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Panther Creek feeding the nearby falls in Gifford Pinchot National Forest. A beautiful waterfall only a short drive outside of the Columbia Gorge.
Though this isn't part of the Scenes from an Apocalypse Series I did a while back, it was intended to have somewhat apocalyptic elements in it.
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As promised I would release a new upcoming series for every "hundred" I reach!
These are all unofficial names:
$700: Hat/cap series- series inspired by Childhood story "Caps For Sale", as well as caps in general.
$800: Man in Suit Series (Continuation)- a bold paradoxical series based on the out-of-place, worn, and tired business man.
$900: Sci-Fi series- A series based on sci-fi stories from the 1950's era. All the apparel, props, and story lines will all be directly influenced by the artificiality of the comics and films of the time.
$1000: Flower Series- A series requiring a large variety of flowers in which I hold in front of me (covering my face) to convey different emotions. Each time I wear the same simple white button up. But each time I use different flowers, lighting, and setting to convey a particular emotion or feeling. I know this may sound uninteresting, or something a long those lines, but in this series I aim for simplicity to convey intricacy. Just like a flower, it may seem like a simple plant, but there is so much behind it. And the fact you cannot see may face creates anonymity and lack of emotion, but this will be made up by the flowers.
$1100: The Perceptions of the Wild West Series- I was recently reading a history book entirely about the cowboy. In this book they talk a lot about how the cowboy is depicted as a adventurous hero that travel deserts, gets in shout outs, and things of that nature. When in reality they were hard working rough cattle drivers who worked sunrise to sunset to make a living. So in this series I will incorporate this and juxtapose it to Hollywood's version of the cowboy.
$1200: War through the Ages Series (Continuation)- I have shot quite a few of these photos already, but there are still plenty still in store. If you haven't seen any from this series, this series is exactly what the title says: War through different spans of time. I will take you through the different wars and show you the brutality and emotion they withhold.
$1300: Logic and Emotion Series: Two very simple concepts, so different from each other. They fascinate me. And sometimes I find my own mind being split into one or the other, it's all about finding balance. In this series, I will tell a story played by my two good friends Carson Foster and Codi Fisher. Carson and Codi are best friends yet the almost seem to be opposites in some ways. Carson is logic. Codi is emotion. In real life. I will use them to create a story to convey the differences between logic and emotion.
$1400: TBA
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Image made by my Minolta Maxxum 7000 with 50mm f/1.7 lens and with Kodak Gold 200 film. Scanned on Plustek 8200i #filmisalive
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She stands upon the green of the hills perplexed. What must be done to open the eyes of the little selfish humans?
Finally got the cuttlebug yesterday so I decided to play with it. Use the D'vine Swirl as clouds in the sky and the Swiss Dots as grass. ( Those are the only two folders I have at this moment. ) I'm trying to create the summer time back yard scene. Stamps are from Cl231 Happy Hello and CL 230 Live Simply.
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3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereograph, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection, at: npg.si.edu/portraits
NPG Title: Margaret Julia Mitchell
Photo Date: Circa 1865
Photographer: Mathew Brady Studio
Notes: Maggie Mitchell, famous and beloved American actress, with a career that spanned over four decades during the second half of the 19th century. She was also, according to her own account, an intimate friend of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've read about a dozen of her obituaries from 1918, and oddly, not one mentions her association with Booth, who if not a love interest, was a fellow actor, whom she knew well, and crossed paths with many times.
Just about all the 1918 tributes include two incidents from her life; (1) her invitation from Lincoln to the White House, just before the assassination, which she asserted was the greatest day of her life; (2) that she was an “ardent Northerner,” and often told friends, with pride, that when the Civil War ended, she was the first person to raise the U.S. flag over the surrendered city of Mobile, Alabama.
One might suspect that the above stories were cultivated and nurtured by her over a lifetime for damage control – cover for her friendship with Booth, and the widespread accusations during the Civil War, that she had a secessionist bent. She was accused of cheering them on, and of actually trampling on the U.S. flag, while on stage in Montgomery, Alabama, before the war started.
