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I've just come back from another fabulous trip to Nepal, some trekking, some chilling, some peace. She surely is my spiritual home and I was so very glad to visit her warmth once again. Whilst trekking in the Annapurna Himalaya I made some things next to the trail. Here's an excerpt from my journal on the day I made this little sculpture:-
Nepal isn't like anywhere else I've ever been. It seems to change me on the inside, it's not just the outside environs that are different.
Other places in the world have left my soul untouched. It's as though I've simply taken the me from home and travelled with it to a foreign land. I'm still the home 'me', stood somewhere else.
But Nepal is different, it seeps through my pores and changes me to what I should be. I feel at peace, confident and full of joy. My sensitivity becomes a blessing and never a chore. It's as though my sensitivity was designed to live in and appreciate the multi-faceted beauty of this place.
It is much more than the mountains, the landscape, the trails, the walking. It's the people, the magical encounters, the just about bloody everything. But most of all it's the way I can open my heart and soul and let all the world pour in. Without cynicism, without fear, without shyness, without worrying about difficult emotions and how I will handle them. Without the need to manufacture situations so I can sheild myself from things I can't cope with, all and everything that holds me back, makes my sensitivity difficult and taxing and sometimes the bane of my life. Here I am free, unleashed, filled with joy and happiness.
I can let my sensitivity fly free and grab onto every wonderful flower, tree or bird and to experience the rhythmic magic of simply placing one foot in front of the other. This is where I am meant to be , unshackled and home at last.
Now don't get me wrong. I have a rich and fulfilled time at home. But the mundanaties of life push spikily against my psyche and make some everyday tasks and relationships difficult. To feel every nuance can render you often vulnerable, confused and overwhelmed. Aching to hide from the world and to launch my vessel into the river of my own inner thoughts. That's why I love to cycle, to run, to walk, to climb and to create. The sublime lives within these things and I go looking for them to release my soul on a long leash and to let it stretch its legs for a while.
But being in Nepal is not simply a holiday, a break from those taxing minutiae of everyday life. I am not free of those things through simply being away, when I've travelled to somewhere in the States, Europe or South America I've brought a lot of those things with me.
But here I've stepped through the secret door in the back of the wardrobe into another me and another realm.
It's only when I'm here that I remember. It's only here when I am totally me once again. All those times when my innards soared skywards when climbing a snow covered mountain at home, when I've cycled to a long toiled for hill summit or lived the moment when a sculpture resonates, becomes vibrant and electric, when it is more than the sum of its parts. All those times join together with all the months I've spent in Nepal, connecting together all the sublime times in my life.
Another existence running in parallel, rich and diverse and perfect. Perhaps that's what Buddhist enlightenment feels like. Where you can ride the waves and ripples of life. It does not matter what happens, it only matters how it affects you. If the rough feels as important and as interesting as the smooth then maybe you've found the secret to how you should live your life.
I cannot manage to live in this enlightened way much of the time but I am so very grateful to have as much of it as I do. I hope to extend the length of these moments and tie the ends together with little knots in the strands of experience. And maybe one day I'll have a very long length of tightly woven cord, stretching from one side of my existence to the other and nothing, and everything will matter all at the same time.
Aside from how this place makes me feel it is brimful of brilliant in such a wonderful myriad of ways. Today was an experience of a thousand different treats.
We waited for the sun to warm us before shouldering packs and trudging into dense bamboo forest. We entered a deep gorge that is the gateway into the Annapurna Sanctuary and the trail cuts a path along the steep gorge walls like a wound.
Laim, Bamboo and Rhododendron forest dapple the light onto our faces and beneath our feet is a carpet of fallen coloured leaves while massive, savage peaks cut holes in the fabric of the sky.
Julia was a little way behind so I stopped awhile and sat on a warmed, sunlit stone. I collected up some red, orange and yellow leaves and cut circles around a five rupee coin. I stripped some sedge grass and pinned them on with Berberis thorns.
Unusually I could step off the trail here and pin my sculpture up in a tree. Normally the drop offs, either side of the trail, are so steep that you can touch the top of the trees. Nepal is so very corrugated and dramatic but not so good for setting up a little sculpture amongst the foliage. But here was perfect with plenty of room to pick a good spot with bright sunshine and plenty of contrast. Within a few minutes it was positioned and set against the dark trunk of a Rhododendron tree. The breeze swung the branch it was fixed to so I snapped away hoping for something good and sharp and clear.
My land art comes in thirds. Every third attempt just seems to click. All the elements combine just as I imagine they may do if I had had a plan in the first place.
A quick stop on a rock in the sunshine, surrounded by beautiful hued leaves. A quick circular route with scissors and a construction was soon created. Everything combined as I would want it. The place, the materials, the sunshine: click, it was all there.
So this was the third of the three and how I would want it to be. All the pieces fell into place without me really trying very hard.
If you live your life without expecting anything and then are happy with whatever life dishes up, then surely that's a better way to be. If you can conjure up that carefree existence, go with the flow and live from moment to moment it just seems to come together how you may have wanted it to if you'd spent any time wondering how you will want it to be. But the key seems to be not wasting any time pondering on what you would wish for and grasping gently and just letting everything be. Maybe not everything will be just how you would like it, but surely you'll settle for one in three!
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“A realm of cliff-lined seascapes and misty peaks that unrolled each dawn from the scroll of night.”
--Sterling Seagrave
A friend and I traveled to Maine for Memorial Day weekend, based off of the forecasts being reported by the weathermen.
Sometimes good ol mother N makes you stand back and stare in wonderment at how beautiful this world can be.
Our first stop Saturday morning was Portland Head Lighthouse, Cape Elizabeth, Maine at dawn. What a way to begin the trip!
