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Three photos depicting reconciliation in action:
Poles and Spaniards meet at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin.
Middle East leaders embrace: Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese.
Highland Chiefs accept "cash Moka" in Mendi, PNG to avert tribal war.
Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem.
Tour guides explain that the church is not under any sect's jurisdiction and there were many internal fighting between them.
So the set of keys are owned by a local Muslim Arab family that has been the custodians of the key for centuries.
and then british colonialism played its final card: the residential schools
these were large brick edifices, the epitome of the european institutional building
they were, i think, government financed but exclusively controlled by the dominant missionary church groups - methodist, anglican or catholic
the argument as to whether they were deliberately designed to destroy the old societies forever or misguided attempts by well-intentioned, ethnocentric britishers to lead their charges to a better life will never be settled
the result was in any case the same
those intentions, good or bad, paved a road leading to hell in which the descendants of these residential schools now find themselves
the essential writings of bill reid
solitary raven
Members of the united Naga national choir wait to sing at the reconciliation soccer match in Dimapur, Nagaland, on November 13. The reconciliation process was started to put a stop to the factional conflicts of the Naga armed organisations and to pave the way for peace. Symbolically very significant, the idea of these soccer matches are to build trust where people can come together and work towards a common political aspiration and peace without drawing guns on one another. The day of the match was pregnant with emotions as the joint team of the Naga armed political groups played against a team of civil society organisations ending the match with a 3-3 tie. This choir comprised of members from the conflicting factions of the armed political organisations, coming together to sing for reconciliation.
Thank God that woman was saved; the look on Blaze's face when she found out the woman was alive looked equally reluctant as mine. I can't imagine how it'd be like losing Dianna... Speaking of whom, I needed to reconcile with her.
Mike disappeared after the the run-in with blaze, while I quickly changed and went home. When I arrived, Dianna wasn't in the dining room like last time. I searched throughout the house to find her sitting in bed, about to go to sleep. I slowly walked in with my head down. She looked at me as I came in and said, "Well, look who's home for once."
Raising my head, I replied,"Dianna, look, I'm-"
She cut me off saying, "What the hell happened to your eye?"
"Well, y'see, I got in a fight with an extremely well trained martial artist."
"Dammit, Abe... are you alright?"
"Yeah, yeah! Just a little bruise. Or a big one. Is it bad? I haven't seen it since I first got kicked..."
Getting out from under the covers she said,"It looks horrible, let me put some ice on that. Wait... did you just say you were kicked? In your face?"
"Uh, yeah."
She looked away slightly confused as she went to go get an ice pack, while I started taking off my gloves and suit. Dianna returned moments later with an ice pack and made me sit on the bed. She began holding it against my eye as she continued the conversation. "so tell me how you got a boot to your eye?"
"Well, my men and I were bringing one of the suspected targets into protective costudy when she-"
"Wait, you got jumped by a woman, Abe?"
"Mind you this chick was probably trained from birth. Anyways, she disguised as a cop, and that Azrael guy showed up before she could kill the guy. He got shot in the leg, and I was the last guy standing. You know the rest. We caught her tonight though."
"Abe, be careful. If I lost you, if Johnny lost you..." She stopped holding the ice to my eye. I wrapped my arms around her and replied, "Anything for you two."
She proceeded comment with a hug. Embracing her, I said, "So, does this mean I get to sleep in the bed tonight?"
Reconciliation: The Peacekeeping Monument is a monument in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, commemorating Canada's role in international peacekeeping and the soldiers who have participated and are currently participating, both living and dead.
The work, entitled Reconciliation, depicts three peacekeeping soldiers — two men and a woman — standing on two ridges of stone which cut through the broken debris of war and converge at a high point, which symbolizes the resolution which peacekeeping brings.
"We need action not only to end the fighting but to make the peace....My own government would be glad to recommend Canadian participation in such a United Nations force, a truly international peace and police force." Lester B. Pearson (Nov. 2, 1956)
This is the inscription along the wall at this memorial in Ottawa. Canadians fight so hard to keep the peace; both in the past and present.
