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”to the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – lao tzu
i’m grateful to the universe for allowing me to see her majestic beauty before my own eyes… i sat still, in awe, as the milky way core rose over the mountains outside of big bend national park in terlingua texas at tin valley retro rentals which is part of the chihuahuan desert. the milky way is accompanied by a blue giant star and a shooting star, both towards the upper right of the photograph.
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Unconditional Surrender, or Kiss Statue
Tuna Harbor Park
San Diego, California
After arriving in San Diego about noon and getting into our rental car (a chore made longer by the fact Hertz didn't have what we had requested and made repeated attempts to talk me into upgrading to a luxury car), Ruth Ann and I stopped at Top of the Market restaurant for a very nice lunch over 12 hours after our very early breakfast. The restaurant provided a nice view of San Diego Bay, as well as very good food; immediately north was the USS Midway Museum, part of which can be seen here from Tuna Harbor Park, 700 North Harbor Drive.
The 25-foot statue "Unconditional Surrender" (aka the Kiss Statue) by Seward Johnson, resembles the famous Alfred Eisenstadt photo, "V-J Day in Times Square" but is said to be based on someone else's photo from that day, which marked the end of World War II. According to information on line, the statue is controversial, as many feel it lacks artistic merit and grace. The initial statue was placed in the park, property of the San Diego Unified Port District, in 2007 (the USS Midway Museum opened 2004), and three members of the SDUPD board resigned over the decision to erect this permanent, bronze statue in 2013. The harsh light I had to work with doesn't help the statue's appearance.
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This imposing 2,5 metres / 8 feet tall +- Sculpture is currently on display in a popular shopping mall.
Located in the coastal town of Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Sublime Surrender
Mixed Media on Acrylic
Gregory Scott
In Sublime Surrender, Gregory Scott plunges us into a vortex of radiant emotion—where ecstasy and unease, chaos and clarity, coexist in vibrant harmony. Color itself becomes a language of transformation, flowing through the full emotional spectrum with raw, unfiltered urgency.
This work is not merely seen—it is felt. Like a cosmic release or spiritual shedding, the painting invites the viewer to let go of control and be carried into the sublime unknown. Each brushstroke pulses with movement and momentum, blurring the line between the physical and the metaphysical, the internal and the infinite.
What begins as visual overwhelm becomes liberation. To engage with Sublime Surrender is to yield—to the beauty of being undone, and remade.
---GSP
The remains of an old lead smelting mill on the moors between Arkengarthdale and Swaledale. It replaced two earlier watermills on the site and operated from the mid to late 19th century.
244/365 - Our Daily Challenge - "Begins with S"
I love acorns, so I was glad for an opportunity to shoot them today. If I'm thinking literally about the challenge, I could say that S is for simplicity, or seasonal, or seed. But in a figurative sense, I believe the acorn represents surrender. John 12:24 says "unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds". The same applies to acorns. A wise woman said it this way:
"We are being asked to trust, to leave the planning to God. God's ultimate plan is as far beyond our imaginings as the oak tree is from the acorn's imaginings.The acorn does what it was made to do, without pestering its maker with questions about when and how and why. We who have been given intelligence and a will and a wide range of wants that can be set against the divine Pattern for Good are asked to believe Him. We are given the chance to trust Him when He says to us, ' ...If any man will let himself be lost for my sake, he will find his true self."
“When will we find it?” we ask.
The answer is “TRUST ME”.
“How will we find it?”
The answer again is, “TRUST ME”.
“Why must I let myself be lost?” we persist.
The answer is:
“LOOK AT THE ACORN AND TRUST ME”.
(Catherine Marshall)
Trust...that's challenging for a control freak like me. Maybe that's part of why I love acorns so much...because they remind me that my job is not to try to control(control is an illusion anyway)...It's to trust the One who knows what He's doing.
Textures by Kim Klassen: Ugglove and Scripted Autumn
Nikon D5000, 105mm
"Unconditional Surrender" is a 25-feet high, painted aluminum sculpture erected in 2007 (it's a traveling sculpture; this photo taken in Sarasota, FL). Also called The Kiss, the 6,000 pound statue was created by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo. The photo was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse, Edith Shain, in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day. Edith doesn't remember who the sailor was, she just went with the moment.
