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Two friends on a walk across the 2.8km long Hornibrook Bridge in Redcliff, Australia. Once home to cars, this ageing bridge is now limited to pedestrian traffic. The shot was taken with a 400mm lens on a 1.6 crop camera body, making for an actual focal length of 640mm. This focal length is great for compressing perspective and creating a unique point of view.
While waiting for the rodeo to begin I watched this man interact with the drill team. I couldn't hear the conversation, but the expressions were enough!
Walk barefoot in the grass. Challenge yourself. Take time to pet the cat. Anticipate. Cheer more loudly than anyone around you. Drink your coffee black. Forgive and forget. Always bring a jacket. Do a little everyday and accomplish big things. Lighten up. Be yourself. Dance both in the rain and in the sunshine. Find something to look forward to. Live in a place of growth. Swing higher than you ever have before. Smile at the cashier. Choose to be happy. Play in the mud. Sleep until the sunshine wakes you up. Allow the waves to knock you down every now and then. Bake some cookies. Create memories. Snuggle under the covers. Live in the moment, but live for the future. Revel in the beauty of the stars. Pray. Use more sugar than you think you need. Break your bad habits. Love everyone and everything with all you've got.
TreeOfLifeAtDAK
The Tree of Life is a sculpted 14-story (145-foot tall), 50-foot wide tree, is the centerpiece and icon in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park since it opened on April 22, 1998.
Paths known as Discovery Island Trails weave around and through this homage to nature. About 325 carved animals make up the surface of the tree and its trunk, with the Discovery Island Trails allowing guests the opportunity to explore and see them all as well as numerous animal exhibits scattered around the roots.
A theater is housed in the Tree of Life root system where the It's Tough to be a Bug! show is performed. This 8-minute, 3D movie and multimedia show features Flik, everybody's favorite ant, and his grasshopper friend, Hopper, from the Disney Pixar film A Bug's Life—along with a supporting cast of insects and arachnids who provide a surprising look into the animal kingdom.
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
from up and down, and still somehow
it's cloud illusions I recall.
I really don't know clouds at all.
Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way that you feel
as every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go
and if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
I've looked at love from both sides now,
from give and take, and still somehow
it's love's illusions that I recall.
I really don't know love at all.
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say "I love you" right out loud,
dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say
I've changed.
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.
I've looked at life from both sides now,
from win and lose, and still somehow
it's life's illusions I recall.
I really don't know life at all.
Joni Mitchell 1969
Cambierò per me, cambierò per te,
sono rimasta in letargo troppo tempo,
nuove primavere di vita mi attendono,
voglio prenderle a piene mani,
senza voltarmi indietro,
voglio vivere questo amore che
riempie i vuoti della mia anima,
con tutte le mie forze,
il mio cuore sta rinascendo....
E' primavera,
la primavera del cuore....!