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Side wall of a timeworn corner building in Fultonville, N.Y. We can only guess why the third upper window was bricked over, but whoever did the work did a nice job of it. I wonder also if the door was enlarged from a window, given its symmetry with the other windows.
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Spirals have no end. Our galaxy is a spiral. Love is a spiral.
Long exposure shot while I was walking by night towards
Santiago de Compostela... It was the last day before we
reached the magic city. I'll never forget that moment.
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Life is a Spiral
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
We are together
Everywhere it takes us
Getting better and better
As we come across
Life is never easy
In its way and go
Sometimes too much breezy
On its day and show
We are here for life
Trying our heart out
How much is there to strife
As we go here about
Dreams are on their wings
Flowing thru the air
As the wind in leaves sings
Through these days everywhere
Life is a spiral
Through the lights of turning
Keeping the essence adaptable
Forever on its roads burning
You and I to find
All our errors and trials
Leaving closed doors behind
In their blocked up denials
Every road is a spiral
Catching a day unknown
What we dream is achievable
Waiting for us at the horizon
We are together
Everywhere it takes us
Getting better and better
As we come across
Life is never easy
In its way and go
Sometimes too much breezy
On its day and show
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The dreaded virus has certainly put paid to Model Railway exhibitions for the foreseeable future. When crowds of pensioners will be allowed to gather in church halls and exhibition venues again is anyone’s guess.
Having been denied a number of shows, this week end I assembled my exhibition “train set” and was pleased to find that after several months of inaction both it, and even my camera, still worked.
30585 appears ready to leave Corwenna Clay works with the daily goods.
This great Building's suffered some "Body Blows" lately.
RIVER CITY was 1st created as affordable Rentals, with a Marina, Grocery Store, Dry Cleaner, a GYM and other tenant amenities.
My mother lived there in the '80's and still raves about the "light" in her lovely Studio Apartment overlooking the Chicago River.
After going Condo some years ago- major Condo-Board-Infighting-led to inaction to repair lots of Concrete Damage, that later led to Rain penetrating some Multi-Level Condo's owned by (ex) Condo Board members.
Lawsuits soon followed.
MAXIMUM Dysfunction followed
up until-
GOLUB Real Estate Bought-Out
all the Condo Owners to turn back into Rentals.
Various issues- big and small occurred.
Now- it sits EMPTY- because of HIGH RIVER LEVELS and Flooding into the Basement leading to loss of Power.
Betrand Goldberg- designed this- he was a disciple of
legendary Architect Mies Van der Rohe.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
I officially became a college student this month, after taking a break for several years. This time, the goal is to enrich my writing skills and confidence as a writer and earn my English degree with a concentration in Creative Writing.
I have been scared to take the first step in becoming who I always dreamed I could be, a writer. For the past few years, it is as though I have been sitting in an abyss of darkness, terrified that the sunlight will burn my skin and leach me of my dreams, robbing my soul along with it. Sitting in the depths of the shadow lands, my soul cries out, bleeding tears of sorrow for the many wrong paths I have taken that have left me lost and confused. My eyes search for those I have sacrificed my dreams for, wondering why I would have ever paid such a price to just remain with broken dreams.
I am now listening to God's voice, reassuring and guiding me to venture out of the cave of darkness and dance in the light of His promises. He has shown me I am far more than I can fathom because I have been deluded, seeing myself using eyes that have been shielded by standing in my own shadow. Although it is easier to blame our troubles on the hardships that the world throws in our path, it is often our own selves that stand in the way of our dreams and Promised Land, and until we take responsibility for our own actions or inaction, our world will remain unchanged.
As I stand at the opening of the cave, some days my eyes still ache from the intense rays of the sunlight and I ache for the security of my hiding place, but I realize how much I need to keep moving forward towards God's voice... towards the person He intended me to become.
One step. One class. One dream.
The journey is long and mostly uphill from where I stand, but I know that unless I fight for who I should be, I will remain only a silhouette of a dream.
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Model: Natalia & Julia
Location: St.Albert
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I've really got to get the bottle-babies (Benjamin, Marvin, Naomi & Seven) out of the house and living outside, but they cry & cry when I leave them alone and I'm too much of a softie. I always give in and let them back into the house. The other problem is, they're still small enough to squeeze through the gate down at the barn, so even when I try to leave them there with the other goats, within a few minutes, they're through the gate and at my backdoor begging to be let inside.
So for now, I take them outside a few times a day to play, and to get used to being with other goats. So far it's not really working - they run away from the other goats and only want to be with me. If they keep thinking that they're human, I guess I'm going to have to see about enrolling them in kindergarten next year!
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
the reign of new Emperor who succeeded to Alexander I started from armed insurrection of group of aristocrats which later was called "decabrists" (Decembrist revolt). Their loyal troops, after a long period of inaction and negotiation, were destroyed in Senate Square, where the statue of the victor is looking
01-O gato devolve ao homem a exata medida da relação que dele parte. Sábio, é espelho. O gato é zen. O gato é Tao. Ele conhece o segredo da não-ação que não é inação. Nada pede a quem não o quer.
