Striving Amateurs
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remembering the life work of Kofi Annan .
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better..... Kofi Annan
A Glow Getter is a driven busy gal who strives to achive her goals in life while attaining a beautiful glow both inside and out.
If you want to test your glow getter skills,
take the Monocle Man STUDIO , then use the teleporter to go there.
Different backgrounds, poses and photo opportunities are available for all. :)
Happy Friday everyone! Is it that time again when I strive to bring a story each time I feature a product. This great boots by [Enchante’] are available exclusively at Sanarae which opened to public today. LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spring%20Morning/191/130/4013 More credits: BeUnique
Our ancestors strived with the
momentous job of survival
Still, they really wanted to be artists.
So, in the free time they didn’t actually have,
they would hunt for any natural canvas and
gather whatever tool they could find.
Scratch and scrawl to their heart's delight.
We know a little bit about who we were
when the cost of living was much less
and the cost of death was much higher.
Because we see the drawings
in the oldest museums
and the need for communication
still existing in ourselves.
You think that art is dormant
Hibernating for a season
or a several centuries.
But it lives inside of you.
The need to express oneself
is exactly what makes us human.
Only, we no longer own our own caves.
The real estate has just become too expensive
Profit over people is a reality
And so we take over public spaces
as if they were still ours
telling the world
in broken up fragments
about how we really miss our former selves.
**All poems and photos are copyrighted**
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world"
Desiderata
Max Ehrman
ערב ראש השנה תשע"ז
שנה טובה!
"Lord Jesus, help me to always trust in your saving grace, especially when I am tempted and put to the test. Help me to be faithful to you and give me the courage and strength to resist temptation, especially the temptation to compromise or to be indifferent to your word."
Copyright© 2010 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN
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When, in loopy lupin land, all around him the masses have lost their heads, this tired, storm ridden maverick lupin stands alone, relentlessly pushing towards the light.....
In our garden
When our leaders understand that no weapon or ammunition is conducive to dialogue for peace and stop manufacturing and buying them, then peace will be reborn for the good and happiness of humanity.... → Unfortunately this is an utopia, but I say it anyway !
"This world is a cage of fools where war, peace, love, hate, anger, jubilation, boredom, pleasure, martyrdom follow one another in turn and play on us".
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
“Everyone strives after the law,” says the man, “so how is that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?” The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, “Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it.”
—Franz Kafka, “Before the Law”
Hanksville, Utah
20-10-2022; 01:00 UTC 325;37;4
The Alban Tower and the bell tower of Katedralja Orthodhokse 'Ngjallja e Krishtit' in the city center of Tirana, Albanien.
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“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
John Muir (also known as "John of the Mountains")
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Langwiedboden at an altitude of 2000 meters, an intermediate mountain station for climbing to the Top of Salzburg viewing platform at an altitude of 3029 metres.
Kitzsteinhorn mountain in the Central Eastern Alps, Austria
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See my new pictures in the "My Travels" album:
Summit of the foothills
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52467503895
The magical world of alpine glaciers
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51321325971
Journey to the emerald lake
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51306512183
Tranquil autumn morning on the alpine lake
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51291984294
The last rays of the alpine sun
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51277565722
Road not to be forgotten
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51262706747
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Стремление к высоте
"Горы зовут, и я должен идти".
Джон Мьюир (известный также как "Джон гор")
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Лангвайдбоден на высоте 2000 метров, промежуточная горная станция для подъема на смотровую площадку "Вершина Зальцбурга", 3029 метров.
Гора Кицштайнхорн, Центрально-Восточные Альпы, Австрия
Pose/furniture: Cheeky Pea, Ethereal hanging bed and Ethereal Arbour (Kustom 9)
Hair: Truth, Candy - variety
Mesh Head: S@R, Hybrid Avatar Head - Nea Milky-White
Head Band: +half-deer+, Forest's Tale Flower Crown
Body: Belleza, Venus - V3
Bracelets: .tsg. Candy (group gift)/ +half-deer+, Forest's Tale - Petals and pearls bracelet
Dress: Moon Amore, Selene Dress - Pink
Striving, rising, arriving, accepting, reaching, yearning, learning .....
~ Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutram 心經梵唱 - The Shore Beyond 彼岸 (黃慧音 Imee Ooi) ~
Today the world celebrates Mandela day in honour of one of our country's top leaders and a man of integrity and love for his people..how we wish he was still here to guide us through the tough times surrounding this pandemic but his legacy lives on and through this observance of his birthday we strive to go forward...
I share our national anthem as sung by the wonderful Ndlovu Youth Choir who recently made us all proud of their success in America's got talent...hope you enjoy it!
Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
La felicità sta nell’assenza della lotta per la felicità.
Chang-Tzu
Shirt: [ ERAUQS ] - Will Shirt w/ Tank Top
Skin; leLAPEAU - Evo X - Noel Skin
Head: LeLUTKA Eon Head 3.1
Necklace: ROZOREGALIA_hi/low*NECKLACE(Propose)
Hair: Vango. Rick
I spotted these two doves on new builds on a small exposed site recently and I thought it was a pretty good representation of where I'm at right now, striving for oneness but all too often feeling the need for distance.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «vårkänslor».
My contribution for this week's theme «spring feelings»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
All life, as if an endless moment...
Seasons change after season.
This whole wonderful world was in white,
Then suddenly it becomes green again...
Where is the line, the one beyond which this life is?
Where is sensuality, and where is rationality?
Where is what we call MIRAGES,
And where is the inexorable reality?
And the world - it is as if woven from problems,
The mysteries in it are sometimes inexplicable,
But we live in it for some reason, why?
Everything in this world is so inexplicable...
We want it to be simple, why?
To understand everything that we do not understand?
So that no one understands
Everything that we feel and everything that we know?
What are we striving for, what do we want to understand?
First we create, and then we destroy again,
We are so used to losing so much,
That our souls become hardened from losses.
We are used to life, and it is only a moment!
I just started living, and life is already coming to an end,
And this world remains a fairy tale
A mystery, once unsolved...
Tunnel through the rhododendron, Scaly Mountain Trail, Nantahala National Forest
Pentax K-1
SMC Pentax 1:5.5 55mm
Iridient Developer
If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
[Ashly Lorenzana]
The most accomplished street artist in Launceston is Kreamart. His identity is unknown (a local version of Banksy), but looking at this work he could well be a professional signwriter.
The message is one we should all take to heart whatever we do.
Happy Me Again Monday my Flickr Friends :-)
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
LL Cool J
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Murmurations can be mezmerising as thousands of birds apear to be synchonizingly flying swiftly and gracefully in beautiful designs in the sky.
What some don't realize is that more often then not, these murmurations are caused by a falcon near the edge of the flock. It turns out that the beauty of a murmuraton's movements often arises purely out of defense, as the starling strive to put distance between themselves and the predator.
While watching this flock in awe as they appeared to be purposely creating cool designs in unison in the sky, I took some pics of portions of the flock and discovered there indeed was an intruder among them!