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"Man, respect, love and fear God. And remember that you are human. The church was erected from the ground up at the expense of Mina Pap Nikolaou Szampanaki on March 4, 1889".
The first sentence of the inscription is probably part of the poetic / musical tradition of the island, a couplet - religious in this case - with which the musicians composed the "mantinades", songs played in the "panigyri", celebrations that combined religion, entertainment and trade. The second, of course, mentions the donor who contributed to the construction of the temple.
Olympos, Karpathos island, Greece.
Explored 18 June, 2023
#sliderssunday
Actually, I'd wanted to upload something sunshiny and summery for Sliders Sunday, but then I remembered that 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of 17 June 1953, the Day of the East German Uprising. The uprising started on June 16 in East Berlin. Construction workers had decided to strike against unbearable work quotas. The momentum of this strike spread across the GDR and accumulated in a massive uprising in numerous East German cities and villages against the East German Government and the SED (the Socialist Unity Party). Workers were joined by students, people demanded free elections and the release of all political prisoners. Just like in Prague 15 years later, the East German Uprising could only be brutally stopped by Soviet forces who sent tanks to the streets of East Berlin. More than 50 people were killed during the uprising, several more were sentenced to death later. In West Germany and West Berlin, 17 June was celebrated as a public holiday until 1990 when it was replaced by the Tag der Deutschen Einheit (German Unity Day) which we celebrate each year on 3 October.
This photo doesn't have a direct connection to 17 June, it is related to the German division in general and specifically to the Berlin Wall since the White Crosses memorial remembers the people who were killed in their attempt of fleeing the GDR. The last victim of the Berlin Wall and the German division, Chris Gueffroy, was shot on 5 February 1989, only nine months before the Berlin Wall fell. He was only 20 years old.
In this particular spot in Berlin's government district, the border between West and East Berlin ran right through the river Spree. In fact, the opposite side of the Spree where you can now see the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, one of many government buildings in the Mitte district, belonged to East Berlin, while this side of the Spree, the Reichstag building included, belonged partly to West Berlin. The white, highlighted strip in the lower right corner (next to the steps) marks the course of the Berlin Wall.
Evening calm at the shoreline - just a few oystercatchers out for a stroll before dinner.
**** EDIT: Apparently these are hooded plovers and not oyster catchers. Glad I got in the sentence about oysters before 😉 Thanks to those who pointed it out!
They seemed perfectly content, stepping through sunset reflections looking for tasty tidbits.
I wish they could have caught some oysters for me; I do love a fresh natural oyster! Shucking oysters is a shell of a good time ;)
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
Thanks for any visits and comments, always appreciated!
Waterscape 93/100 for 2025
ENG: How do we want to live in the future? The Futurium motivates its guests to engage with different future perspectives and possibilities, and to do so in a playful way: various scenarios, an exhibition, a future lab and a forum for dialogue and discussion invite you to develop your own attitude.
The FUTURIUM building was opened on 5 September 2019 and is a kind of future museum and thus aims to answer open questions about the future. Admission is free and anyone can visit it not far from Berlin's main railway station. I personally can only recommend it. If only because the roof terrace (skywalk) offers a beautiful panoramic view over Berlin's city centre.
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GER: Wie wollen wir in Zukunft leben? Das Futurium motiviert seine Gäste zur Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Zukunftsperspektiven und Möglichkeiten, und das ganz spielerisch: Verschiedene Szenarien, eine Ausstellung, ein Zukunftslabor und ein Forum für Dialog und Diskussion laden dazu ein, eine eigene Haltung zu entwickeln.
Der FUTURIUM Bau wurde am 5. September 2019 eröffnet und ist eine Art Zukunfts-Museum und soll so offene Fragen der Zukunft beantworten. Der Eintritt ist Frei und darf von jedem unweit des Berliner Hauptbahnhofs besucht werden. Ich persönlich kann es nur empfehlen. Alleine schon deswegen, da die Dachterrasse (Skywalk) einen schönen Panorama Blick über Berlins Mitte bietet.
"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think" :-))
Dorothy Parker's most famous quote
HMM!! HPPT!! Humor Matters ;-)
camellia, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
What a difference a Year Makes
This was December 2019 , commuting in the dark and seeing the dawn rising . as the LUAS tram passed over the M50 motorway. I have been Working From Home . since late February , this year has gone in a blur of unexpected events and lots and lots of isolation. I don't know how I feel about commuting anymore. It seems like something from a bizarre Sci-fi film now :)
We are good at adapting !
