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When you’ve lost everything and all the initial feelings wear off and thoughts are processed, it can feel like your drowning. How did you end up sinking so deep? How are you going to get back to the surface for a breath of air? Are you going to get back at all, or is this how and where it ends? Is everything over?
No matter how far it feels, this is a fight for your life. You have to push, you have to fight! One more kick, one more stroke! Keep going! You won’t be defeated, not this time. You can make it. You’re good enough to do this. Don’t worry about what comes next, don’t stress over what came before, just make it up to catch your breath. You’ll be ok. Just don’t... give.. up...
I think the word "Alone" has been touched on over and over in this series of photos, however it needs it's own space because it may be the hardest of all the pills to swallow. It's one thing to go through a situation where you've lost everything, but to go through it by yourself is by far the worst feeling in the world. Often times what separates those who make it back on their feet, to those who never recover, is one simple thing. Support.
We're all different people, and everyone who falls has their own reasons for falling. One thing we all have in common though is that any single one of our individual falls can be broken up by another person choosing to get involved. What hurts more than anything in the world is falling, and seeing everyone you ever considered a friend just watching. No one offering to help, no one trying to prevent or even slow your decent, just watching, pitying, and coldly turning the other cheek. There's no feeling lonelier in the world than knowing in your time of need, when it's finally YOU who needs help, that everyone, even the ones you helped at points when you stood tall and they needed a hand, will just let you fall.
If you know someone who is struggling, no matter what that struggle is, let them know you see them. If you care about them, let them know. You might be the reason they recover, you might be all they needed, but you'll never know unless you try.
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Parce que je suis dépouillée, je n'ai plus rien
Dépouillée, je n'ai plus rien
Dépouillée, je n'ai plus rien
Et je coupe enfin les cordes
Die Aufnahme zeigt den Moritzplatz, einem Abschnitt der Augsburger Innenstadt bei Nacht. Die Lichtsterne sind durch eine kleine Blende generiert worden.
The photograph shows Moritzplatz, a section of Augsburg's city centre, at night. The light stars have been generated by a small aperture.
I've taken a sunrise photo at this location a few years back, but every sunrise is different, and this time if you look to the right of the tree you can see the crescent moon!
Have you ever felt like no matter how many people you've been there for in your lifetime when they needed someone, that no one seems to be there for you when you really need a friend? Are you the first person who volunteers to help, and feel like you're the last person who gets any help back? When you're in your hour of need, do you notice people tending to look the other way instead of putting their hand on your shoulder and telling you it'll be ok?
It's really hard when you've hit rock bottom and realize who your friends really are, in some cases you may not have any at all. Not real ones. It's these moments that show who someone really is, any one can pretend to be your friend when you're on the top of the world, when there's something they can gain from being close to you. The others make you feel even more alone, tossed out, rejected as they carry on without you.
If you're reading this, and you ever need a friend, or a shoulder to cry on, I'll be there for you.
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After you've been forced to change paths it's easy to feel lost, alone, and afraid in the darkness. Naked and vulnerable, exposed for the world to see and judge, all defenses stripped bare and left open like fresh wound, to feel anything other than afraid would just be bad instincts. It's okay to be scared, it's okay to feel afraid, this is when you should feel frightened, this trial will test you and try to break you.
Whether it succeeds is up to a number of factors, none of them bigger than your own willingness or unwillingness to give up. Other people may or may not be able to, or choose to help you, but no one will ever be a bigger factor than you will be for yourself. None of us are in complete control of our destiny, even the very most successful people have setbacks and take losses, but how we respond to those losses in the end is what defines us and determines if we spend the rest of our lives naked and afraid, or back in the driver's seat of our lives.
To add to the list of wild animals that have been visiting my yard lately is a pair of skunks. There is a big skunk and a smaller skunk, that visit almost every night.
This week I found, quite by chance, on my FastStone software, a possibility called 'image strip builder'.
So I tried it and this is my second attempt, posted for
Saturday Self-Challenge: something I found.
The flowers came from my archive of pink flowers - and I couldn't resist also adding a border to the image.
