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Today's photo - "We Stand with Orlando"
In the only way I know how, this photograph represents how I feel about the tragic events that unfolded on this day in Orlando. 50 Souls lost their lives. 50 young souls who had so much more life and gifts to offer the world were silenced in the most horrific way; all because of hate.
Let there peace in America and around the world. Let us stop killing, stop hating, stop misunderstanding each other. Let's educate ourselves and become tolerant of each others views, beliefs, preferences, faith, and just love one another. We're human in the end no matter what. Just Love. Peace and Love - it goes a long way.
Cheers.
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever"
Do not make things too easy.
There are rocks and abysses in the mind
"As well as meadows.
There are things knotty and hard: intractable.
Do not talk to me of love and understanding.
I am sick of blandishments.
I want the rock to be met by a rock.
If I am vile, and behave hideously,
Do not tell me it was just a misunderstanding."
By Martha Baird
1921–1981
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing herself. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style.
ready to go
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Apparently, it was all a ghastly misunderstanding. Sir George Everest, the Surveyor General of India, would never have recognised the pronunciation "Evérest" that people use nowadays - something like 'eave-rest' was the correct pronunciation, it seems. Alas, too late to fix things now though, I guess....
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order wife using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing herself. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
the journey is long and includes various stops
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Christian Movie Trailer "The People of the Heavenly Kingdom" | How to Enter the Kingdom of Heaven www.holyspiritspeaks.org/special-topic/people-of-the-heav...
Synopsis:
The Lord Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3). The Lord Jesus told us that only honest people can enter the kingdom of heaven; only honest people can be people of the kingdom. This movie tells the story of the Christian Cheng Nuo's experience of God's work and the course of her pursuit to become an honest person in life.
Cheng Nuo used to be a doctor. Even after believing in God, when she encounters things that impinge on her own interest and face in her day-to-day life, she still can't help but lie and deceive. In the face of trials and tribulations she even develops misunderstandings and gripes about God, but through seeking the truth time after time and undergoing the judgment and chastisement of God's words, she gains an understanding of the root of her dishonesty and her selfish, slippery satanic nature. She begins to focus on pursuing the truth to resolve her tendency to lie and the dishonesty in her heart. Later when she is arrested by the Chinese Communist Party government while performing her duty and suffers devastating torture, she is ready to die before telling a lie and refuses to deny God. She bears a beautiful, resounding witness for God. Cheng Nuo is able to gradually become an honest person, and truly love and obey God. So what really is her story?
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One of Machu Pichu's highlights is the supposed Sun Temple/Royal Tomb with openings catching equinox sun-shafts. And we note how well the hand-crafted andesite has been skillfully integrated with the native rock face.
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Machu Pichu Sun Temple, Peruvian Andes. The well-known Incan empire was only a brief climax of many cultures of evolving civilization. It lasted little over 100 years before being destroyed by the greed of the conquistador pirates. Over more than two-thousand years, in Ecuador to the north, down the dry Peruvian coast, and at high-altitude in alpine niches, societies had survived and grown, producing many of the vegetables we now take for-granted, superb pottery and weaving, and utterly remarkable stone-crafted architecture and citadels. However, these peoples did not have written languages as such, and this may have led to much subsequent misunderstanding. A series of books is still being produced of imaginitus-fabrication for profit-publishing (aliens, chemical stone-moulding, etc). Ignore this nonsense, the reality is so much greater.
The wonderful siting of suspended Machu Pichu is well known. And one of its built high-lights is the Sun Temple with openings catching equinox sun-shafts. Beneath, we see the so-called Royal Tomb. The steps are said to represent the three levels of existence in Incan mythology -- the snake (underworld), the puma (present), and condor (celestial world). And we note how well the hand-crafted andesite has been skilfully integrated with the native rock face..
Pachamama: Mother earth.
« Et nous… On n’a pas le droit d’être pris en photo ? » C’est en ces termes que le jeune homme au premier plan m’a interpellé. Rien d’agressif dans son propos, juste l’envie sincère d’être photographié avec ses copains. Comme on n’est jamais trop prudent, j’ai bien précisé que ce serait un plaisir de leur tirer le portrait, mais qu’il n’était pas question qu’ils me demandent de l’argent, une fois la photos prise. Une pratique très répandue à Madagascar qu’il vaut mieux connaître pour éviter tout malentendu. Il a aussi fallu préciser que s’ils prenaient la pose dans des attitudes de rappeurs, la photo serait effacée sur le champ. Ces préalables posés, on a pu passer à la prise de vue. On ne peut pas franchement parler d’un « instantané ». Il faut savoir que ces photos de groupes plus ou moins imposées donnent rarement des scènes intéressantes.