02-The cat returns to man the exact measure of the relationship part of it. Wise is the mirror. The cat is Zen. The cat is Tao. He knows the secret of non-action is not inaction. Nothing asks those who do not want.
Autor: Artur da Távola
O, do not look up
into the air,
you who are occupied
in the bewildering
sand-heap maze
of present-day endeavour;
you will be, not so much frightened
as paralysed with inaction,
and anyhow,
we have not crawled so very far
up our individual grass-blade
toward our individual star.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) from Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall
I call this series of images, "The One That Slipped Away." I think we can all relate to the sentiment of losing something or someone due to our own inaction or otherwise flawed attempts. If you look closely, you can see the fish spiraling in the splash of water behind the juvenile bald eagle as it escaped the eagle's talons just after he/she attempted to snatch it from the lake. I could almost register the eagle's eyes reflecting this knowledge as it realized what had happened. Better luck next time! Taken at Goldwater Lake a couple weeks ago.
Teresa Cardace on stage on February 4, 2023 in Trikala, Greece. The famous soprano sings during a concert paying homage to Maria Callas.
Feliz Navidad!
Merry Christmas!
Craciun Fericit!
Buon Natale!
Feliz Natal!
Frohe Weihnachten!
Joyeux Noël!
...to all my friends....
Gracias a todos por los amables comentarios, mi amig@s!
Thank you for all your kind comments, my friends!
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To him the world is his to do what he pleases. He is a dangerous egomaniac. The frustrating thing is that there are constitutional ways to constrain him or even remove him from power and the federal government refuses to do so. In the meantime, the world suffers. His actions and the inaction on the part of the federal government will be remembered.
632. Man must fight against darkness by the side of light, since being in alliance with light is being in alliance with Himself.
633. The fight against darkness manifesting in the world is essential. But my foremost duty is the battle against the darkness in my very own soul.
634. The battle against darkness must be omnidimensional.
635. All things that are light-like are in solidarity with one another.
636. In the highest sense of actionality, action and inaction, doing and non-doing (Chinese wei wu wei) coincide with one another: this is when non-doing becomes an act, and doing takes its place in the calm manner of non-doing.
637. (Mors triumphalis) Triumphal death on the battlefield means victory over death, for though I could not conquer the enemy, I triumphed over death - externally I went under death, internally however I won and ascended triumphally.
638. From a traditional perspective, offensive war is considered to be more appropriate than defensive war, viz. the latter acts under coercion.
639. Each heroically orientated man is ab ovo pacific (but not a pacifist): he is not only inclined to establish peace, but has the capability to accomplish it - and he does so.
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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László
While deploring the dramatic impact of rapid climate change on sea levels, extreme weather events, deteriorating ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity, the Church is also witness to how climate change is affecting vulnerable communities and peoples, greatly to their disadvantage. Pope Francis draws our attention to the irreparable impact of unrestrained climate change in many developing countries across the world. Moreover, in his address to the United Nations the Pope said the misuse and destruction of the environment are also accompanied by a relentless process of exclusion.The building and maintenance of a sustainable common home requires courageous and imaginative political leadership. Legal frameworks are required which clearly establish boundaries and ensure the protection of the ecosystem.Reliable scientific evidence suggests that accelerated climate change is the result of
unrestrained human activity, working to a particular model of progress and development,and that excessive reliance on fossil fuels is primarily responsible. The Pope and Catholic
Bishops from five continents, sensitive to the damage caused, appeal for a drastic reductionin the emission of carbon dioxide and other toxic gases.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE FROM BANGUI While Pope Francis has expressed hope that world leaders meeting in Paris for discussions on confronting climate change will find solutions to the problem, he has also said the inaction on the issue up to now is approaching global suicide."Every year, the problems are more grave," the pontiff told the press Monday, adding that politicians have so far "done little" to address the situation.Recounting a meeting he had participated in that focused on what kind of world we are leaving our children, the pope said someone there had asked: "But are you sure that there will be children of this generation?But he added: "I am sure that almost all who are in Paris … have this awareness and want to do something.". Buy it today!"I have trust; I have trust that these [leaders] will do something," the pope continued. "Because I would say I am sure they have the good will to do it. And I wish that it will be so, and I pray for this."
Francis was speaking Monday in a nearly hour-long press conference aboard the papal plane traveling back to Rome from Africa, where the pope visited Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Republic from Nov. 25-30.The pope was answering a question about the ongoing U.N. Climate Conference, which is bringing together hundreds of world leaders in Paris through early December to discuss solutions to climate change.During the press conference, the pontiff spoke on a wide range of topics -- giving some of his most memorable moments of his Africa tour, speaking about the role of journalism in uncovering corruption, and revealing more details about his expected trip to Mexico in February.
