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Title : “Paan Khaaye”
Series : On the road to Ashulia
Size : 18” by 22”
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Price: currently not for sale
I first noticed him standing across the road, arms akimbo, watching us. After a while he came over unasked and demanded that we take his photo too. He had this glint in his eyes, a wide open smile showing betel nut juice stained teeth and a look suggesting we were bananas for taking these photographs. I hope this painting does justice to his personality.
This series is inspired by a visit to Ashulia with a couple of friends. Anil Advani captured some great moments on camera, and has generously allowed me to use these images as references. One year and a lot of work later, these people have developed personalities in my imagination and I feel I know them well.
So good he licked the plate to get the extra "juice." This was the second helping.
I got 3 hours of sleep in a row last night. And then another 2.5 hours. And a little bit more after that. I felt so good when I got up this morning that I made strawberry shortcakes for breakfast, and man, were they good.
I had the privilege of being invited, unasked, onto private land adjacent to the tunnel with a Royal Box view.
I really appreciate this kindness, the good company and the cup of tea!
The orange gang have cleared the remnants of the beams, now they get stuck into the eastern abutment.
"Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: ... How does it feel to be a problem? . . . He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face."
~ Du Bois, "Strivings of the Negro People", 1897
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in western Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a tolerant community and experienced little racism as a child. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.
Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the talented tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.
Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. His cause included colored persons everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in their struggles against colonialism and imperialism. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to free African colonies from European powers. Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of American black soldiers in France and documented widespread bigotry in the United States military.
Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, was a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. He wrote the first scientific treatise in the field of sociology; and he published three autobiographies, each of which contains insightful essays on sociology, politics and history. In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament. The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.
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I wish you wouldn't put peppermint in your rose bouquet....
This is what I am looking at when I am not staring on the screen of my PC or gazing out onto the garden, it's not THAT far from paradise, isn't it?!
Thank You, lovely dear Jan, for your incredibly kind and far too generous testimonial! I am still kind of speechless..... A wonderful gift, unasked for, but accepted with greatest joy and humbleness.
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I only stayed for three minutes. All those over excited children made the whole event seem too dangerous: deadly even
It's never too late to spruce it up for the judging, sometimes with a little unasked for advice.
Tioga Region AACA : 32nd Annual Antique Car Show & Flea Market
Day 34/365
The full quote I found that inspired this photo was "Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." In truth, it was the "self-giving love" that really spoke to me. We tend to treat forgiveness as something we give as a gift to others, specifically to the people we're choosing to forgive. But it's not just a gift to those we forgive, for often they didn't even know they've been forgiven-- if they even knew there was something to forgive.
In truth, for the things that hurt us most, and longest.... we're so far removed from our aggressors by the time we forgive that it isn't actually something we do for them. It's something we do for ourselves. The act of forgiveness imparts an act of love (the self-giving love I think Gandhi was speaking of), but I don't think that love necessarily goes to the person being forgiven. In a lot of cases it does, and should! But I think that love also goes to the forgiver.
Yesterday I spoke words of forgiveness to a mother who's been gone for almost 7 years... and felt a flood of peace and love in my own heart. Self-giving love. Unbidden, unasked for, unrequested, and all I did was speak the words-- and mean them.
So I say as my final (for now) thought on forgiveness: choose. to. love.
Even if the only one you can choose to love-- is yourself.
I had the privilege of being invited, unasked, onto private land adjacent to the tunnel with a Royal Box view.
I really appreciate this kindness, the good company and the cup of tea!
The tunnel mouth-to-be in all its glory.
Riding alone on a lonely highway is no less than meditating. And by and by you find that, there are THE TWO within you. YOU - the physical manifestation of life, YOU AGAIN - the invisible.
No less than a ghost pillion riding along, making observations, registering things, evolving the underlying change. An experience unexpected, unasked, uncalled.
Make: Piatnik
Serial: 5454
Title: Schloss Tirol mit Zielspitze
Series: -
Pieces: 1000 (40 x 25).
Size: 26.5 x 17.4 in. 67.5 x 44.1 cm.
Date: -
Bar Code: 9 001890 545467.
Origin: Austria.
Foto: Dieter Drescher, Meran.
This puzzle came together rather more quickly than I expected, perhaps because the picture could be broken down into distinct areas, none of which were overly large or complex in their own right.
Some Piatnik puzzles have pieces that form a tight fitting mat so the finished picture can be lifted as one. This isn't one of those but has the usual Piatnik quality of pieces that fit together well and a selection of peg and hole shapes to assist with this. Most interior pieces are of the standard PHPH form, with a few non-standard shapes and half a dozen non-interlocking shapes to help the builder along.
Built largely from the top downward, although after completing the woodwork I did put together the remainder of the edge and worked on the grass in the lower right corner before finishing off with the vines.
Although the box is undated, the bag containing the pieces has "10 96" printed on it, under the recycling logo (type 04, low-density polyethylene to answer the unasked question). I'm assuming that is a date of manufacture for the bag; therefore dating the puzzle from 1996 or perhaps 1997.
Bought more jigsaws…
DONE: 557 puzzles (376713 nominal piece count). TO DO: 903 puzzles (1155650 nominal piece count).