Là, j’ai conservé l’image car le groupe de copains était sympathique et surtout en raison de l’œil amusé du personnage principal.
The laughing eye
“And we… We’re not allowed to have our photo taken? » It is in these terms that the young man in the foreground called out to me. Nothing aggressive in his words, just the sincere desire to be photographed with his friends. As one can never be too careful, I made it clear that it would be a pleasure to take their portrait, but that there was no question of them asking me for money once the photos were taken. A very widespread practice in Madagascar that it is better to know to avoid any misunderstanding. It also had to be clarified that if they posed in rapper attitudes, the photo would be deleted immediately. These prerequisites established, we were able to move on to shooting.
You should know that these more or less imposed group photos rarely give interesting scenes.
There, I kept the image because the group of friends was friendly and especially because of the amused look of the main character.
The Boss has asked me
to reveal
a timely tip or two
On Blackouts
with this message
which I bring
from him
to YOU
The cover, first of four images scanned from a really neat, fold-out, Holiday season pamphlet from WWII. It advises those on the homefront how to behave during blackouts and enemy attacks. And to better avoid any misunderstandings, it uses the universal language of pinup girls!
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing herself. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
Amedeo committed and dreamy at his work
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Mother Ivey’s Bay takes its name from the legend of Mother Ivy who was a local white witch who cursed a local family. It lies just around the coast from Harlyn Bay, cushioned from the wind by the Merope Rocks.
Mother Ivey was a white witch living at the back of Trevose Head, the other side of the headland to Harlyn Bay. A vocal member of the community, Ivey tried to sort out any trails or misunderstandings as best she could. She used her charms and spells for righting harm and wrongs and was very seldom angry. One man who lived in Harlyn tried Mother Ivey’s kindness. Bad idea to try a witch, even a white one.
In those days Harlyn's wealth was in silver, the silver of pilchards caught and salted and sent to Italy for Catholic folk to eat on fish Fridays and in Lent. The silver lined the cellars of the fish merchant, but when the fish went to Italy it didn't fill the bellies of the Cornish fishermens' families.
A fish merchant lived at a house called The Fish Cellars, still there at Harlyn Bay today, and he had a very successful business selling pilchards. His house had a motto carved into the granite lintel over the door, it said, ‘Profit smells sweet’. In contrast to the success and profit made at the fish cellars, the villagers were starving.
One week, a ship carrying a large cargo of pilchards was returned from Italy unsold. Every villager came to see the ship in, hopeful their bellies would soon be filled. The Fish Merchant took the fish off the ship and up the hill to his farm. Mother Ivey pleaded with him to allow the villagers to eat the fish as it was still good enough to eat even though it could not be sold.
Instead, the fish were ploughed into a field as fertilizer. Mother Ivey was very angry, the people she spent her years helping were in desperate need of the food that had just been denied them. She went to the Fish Cellars and cursed the merchant's field:
"Break the soil, Death will follow,”
And it did. The next year, the merchant ploughed the field and planted corn. A few weeks later his eldest son was out riding his horse, when he fell off and was killed. Profit smelled sour. No one has taken a spade or a plough to the field since, for fear of what may happen. The field lays fallow to this day.
But Mother Ivey's kindness lives on as well as her curse, kindness in the hearts of the lifeboat men stationed at Mother Ivey's bay, willing to risk their lives to save their fellow men from the silvery sea.
retold by Anna Chorlton and Sue Field
Looking close on Friday theme: Seeds
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
Io, loro e Lara is a 2010 film directed by and starring Carlo Verdone.
The film was dedicated to Verdone's father, Mario, who died during
the making of the film.
Plot: Carlo Mascolo is a priest on a mission in Africa. Following a profound spiritual crisis, the priest decides to return to Rome, where the rest of his family lives, with the idea of taking a break to reflect and find clarity within himself.
However, when Carlo arrives home, he is overwhelmed by his family's problems: his elderly father Alberto has married the young Moldovan caregiver Olga, much to the disappointment of his siblings Luigi and Beatrice, who fear for their inheritance. Carlo also has doubts about his parent's choice, but everything changes with the sudden death of his stepmother.