For background, below are three newspaper articles that reference the loyalty issue. The third article, a letter with flowery over-the-top prose, seems to be speaking for her - perhaps she had a hand in it? I've also included a fourth article from the New York Sun, an obituary from March 23, 1918, which provides a summary of her life and extraordinary career.
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Belmont Chronicle
St. Clairsville, Ohio
December 5, 1861
An Actress made to Show her Colors.
"Maggie Mitchell is now playing at Pittsburgh. On Monday night a Captain or Lieutenant Braun visited the theater, and raised a disturbance by accusing a gentleman present of having been a manager of a Southern theater. He was also excessively angry over the statement that the actress had sung the Southern Marseillaise during a recent visit to Secessia, and presented or received a rebel flag. Braun was finally put out of the house, but returned and demanded an explanation. The Dispatch describes the scene which followed:
When the curtain fell, the chivalric captain or lieutenant was boisterous in his calls for Miss Mitchell, who at length appeared before the curtain, escorted by Manager Henderson. Our hero demanded an explanation, whereupon the Manager stated briefly that the lady was too much agitated to speak, but that he was authorized by her to state that she had never trampled upon the American flag. This denial of a charge never publicly made against the lady, mollified Captain or Lieutenant Braun, and he testified his satisfaction in an emphatic manner."
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The Local News
Alexandria, Va.
December 09, 1861
“Little Maggie Mitchell, the popular actress was hissed down by some Pittsburghers, last week, while playing at the Theatre in that smutty city, because it was reported she had sung secession songs, "down South," calling the chivalry "to arms." An explanation was subsequently made, and Maggie was allowed to proceed.”
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Chicago Tribune
Tuesday, March 1, 1864.
“Gilleflower” writes us a letter about Miss Maggie Mitchell and her loyalty. Just read what the enraptured chap has to say….
Chicago, Feb 29, 1864
Mr. Editor: As there is an erroneous opinion prevailing to a certain extent in Chicago, from the conversation at the various hotels, either maliciously or otherwise, concerning the real feelings of Miss Maggie Mitchell relative to this great struggle for the maintenance of the Union and the execution of the laws….articles, exceedingly detrimental to her as having southern sympathies have appeared in print, and have long since been authoritatively contradicted, yet she still seems to be looked upon as being one of doubtful loyalty.
Therefore, let this entirely obliterate all such doubts and prejudices from their minds. As this favorite actress has at no period of the contest entertained any disloyal sentiments whatsoever, but, on the contrary, her heart is deeply interested in our cause from pure and unselfish motives.
She desires a vigorous prosecution of the war, a speedy and permanent peace, that will bring gladness and consolation to many an aching heart.
She honors the brave soldier who has gone forth to battle for his nation's cause and sacrifice himself upon the altar of his country; leaving happy homes and loved ones far away from the voice of a mother, which ever swells its heavenly cadence on the soul, and now watches with such anxiety and love the lives of them whom she fed from the store-house of virtue.
She also sympathizes with the suffering wounded and dying, and prays they may ascend the stairs of immortality to Heaven's blue vaults, knock at the gates of sun-set and walk along the celestial lights, their path paved with sun beams, accompanied by the glittering stars and drink from the crystal fount that sparkles before the throne in the paradise of the blest, far beyond the skies. Respectfully yours, S. Arnold Gilliflower, Present.
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The Sun, New York
Saturday, March 23, 1918.
MAGGIE MITCHELL, ACTRESS, IS DEAD
Famous Stage Star of Three Generations Still Young at the End.
ENTERTAINED BY LINCOLN
Graciousness to Sarah Bernhardt Brought Her Recently to Public Attention.
“….Maggie Mitchell did die yesterday morning in a bedroom of a large apartment house she owned at the southwest corner of West End avenue and 102d street. And although the little blond haired, gray eyed woman, whose acting and singing and dancing for almost two score years was the delight of millions of American theatergoers, was born back in the dim ages of 1837 – John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson didn’t die until years after that- she was still somewhere in her twenties when she died yesterday morning.