If any of you will be in NYC on August 14 in any given year, there will be a Kiss-In in Times Square for the anniversary of the end of World War II. Couples are encouraged to kiss in the manner of the Unconditional Surrender sculpture... guys, bring your sailor cap!
I want to sleep beneath
Peaceful skies in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head...
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Arriving at Collins Lake on a Monday meant we shared the lower lake camping area with one other rig and about 100 Canadian Geese...It was marvelous...That all changed come Wednesday...
Autumn Surrender
Lake Erie Metro Park
Brownstown, Michigan
It’s been a great fall for colors, but the shows just about over.
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Save a Life, Surrender your Knife.
Increase The Peace, Keep Knives Off The Street.
Cowards Carry Knives.
Project Zao
#DropTheKnifeSaveALife
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It truly is a magnificent sculpture which, if you get the chance, to see it for yourself. The vision and workmanship is outstanding. It's incredible from any angle. The up-lighting is delightful, although I only managed to see this effect for a few moments.
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My YouTube Video: Knife Angel. Derby Cathedral. Oct 2019
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Rachel Webb, whose son Tom was 22 years old when he was stabbed and killed in St Peter's Street, Derby, by a 16 year old boy in January 2016, has been instrumental in bringing the Angel to Derby. She supported a knife surrender held across Derbyshire and knives from this were donated towards the creation of this sculpture.
The knife Angel has been created as a National monument against violence and aggression at the British Ironworks Centre in Oswestry and is a memorial to those whose lives have been affected by knife crime. It is a 27ft high sculpture, which Alfie Bradley has designed and created single-handedly using over 100,000 knives surrendered and collected in nationwide amnesties in 2015/2016. The angel began it's tour around the UK in 2018 when it was housed outside of Liverpool Cathedral for December and January in order to raise awareness of the impact of knife crime on society, the victims and their families and friends.
It is currently on a city tour of the UK.
Knife crime is rising across the country. The Knife Angel's presence in derby is very much a symbol of the hard work of partners and communities across Derbyshire to halt this rise.
Derbyshire Police are spearheading a multi agency campaign called Project Zao, which aims to prevent causalities and stop venerable youngsters from seeing violence as the answer. It targets those who carry knives and delivers a hard hitting educational package to thousands of young people across the county.
All 43 national police forces, the Home Office, anti-violence groups across the UK and hundreds of families who have been affected by knife crime are all strongly supporting the Knife Angel. Relatives of those killed by knife crime were invited to engrave the blades with names and messages for their loved ones as part of the sculpture.
The Knife Angel is a symbol of defiance and change, shining a spotlight on Britain's knife crime problem and its impact on communities, families and individuals.
The Angel; is helping to raise awareness of violent crime and helping young people understand the reasons not to carry knives.
Please show your support and join us in standing up to knife crime!
We-ll, what's black and white and finally handing over his gun? Hahaha!
sigh.
Onomatopoeia joins Freeze, surrendering to Riddler's attack on area 41.
To embrace what is absent is not surrender, but alchemy—the act of transforming darkness into form, and silence into voice. The void is not a deficiency; it is the birthplace of creation
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereograph, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection, at: npg.si.edu/portraits
NPG Title: Margaret Julia Mitchell
Photo Date: Circa 1865
Photographer: Mathew Brady Studio
Notes: Maggie Mitchell, famous and beloved American actress, with a career that spanned over four decades during the second half of the 19th century. She was also, according to her own account, an intimate friend of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've read about a dozen of her obituaries from 1918, and oddly, not one mentions her association with Booth, who if not a love interest, was a fellow actor, whom she knew well, and crossed paths with many times.
Just about all the 1918 tributes include two incidents from her life; (1) her invitation from Lincoln to the White House, just before the assassination, which she asserted was the greatest day of her life; (2) that she was an “ardent Northerner,” and often told friends, with pride, that when the Civil War ended, she was the first person to raise the U.S. flag over the surrendered city of Mobile, Alabama.
One might suspect that the above stories were cultivated and nurtured by her over a lifetime for damage control – cover for her friendship with Booth, and the widespread accusations during the Civil War, that she had a secessionist bent. She was accused of cheering them on, and of actually trampling on the U.S. flag, while on stage in Montgomery, Alabama, before the war started.
