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remembering the life work of Kofi Annan .
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better..... Kofi Annan
We all strive to be the best we can be, whether that be for family, work, friends etc. How often do we take the time to be the best we can be for ourselves? How often do we take the time to recognise how beautiful we are, as souls, as beings? How often do we tell ourselves that we are enough...just as we are? It has taken me 44 years to start asking myself this question.
Last night, my son, who has complex needs and disabilities, hugged me tightly and said "I love you mummy". Not because he was asked to, but because he wanted to. "You're the best mummy in the world".
After I held him tightly and told him how much I love him, he wriggled free and was lost in his spinning world again.
But to me, that was the world, that was everything. And I allowed myself to see, for the first time in 44 years, that despite everything, I must be the best for my son, does this mean I can also be the best for me?
Epiphanies are best shared with people you truly admire and respect, which is why I'm sharing this 💜
The ascending view of the stairs always gives me the positive feeling, pushes me to improve and motivate me to make effort to rise in the life. We should always strive for improvement in life, work, relationship, skills, ability, thoughts, etc. The improvement means not better than others but better than ourselves from our previous level but with humility and not with arrogance.
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**
"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.
Still striving for that "perfect" B&W flower shot, whatever that might be.
This is not one that I normally would have tried in B&W because I love the color version so much. But, it works. Not perfect, but I like 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
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0rh1DMTvfM
Life is little better than a dream, and little worth the loves and strivings that we crowd into it.
We see Home fairly written.
Shining from the word, as rays shine from a star, we see how, when our graves are old, other hopes than ours are young, other hearts than ours are moved; how other ways are smoothed; how other happiness blooms, ripens, and decays--no, not decays, for other homes and other bands of children, not yet in being nor for ages yet to be, arise, and bloom and ripen to the end of all!
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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!
"It is as noble to strive for balance as for perfection; because it's a perfection to keep your balance. " Jean Grenier
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...
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «vårkänslor».
My contribution for this week's theme «spring feelings»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
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.
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]
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
but in striving that our country
shall be righteous as well as strong.
Happy Memorial Day !!
"Il mare insegna ai marinai sogni che poi i porti spengono." Bernard Giradeau.
Prima o poi bisogna trovare il coraggio di uscire fuori dal porto, per non dimenticare quanto più emozionante è il solcare il mare.
Buona giornata
PS: Foto di archivio, un bellissimo tramonto illumina le barche, ormai vuote, dei pescatori di un piccolo porto del sud della Sicilia. Foto scattata a mano libera con obbiettivo grandangolare, 10mm.
Significant accomplishments past, present and future.
"Hero - Mariah Carey and Pavarotti"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KPUU-t28lg
This shot is dedicated to my entire student who made it in the end.
To name few that I could remember: Nazri, Siti Khodijah, Marfis,
Amirul, Noor Faridzatul Ain and others.....strive for more