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At a protestation on the front lawn of the Parliament Building in Ottawa Ontario Canada for the treatment and murders of countless indigenous children in the residencial school system run by the catholic church... What a shame... Its beyong words what the church did. no amount of apologies or money will repair what they did. All religions are scams for money and power. How many more has to die and suffer in the name of a god...
"We need LEADERS
NOT in love with MONEY
BUT in love with JUSTICE.
NOT in love with PUBLICITY
but IN LOVE
with
HUMANITY."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Artwork of MLK by Rick Frausto (rickfrausto.com/products/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-drawing).
What Black Lives Matter Means (and Why It's Problematic to Say "All Lives Matter")
Saying that black lives matter doesn't mean that other lives do not.
BY LIZZ SCHUMER
Jun 4, 2020
What Does Black Lives Matter Mean?
Black Lives Matter is an anthem, a slogan, a hashtag, and a straightforward statement of fact. While it is not a new movement, the message is central to the nationwide protests happening right now. BLM speaks out against the police brutality and systemic racism that caused the recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and Breonna Taylor, as well as the thousands of violent incidents that happen to Black people that aren’t recorded, aren’t reported or aren’t afforded the outrage they deserve. At its most basic level, it calls for a shift in the statistics that Black people are twice as likely to be killed by a police officer while unarmed, compared to a white individual. According to a 2015 study, African Americans died at the hands of police at a rate of 7.2 per million, while whites were killed at a rate of 2.9 per million.
Read the full ARTICLE: www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a32745051/what-black-lives-...
Nichelle Nichols was counseled by Martin Luther King Jr., not to quit Star Trek when she disclosed to him that she was contemplating leaving. www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942461/Star-Treks-Uhura-Reflect...
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura ushered in Star Trek from Desilu Studios that began the enormous Star Trek Chain of creator Gene Rodenberry. Nichelle is repainted and restyled by Noel Cruz of ncruz.com for myfarrah.com. Manicured french tip hands by Pure Icon Paris www.ebay.com/usr/pure-icon-paris. For more about Nichelle Nichols visit her web site uhura.com/
and on IMDB: www.imdb.com/name/nm0629667/. Photo/Graphic Layout & web sites 1sixth.co, 1sixthworld.com, ncruz.com & myfarrah.com by www.stevemckinnis.com.
Today is the sesquicentennial of the signing of The Metre Convention by seventeen nations.
A metre matters. That little sentence is a handy reminder to not run down cyclists. Sadly, it originated from the death of Amy Gillett in a training accident. As part of the Australian women's cycling team, training for the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, she died as a consequence of a vehicle crashing into the training squad.
For the rest of us, metrication have been of lesser consequence — it's not life and death. Of those seventeen original signatories, only one has not implemented the system of weights and measures that are the most visible elements of the convention.
Unremarkably, today is also World Metrology Day. This rushed snapshot of one of my handy measuring tools is a placeholder to celebrate the importance of measurement in our modern world.
This is what the Devil's Fingers Fungus (Clathrus archeri) looks like before it 'hatches' from its 'egg' - the resemblance to the folds of a human cerebrum is very spooky indeed : )
(fragment of a diary found on the southern slope of Mount Etna, Year 2193)
They say the world has ended.
That the surface is just a carbonized memory
of what once was.
And yet, beneath every step,
the earth still trembles.
It no longer speaks to humans —
it doesn’t need to.
It has learned to exist alone,
to expand in silence,
to become memory.
He stands still, on the ridge.
He seeks nothing.
He lets himself be crossed.
Here, time stretches.
Becomes a crack. A breath. A pause.
And maybe this
is what remains after every civilization:
a man listening,
a mountain breathing,
a silence too alive
to be called emptiness.
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Materia che respira
(frammento di diario trovato sul versante sud dell’Etna, Anno 2193)
Dicono che il mondo sia finito.
Che la superficie sia solo un ricordo carbonizzato
di ciò che fu.
Eppure, sotto ogni passo,
la terra vibra.
Non parla più agli umani —
non ne ha bisogno.
Ha imparato a esistere da sola,
a espandersi in silenzio,
a farsi memoria.
Lui è fermo, sul crinale.
Non cerca nulla.
Si lascia attraversare.
Qui il tempo si dilata.
Si fa crepa. Respiro. Attesa.
E forse è questo
che resta alla fine di ogni civiltà:
un uomo in ascolto,
una montagna che respira,
un silenzio troppo vivo
per essere chiamato vuoto.
I’ve been watching “Fisk”, an terrific Australian TV series, where coffee is super important to their work day. I can take it or leave it, even though my workplace has wonderful coffee machines. I cycle through the options - coffee, tea, herbal tea, hot chocolate, water.
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I will catch up on all of your fantastic photos soon..went straight from work to support the rights of those who are transgendered and continue to be oppressed . A parent recently asked me what I thought about those who are transgendered and I explained to her that I've known Kindergarteners who felt like they were in the wrong body...if a child of 5 or 6 can feel so strongly about this...well, you know all of this legislation comes from a place of not only pure hate but pure ignorance.
Trans Lives Matter is not just about bathrooms, though that legislation is also filled with hate and ignorance. But, Trans Lives Matter goes beyond that into providing a healthy society and supports for those who want to indeed be productive members of society-who have the right to be loved and respected. This world is big enough to welcome everyone. It's shameful that Trump has persecuted everyone but himself and his rich white friends. He doesn't have a clue what it might be like to be a decent human being.
Took some size comparison pics for a friend of me and Flora so she'd get a bit better grip on the MSD size.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most: Buda
...
Cada mañana nacemos de nuevo. Lo que hacemos hoy es lo que más importa
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
Franz Marc
Read more at www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/sensual.html#dkAzgGAt...
Kennebunkport, ME. Not a political statement or disrespect. Simply the way my eye sees often via happenstance.
Dar Mlodziezy (1982), 94 meter and Helena (1875), 40 meter.
Delfsail 2024, Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
No matter where our trails will finally wind
Our paths will just keep crossing yours and mine
Until then in my pocket you must go
I’ll take you with me everywhere I go
Canon AE-1P
28mm
Ilford FP4+
Developed in Rodinal
I am a firm believer that it's not the gear that matters more but rather one's creative vision. However, sometimes, special tools offer the visionary photographer more creative possibilities. And here's one of those situations wherein I used the TILT function of my TS-E lens to move the plane of focus away from the subject plane. How I wished the clouds moved a little bit faster on that evening but weather is something that is beyond our control.
Have a nice Sunday to all!
Canon EOS 5D Mark III ı Canon TS-E24mm f/3.5L II ı 24mm ı 10s ı f/3.5 ı ISO 100
Explore no. 197, 28 April 2013