For background, below are three newspaper articles that reference the loyalty issue. The third article, a letter with flowery over-the-top prose, seems to be speaking for her - perhaps she had a hand in it? I've also included a fourth article from the New York Sun, an obituary from March 23, 1918, which provides a summary of her life and extraordinary career.
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Belmont Chronicle
St. Clairsville, Ohio
December 5, 1861
An Actress made to Show her Colors.
"Maggie Mitchell is now playing at Pittsburgh. On Monday night a Captain or Lieutenant Braun visited the theater, and raised a disturbance by accusing a gentleman present of having been a manager of a Southern theater. He was also excessively angry over the statement that the actress had sung the Southern Marseillaise during a recent visit to Secessia, and presented or received a rebel flag. Braun was finally put out of the house, but returned and demanded an explanation. The Dispatch describes the scene which followed:
When the curtain fell, the chivalric captain or lieutenant was boisterous in his calls for Miss Mitchell, who at length appeared before the curtain, escorted by Manager Henderson. Our hero demanded an explanation, whereupon the Manager stated briefly that the lady was too much agitated to speak, but that he was authorized by her to state that she had never trampled upon the American flag. This denial of a charge never publicly made against the lady, mollified Captain or Lieutenant Braun, and he testified his satisfaction in an emphatic manner."
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The Local News
Alexandria, Va.
December 09, 1861
“Little Maggie Mitchell, the popular actress was hissed down by some Pittsburghers, last week, while playing at the Theatre in that smutty city, because it was reported she had sung secession songs, "down South," calling the chivalry "to arms." An explanation was subsequently made, and Maggie was allowed to proceed.”
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Chicago Tribune
Tuesday, March 1, 1864.
“Gilleflower” writes us a letter about Miss Maggie Mitchell and her loyalty. Just read what the enraptured chap has to say….
Chicago, Feb 29, 1864
Mr. Editor: As there is an erroneous opinion prevailing to a certain extent in Chicago, from the conversation at the various hotels, either maliciously or otherwise, concerning the real feelings of Miss Maggie Mitchell relative to this great struggle for the maintenance of the Union and the execution of the laws….articles, exceedingly detrimental to her as having southern sympathies have appeared in print, and have long since been authoritatively contradicted, yet she still seems to be looked upon as being one of doubtful loyalty.
Therefore, let this entirely obliterate all such doubts and prejudices from their minds. As this favorite actress has at no period of the contest entertained any disloyal sentiments whatsoever, but, on the contrary, her heart is deeply interested in our cause from pure and unselfish motives.
She desires a vigorous prosecution of the war, a speedy and permanent peace, that will bring gladness and consolation to many an aching heart.
She honors the brave soldier who has gone forth to battle for his nation's cause and sacrifice himself upon the altar of his country; leaving happy homes and loved ones far away from the voice of a mother, which ever swells its heavenly cadence on the soul, and now watches with such anxiety and love the lives of them whom she fed from the store-house of virtue.
She also sympathizes with the suffering wounded and dying, and prays they may ascend the stairs of immortality to Heaven's blue vaults, knock at the gates of sun-set and walk along the celestial lights, their path paved with sun beams, accompanied by the glittering stars and drink from the crystal fount that sparkles before the throne in the paradise of the blest, far beyond the skies. Respectfully yours, S. Arnold Gilliflower, Present.
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The Sun, New York
Saturday, March 23, 1918.
MAGGIE MITCHELL, ACTRESS, IS DEAD
Famous Stage Star of Three Generations Still Young at the End.
ENTERTAINED BY LINCOLN
Graciousness to Sarah Bernhardt Brought Her Recently to Public Attention.
“….Maggie Mitchell did die yesterday morning in a bedroom of a large apartment house she owned at the southwest corner of West End avenue and 102d street. And although the little blond haired, gray eyed woman, whose acting and singing and dancing for almost two score years was the delight of millions of American theatergoers, was born back in the dim ages of 1837 – John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson didn’t die until years after that- she was still somewhere in her twenties when she died yesterday morning.