The situation takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of Lara, the deceased's daughter: Alberto—now a widower and desperate—orders the girl to live in the family home for a while, where she cohabits with the priest. Initially, a good relationship develops between the two, but it strains when Carlo discovers that the young woman is leading a double life. But it's only the beginning of a long series of misunderstandings...
The priest, reconciled with his family and his faith, returns to Africa.
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Mercury retrograde came to an end yesterday (August 1st), a phase which began back on July 7. During this time you may have faced communication-related challenges including network outages, problems with cell phones, email, computers and the like. Water and electricity are often involved; broken water lines or water somehow escaping its normal channels and problems with electrical equipment and grids. Mechanical problems are common, cars in particular but just about anything can break or fail during the retrograde. Any purchases made during the retrograde are likely to be either flawed or misguided. Often occasioned with weird things that never happen, or the cascading effect when one small problem triggers others. Even interpersonal communications are not immune, and people often tend to bicker over misunderstandings and statements taken the wrong way. Careless mistakes abound, and (worrisome) they are often not revealed until after the retrograde concludes. So often I think I've escaped a retrograde phase unscathed only to discover a screwup (on my part or that of someone else) days later. It's like waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop and this always concerns me. If that shoe will drop on you, it likely already has or will be over the next two weeks as we exit the shadow of Mercury. We're all clear around August 17th. Having said all of this you might get the idea that Mercury retrograde is bad. I've learned the best way to survive it is not to fight it. Use these times for planning and reviewing. Also a great time to look back. Old friends and acquaintances often pop back into your life during a retrograde. Retrogrades can be magical times for artists and creative endeavors are favored as you might see things in a new light.
This retrograde led me back to some old photo folders that I was backing up. There I came across this striking portrait from a session I did with Jill last October. Somehow this one escaped my notice until just yesterday. Even the outtakes from this session are several levels beyond what I am normally capable of producing. I'm mesmerized by her gaze in this portrait as it seems to look right through me.
Most of Problems of the World stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstanding. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of Love, language, as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through Silence.
Kristiansand was attacked by German naval forces and the Luftwaffe during the Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940. The naval forces met fierce resistance from Norwegian coastal artillery at Odderøya. Bombs and grenades also hit the downtown and the 70 meter high church tower of the Kristiansand Cathedral was hit by accident. The third attack attempt on the city succeeded because a signal flag was confused with a French national flag and the misunderstanding was not discovered until it was too late. The city was occupied by a force of 800 men
La casa de Castril es un palacio renacentista ubicado en la ciudad española de Granada, comunidad autónoma de Andalucía; en ella se encuentra actualmente el Museo Arqueológico de Granada.
La casa se halla enclavada en la carrera del Darro, en el antiguo barrio árabe de Ajsaris, sede a partir del siglo XVI de parte de la nobleza granadina, como muestran sus construcciones blasonadas. La Casa de Castril es uno de los mejores ejemplos de palacios renacentistas de Granada y perteneció a la familia de Hernando de Zafra, secretario de los Reyes Católicos que participó activamente en la reconquista de la ciudad a los musulmanes y en sus Capitulaciones. En lo alto de la fachada está grabada la fecha de su construcción: 1539. Esta obra ha sido atribuida a Sebastián de Alcántara, uno de los más destacados discípulos de Diego de Siloé. En 1917 se adquirió la Casa del Castril a los herederos del insigne arabista Leopoldo Eguílaz y Yanguas para ubicar definitivamente el citado Museo.
Además, sobre el edificio recae una vieja leyenda, de cuando era habitado en época árabe, la cual se refiere a una misteriosa dama de blanco que se aparece de vez en cuando, fruto de un desencuentro entre el padre de una bella muchacha que habitaba el edificio y su supuesto amante, que desencadenaron la furia del padre y posteriormente su ahorcamiento y emparedamiento en el balcón lateral del edificio. Sobre este balcón ciego se puede leer una consigna que dice: "Esperando la del cielo", lo que podría referirse a "esperando la justicia del cielo", que probablemente tuviese relación con las palabras que el supuesto amante pronunció antes de ser ahorcado.
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rinconesdegranada.com/casa-de-castril
The Castril palace (also House of Castril) is a Renaissance style palace located in Sacromonte, a district of the Spanish city of Granada. Nowadays it hosts the Archaeological Museum of Granada.