Ten years before the Confederates fired on Sumter Maggie Mitchell was an actress. A few days before Lincoln was shot the great President sent his own carriage to her hotel when she was playing in Washington so that he and Mrs. Lincoln might shake her hand inside the White House "and have a dish of tea," as Mrs. Lincoln put it.
Just before Grover Cleveland began his second term she was still the vivacious ingénue back of the footlights of Washington theatre, singing as merrily and flitting about the stage as lightly as in Lincoln's day. And on the day that Woodrow Wilson was last elected President not in the 1912 election, but the election day of 1916 - she mounted her horse at her summer home, Cricket Lodge at Elberon, and went for an all day ride…..
"Most Remarkable Woman,”
Not long after she died yesterday one of the physicians who had attended her in her last brief illness spoke of her as “the most remarkable woman, mentally and physically,” with whom he ever had come in contact.
The last time her name appeared in New York newspapers—and there was a time when her name appeared daily in the papers—was an account a few months ago of a gracious little act she had done….at a semi-private matinee performance…in honor of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt….
But when Mme Bernhardt was carried to the box placed at her disposal she objected fervently to being seated in anything but the box nearest the stage. Whereupon Maggie Mitchell, whose keen “young” ears had sensed the cause of the commotion in the box behind her jumped up in chipper fashion and insisted that the Divine Sarah take the stage box….
Always a New Yorker
All America claimed her, but she was first and last a New Yorker. She was born on the Island of Manhattan on June 14, 1837, and therefore had reached her eightieth birthday almost a year ago. She first went on the stage here in 1842, when only 5 years old, to play "child parts," It was In Burton's Theatre in Chambers street in 1851, just after her fourteenth birthday, that in a play called "The Soldier's Daughter" she first played a part of importance. And up to the time of her death Manhattan was her real home, except for the time she spent at Elberon in the summers and autumns.
Scored Many Successes.
The first theatrical success which made the name of Maggie Mitchell nationally famous was "Fanchon the Cricket," in which she made her first bow as a star in New Orleans In 1861. A year later she leased Laura Keene’s theatre in Manhattan and produced "Fanchon," for the first time here with pronounced success. "Fanchon," "Lorie," 'Mignon," "The Little Savage," "Pearl of Savoy" –one after another the diminutive blond haired actress brought out in turn, and with them she achieved the feat unheard of in these days; they were all great successes; not merely fairly successful but extraordinary successes, even from the financial standpoint.
She was an ardent "Northerner" during the civil war, nevertheless was being acclaimed in the last days of the war by Southern audiences. In the early spring of 1865 she was playing in Washington when one day a messenger came to her dressing room to say that President Lincoln would esteem it an honor if she would call at the White House the next day.
“And the President sent his own carriage for me," Maggie Mitchell would say as she often retold the great event. “And when I got there he shook my hand and looked at me steadily for a minute, and then he said, 'I hearn of you so much, young woman, that I wanted to meet you here in our home. That's the way he said It. 'I hearn of you so much.' And that was the greatest day of my life."
Also Maggie Mitchell was proud of something else in connection with her civil war memories. She had made a long jump to the South and was playing in Mobile when definite news reached the city that the war was over. Peace had actually been declared. Wherefore out upon the stage came the vivacious Maggie Mitchell and swung the Stars and Stripes above her locks. And so she always claimed that she was the first to raise the Stars and. Stripes in the South after Lee's surrender. There is little doubt she was, and it is almost certain she was the first woman to do so.
Appeared Last in 1892.
She made her last appearance on the stage more than a quarter of a century after that, when she appeared in 'The Little Maverick" at Hooley's Theatre in 1892. Since then she has been in Manhattan and on the Jersey coast. She said herself she couldn't cook and she couldn't sew, her life work having been such that she had no time to learn these accomplishments.
"But I can keep my house running properly, and I can ride and walk and swim and read," Maggie would say. And she could do all these things and did them with much energy. During her long years on the stage, she had amassed a fortune, the extent of which cannot be put in numbers now. But it is known that she owned apartment house at 853 and 855 West End avenue and valuable real estate In upper Broadway, estimated to be worth at least $1,000,000.