Historic Oakland Cemetery...Texture by the amazing Kerstin Frank - Thank you!!
Notes on the photograph: A good friend noticed that this composition looks like it is 'tilted to the right'. Actually, that's what makes the story so compelling to me, and therefore the photo so interesting. If you look carefully, the building itself is level... Oakland Cemetery seems to me to be the ultimate example of 'one-upmanship'. Wealthy families in Atlanta have built these enormous and ornate structures to intern entire generations. If you stroll the grounds each one seems to outdo the ones around it. This particular one caught my attention for a couple of reasons, one of them being precisely this 'odd' perspective. Apparently, this particular family purchased the equivalent of an entire city block if you will. Moreover, it is a 'corner lot' - virtually impossible to miss. The lot itself is on the top side of a gently sloping hill that falls right-to-left. Apparently they could not flatten it effectively, so they solved the problem by building the walls and creating a level platform to build this enormous monument that dwarfs everything else around it. There are other family graves and various statues scattered on the lot behind the structure, and that runs as far back as you can see from this perspective. Even standing on the spot where the photograph was taken there is a bit of an odd optical illusion of the entire thing. It seemed to me that whoever built this wanted this particular spot badly enough that they were willing to spend the the equivalent of the GMP of a third world county to have it! 'Pride and Reconciliation'... For what I wondered...
Saturday was National Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada. Our bridge was lit in orange in recognition and solidarity. Sadly, the display is till patchy. The town is really having trouble with this.
© AnvilcloudPhotography
Raven and Ivan together.
Half Demon and half Djinn are made for understand each other. But they may be in disagreement sometimes and then they can fight violently...
Hopefully Ivan is really good in reconciliation! XD
We've made up, the river and I. We are friends again.
The Cedar is back in its banks, seemingly content. While I, however, continue to wander from place to place, staying part time here, part time there...
This was part of the extensive display in the James Cook Museum in Cooktown regarding the landing and beaching for repairs of his barque, "The Endeavour" in June 1770.
It was too much for me to type out (two fingers for me!) and attach to another shot, so I took the easy way out. Perfectly legible - and really a fabulous story. If only the history and treatment of Indigenous peoples since that time had maintained that same trajectory, things may well be different today. Thank goodness we have made some advances, however poor they may seem at times. We can only hope for the future.
"When there is a voice at the table, relations improve" (read the story)
Enjoy the read.
one definition of this word is: 'to settle or resolve'.
today, i feel saddened and Enraged. i know exactly how i'd 'settle' the events that occurred today in Ottawa in and around parliament hill...as i'm sure many of you do. there is no 'reconciliation' in the common meaning of the word...
It's time for Canada to get extremely tough and acting on any threat, rather than waiting until something happens that affects all of our lives, especially those that have lost lives and loved ones. political correctness be damned. it's time to strike hard and fast.
It's all very terrible elsewhere until it happens in our own neighbourhood. now it's horrific.
i believe this photo shows what's necessary anymore in our society... being observant, vigilant, and reporting and acting. these external and homegrown islamic threats will not defeat us. we will not become like them. they will eventually dissolve into the dust.
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, i have no words for your sacrifice for our country. you went to work today like all of us. you didn't expect to be killed doing what you love.
In the ruins of Coventry Cathedral , given by Richard Branson to mark 50 yrs after World War 2 in 1995 .Statue by Josefna De Vasconcellos
A replica of the Josefina de Vasconcellos sculpture entitled ‘Reconciliation’ in the ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral. Originally created in 1977 and entitled Reunion, it depicts a man and woman embracing each other. De Vasconcellos said, “The sculpture was originally conceived in the aftermath of the War. Europe was in shock, people were stunned. I read in a newspaper about a woman who crossed Europe on foot to find her husband, and I was so moved that I made the sculpture. Then I thought that it wasn't only about the reunion of two people but hopefully a reunion of nations which had been fighting.”