Ten years before the Confederates fired on Sumter Maggie Mitchell was an actress. A few days before Lincoln was shot the great President sent his own carriage to her hotel when she was playing in Washington so that he and Mrs. Lincoln might shake her hand inside the White House "and have a dish of tea," as Mrs. Lincoln put it.
Just before Grover Cleveland began his second term she was still the vivacious ingénue back of the footlights of Washington theatre, singing as merrily and flitting about the stage as lightly as in Lincoln's day. And on the day that Woodrow Wilson was last elected President not in the 1912 election, but the election day of 1916 - she mounted her horse at her summer home, Cricket Lodge at Elberon, and went for an all day ride…..
"Most Remarkable Woman,”
Not long after she died yesterday one of the physicians who had attended her in her last brief illness spoke of her as “the most remarkable woman, mentally and physically,” with whom he ever had come in contact.
The last time her name appeared in New York newspapers—and there was a time when her name appeared daily in the papers—was an account a few months ago of a gracious little act she had done….at a semi-private matinee performance…in honor of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt….
But when Mme Bernhardt was carried to the box placed at her disposal she objected fervently to being seated in anything but the box nearest the stage. Whereupon Maggie Mitchell, whose keen “young” ears had sensed the cause of the commotion in the box behind her jumped up in chipper fashion and insisted that the Divine Sarah take the stage box….
Always a New Yorker
All America claimed her, but she was first and last a New Yorker. She was born on the Island of Manhattan on June 14, 1837, and therefore had reached her eightieth birthday almost a year ago. She first went on the stage here in 1842, when only 5 years old, to play "child parts," It was In Burton's Theatre in Chambers street in 1851, just after her fourteenth birthday, that in a play called "The Soldier's Daughter" she first played a part of importance. And up to the time of her death Manhattan was her real home, except for the time she spent at Elberon in the summers and autumns.
Scored Many Successes.
The first theatrical success which made the name of Maggie Mitchell nationally famous was "Fanchon the Cricket," in which she made her first bow as a star in New Orleans In 1861. A year later she leased Laura Keene’s theatre in Manhattan and produced "Fanchon," for the first time here with pronounced success. "Fanchon," "Lorie," 'Mignon," "The Little Savage," "Pearl of Savoy" –one after another the diminutive blond haired actress brought out in turn, and with them she achieved the feat unheard of in these days; they were all great successes; not merely fairly successful but extraordinary successes, even from the financial standpoint.
She was an ardent "Northerner" during the civil war, nevertheless was being acclaimed in the last days of the war by Southern audiences. In the early spring of 1865 she was playing in Washington when one day a messenger came to her dressing room to say that President Lincoln would esteem it an honor if she would call at the White House the next day.
“And the President sent his own carriage for me," Maggie Mitchell would say as she often retold the great event. “And when I got there he shook my hand and looked at me steadily for a minute, and then he said, 'I hearn of you so much, young woman, that I wanted to meet you here in our home. That's the way he said It. 'I hearn of you so much.' And that was the greatest day of my life."
Also Maggie Mitchell was proud of something else in connection with her civil war memories. She had made a long jump to the South and was playing in Mobile when definite news reached the city that the war was over. Peace had actually been declared. Wherefore out upon the stage came the vivacious Maggie Mitchell and swung the Stars and Stripes above her locks. And so she always claimed that she was the first to raise the Stars and. Stripes in the South after Lee's surrender. There is little doubt she was, and it is almost certain she was the first woman to do so.
Appeared Last in 1892.
She made her last appearance on the stage more than a quarter of a century after that, when she appeared in 'The Little Maverick" at Hooley's Theatre in 1892. Since then she has been in Manhattan and on the Jersey coast. She said herself she couldn't cook and she couldn't sew, her life work having been such that she had no time to learn these accomplishments.
"But I can keep my house running properly, and I can ride and walk and swim and read," Maggie would say. And she could do all these things and did them with much energy. During her long years on the stage, she had amassed a fortune, the extent of which cannot be put in numbers now. But it is known that she owned apartment house at 853 and 855 West End avenue and valuable real estate In upper Broadway, estimated to be worth at least $1,000,000.