"She wore her brain out," her physicians said yesterday when asked the cause of her death. A breakdown came to her toward the end of last summer. Four days ago she lapsed into a coma in the course of which she died just before daybreak yesterday morning.
She was married twice. Her first husband was Henry Paddock of Cleveland, Ohio, by whom she had two children who were with her when she died yesterday morning. They are Fanchon M. Paddock and Harry M. Paddock both of whom lived with their mother. Her first husband died many years ago. Then in June, 1889, she married her leading man and manager, Charles Abbott, who was also at her bedside when she died. Private funeral services will take place at her apartment in West End avenue on Sunday and she will be buried in Green-Wood Cemetery."
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Findagrave Link: www.findagrave.com/memorial/63190530/margaret-julia-mitchell
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turnip roots
and fresh turnip greens
and bread about to come
out of the oven.
i love the color of the roots...how could they not be good?
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Another edit from my day with Maddy, I love this one :) We haven't really incorporated too many props in our previous shoot and since we're missing summer a little bit we decided to incorporate the flower and some nice natural lighting. I'm super happy with how these turned out.
“In Elijah we see the solitary prophet who nurtured his thirst for the one and only God, and lived in his presence. He is the contemplative, burning with passionate love for the Absolute who is God, “his word flaring like a torch” (Sirach 48:1). He is the mystic, who after a long and wearisome journey, learned to read the new signs of God’s presence. He is the prophet who became involved in the lives of the people, and who, by battling against false idols, brought them back to faithfulness to the Covenant with the One God. He is the prophet who was in solidarity with the poor and the forgotten, and who defended those who endured violence and injustice."
– from the Carmelite Constitutions who claim Elijah as their inspiration and founder.
Today, 20 July, is the feast of Elijah.
Encaustic painting dating to the 1100s on one of the columns of the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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A tiny peapod-sized baby is cuddled by her momma. My first attempt at needlefelting a doll out of wool roving.
I love this girl's red hair, it's slightly unruly because it's mohair but it's so soft.
Another from our last shoot with lovely Shelby.
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This poor little bird was attacked by something. And another one was lying not far from her already lifeless. We must have scared off the predator. This little one was on the brink of death. You can see her eye was wounded. There was nothing we could do but keep her comfortable and nurture her in warm hands for her last few minutes of life.
The nature versus nurture debate concerns the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature," i.e. nativism, or innatism) versus personal experiences ("nurture," i.e. empiricism or behaviorism) in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits.
"Nature versus nurture" in its modern sense was coined by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion of the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement, although the terms had been contrasted previously, for example by Shakespeare (The Tempest). Galton was influenced by the book On the Origin of Species written by his cousin, Charles Darwin. The concept embodied in the phrase has been criticized for its binary simplification of two tightly interwoven parameters, as for example an environment of wealth, education and social privilege are often historically passed to genetic offspring.
The view that humans acquire all or almost all their behavioral traits from "nurture" is known as tabula rasa ("blank slate"). This question was once considered to be an appropriate division of developmental influences, but since both types of factors are known to play such interacting roles in development, many modern psychologists consider the question naive—representing an outdated state of knowledge. Psychologist Donald Hebb is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "Which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?" That is, the idea that either nature or nurture explains a creature's behavior is a sort of single cause fallacy.
In the social and political sciences, the nature versus nurture debate may be contrasted with the structure versus agency debate (i.e. socialization versus individual autonomy). For a discussion of nature versus nurture in language and other human universals, see also psychological nativism.
Personality is a frequently cited example of a heritable trait that has been studied in twins and adoptions. Identical twins reared apart are far more similar in personality than randomly selected pairs of people. Likewise, identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins. Also, biological siblings are more similar in personality than adoptive siblings. Each observation suggests that personality is heritable to a certain extent. However, these same study designs allow for the examination of environment as well as genes. Adoption studies also directly measure the strength of shared family effects. Adopted siblings share only family environment. Unexpectedly, some adoption studies indicate that by adulthood the personalities of adopted siblings are no more similar than random pairs of strangers. This would mean that shared family effects on personality are zero by adulthood. As is the case with personality, non-shared environmental effects are often found to out-weigh shared environmental effects. That is, environmental effects that are typically thought to be life-shaping (such as family life) may have less of an impact than non-shared effects, which are harder to identify. One possible source of non-shared effects is the environment of pre-natal development. Random variations in the genetic program of development may be a substantial source of non-shared environment. These results suggest that "nurture" may not be the predominant factor in "environment."