You can see a larger view here
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Oh Deer and WetCat wants to tell you what they want, what they really really want
Transport yourself back to the electric energy of the 90's rave scene with a new release made exclusively for Anthem!
Picture a pulsating rhythm vibrating through yourt core. The glowing lights bringing you to the exact place (and time) you wantn to be at.
You just entered the Rave Realm.
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This backdrop includes:
💥 PBR versions of the backdrop
💥 15 single bento poses (8 for male, 7 for female) from WetCat!
💥 Headphones in PBR and no PBR versions. Rezzing when seated or as decor in the pack
💥 Sticklight beacelets and necklaces because sticklights is life!
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I ran out of creative titles for my photos years ago.
But then... A few weeks ago. I stumbled upon this list, somewhere on the internet, and it totally cracked me up.
YESSSSSSS!!!! I can use this to create new photo titles for the next couple of years.
Anyway... This is an infrared I shot last week of a creepy looking dead tree I found near Pensicola.
A giant ghostly steed leaping high over a blood-red sea?
No, not a fantasy, but Wiltshire's Alton Barnes White Horse, viewed from a field of poppies near Upavon!
Now out in the Wishbox store and on the Marketplace!
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Downtown Vancouver, as seen from up north in West Vancouver.
Wallpapers up to 4K resolution can be found here:
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We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
~ Anna Freud
Just happened to catch sight of this secondhand camera/lens combo at a resell store and had to purchase it. The camera backpack was purchased through Amazon.
“Accessing the Realm” was the title I gave to an image I captured of my then newly acquired Canon EOS R5, which unfortunately was stolen a few weeks later. This was the very first time that I had owned a full-frame camera.
This image, titled “Reaccessing the Realm,” depicts my journey of overcoming that unfortunate incident and returning to a state of normalcy.
We couldn't belive that an abandoned place like this even exist until we were seeing it with our own eyes. Around 70 animals of ten species were living in this former reptile park in the past - including various species of crocodiles, but also snakes, lizards and giant spiders. At first, this place was a rescue center for animals which were seized by customs or which simply grew too big for their former holders. But then it became some kind of zoo.
In our latest episode we are revealing the full history of the site and as a neat bonus we explore a big prison: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYjiVkO5Ak
Models: Mirish. Prithvi-Enoch
Hands left: Moms Espeace
Hands right: digitalwideresource
Background: fantasystock
An excerpt: "However, I must tell you, in the light of my Lord Gohar Shahi’s teachings, that ISIS is a group of murderers, druggists, rapists and lustful animals. They affiliate themselves with the Antichrist. They will never prosper. The Messiah, the Mehdi, will defeat them.
With the help of Lord Jesus Christ, the Kingdom of God will be established on Earth. Peace, justice and love will prevail. Injustice will be totally wiped out from the face of the Earth. The Mehdi/Messiah/Kalki Avatar will fill every nook and cranny of the world with justice." - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
Read the article by clicking the link below:
medium.com/@YounusAlGohar/humanitys-salvation-from-the-ex...
From the realm of colourful and simple plates, this beauty of a snowflake contains a mysterious feature that I cannot explain. Before reading the rest of the post, can you identify it? View large to see it in better detail! (Press "L" to view in Lightbox mode)
Small hexagonal snowflakes sometimes form with just the right thickness of bubbles to create thin film inference colours within the ice. The thickness of the bubble (and therefore the thickness of the ice surrounding it) determines the colour that is generated by the optical interference. These colours then showcase the growth pattern of the bubble, mostly in a predictable manner… but there is an exception here, in the bottom left.
The bottom left coloured area depicts two small circles that clearly show at least two levels of thickness, but these circles to not conform the natural growth patterns on bubbles in the ice. There is no way (to my knowledge) that this could have formed without outside interference. Very dark tones can be identified within certain interference patterns and it doesn’t look like the snowflake is hollow, but it appears that something made a bubble expand or the surface of the ice shrink to create this shape.
The only thing that comes to mind is some kind of environmental contamination, hitting the snowflake exactly on those two spots and causing this effect, whether it be pollution or some other substance in the atmosphere. However, even this doesn’t fit. If it was a droplet of some contaminant, the outer reddish ring would not be solid, but rather vary in thickness towards the inner black area. A solid red ring means there is a distinct and constant drop in thickness through this region, proceeding to another similar drop in the center. It’s a mystery to me!
…And all of this discussion over a feature in a snowflake measuring 0.04mm (40 microns). That’s the size of the largest of these peculiar circles. The smallest things can be fascinating!
And if you find this interesting, you’ll love all of the mysterious snowflakes discussed in Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/ - along with all of the photographic techniques used to create images like this. It’s not too late to discover the beauty that winter has… and it might be more appealing to do so as it’s on the way out! :)
Thoth-Amon looks down at Suigintou... He still can not believe she is at his mercy. "If you beg I Promise to kill you fast," said Thoth-Amon laughing at her as he held his blade to her throat.
Suigintou only smiled and spit in to his face with as much hate in her heart as she had with in her... a little known fact about this Angel her body is full of the diseased from win she was taken by the beings that lived with in the realm of decay.
Thoth-Amon not knowing of this Curse wipes the spit off of face and than licks his fingers as he looked down at her. "Oh you taste so good! tell you what lets bring the kids back they can watch what I do to you next!!" Said Thoth-Amon with a very crazed look win in his eyes for he finely found a girl as evil as him in side and out!!
But what Thoth-Amon dose not know what that the little children have escaped from his Cage and now were running in to the realm of sweet dreams... well all the children but young little Poe.
Please come back to see what happens next week ^_^