Three times I stumble across
my serendipous friends
serendipitously
at Pride
First time it is a snap
Stolen
Unacknowledged
Unasked
(It's what I do)
Now it's an annual event
Always found by accident
Which makes it such a treat
Fate for an atheist
Like me
So pleased to see them looking so well
A meeting
Sealed now with a kiss
To the unasked question as to wouldn't it look better in black and white, I can only say that you would think so, but it doesn't.
Against shot from my car at 210mm zoom. Right below this is the pointed tops of the fence.
NO INVITES OR ICONS PLEASE
As I took her picture her eyebrows furrowed deeply and she looked at me with a face full of unasked questions
In the silence that followed her absence, the garden changed.
My mother once tended it every day — carefully, lovingly, as if each weed held meaning.
But since she passed, I haven’t tried to keep it neat.
I’ve let it go wild.
And now, wildflowers bloom.
Niwazekishō, delicate and uninvited, began to appear.
They come of their own will,
unasked, untrained —
but not unwelcome.
In their soft purple,
I see something she never said,
but perhaps left behind:
a love that does not need to be controlled to be real.
The garden is no longer manicured.
But it is alive.
And I live here too —
among insects, grasses, and the quiet echoes of her care.
**********
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Why I am What I Am
its a personal definition
of my poetic pain please
dont ask..a man who was
once caught as genie in
a rum flask ,,time and tide
rigorously took him to task
changing the perception of
pathos diligently rigorously
he became a silhouette of
his silence unasked ..it is
now time said his uneven
alter ego to get unmasked
dedicated to my friend randall der ..
IAO bring balance
and Pan grant harmony
to one to all
so none are left to fall
Great Gods answer the mortal call
and prepare a perfect place of greatening grace
so that we that aspire aim higher and higher
to achieve the harmony in balance
and joyous beauty such that call answer call
and rewards are given so that none are left to fall
as the balanced harmony is given all to all.
We have been seeing faces in trees for a long time. This one in the photograph was created by the growth of the Yew tree. The natural growth remained hidden from view as part of the tree trunk. It was only available to be seen after a chainsaw had cut an uneven and textured plane through the trunk of the tree. Pareidolia is the name for the psychological phenomenon that gives rise to people seeing patterns in random stimulus. Faces in trees have been linked to what the roots are growing in, the shoots reveal what the roots find in the dark recesses of the soil. This has led to ideas of trees forming a face of the spirit of the place, or even revealing the presence of hidden remains so that the shoots show what was secreted away. The presence of faces on tree burial sites for humans will be a great connection for some who wish to see their loved ones in the trees. This Yew held on to the face hidden in the trunk until it was deemed to be blocking a path.
IAO, consist of three Greek letters Iota, Alpha and Omega. IAO is noted as a Gnostic god form, seen as both a Sun God and a Mystery God. The primary universal nature and use of IAO led to it being later identified with the Hebrew Tetragrammaton of IHVH formed by the letters Yod Heh Vau Heh which is well known as Jehovah and Yahweh. Both IAO and IHVH are used as formulae to explore and explain all natural creation. IAO to me can be a spoken key of threefold introduction to a journey into everything and nothing where all is possible.
The character of Pan has been built around his name meaning All. His connection to all gives him access to the ecosystem as greeter, guide and guardian of the groves in which he is often found and again through his All he is found wherever you happen to look for him, to call him and he is there even when you attempt to ignore him. A call to IAO and Pan is to issue a note and to create an invitation for the natural aspects to hear, to absorb and to respond as they see fit. The scientist can record the echo and those in meditation may hear answers to an unasked questions that they had not realised were in the IAO Pan even as they enunciated it. We are great creatures and we can choose to adore great gods. If we ask nothing from everything our own reflective nature will allow us time and space to hear what we want and then to listen further in search of what we need to an understanding of what we have and how best to fulfil ourself with All.
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phhsykes@gmail.com
This couple was amazing. They arrived at the swimming pool, and suddenly both started to write down on their iPhone. Very close, but far....
I had the privilege of being invited, unasked, onto private land adjacent to the tunnel with a Royal Box view.
I really appreciate this kindness, the good company and the cup of tea!
The tunnel mouth-to-be in all its glory.
Make: Piatnik
Serial: 5454
Title: Schloss Tirol mit Zielspitze
Series: -
Pieces: 1000 (40 x 25).
Size: 26.5 x 17.4 in. 67.5 x 44.1 cm.
Date: -
Bar Code: 9 001890 545467.
Origin: Austria.
Foto: Dieter Drescher, Meran.
This puzzle came together rather more quickly than I expected, perhaps because the picture could be broken down into distinct areas, none of which were overly large or complex in their own right.
Some Piatnik puzzles have pieces that form a tight fitting mat so the finished picture can be lifted as one. This isn't one of those but has the usual Piatnik quality of pieces that fit together well and a selection of peg and hole shapes to assist with this. Most interior pieces are of the standard PHPH form, with a few non-standard shapes and half a dozen non-interlocking shapes to help the builder along.
Built largely from the top downward, although after completing the woodwork I did put together the remainder of the edge and worked on the grass in the lower right corner before finishing off with the vines.
Although the box is undated, the bag containing the pieces has "10 96" printed on it, under the recycling logo (type 04, low-density polyethylene to answer the unasked question). I'm assuming that is a date of manufacture for the bag; therefore dating the puzzle from 1996 or perhaps 1997.
Bought more jigsaws…
DONE: 557 puzzles (376713 nominal piece count). TO DO: 903 puzzles (1155650 nominal piece count).