The house is nailed in the Race of the Darro, in the old Arab district of Ajsaris, seat of 16th century's granadine nobility. The palace is one of the best Renaissance palaces of Granada and belonged to the family of Hernando de Zafra, secretary of Catholic monarchs who participated actively in reconquering it from the Muslim hands during the Reconquista.
At the top of the facade the date of its foundation is recorded: 1539. This work has been attributed to Sebastián de Alcántara, one of the most outstanding disciples of Diego de Siloé. In 1917, the Castril palace was acquired by arabist and orientalist Leopoldo Eguílaz y Yanguas to make it a definitive location of the Archaeological Museum of Granada.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castril_Palace
There is also an old legend about the building, dating back to the time when it was inhabited in Arab times, which refers to a mysterious lady in white who appears from time to time, the result of a misunderstanding between the father of a beautiful girl who lived in the building and her supposed lover, which triggered the father's fury and subsequently led to her hanging and walling herself up on the side balcony of the building. On this blind balcony one can read a slogan that reads: "Waiting for heaven's justice", which could refer to "waiting for heaven's justice", probably related to the words that the supposed lover uttered before being hanged.
This image has been reposted after it was taken down due to a misunderstanding.
The BR green liveried Riddles designed '2MT' 2-6-0 no.78022 is decked out in tinsel as she brings the 10:50 Keighley-Oxenhope "Elf Express" train under the old bridge at Haworth Loop. The Bridgehouse Beck can be seen in full spate.
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing her identity. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
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“It is a misunderstanding to assert that freedom is merely the capacity to do this or that, as if one decision has no bearing on the second decision. . . . Freedom is the capacity to do something definitive. Every act of freedom makes the achievement of one’s life ever more final. Freedom is the capacity to achieve one’s own self.”
-Karl Rahner
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing her identity. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
we are close to arriving
life scenes
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
The Ice Caves of the Apostle Islands.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), Western sky, Upper Peninsula, Michigan - October 17 2024
-notes-
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Carl Sagan
...or just enjoy some sparkly space dust, maybe. It was a struggle to see so I'm glad I caught a glimpse - who knows where I'll be 80,000 years from now when it comes back around?
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing her identity. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
finally everything is clarified, Amedeo explains to Carmela that Giuseppe was just a screen, and so now they will arrive at the house
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The Netherlands and Great Britain are separated by a small sea. Geographically both are small countries who have punched above their weight, historically, due to their Navy’s. From a farming point of view you put sheep on hills and cattle on flat land, where they are less likely to break legs! So the wool trade between the two Nations became very lucrative. This led to Merchants relocating across the water. Veere, is a port town in the Netherlands that still has links with Scotland. Evidence of merchants moving the other way include, James Bond Author, Ian Fleming’s surname. Anyone with this surname are likely to have ancestors who were Flemings/Flemish-from Flanders. Dutch engineers helped drain the land in the East of England and due to the wealth of the wool trade, Norwich was once Britains biggest city.
However, when your neighbours become your economic rivals you make up stories about them. This has led to a few idioms that include the word “Dutch.” To go Dutch on a dinner date shows miserliness as both parties pay a share of the bill. Dutch courage implies that Dutch people are cowards, needing an alcoholic beverage to give them courage to fight! English and Fries are similar languages. Linguists debate which one informed the other. If you are incomprehensible you are talking Double Dutch…………………….. The word Dutch is a misunderstanding of Deutsch, meaning German! So English speakers are speaking double dutch when discussing people from the Netherlands. North and South Holland are provinces of the Netherlands, there is no country called “Holland”!!! And so it goes on…………
en.easternlightning.org/videos/God-s-work-ii-part-four-2....
Introduction
God's words in this video are from the book "Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh".
The content of this video:
The Integrity Job Held Fast Made Satan Ashamed and Disgraced and Flee in Panic
Job Treasured God's Way More Than Anything Else
Job Truly Experienced God's Care for Man in His Agony
Job's Another Manifestation of Fearing God and Shunning Evil Is Extolling God's Name in Everything
Man's Various Misunderstandings of Job
Job Cursed the Day of His Birth Because He Did Not Want God to Grieve for Him
Job Overcame Satan and Became a Real Man in God's Eyes
Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.