"She wore her brain out," her physicians said yesterday when asked the cause of her death. A breakdown came to her toward the end of last summer. Four days ago she lapsed into a coma in the course of which she died just before daybreak yesterday morning.
She was married twice. Her first husband was Henry Paddock of Cleveland, Ohio, by whom she had two children who were with her when she died yesterday morning. They are Fanchon M. Paddock and Harry M. Paddock both of whom lived with their mother. Her first husband died many years ago. Then in June, 1889, she married her leading man and manager, Charles Abbott, who was also at her bedside when she died. Private funeral services will take place at her apartment in West End avenue on Sunday and she will be buried in Green-Wood Cemetery."
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Findagrave Link: www.findagrave.com/memorial/63190530/margaret-julia-mitchell
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / American Battlefield Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/
Ancient Tralles.....According to Strabo Tralles was founded by the Argives and Trallians, a Thracian tribe. Along with the rest of Lydia, the city fell to the Persian Empire. After its success against Athens in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta unsuccessfully sought to take the city from the Persians, but in 334 BC, Tralles surrendered to Alexander the Great without resistance and therefore was not sacked. Alexander's general Antigonus held the city from 313 to 301 BC and later the Seleucids held the city until 190 BC when it fell to Pergamon. From 133 to 129 BC, the city supported Aristonicus of Pergamon, a pretender to the Pergamene throne, against the Romans. After the Romans defeated him, they revoked the city's right to mint coins. Tralles was a conventus for a time under the Roman Republic, but Ephesus later took over that position. The city was taken by rebels during the Mithridatic War during which many Roman inhabitants were killed. Tralles suffered greatly from an earthquake in 26 BC. Augustus provided funds for its reconstruction after which the city thanked him by renaming itself Caesarea. Strabo describes the city as a prosperous trading center, listing famous residents of the city, including Pythodoros (native of Nysa), and orators Damasus Scombrus and Dionysocles. Several centuries later, Anthemius of Tralles, architect of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, was born in Tralles. An early bishop Polybius (fl. ca. 105) is attested by a letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the church at Tralles. The city was officially Christianized, along with the rest of Caria, early after the conversion of Constantine, at which time the see was confirmed. Among the recorded bishops are: Heracleon (431), Maximus (451), Uranius (553), Myron (692), Theophylactus (787), Theophanes and Theopistus both ninth century, and John (1230). The Catholic Church includes this bishopric in its list of titular sees as Tralles in Asia, distinguishing it from the see of Tralles in Lydia. It has appointed no new titular bishop to these Eastern sees since the Second Vatican Council. After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, with the Byzantine Empire was in civil chaos, the Seljuks took Tralles for the first time but Alexios I Komnenos re-captured the city for Byzantium in the later half of the eleventh century. By the 13th century, the city lay in ruins. In 1278, Andronikos II Palaiologos decided to rebuild and repopulate it, now to be renamed Andronikopolis or Palaiologopolis, with the aim of forming a bulwark against Turkish encroachment in the area. The megas domestikos Michael Tarchaneiotes was given the task: he rebuilt the walls and settled 36,000 people from the surrounding regions. 13th century Byzantine settlement policy along the Meander Valley notably involved the Turkic Cumans.[7] Nevertheless, Turkish attacks resumed soon after. The city was besieged and, lacking sufficient supplies and access to water, captured by the beylik of Menteshe in 1284. The city suffered extensive destruction and part of its inhabitants were massacred.[8] Moreover, over 20,000 inhabitants were sold off as slaves.
Water; Verse 2 (Surrender)
When faced with more than ones power to handle, the easiest escape sometimes is to give up completely (like swallowing water slowly, feeling heavy and drowning), and embrace that one can't fight change sometimes,
oil on canvas 75 x 100
“Unconditional Surrender” - 25-foot sculpture by Seward Johnson resembling a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. V–J day in Times Square.
On the Cliffs of Moher.
GhostWorks Texture Competition #54
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
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Thanks to Jessica Truscott for the original photograph:
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The tradition of trains stopping to collect / surrender Tokens on the Newquay line is coming to an end with the forthcoming signalling enhancements. Axle Counters will replace the Token and staff system. 150265 returns from Newquay ona showery day.
Urbex Session : Flight Academy [BE] , 11.2013
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