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For Valentine's Day, why not a little bambino for my Flickr friends! And a celebration of unconditional love....
This photo was part of a one person show called "Italian Treasures - Icons of Venice and Florence" www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/1476638355/in/set-7215... . This photo is also part of my set on Trees and Gardens. (Follow the link in the side bar to the right to see those).
Just a few minutes walking distance from the Convent of San Marco in Florence, there are several gardens that are part of the University of Florence. I couldn't go inside as they were closed that day, but this charming scene was visible from the ancient garden gate. To spend a few peaceful moments enjoying this garden and the Giardini di Simplici (one of the oldest botanical gardens in the Western world) nearby was special, given that the historic part of Florence is densely crowded with one amazing building after another, as it was in the Middle Ages....with narrow streets and no room for nature. In this dense urban landscape, to come across a garden and trees!! What a treasure!
I was in a trance in any case, after spending several hours at the Convent of San Marco experiencing the exquisitely moving frescoes there, by Fra Angelico. Maybe that is why the trees looked ... well ... kind of indigo. :o) I truly recommend visiting the San Marco Museum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marco,_Florence
and paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian Images/Montages/Firenze/San Marco.htm
and here is a link to Fra Angelico: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico
Below are two more sculptures celebrating nature, beauty, and love, found in a garden along the French Riviera, for those who haven't yet seen them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1A62vEe8k
I fell so in love with this song and really got inspired by it to photograph my dollies again. The result turned out different from what I had in my mind first, but I really like how it turned out though ;-)
BTW I finally(!) found a suitable name for King Kong Barbie - she now goes by the name "Virgg" (Virginia Fitzg(/G)erald) ;-)
Peeta still is searching for a new name though...
Today, October 5, I celebrate the anniversary of my birth. This day I want to remember my parents, especially my mother, who unconditionally loved me until the day they left me from this world to a place of eternal life. They might have been gone 4 years and 2 years ago but I feel their presence around me each day. Thank you Dad and Mom. I love you both so much!
I met this young Dutch woman in the street during the Redhead Days 2015 in Breda. She liked to pose for a portrait picture.
Deze Nederlandse jonge vrouw ontmoette ik op straat tijdens de Redhead Days 2015 in Breda. Zij vond het leuk om te poseren voor een portret foto.
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I never really had the luxury of guidance from those who loved me unconditionally.
In dealing with the blessings of longevity, I have struggled to learn
that the greatest gift one can give to their adult children is accepting who they are.
That means finding the strength to be silent when needed while offering all the encouragement and support you can when they encounter potential bumps in the road.
It is the penance of parenthood and a cornerstone of family.
Whether those who know me best will believe it.....
The shirt says it all.
What better way to thank you all:))) with something I hold dear to my heart,
you have made my days much more pleasant....
and you all are great bunch of Great FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!
When the modern world is contrasted with traditional civilizations, it is not simply a question of looking on each side for what is good and bad; since good and evil are everywhere, it is essentially a question of knowing on which side the lesser evil is to be found. If someone tells us that such and such a good exists outside tradition, we respond: no doubt, but it is necessary to choose the most important good, and this is necessarily represented by tradition; and if someone tells us that in tradition there exists such and such an evil, we respond: no doubt, but it is necessary to choose the lesser evil, and again it is tradition that contains it. It is illogical to prefer an evil that involves some benefits to a good that involves some evils. Certainly, to confine oneself to admiring the traditional worlds is still to stop short at a fragmentary point of view, for every civilization is a “two-edged sword”; it is a total good only by virtue of those invisible elements that determine it positively. In certain respects, every human society is bad; if its transcendent character is entirely removed—which amounts to dehumanizing it since the element of transcendence is essential to man though always dependent upon his free consent— then at the same time society’s entire reason for being is removed, and there remains only an ant heap in no way superior to any other ant heap since the needs of life and thus the right to life remain everywhere the same, whether it is a question of men or insects. It is one of the most pernicious of errors to believe that the human collectivity, on the one hand, or its well-being, on the other, represents an unconditional or absolute value and thus an end in itself.
Regarded as social phenomena and independently of their
intrinsic value—though there is no sharp dividing line between the two—traditional civilizations, despite their inevitable
imperfections, are like sea walls built to stem the rising tide of worldliness, error, subversion, of the fall that is ceaselessly renewed; this fall is more and more invasive, but it will be conquered in its turn by the final irruption of divine fire, the very fire of which the traditions are, and always have been, the earthly crystallizations. To reject traditional frameworks because of human abuses amounts to asserting that the founders of religion did not know what they were doing, that abuses are not inherent in human nature, that they are therefore avoidable even in societies numbering millions of men, and that they are avoidable thanks to purely human means; no more flagrant contradiction than this could be imagined.
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SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - ALONE!
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
❤️❤️ IT'S ALL JESUS AND NONE OF OURSELVES! ❤️❤️
16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the SALVATION of everyone WHO BELIEVES: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, a righteousness that is by FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, just as it is written: "THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH." (Romans 1:16-17)
16 KNOW that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be JUSTIFIED BY FAITH in CHRIST and NOT by observing the law, BECAUSE BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED. (Galatians 2:16)
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them." 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:1-13)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus took the death WE so richly deserved for us and died in our place. The good news is, there's no more punishment for sin left. WE, you and I were all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
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Man identified as kissing sailor in WWII Times Square photo died at 95 yesterday. www.cnn.com/2019/02/18/us/sailor-kiss-vj-day-photo-george...