Eastern Lightning | The Church of Almighty God came into being because of the work of the returned Lord Jesus—the end-time Christ, “Almighty God”—in China, and it isn’t established by any person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. After reading God’s word, you will see that God has appeared.
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We always see the moment as something ordinary. But we never really see it as a gift.
That's understandable. Because many people are going through pain and anxiety in their own minds on a day to day basis.
They don't want to forget or loose their own connection to themselves. But their environment constantly tries to remind them how unimportant and useless they are. So much so that they really do forget their own connection to themselves.
We live in a corrupt system that devalues everything that makes up our individual self and connects us with nature and art.
Instead it values everything that the broken/traumatized human is susceptible to. Every industry out there is trying to benefit from reckless human behaviour. Making big money through gambling. Having a big status on social media. Being addicted to video games trying to get big virtual rewards. Not to mention all the drugs and liquor being advertised to young people in films. And so on...
It's a disgusting cycle that leeds to perpetual hell and sickness. It is what causes so much violence, pain and misunderstandings in this world.
But what if I told you we don't need anything big.
What if I told you that all we really need are the small things in life. Small things that remind us how important we are. Like making friends, going out into nature or enjoying the view with someone. Small things that shows us that we don't need to be "big" to feel good about ourselves. To truly feel that we are alive it is crucial to appreciate the little beautiful things around us.
That is the purpose of this photo. To show the world that in order to feel good we don't need anything other than each other. Other than a beautiful sunny day and a nice river view.
Photo taken in Heidelberg, Germany
Shot with Olympus OM-10 + m.zuiko digital 45mm
A whiteblade devoted to healing, Kiyoshi strives to secure peace in the kingdom. To serve the realm, he makes concessions to the lords, surrendering much of the blades' power. When he sentences a nightblade to death at a lord's request over a simple misunderstanding, the Council of Blades sends a nightblade to monitor him.
As the king’s health deteriorates, Kiyoshi struggles to save his closest friend and prevent the kingdom from descending into chaos. Will he succeed, or will his efforts unravel everything?"
Nightblade's Vengeance (Blades of the Fallen Book 1) by Ryan Kirk
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The head has a gun...
You guys should check out this artist
...and listen to this song
my hair looks pretty good today.
Today the Hereios of the We're Here! group are observing the Human Condition (which is frequently derailed by misunderstandings), and watching people.
OK gang……You can go into the garden…..But I don’t want all that virgin snow to be disturbed with Sheltie paw prints until I have managed to take a photo of it…..Which reminds me, I must go and find my camera, and while I am doing that, I want it said that I especially want you all to stay dry clean and snow free…. as when I have finished taking the photo, we are all going to see your very posh aunty who has those very deep pile cream colour carpets and shining mirror floor tiles that gleams and shine which she loves to treat as her pride and joy….Now dear reader, lets fast forward to the picture that greeted me when I returned after finding camera, and let me assure you it was not the view I expected, or as claimed by Millie Halo and Halo, a complete misunderstandings …..As there was not one piece of virgin snow left to see without a paw print, and looking at the state of the Shelties, I quickly realised that we would not be having cups of tea with dear aunt Mable using her bone china tea set after all…. But what the heck…. Virgin snow or not…..I decided to take the photo anyway…..And yes Aunt Mabel…..We are very sorry not to be seeing you today
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There’s a Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) in this photo... Can your eyes find it?! 🐍
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This particular rattler definitely had a clear opportunity to sink it’s venomous fangs into the flesh of a human leg as he/she was almost accidentally stepped on (because, spectacular camouflage! 🙈) ...but instead, the snake chose to protect itself by slithering away into the thorny underbrush, where it could intensely stare-down it’s perpetrator in shadowed safety...
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Rattlers are often perceived as vicious, aggressive creatures with malicious intent. Growing up in Jersey & studying the ocean, I was definitely guilty of holding this misunderstanding. But after a few years living in the Southwest and now Texas, I dare to differ. Now, I’m not saying we shouldn’t practice utmost mindfulness & caution around these creatures (I mean, they ARE a pit viper! 😳), but more often than not, rattlesnakes have zero desire nor intention to harm a human. In fact, they actually want nothing to do with humans, and striking is a big expense of their energy...so if the option to escape is available, they will eagerly exercise that option (as was demonstrated in this specific encounter).