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Or a lighthouse for that matter. I was reading on the internet that it’s a criminal offence here in the U.K. for a legally registered camera owner to pass within a 50 meter radius of a beach hut without grabbing a quick snap. As there were around 30 beach huts here, I was obviously looking at a lengthy sentence had I not exercised my shutter button finger (EM120119)
Everyone's so soft, everyone's so sensitive
Do I offend you? You're hanging on my sentences
You can keep your costume and you can keep your mask
I'ma take a bow so you can kiss my ass
I never signed up for your drama club.
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The sentence "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays.
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Blick durch die Königskolonnaden und den Kleistpark auf das Gebäude des heutigen Kammergerichts, in dem unter dem Nazi-Regime der berüchtigte Volksgerichtshof tagte, der unter anderem die Urteile gegen die Widerstandskämpfer des 20. Juli 1944 fällte. Darauf weist der Gedenkstein im Vordergrund hin.
View through the Königskolonnaden and Kleistpark to the building of today's Kammergericht (Court of Justice), where the infamous People's Court met under the Nazi regime, which, among other things, passed sentences against the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944. The memorial stone in the foreground marks this.
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Turning the pages a sentence caught her eyes. “A dream is a wish your heart makes”. Perhaps there was truth in those words. She had dreamed of a different life. A life with love. Surprising and unexpected love came. Time had been tough and lonely, she thought. The change was most welcoming and very invigorating.
She had felt so happy. He was a kind and charming man. Rapidly her love for him grew stronger. Every day she had longed for him like A DRIED OUT FLOWER. She had needed him like a flower needs water. So easily he had filled her heart and soul with love, hopes and dreams. She hesitated. Stop! Don't start winding yourself up. He's gone, she reminded herself. As unexpected as he came.
Her eyes brimmed with tears as she sadly realized, that she had never found the true path to his heart. Now she knew, there was no need for searching any longer. He would remain an utterly priceless treasure. In time, she hoped, the memory would be without pain. I miss you, she sighed. No, I've to forget about him, she muttered. Still she could feel him and the bond between them. She wished it would be different, but he would always be a part of her, unfortunately she knew that for a fact. Perhaps it was time for new dreams.
I have eight electric guitars altogether. Two acoustics also and a cigar box guitar. I have been working for weeks preparing my basement as a small recording studio. Drums are to the left. I just received a new one yesterday from Florida. It is green. I will show it later.
I am awaiting sentencing. (wife + guitars)
Oh well.
Happy Whatever you wish day.
he stands in the alley. the vapor leaves his mouth like a sentence he hasn’t finished. the phone in his left hand, the device in his right. two kinds of breath. one visible.
The legendary King Arthur has a direct association with the Castle Rocks of St John, courtesy of Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem of 1813, Bridal of Triermain. The poem tells the story of a young knight named Roland de Vaux who falls in love with a mysterious woman named Gyneth, who is revealed to be a fairy queen. The story takes place in the scenic Vale of St. John, near the town of Triermain. Gwyneth resides in the castle there (Castle Rock).
Synopsis of the poem:
The Bridal of Triermain interweaves three stories, all with a Lake District setting: the eighteenth-century courtship of Arthur and Lucy, the Arthurian Legend of 'Lyulph's Tale', and the twelfth-century romance of Sir Roland de Vaux.
In order to warn his aristocratic lover Lucy against excessive maidenly pride, the low-born poet Arthur recites 'Lyulph's Tale' in cantos I-II. He tells how how King Arthur is seduced by the enchantress Guendolen. When he abandons the pregnant Guendolen to resume his kingly duties, she swears revenge. Sixteen years later, the fruit of their union, Gyneth appears at Camelot to remind Arthur of his promise that should he and Guendolen produce a daughter, she would wed the bravest of the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur declares a tournament with Gyneth's hand as the prize but instructs her to halt the combat before lives are lost. As the instrument of her mother's wrath, however, she does nothing to end the ferocious fighting, until Merlin arises from a chasm in the ground to punish her. She is sentenced to slumber in Guendolen's enchanted castle until awakened by a knight as brave as any of the Round Table.
The poet Arthur's courtship of Lucy proves successful and, following their marriage, Lucy begs him to tell of Gyneth's fate. In the third and final canto, then, he recounts the quest of the twelfth-century knight Sir Roland de Vaux of Triermain. He has heard Gyneth's legend and sets out to find the enchanted castle. Having located it in the Valley of Saint John, he successfully passes through a series of allegorical dangers and temptations (Fear, Avarice, Sensuality, Ambition) to awaken Gyneth from her five hundred-year sleep and win her hand.
Courtesy of www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/poetry/triermain.html
Rain is blue, rain is peaceful, rain is quiet, rain is love... Rain cleans, rain soothes...
I remember finding my hiding moments walking under rain, and listening to this song from one of my favorite bands. Caption is a sentence from the lyrics.