Happy weekend, everyone!
🌸🌺🌷remembering Clare, always
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strips of land in the Venice lagoon draw figures that from the sky seem mysterious geoglyphs to be discovered.
Vulture City Ghost Town
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What a 50's vintage Ford Anglia is doing in this scene is beyond me...
Who knew that the simple parking lot of a strip mall could provide the backdrop for the magnificent panorama of a summer-storm sunset?
Tucker, Georgia, USA.
10 August 2022. (8:14 pm EDT)
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You know, I love it, when the music's loud
But c'mon, strip that down for me, baby
Now there's a lot of people in the crowd
But only you can dance with me
So put your hands on my body
And swing that round for me, baby
You know, I love it when the music's loud
But c'mon, strip that down for me
Oh, strip that down, girl
Love when you hit the ground, girl
Oh, strip that down, girl
Love, when you hit the ground
All losses are caused by different reasons, but a select few of them happen because something was straight out taken from us, or we were taken ourselves. Imagine being not only stripped of your clothes, your dignity, and your pride, but also being forced to go along for the ride. A ride that involves no acceptance, no going with the flow, no ability to fight, just being absolutely forced to comply with everything and everyone being taken from you.
This can all be metaphorical to describe a situation in your life, but it can also be exactly what it describes. Sex trafficking is still a very real thing and is one of the worst kind of losses you can go through as a human being. Did you know that over 27 million people a year are forced into jobs, not just sexual ones, but hard labor jobs as well? You hear about the numbers sometimes of women and girls forced to be sex slaves, but you don't hear about the number of slaves working on farms, ranches, in mines, and this doesn't even include the number of inmates locked up on bogus crimes and forced to do the jobs society has deemed undesirable. Silenced, subdued, shackled, and sometimes raped repeatedly, there are depths a person can fall into that are unimaginable while the rest of the world declares "We should do something." While sipping their starbucks, and going to get a massage on the weekend at the spa from one of the trafficked women in town.
Next time you feel like you've lost everything, just remember there's a lot further you could fall, and your situation can most likely be fixed a lot easier than some other people's darkest days.
Another grand tree in Moonshine Park on the Hutt River.
Starkly beautiful in the early morning light.
I had some FUN with kids telling how "Möbius strip" works, and letting them practice with the red thing.
If you haven't heard about "Möbius strip" which was discovered by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing (each one discovered independently) in the late 19th century, you may find from the internet.
A former champion of the forest stripped bare for all to see. How the mighty have fallen. Still a magnificent specimen, and for once in conditions that gave this hero the atmosphere he deserved
I love bees ... my prayer is:
Please let our buzzing friends grow in numbers and bring joy to our lives, and life too our gardens. 🐝🐝🐝
Now where would we Bee without our little insect friends buzzing here and there pollinating plants?
Furthermore, tiny yellow bundles of bizziness darting too & fro busy collecting the pollen to make delicious honey for us to enjoy.
Without our tiny stripped buzzing friends the world would certainly be a sadder place to live, if indeed we could without their help.
"ON A WING AND A PRAYER"
Lend me your wings buzzy bee,
let me sample the floral delight,
with these wings I'm buzzing and free,
and buzzed on my inaugural flight.
Poetry by Sean.
Just a little poem to accompany my little image, hope you like it.
'Background information'
Actually this honey bee hit my kitchen window and fell to the path, it seemed stunned so I helped it onto a cape daisy flower to recuperate.
Popped inside grabbed my camera and there we have it, good news the bee flew off minutes later. 👍🐝😇
Love and Peace everyone!
Keep safe and well.
A spectral Christmas Eve walk at Ivinghoe Beacon.
Despite knowing this walk so well, there were a couple of moments when I lost my bearings in this blanket of fog.
A lot of the farmers around here introduced 3 metre conservation strips around their fields a number of years ago. The idea is to encourage the return of the many endangered species of farmland birds that declined following the introduction of intensive farming techniques. Certainly it seems to have worked with good populations of Skylarks, Meadow Pipits, Yellowhammers and Corn Buntings at this location. Not that I saw any in this pea souper!