science majors, this university thought this might be a nice thing to do. And the justice department wrote them a letter saying we are going to threaten to sue you for reverse discrimination unless you cease this program.

And it reminds us that we still got a lot of work to do, and that the basic enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, the injustice that still exists within our criminal justice system, the disparity in terms of how people are treated in this country continues. It has gotten better. And we should never deny that it's gotten better. But we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough. That until we have absolute equality in this country in terms of people being treated on the basis of their color or their gender, that that is something that we've got to continue to work on and the Joshua generation has a significant task in making that happen.

Third thing -- we've got to recognize that we fought for civil rights, but we've still got a lot of economic rights that have to be dealt with. We've got 46 million people uninsured in this country despite spending more money on health care than any nation on earth. It makes no sense. As a consequence, we've got what's known as a health care disparity in this nation because many of the uninsured are African American or Latino. Life expectancy is lower. Almost every disease is higher within minority communities. The health care gap.

Blacks are less likely in their schools to have adequate funding. We have less-qualified teachers in those schools. We have fewer textbooks in those schools. We got in some schools rats outnumbering computers. That's called the achievement gap. You've got a health care gap and you've got an achievement gap. You've got Katrina still undone. I went down to New Orleans three weeks ago. It still looks bombed out. Still not rebuilt. When 9/11 happened, the federal government had a special program of grants to help rebuild. They waived any requirement that Manhattan would have to pay 10% of the cost of rebuilding. When Hurricane Andrew happened in Florida, 10% requirement, they waived it because they understood that some disasters are so devastating that we can't expect a community to rebuild. New Orleans -- the largest national catastrophe in our history, the federal government says where's your 10%?

There is an empathy gap. There is a gap in terms of sympathizing for the folks in New Orleans. It's not a gap that the American people felt because we saw how they responded. But somehow our government didn't respond with that same sense of compassion, with that same sense of kindness. And here is the worst part, the tragedy in New Orleans happened well before the hurricane struck because many of those communities, there were so many young men in prison, so many kids dropping out, so little hope.

A hope gap. A hope gap that still pervades too many communities all across the country and right here in Alabama. So the question is, then, what are we, the Joshua generation, doing to close those gaps? Are we doing every single thing that we can do in Congress in order to make sure that early education is adequately funded and making sure that we are raising the minimum wage so people can have dignity and respect?

Are we ensuring that, if somebody loses a job, that they're getting retrained? And that, if they've lost their health care and pension, somebody is there to help them get back on their feet? Are we making sure we're giving a second chance to those who have strayed and gone to prison but want to start a new life? Government alone can't solve all those problems, but government can help. It's the responsibility of the Joshua generation to make sure that we have a government that is as responsive as the need that exists all across America. That brings me to one other point, about the Joshua generation, and that is this -- that it's not enough just to ask what the government can do for us-- it's important for us to ask what we can do for ourselves.

One of the signature aspects of the civil rights movement was the degree of discipline and fortitude that was instilled in all the people who participated. Imagine young people, 16, 17, 20, 21, backs straight, eyes clear, suit and tie, sitting down at a lunch counter knowing somebody is going to spill milk on you but you have the discipline to understand that you are not going to retaliate because in showing the world how disciplined we were as a people, we were able to win over the conscience of the nation. I can't say for certain that we have instilled that same sense of moral clarity and purpose in this generation. Bishop, sometimes I feel like we've lost it a little bit.

I'm fighting to make sure that our schools are adequately funded all across the country. With the inequities of relying on property taxes and people who are born in wealthy districts getting better schools than folks born in poor districts and that's now how it's supposed to be. That's not the American way. but I'll tell you what -- even as I fight on behalf of more education funding, more equity, I have to also say that , if parents don't turn off the television set when the child comes home from school and make sure they sit down and do their homework and go talk to the teachers and find out how they're doing, and if we don't start instilling a sense in our young children that there is nothing to be ashamed about in educational achievement, I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was something white.

We've got to get over that mentality. That is part of what the Moses generation teaches us, not saying to ourselves we can't do something, but telling ourselves that we can achieve. We can do that. We got power in our hands. Folks are complaining about the quality of our government, I understand there's something to be complaining about. I'm in Washington. I see what's going on. I see those powers and principalities have snuck back in there, that they're writing the energy bills and the drug laws.

