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Hope you are staying warm? This is another frame from the freezing cold morning a few days back. City was glowing under a heavy snow! I had a ton of fun waiting for a train to spark and backlit the snow flakes. What do you think?
Hair Wasabi Spark for Kustom9
Ribbon Schelm Kanzashi for Okinawa Sakura Matsuri
Head Lelutka Avalon
Skin Aeoo Jiwoo
Eyeshadow HeartBreaker Bratz for Skin Fair
Eyes Misunderstood Sayuri for Skin Fair
Earrings Kunglers Petal for Cosmopolitan
Tattoo JC Flower meadow Branding for Skin Fair
Kiseru Jury PoP Sakura for Okinawa Sakura Matsuri
Gown Cococat Starry for Okinawa Sakura Matsuri
Pose WetCat Pink Petals for Okinawa Sakura Matsuri
Poznan, Poland
Ul. Święty Marcin
Winter/Dawn
Sun on the shoulder...great way to start the day!
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Vectrons pantograph giving some sparks and lighting up the scenery while pushing IC 34 all the way from Rovaniemi to Helsinki on a frosty winter evening. Todays service was running around 80 minutes late.
It's not the spark that caused the fire
It was the air you breathed that fanned the flame
What you think you'll solve with violence
Will only spread like a disease
Until it all comes 'round again
Was John the only dreamer?
Sleep with one ear close to the ground
And wake up screaming
When we lay our cold weapons down
We'll wake up dreaming
Obsessions with self-preservation
Faded when I threw my fear away
It's not a thing you can imagine
You either lose your fear
Or spend your life with one foot in the grave
Is God the last romantic?
Sleep with one ear close to the ground
And wake up screaming
When we lay our cold weapons down
We'll wake up dreaming
Only love can turn this around
I wake up dreaming
Everything we've lost can be found
We'll wake up dreaming
History
VITAL SPARK, (ex-EILEAN EISDEAL, ex-ELSEDA, ex-VIC 72), was built by Brown's Shipyard, Hull, in 1944, and was sold out of naval service at Devonport Dockyard (where she had been a stores carrier) in 1968, and was then motorised and renamed ELSEDA, based at Troon as a cargo vessel. In 1972, she was bought by an owner based on the Isle of Mull, and worked around the islands dredging coal from sunken vessels. In 1984, she was sold to an owner of Easdale Island, near Oban, and was renamed EILEAN EASDEAL to run a inter-island cargo service around the Western Isles until 1994 (when the Scottish Office withdrew its subsidy for Scottish Shipping). In 2001, she was brought to the Inveraray Maritime Museum, where she still is, and in 2006, she was re-registered as VITAL SPARK, the name of the ficitional puffer that appeared in the Para Handy books by Neil Munro.
Sources
Classic Boat (February, 2000, pp93) Sales ad for Ancasta International Boat Sales, Scotland
Key dates
1944
Built as VIC 72 by Brown's Shipyard, Hull
1968
Sold out of naval service at Devonport Dockyard where she had been a stores carrier
1969
Motorised and renamed ELSEDA, based at Troon as cargo vessel
1972
Bought by owner based on Isle of Mull. Worked around islands dredging coal from sunken vessels
1984
Sold to new owner and renamed EILEAN EASDEAL to run inter-island cargo service around Western Isles
1994
Service withdrawn when Scottish Office withdrew subsidy for Scottish Shipping
2001
Bought to Inveraray Maritime Museum for public display
2006
Re-registered as VITAL SPARK, name of ficitional puffer in Para Handy books by Neil Munro
If the lines were people, the intersections are were we meet. The more connections, the brighter our lives.
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Taken from a much larger piece I wrote / recorded for my blog/pod at substack:
Political discourse has become our lives. The news cycle is constant. We are expected to understand and have fully formed opinions on everything immediately. And it truly is everything.
On top of that, our media crafts stories for us rather than reporting the facts. Lately, almost all of our media is capitulating to authoritarianism.
Our reaction as people, voters, artists, and citizens isnât to sort it out and to have some kind of discourse to make our society better for everyone. Our only objective is to win. Itâs not even about being right â we are living in a largely post-factual atmosphere now â it is simply and only about winning.
With winning comes power, but only for the already-powerful. For us, the regular folks just trying to survive, the win is merely for the sake of winning. Our love of absurd competition, especially reality TV, directly led to this.
I'm not saying that photography contests and juried shows lead to fascism. But I am saying that we are already weighed down by competition, so why add to it? Why do this to ourselves?
[Again, this is from a larger piece. It's taken out of context. If you'd like to read/listen to that context, you can find it.]
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'Spark Again'
Camera: Ansco Color Clipper
Film: Harman Pheonix 200
Process: ECN-2
Washington
August 2025
Thought I would try a more iconic pose from Granada. I hope I have added enough spark to give it a fresh taste. Otherwise, as always, I have added in a narrative so you can wander through history from a different Point Of View.
On the shoulders of southern Spain is a Fortress that once ruled with supreme confidence. The kings believed that nothing would change as long as they were alive. And then one of them died and everything changed.
Now the fortress and palace are a walking garden for people with enough footprints to get there.
The proverbial flies on the walls have also passed on and so there really are only rumors of stories left to tell of this great kingdom and the daily lives of people who lived and prospered there.
I only know these stories from a direct descendant of a gnat who sat on the wings of a fly perched on the wall where a king and queen shared court with legends of old.
Some other direct descendants are still living so I cannot reveal everything the gnat told me but I can tell you this ... It was all amazing!
For instance, one Friday the eldest son walked past the jaguar fountain in the courtyard and asked his mother "Will I be a good King?"
The mother thought for awhile and spoke wisely "It really is up to the gnat on the fly's wings on the wall to know for sure...but I believe if it is written in the stars it will be so! " She smiled sweetly but he did not feel so self assured.
Years later, he did become King and breathed a sigh of relief.
But as many kings, he finally had to let go when the winds started blowing from the Northwest and new owners bought the property and asked him to leave.
It is rumored that he sat at this perch for many days looking back at his home and meditating on the amazing journey of his life and his temporal loss. Eventually he packed up his caravan and relocated to Morocco where he lived a prosperous and fruitful life but he was always the most proud of the beauty his family created with this grand monument.
When I came here, a few years later, I did not feel like a King nor a gnat on the wings of a fly on the wall. But I did taste history in the meal I ate on this same terrace and I can still smell the sweet scent of wisteria rising up in the heat and hear the breezes rustle and crackling leaves in the trees like a gnat dancing on the wings of a fly playing flamenco on the walls of the golden palace listening to conversations and passing it along to the next generation.
No matter what anyone says, History tastes better when it's warm and the view is hot!
Be Still 52 - Open to your interpretation
edit based on Kim's preset 'serendipitous'
The spark a lovely layout from Anthropologie magazine,
inspired by the color palette, brown-orange and green ...
I used the backside of my green painted wooden table top
and some dried roses from my birthday bouquet ...
"You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark
There's something happening somewhere, baby I just know that there is."
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