Just for fun -- seeing the line up of flowers in various stages seem to form a sentence using different 'words' and 'punctuation marks'!
The world famous Maligne Lake valley, in Jasper National Park, Canada, is being slowly being devastated by pine beetle. Even in this image, you can see the brown trees in the background. They have a death sentence. Global warming? Absolutely.
José Carreras: "En Aranjuez con tu Amor" (Joaquín Rodrigo / youtube)
The first sentence of the play is projected onto the walls in the background. Karlos, reclining on the floor besides the record player, is listening to the same aria of the Verdi opera again and again. He tries to write a letter - he writes a line, crumbles up the paper, takes a new paper, writes, crumbles it up again and again. Domingo enters "Oh, my prince, Break this mysterious and gloomy silence!"
Verdi, Don Carlos: "io la vidi e al suo sorriso (Io l'ho perduta)" (am Anfang dieses Einstiegs hört man den Souffleur)
Auf den Wänden im Hintergrund der 1. Satz des Stückes. Karlos liegt neben dem Plattenspieler auf dem Boden, er hört immer wieder die selbe Stelle aus der Verdi Oper Don Carlos, vor ihm ein Stoß A4 Blätter, er versucht einen Brief zu schreiben - schreibt eine Zeile, zerknüllt das Papier, //: schreibt am nächsten Blatt, zerknüllt es :// Domingo kommt "Brechen Sie dies rätselhafte Schweigen...."
Part of: "Empty Padded ~ LeerGefüllt - Waiting Time at Work" - Left handed drawings and writings on the empty left pages of my prompter`s book Soufflierbuch Proben "Don Karlos" Friedrich Schiller
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I've no idea what these flowers are, but they were suspended from an arch trellis and made a beautiful display.
The stripes may mark him as the prisoner, yet the weight rests on her shoulders. His smoke drifts free into the night, while she sits bound by silence. On the steps of the Cathedral, the roles of captive and keeper quietly reverse. Shot in Cologne, Germany with a Leica M11 Mono and Summilux 50mm.
OMG, the world is changing fast. I created the image below, but I didn't use a camera or any of my archived Western coyote pictures. I wrote the following sentence:" realistic detail photo of mature western coyote with amber eyes in snow storm looking into camera from close range"
I entered that into an AI system called midjourney and after a minute, this image popped out. I upscaled it 6x in Topaz AI and did some small color adjustments in DxO Photolab.
All in, it took 10-minutes!!!! No sneaking around in a snow storm, no spending hours waiting for a coyote to come by and no hundreds of missed shots because the coyote went behind a bush or turned tail and ran away.
Soon, every magazine will have an "artist" that writes text to satisfy his editor's latest request.
I hope to use AI to enhance my actual photos, but I'm beginning to wonder why.
Let me know what distortions you see. I think that the nose and whiskers are a little fox-like.
This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of magnesium).
This sentence is made of yak wool.
This sentence glows in the dark.
This sentence was born with a caul.
This sentence once spit in a book reviewer's eye.
This sentence suffered a split infinitive - and survived.
This sentence leaks.
Tom Robbins
I got inspired by this sentence ''Free like a bird''
Well I didnt have wings or feathers or anything so I just had to improvise x]
They had inherited his spirit—the spirit which demands that the thoughts in the mind should harmonize with the words on the lips when we sing in choir (ut mens nostra concordet voci nostrae) 12 and that we should all be, in reality, what we are supposed to be (semper meminisse debet [abbas] quod dicitur, et nomen majoris factis implere): 13 that conduct should be in accordance with our profession. For St. Benedict passes a strict sentence upon those who call themselves monks but lead a worldly life and “lie to God by their tonsure.” 14 Hoc sit quod dicitur [let it be what it is called]. 15 These are the watchwords of our fathers: truth, simplicity in all things, unity as opposed to duplicity: our behavior, our name, our profession, all should be reducible to one and the same thing.
-The Spirit of Simplicity, Jean-Baptiste Chautard OSCO, Translated by Thomas Merton
Drops of life, the fallen few
Feeding the ground, travelling through
Tears that flowed from Gods eyes
As he watched from the skies
Seeing his once beautiful creation
Sentenced to the cruellest damnation
By human insanity, clothed in flags of hate
Strangling the hope out of fate
Poisoning the body of Earth
Dropping bombs on those fresh from birth
Worshipping at the altar of wealth
Creating slavery with sophistic stealth
Inflicting the cruellest damnation
On the once beautiful creation
Under the never ending, infinite skies
As tears flow from Gods eyes
Cleansing the ground, until salvations seed
Rises high to shelter those in need