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I snapped a few photos, and observed this unique reptile for a couple of minutes from a safe distance (thank goodness for a zoom lens 👍). If I looked away then back, it took serious effort to see the snake again. He/she didn’t rattle or hiss, just lots of curious sniffs with the tongue. Mutual respect. I said goodbye to my new friend, and moved along. A quick check back to this hide-out about 15 minutes later revealed the snake had moved along also...
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Truciolo, Sándor Márai
"(...) we do not love so much what is beautiful, good and virtuous, but rather everything that is repressed, imperfect, restless, and that protests by gnashing his teeth - everything that is not virtue and condescension, but is instead imperfection and rebellion".
Taken as a Christmas present to please his bourgeois wife, the dog Truciolo turns out to be more difficult to manage than expected. This novel is antithetical to "My Dog Tulip" by J.R. Ackerley: there an idyllic story between owner and dog, with Ackerley finding the ideal friend in the dog, here a series of misunderstandings, mistakes and stupid misunderstandings that ruin everything and lead to a sad epilogue. Together with Virginia Woolf's book, "Flush, biography of a dog", "Truciolo" and the aforementioned book by Ackerley are for me an unmissable triad for readers who love dogs ("Truciolo" however is the bitter morsel).
"(...) non amiamo tanto ciò che è bello, buono e virtuoso, ma piuttosto tutto ciò che è represso, imperfetto, irrequieto, e che protesta digrignando i denti - tutto ciò che non è virtù e accondiscendenza, ma è invece imperfezione e ribellione".
Preso come regalo di Natale per compiacere la moglie borghese, il cane Truciolo si rivela più difficile da gestire del previsto.
Questo romanzo è antitetico a "Il mio cane Tulip" di J.R. Ackerley: là una storia idilliaca fra padrone e cane, con Ackerley che trova nel cane l'amico ideale, qui una serie di incomprensioni, errori e stupidi equivoci che rovinano tutto e portano a un epilogo triste. Insieme al libro di Virginia Woolf, "Flush, biografia di un cane", "Truciolo" e il libro già citato di Ackerley sono per me una triade imperdibile per i lettori che amano i cani ("Truciolo" però è il bocconcino amaro).
www.anobii.com/it/books/truciolo/9788845917400/014b32aa83...
Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing herself. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
Beautiful Amedeo on display goes to the city looking for what he is looking for
ballroom
life scenes
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Io, loro e Lara is a 2010 film directed by and starring Carlo Verdone.
The film was dedicated to Verdone's father, Mario, who died during
the making of the film.
Plot: Carlo Mascolo is a priest on a mission in Africa. Following a profound spiritual crisis, the priest decides to return to Rome, where the rest of his family lives, with the idea of taking a break to reflect and find clarity within himself.
However, when Carlo arrives home, he is overwhelmed by his family's problems: his elderly father Alberto has married the young Moldovan caregiver Olga, much to the disappointment of his siblings Luigi and Beatrice, who fear for their inheritance. Carlo also has doubts about his parent's choice, but everything changes with the sudden death of his stepmother.
The situation takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of Lara, the deceased's daughter: Alberto—now a widower and desperate—demands that the girl live in the family home for a while, where she shares a room with the priest. Initially, a good relationship develops between the two, but it strains when Carlo discovers that the young woman is leading a double life. But this is only the beginning of a long series of misunderstandings...
Lara notices the priest's presence and, enraged, confronts him,
explaining that reality is far from what it seems.
Life scenes................
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Bello Honest Emigrant Australia Would Marry Compaesana Illibata -
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writers: Rodolfo Sonego
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
(1971)
A worker who emigrated to Australia searches for a mail-order bride using a friend's photo. A former prostitute who wants to change her life contacts him, without revealing herself. Their mutual lies create a series of hilarious and bitter misunderstandings.
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style.
running away from the protector he flees towards the airport to reach
the groom
life scenes
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I love Flickr for being non-political and focused on just photos. Unfortunately life demands that I post this photo, because I cannot put myself to post photos without adressing this issue.
Right now, March 3rd 2022, Russian troops approach Mykolaiv, Uraine, where some members of my family live. I fear for their lives.
I refuse to believe this is a war that the majority of the Russian people want. The Russian people I know in person are kind people. But the Ukrainian people want this war neither, nor Europe, nor the World. Just a few men (or maybe even one) in the Kremlin that are afraid of NATO (a defense organization, not an attack organization) and the success of the young democracy in Ukraine.