We understand that, but I'll tell you what. I also know that, if cousin Pookie would vote, get off the couch and register some folks and go to the polls, we might have a different kind of politics. That's what the Moses generation teaches us. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Go do some politics. Change this country! That's what we need. We have too many children in poverty in this country and everybody should be ashamed, but don't tell me it doesn't have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don't think that fatherhood ends at conception. I know something about that because my father wasn't around when I was young and I struggled.

Those of you who read my book know. I went through some difficult times. I know what it means when you don't have a strong male figure in the house, which is why the hardest thing about me being in politics sometimes is not being home as much as I'd like and I'm just blessed that I've got such a wonderful wife at home to hold things together. Don't tell me that we can't do better by our children, that we can't take more responsibility for making sure we're instilling in them the values and the ideals that the Moses generation taught us about sacrifice and dignity and honesty and hard work and discipline and self-sacrifice. That comes from us. We've got to transmit that to the next generation and I guess the point that I'm making is that the civil rights movement wasn't just a fight against the oppressor; it was also a fight against the oppressor in each of us.

Sometimes it's easy to just point at somebody else and say it's their fault, but oppression has a way of creeping into it. Reverend, it has a way of stunting yourself. You start telling yourself, Bishop, I can't do something. I can't read. I can't go to college. I can't start a business. I can't run for Congress. I can't run for the presidency. People start telling you-- you can't do something, after a while, you start believing it and part of what the civil rights movement was about was recognizing that we have to transform ourselves in order to transform the world. Mahatma Gandhi, great hero of Dr. King and the person who helped create the nonviolent movement around the world; he once said that you can't change the world if you haven't changed.

If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first and that is something that the greatest and most honorable of generations has taught us, but the final thing that I think the Moses generation teaches us is to remind ourselves that we do what we do because God is with us. You know, when Moses was first called to lead people out of the Promised Land, he said I don't think I can do it, Lord. I don't speak like Reverend Lowery. I don't feel brave and courageous and the Lord said I will be with you. Throw down that rod. Pick it back up. I'll show you what to do. The same thing happened with the Joshua generation.

Joshua said, you know, I'm scared. I'm not sure that I am up to the challenge, the Lord said to him, every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. Be strong and have courage. It's a prayer for a journey. A prayer that kept a woman in her seat when the bus driver told her to get up, a prayer that led nine children through the doors of the little rock school, a prayer that carried our brothers and sisters over a bridge right here in Selma, Alabama. Be strong and have courage.

When you see row and row of state trooper facing you, the horses and the tear gas, how else can you walk? Towards them, unarmed, unafraid. When they come start beating your friends and neighbors, how else can you simply kneel down, bow your head and ask the Lord for salvation? When you see heads gashed open and eyes burning and children lying hurt on the side of the road, when you are John Lewis and you've been beaten within an inch of your life on Sunday, how do you wake up Monday and keep on marching?

Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to travel. We traveled because God was with us. It's not how far we've come. That bridge outside was crossed by blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, teenagers and children, the beloved community of God's children, they wanted to take those steps together, but it was left to the Joshua's to finish the journey Moses had begun and today we're called to be the Joshua's of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across this river.

There will be days when the water seems wide and the journey too far, but in those moments, we must remember that throughout our history, there has been a running thread of ideals that have guided our travels and pushed us forward, even when they're just beyond our reach, liberty in the face of tyranny, opportunity where there was none and hope over the most crushing despair. Those ideals and values beckon us still and when we have our doubts and our fears, just like Joshua did, when the road looks too long and it seems like we may lose our way, remember what these people did on that bridge.

Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey, the prayer that God gave to Joshua. Be strong and have courage in the face of injustice. Be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice and hatred, in the face of joblessness and helplessness and hopelessness. Be strong and have courage, brothers and sisters, those who are gathered here today, in the face of our doubts and fears, in the face of skepticism, in the face of cynicism, in the face of a mighty river.

Be strong and have courage and let us cross over that Promised Land together. Thank you so much everybody.

God bless you."

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