In the 1990s, after repairs, it was renamed Reconciliation upon the request of the Peace Studies Department of the University of Bradford. In 1995 (to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II) bronze casts were placed in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, depicted here, and the Hiroshima Peace Park. Additional replicas are now in the Stormont Estate in Belfast and at the Reichstag in Berlin.
The original St Michael’s Cathedral was almost completely destroyed by the Luftwaffe; the rubble was not cleared for seven years. Largely constructed in the late 14th and 15th Centuries in red sandstone, it was one of the largest parish churches in England and only elevated to cathedral status in 1918 with the creation of the Diocese of Coventry as a result of rapid population growth in the industrial West Midlands. The Perpendicular Gothic spire still dominates the site: the top of the weathervane is 88 metres above the ground, making it the tallest structure in Coventry; among Church of England cathedrals, only Norwich and Salisbury have a higher spire. The ruins remain a permanent memorial to the 600 or so residents of Coventry who died on the night the cathedral was destroyed. The site of the ruins is open to visitors is are occasionally used for acts of worship, particularly those related to reconciliation.
Just occasionally people tell me they don’t like Coventry Cathedral. I couldn’t disagree more; a powerful symbol of Resurrection, restored to a very different life barely twenty years after being destroyed in the Blitz on 14 November 1940. The Modernist Cathedral of St Michael of the 20th Century both surrounded by and incomprehensible without the ruins of 14th Century building that surrounds it.
Coventry Cathedral incarnates the twin and interconnected British revivals of the two decades after the end of the Second World War – a revival of high culture and a revival of Christian faith. Basil Spence’s cathedral housing Jacob Epstein’s sculptures, John Piper’s massive arrangements of stained glass into windows, and Graham Sutherland’s tapestry, still in 2021 the largest in the world, represent collectively a totemic achievement in modernist visual arts and architecture.
The brief for the competition to select the architect of the new Cathedral demanded that the design emphasise the celebration of the Eucharist; Spence himself had a further vision of the building as the repository of great modern works of art. He described his building as “a plain jewel casket”. Piper’s windows cast shafts of colour into the heart of the nave, while the plain glass West Screen, which faces to the geographical south, allows much natural light into the building, essential given that the east end is entirely filled with Graham Sutherland’s great tapestry, still the largest in the world at 22 metres tall by 12 metres wide.
Coventry Cathedral was built to a tight budget – “not more than £985,000” – and making much use of reinforced concrete, the new cathedral was constructed in just six years, between Queen Elizabeth II laying the foundation stone on 23 March 1956 and the dedication ceremony on 25 May 1962.
Could there have been a finer or more appropriate setting for the world première of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem on 30 May 1962? On that night, the Cathedral’s great post-War religious theme was also incarnated in the three soloists: Peter Pears (Britten’s partner) from the host nation, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau from Germany, Galina Vishnevskaya from the USSR, representing three belligerent nations. That tri-national partnership continues to be symbolised by the presence of a replica of the Stalingrad Madonna given by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, where the original hangs, with a second copy being in Kazan Cathedral in Volgograd.
A building that breathes with the presence of the Holy Spirit, giving new life the Church in every generation.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (aka the Pyramid of Peace and Accord) in Astana. According to Foster and Partners "as a non-denominational contemporary building form, the pyramid is resonant of both a spiritual history that dates back to ancient Egypt as well as a symbol of amity for the future."
Price: $58 million.
Founded by Siberian Cossacks in 1824, Astana was a fortified town isolated in the central arid steppe of Kazakhstan, on the Ishim River. Winters there are very harsh, temperatures can fall as low as -35°C, with summers being very hot (up to 40°C) and Astana has been turned from an unfinished administrative empty city into a XXIst Century version of Babylon.
Originally inhabited by impoverished Russian farmers, it has been entirely re-built after a presidential decree with the purpose of being the administrative ruling center. The capital city was officially transferred to this newly built city from Almaty in 1997, in order to be in greater proximity to people of Russian decent, mainly settled in the North.
Thousands of government employees had to move north as the administrations were transferred there so they could keep their work.