One day old...photo was taken Sunday, the calf was born Saturday. The bond between mother and offspring is such a delight to see. This was a special moment for me as well because my grandchildren were here to experience this
newborns first hours and the
nurturing of the Mother cow...
Nurture means to give tender care and protection to a child, a young animal or a plant, helping it to grow
and develop. It means to encourage somebody or something to grow,
develop, thrive and be successful.
Lisa Bevere puts it this way using the example of a Daughter, a Mother and a Grandmother. This has become my favorite definition of the word "nurture" as I am in all three categories.
Daughter
A daughter is her father’s joy and her mother’s treasure because she quickens the heart. An heiress, she was hoped for and is the hope for the future. As the potential carer and bearer of life, she is human wealth. Her invention was God’s all together-lovely crown of creation. The one who completes. Daughters are the feminine form, which embodies love, beauty, hope, tenderness. A daughter is smiles, hugs, laughter; she is a female seeker of truth who asks many questions longing to know who she is. She is a friend and a comfort in the latter years. A daughter is like a priceless pearl.
Mother
I have found mothers to be those who lay down life to bring forth life, whether this is by way of childbirth, adoption or rescue. Mothers are advocates for children and change, protectors, nurturers and healers of sick. The one who responds to the child’s cry at night, they are master multitaskers. The one who feeds and sustains life with warmth and what beauty she finds, she is the wiper of tears, the calmer of fears, tender of injuries, instructor, teacher, friend, confidante and the giver of advice—whether you ask for it or not. She is a woman with answers who will tell you who she is—“because I am your mother, that is why.” A mother is likened to the anterior coating of a shell called “the mother of pearl,” and we have this oyster shell; the mother of pearl is the inside, the pearl is the daughter.
Grandmother
I found grandmothers to be the ones who know and love, she is the “yes” to every question that you have, she wears a soft smile and an even softer hug—as she smashes you into her large breasts. She is the confidante and advocate for both the mother and the daughter. She is the giver of both practical and unnecessary gifts. She is the guardian of perspective, secrets and insight. She is the one who listens and prays as she watches over her children near and far. They have selective memories and give advice when asked. A grandmother no longer asks who she is or tells others who they are because she has discovered why she is. Grandmothers could be likened to the outer shell of an oyster. I got this because I discovered something about a pearl. The pearl is actually formed in response to an irritation. And what the Holy Spirit spoke to me was, “What was painful to the mother becomes priceless in the daughter”—if we know how to respond. The mother of pearl is really interesting because if you look at shells, they have bands of colors, but only one color is transferred—in all of its perfection—to the pearl. So, the mother takes one thing and coats that daughter with this beautiful thing, and the mother and the pearl, but none of this happens without the protection of the grandmother. So, the grandmother’s kind of wrinkled on the outside—this one didn’t know about laser—but we’ve got the grandmother, the mother and the daughter. I believe that we need to restore back some dignity to all of these positions. All of us haven’t necessarily experienced all of these things in their loftiest forms, but I believe we have a lot to aspire to, and I believe that we can do that.
It doesn't matter where we are in life...we all need Nurture and we are all capable of giving Nurture.
Marc Milissen
This 6m-high tree column in concrete structure with a squatting female figure on top is rooted in nature as a work of art.
It stands next to the natural tree as a likeness and in turn refers to man, culture, life fluids, communication, visualised by the woman, cords and snakes. An unmistakable example of osmosis nature and culture.
Impression at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 17, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Trying to nurture my creativity #artplay #alittleart #craft #abstract #neoncolors #mixedmedia #creativity #drawing
Designer: Jin Meisheng (金梅生)
1972, October
Female nurturer
Nü peiyangyuan (女培养员)
Call nr.: BG E12/89 (IISH collection)
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