I believe there is only one way to end this war. The Russian people should say to Putin: We have given you power, you took too much of it, we want it back. For history learns that if one person gets too much power it ends in misery.
I won't post any other photos or messages on this matter but it had to be said. I hope you understand.
Io, loro e Lara is a 2010 film directed by and starring Carlo Verdone.
The film was dedicated to Verdone's father, Mario, who died during
the making of the film.
Plot: Carlo Mascolo is a priest on a mission in Africa. Following a profound spiritual crisis, the priest decides to return to Rome, where the rest of his family lives, with the idea of taking a break to reflect and gain clarity.
However, when Carlo arrives home, he is overwhelmed by his family's problems: his elderly father Alberto has married the young Moldovan caregiver Olga, much to the disappointment of his siblings Luigi and Beatrice, who fear for their inheritance. Carlo also has doubts about his father's choice, but everything changes with the sudden death of his stepmother.
The situation takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of Lara, the deceased's daughter: Alberto—now a widower and desperate—orders the girl to live in the family home for a while, where she shares her life with the priest. Initially, a good relationship develops between the two, but this strains when Carlo discovers that the young woman is leading a double life. But it's only the beginning of a long series of misunderstandings...
For a while, at Carlo's father's insistence, Lara
settles in the old family home, alone with the missionary.
Life scenes
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La casa de Castril es un palacio renacentista ubicado en la ciudad española de Granada, comunidad autónoma de Andalucía; en ella se encuentra actualmente el Museo Arqueológico de Granada.
La casa se halla enclavada en la carrera del Darro, en el antiguo barrio árabe de Ajsaris, sede a partir del siglo XVI de parte de la nobleza granadina, como muestran sus construcciones blasonadas. La Casa de Castril es uno de los mejores ejemplos de palacios renacentistas de Granada y perteneció a la familia de Hernando de Zafra, secretario de los Reyes Católicos que participó activamente en la reconquista de la ciudad a los musulmanes y en sus Capitulaciones. En lo alto de la fachada está grabada la fecha de su construcción: 1539. Esta obra ha sido atribuida a Sebastián de Alcántara, uno de los más destacados discípulos de Diego de Siloé. En 1917 se adquirió la Casa del Castril a los herederos del insigne arabista Leopoldo Eguílaz y Yanguas para ubicar definitivamente el citado Museo.
Además, sobre el edificio recae una vieja leyenda, de cuando era habitado en época árabe, la cual se refiere a una misteriosa dama de blanco que se aparece de vez en cuando, fruto de un desencuentro entre el padre de una bella muchacha que habitaba el edificio y su supuesto amante, que desencadenaron la furia del padre y posteriormente su ahorcamiento y emparedamiento en el balcón lateral del edificio. Sobre este balcón ciego se puede leer una consigna que dice: "Esperando la del cielo", lo que podría referirse a "esperando la justicia del cielo", que probablemente tuviese relación con las palabras que el supuesto amante pronunció antes de ser ahorcado.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_Castril
rinconesdegranada.com/casa-de-castril
The Castril palace (also House of Castril) is a Renaissance style palace located in Sacromonte, a district of the Spanish city of Granada. Nowadays it hosts the Archaeological Museum of Granada.
The house is nailed in the Race of the Darro, in the old Arab district of Ajsaris, seat of 16th century's granadine nobility. The palace is one of the best Renaissance palaces of Granada and belonged to the family of Hernando de Zafra, secretary of Catholic monarchs who participated actively in reconquering it from the Muslim hands during the Reconquista.
At the top of the facade the date of its foundation is recorded: 1539. This work has been attributed to Sebastián de Alcántara, one of the most outstanding disciples of Diego de Siloé. In 1917, the Castril palace was acquired by arabist and orientalist Leopoldo Eguílaz y Yanguas to make it a definitive location of the Archaeological Museum of Granada.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castril_Palace
There is also an old legend about the building, dating back to the time when it was inhabited in Arab times, which refers to a mysterious lady in white who appears from time to time, the result of a misunderstanding between the father of a beautiful girl who lived in the building and her supposed lover, which triggered the father's fury and subsequently led to her hanging and walling herself up on the side balcony of the building. On this blind balcony one can read a slogan that reads: "Waiting for heaven's justice", which could refer to "waiting for heaven's justice", probably related to the words that the supposed lover uttered before being hanged.