With very expensive and luxurious buildings, Astana looks like a utopian city based upon the central power’s delusions of grandeur.
There are plenty of forms and colors in the architecture, making Astana look like a patchwork suited for a multi-ethnic society. The post-modernist giantess architecture led to some failures: a building was called “Titanic” after huge cracks appeared in its foundations. The extension of the capitalist model has raised the construction of shopping malls, restaurants and cafés in a western style, but so far big chains like Mc Donald’s and Starbucks are still being prohibited.
Religious buildings, XL-sized of course, have grown in less than a decade amidst the administrative complexes. The largest synagogue in Central Asia has opened in 2004, and the biggest Mosque in central Asia funded by Qatar, with its golden domes and sixty up meter-high minarets can host up to 5,000 worshipers (the president himself is a Muslim worshiper). The pyramid-shaped Palace of peace glass construction even contains a golf course!
There also lots of cultural centers, sports areas and museums, all evoking the magnificence and greatness of the nation. Eventually it was obtained by the petrodollars and it hides a high contrast of richness, as the majority of people in the country remain poor.
© Eric Lafforgue
By Ivan Rosypskye, at St. David and St. Paul Anglican Church, Powell River, B.C.
iPhone SE
4.15mm f/2.2 back camera
On Sept. 30, people across Canada wear orange and participate in Orange Shirt Day events to recognize and raise awareness about the history and legacies of the residential school system in Canada.
The Canadian government designated Sept. 30 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, beginning in 2021. This responds to Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action 80, which states that the federal government will work with Indigenous people to establish a statutory day to “honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential schools remains a vital component of the reconciliation process”.
Orange Shirt Day originates from the story of Phyllis Webstad from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation. In 1973, on her first day at St. Joseph’s Residential School in Williams Lake, BC, Phyllis’s shiny new orange shirt was stripped from her, never to be seen again.
40 years later, on September 30th, 2013, Phyllis spoke publicly for the first time about her experience, and thus began the Orange Shirt Day movement.
Those two were arguing about something when i happened to pass them by. Suddenly, he took, what i believe to be at least his life partner by the hand, and they continued the conversation in a less energised way.
Camping on Lake Godziszewo/Reconciliation Place (7.5 ha). The lake is sometimes called Godziszewskie, Lesioneckie, or Lesionki and has 18.88 ha according to the list of lakes (Names of Places and Physiographic Objects Commission). Water table surface is 7.5 ha at present. Probably, an area more than twice involves the adjoining marshy lands. The lake is situated on the border of the Kaczlin village and Lesionki hamlet to the north (Kaczlin Administrative Country District) and borders upon the village Lutom grounds. There are: forest bivouac place, fishing grounds, and unguarded beach in here on the black walking trail leading from Sierakow to the forest Diabolic Stone near Lutom.
In recognition of Truth and Reconciliation Day, my painting created in 2023 for one of two shows at the Art Gallery Of Bancroft that year; the first one with indigenous artists; and the second one with "settlers" artists.
'Truth and Reconciliation-View from Eagle's Nest'
(with indigenous figure paddling a birchbark canoe lower centre)
This is a painting (24" x 36", acrylic on canvas) that I created as a submission to one of two juried theme shows on the topic of Truth and Reconciliation (with indigenous populations in the area) scheduled for the Art Gallery of Bancroft (Ontario, Canada) in the fall. As a "settler" in the area (for 71 of my 75 years) I was directed by the call for participation to create a work of art representing the "Reconciliation" dynamic of the theme. After a thorough reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action document published by the Government of Canada, I settled on this idea of illustrating the view from the Eagle's Nest (an iconic and revered geographic spot on the north side of town) as how it would look without the present day "settler" incursions of a Tim Horton's restaurant, business buildings and homes and a golf course--but just the hallowed vision of the curling York River and the simple rolling hills ablaze with fall colour--a view that local indigenous populations have marveled at and honoured for millennia; and that has been a shared sacred spot for me, as well, in my time living here.