Francis also faced a question about the church's teaching prohibiting use of artificial contraception from a journalist who asked if the church should consider changing its stance on the issue -- particularly on the use of condoms -- given the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa."The question seems too small to me," the pontiff responded. "It seems to me also like a partial question.""The morality of the church is found on this point, I think, in front of a perplexity," he said. "Fifth or Sixth commandment? Defend life, or that sexual relations be open to life? This is not the problem. The problem is bigger.""This question makes me think of what they asked Jesus one time: 'Tell me, master, is it licit to heal on the Sabbath?'" Francis continued."Malnutrition, exploitation of persons, slave work, lack of drinking water," he said. "These are the problems.""I do not like to descend into reflections that are so casuistic when people are dying," he continued. "I would say to not think if it is licit or not licit to heal on the Sabbath. I say to humanity: Make justice, and when all are healed, when there is not injustice in this world, we can speak of the Sabbath."Francis also spoke out strongly again against religious fundamentalism, saying that fundamentalism exists in all religions and should be combatted with efforts at friendship. He said he prefers not to speak of having tolerance for other religious, but "living together,friendship.""Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions," said the pontiff. "We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe in the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil.""They do evil," said the pope. "I say this because it is my church.""We have to combat it," he said. "Religious fundamentalism is not religious, because it lacks God. It is idolatry, like the idolatry of money."On a similar line, Francis also defended Islam, saying that Muslims have many constructive values."I even have the experience of friendship -- it is a strong word, friendship -- with a Muslim," said the pontiff. "We can speak. His values are mine. He prays. I pray.""You cannot cancel out a religion because there are some groups, or many groups in a certain point of history, of fundamentalists," said the pope, adding that Christians have to ask forgiveness for the many times wars have been perpetrated in the name of their faith."Like everything, there are religious people with values and those without," he said. "But how many wars … have Christians made? The sacking of Rome was not done by Muslims, eh?"In summarizing the most moving moments of his trip to Africa -- which saw the pontiff visit slums and refugee camps, celebrate several open-air Masses to crowds in the hundreds of thousands, and speak to the U.N. offices in Nairobi -- Francis spoke most about the suffering faced by many on the continent.But he has also emphasized the kind and joyous welcome he felt in each of the three nations he visited."For me, Africa was a surprise," said the pope. "I thought God surprises, but Africa also surprises.""They have a very great sense of welcoming," he said. "I saw in the three countries that they have this sense of welcoming because they feel happy to be visited."Speaking of his feelings after visiting Nairobi's Kangemi slum, which has little to no infrastructure and houses about 100,000 people in makeshift shacks on the city's outskirts, Francis said he felt a "great pain" in being there.He also spoke about visiting a children's hospital in the Central African Republic, where a doctor told him they do not have tools and instruments necessary to care for their patients."There are many malnourished children, many," Francis said. "And the doctor said that most of them will die because they have strong malaria and are malnourished."He then spoke again about his frequent exhortation against the "idolatry of money.""Idolatry is when a man, a woman loses their identity card of being a child of God and prefers to look for a God of their own measure," said the pontiff. "If humanity doesn't change, miseries, tragedies, wars, the children that die of hunger, of injustice, will continue.""This is not communism," he said. "This is truth. The truth, it is not easy to see it."Francis also said that Africa has been abused by many countries of the world."Africa is a victim; Africa was always exploited by other powers," said the pope. "There are powers that only search to take the great riches of Africa -- it is perhaps the richest continent -- but do not think of helping the continent grow.""Africa is a martyr, a martyr of exploitation throughout history," he said.Asked about the role of journalism in confronting corruption in government, and even at the Vatican, Francis said journalists must be professional and avoid three particular sins."It is important they be truly professional, that news does not come to be manipulated," said the pope. "For me it is important because the denouncing of injustice, of corruption is a good work."The three sins he said journalists should avoid are disinformation, calumny, and defamation.Regarding his expected trip to Mexico in February, Francis said he plans to visit three or four cities and that the main criteria of the voyage is to visit cities never before visited by popes.He said he will go to Mexico City to visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe; to the southern state of Chiapas on the Guatemalan border; and to Morelia, a city in the center of the country that has experienced much drug violence.The pope also said he is "quasi-sure" that the last city on the trip will be Ciudad Juarez on the U.S. border.Asked if he might make another trip to Africa, Francis laughed."I don't know," he said. "I am old! The trips are a heavy weight."Pope Franics COP21Climate change.
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"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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day 315...Joel bought me flowers...gerbera daisies, one of my favorites......the battery (and spare) is dead in my A700 (Alice) due to my own actions (and inactions), so this is the first real shot I have taken with the A100 (Penny) since I got Alice...I sort of forgot how to use Penny...I have had a headache for 2 days now...the weather is changing, and that makes me sad...soon the leaves will start to fall and the deep freeze will begin...I have been here too long...
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Location: Edmonton
Model: Isabella
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
-- Leonardo da Vinci (Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Soon the bees will be gone if we don't help them!!!! Plant flowers and herbs that provide them nectar.
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“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
-Meister Eckhart
“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”
-Meister Eckhart
-“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
- Meister Eckhart
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
-Meister Eckhart
Nala trying to get to a friend in tree, who is about 6.5ft off ground
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Therion -- Birth of Venus
Francesca Campanella in ocncert on February 4, 2023 in Trikala, Greece. The on-stage soprano sings âCasta Divaâ (from Bellini's opera âNormaâ).
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