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Cariacica, ES - Brasil - 01/05/2024 - Estádio Kleber Andrade -
Copa do Brasil, terceira fase jogo 1. Fluminense x Sampaio Corrêa.
FOTO DE MARCELO GONCALVES/FLUMINENSE FC
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...desnuda tu alma.
y solo entonces podrás amar sin condiciones
y entregar la parte mas importante de ti...
tu corazón.
Empty your mind...
...bare your soul.
and only then you will love unconditionally
and give the most important part of you...
your heart.
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*Créditos obrigatórios na legenda de acordo com a Lei Federal 9610/98.
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I always look forward to Spring. New life is everywhere and the air has a freshness and sweet smell of the flowering blooms. It's moments like this that I can sit back and reflect how special life is for all creatures.
Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil - 28/04/2022 - CTCC - Nonato
Treino do Fluminense.
FOTO DE MAILSON SANTANA/FLUMINENSE FC
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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
"I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth.
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth." (Genesis 9:8-18)
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The sun came out this morning, and the rain stopped for a few days so we could come out and walk around again and see the beauty of the world God has created for all of mankind. So, this beats singing in the rain in my book if you've been inundated with the stormy weather long enough for awhile? Thank you Jesus for the SON SHINE!
Back on February 12, 2017 the people, my daughter included had to be evacuated. They thought the dam might break and they'd all drown. My daughter lives under that dam. So her and her cats had to come and live with us till the all clear was given.
The chain of events began on February 7 when a huge hole began forming in the main spillway. Over the next few days both the main and the emergency spillway had eroded so much the Department of Water Resources attempted to fix the problems. But will very little avail, because it ended up taking 1 BILLION dollars and years to my those repairs, which they just finished last year.
My family and I watch that dam being built over the years in the 1960's. My brother and Uncle and I were working for P.G.&E. at the time and we all quit the same day. How odd was that? All of us working in completely different area's above the dam at the time. I won't get into all that here. My brother ended up going back to work for them a few years later and ended up retiring from P.G. & E. Ya just never know. :^ )
------------------------------ JESUS ✝️ SAVES-------------------------------
SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS ALONE!
❤️❤️ IT'S ALL JESUS AND NONE OF OURSELVES! ❤️❤️
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus died that death for YOU and I. The good news is there no more punishment for sin left, we were and are all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
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For some reason, this image is special to me.
It is taken outside the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. That particular wall actually separates the Embassy complex inside from the rest of the city.
The Pan-Asian look of the child that clings to her arm tells me she is an American married to a local, what more, due to her perceptible Caucasian look. It could be immigration matters that brought her and the kids to the place – just moments before they made an exit from the Embassy.
What attracts me is the way she carries her baby. I was staying in the USA for 7 years but I never came across woman carry a baby the way she does. It’s also hardly seen among Malaysians. She must’ve employed the Indonesian way because it’s prevalent among Indonesian women to use a ply of batik cloth hurled around the shoulder creating a pocket in front for baby to rest in.
I had in mind what I wanted the image to look like with the drama of a mother, a toddler and a baby. It strikes upon me the categorical love and care from a woman called mother. I was also meaning to have the wall as the background for my shot. I waited for her and kids to pass by. And got the image exactly what I had drawn in my head.
For this image, I prefer to be in sepia.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!!!
De schoorstenen van de Amercentrale van Essent (Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant) domineren tot in verre omtrek het landschap. Hier wordt de stoom en rook wel mooi beschenen door de heel laagstaande zon.
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amercentrale
The chimneys of the Amer power plant of Essent (Geertruidenberg, Netherlands) dominate the landscape until afar. Here steam and smoke are beautiful lit by the very low sun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amercentrale
Aanbevolen/recommended: View large on black
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----------------------------- JESUS ✝️ SAVES-------------------------------
SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS ALONE!
❤️❤️ IT'S ALL JESUS AND NONE OF OURSELVES! ❤️❤️
16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the SALVATION of everyone WHO BELIEVES: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, a righteousness that is by FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, just as it is written: "THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH." (Romans 1:16-17)
16 KNOW that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be JUSTIFIED BY FAITH in CHRIST and NOT by observing the law, BECAUSE BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED. (Galatians 2:16)
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus died that death for YOU and I. The good news is there no more punishment for sin left, we were and are all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
For the best Biblical teaching in the last 2 centuries! Please listen to and down load these FREE audio files that were created with YOU in mind. It's ALL FREE, if you like it, please share it with others. ❤️
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CLICK ON THE LETTER "L" TO ENLARGE.
My THANK'S in advance to all who fave and/or comment on my photos I very much appreciate it! ❤️
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The Color Monk - Unconditional Love
With the music : Tina Turner - Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu (Peace Mantra)
On this Valentine's Day I remembered to pay homage to another Love ... to Unconditional Love ... the dedication of a life to spiritual love and the search for enlightenment !
“Ever since I remember I always have special thing for conceptual photography. I like this photography genre which evokes beholder to think. I don’t think conceptual photography is form of photography, it’s a form of art, a form of literature… its “visual literature.”
Here I would like to present - “The Awakening”
It is to experience the natural freedom. It is to become that which you have always been. It is to find the only thing that has never been lost. It is living free of the mind - not without the mind. It is being in full contact with Life – unconditionally. It is letting what comes come and letting what goes go. It is to be that which cannot be described.”