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Beauty, compassion, understanding and love are my weapons of choice in this World Anti-war I. I feel that they are very powerful. And on the both sides of this war (of course you know that there, in Russia, at the other side of the war, a lot of people are fighting against war, as they could) my heart is with peaceful people. Even at the battlefields Ukrainians are fighting to banish and to take down the war.
They hate the war. They are fighting for peace. And so am I.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - „(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding“
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As I walk through this wicked world
Searchin′ for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What′s so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What's so funny ′bout peace love and understanding?
And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony
′Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry
What′s so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What′s so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony
′Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny ′bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What′s so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What′s so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
David Attenborough
Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.
Aboriginal Proverb
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
Eckhart Tolle
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Beauty Of Earth cc
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Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now. Jackie Speier
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
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Taken on July 9, 2025 at 3:29:04 p.m.
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Understanding my roll.
When our first grandchild was born, my son’s family was stationed at NAS Pax River Maryland. We made the drive from Indiana to Maryland as often as possible and they the reverse. August was a beautiful baby boy who looked and acted like every other baby…like a little humanoid who had lots of intake and the smelliest of outgo. When it comes to babies…until they are old enough and can be responsible for their own head and neck, well let’s just say that holding one makes me as nervous as being wrapped up like a mummy utilizing live Boa constrictors! Scratch that as it is an exaggeration…I would prefer the boa’s!
I do not remember his exact age but I would guess it was around a year and a half old and they were in town for a visit. It was a beautiful spring/summer day and August and I were walking around the front yard, just exploring and enjoying time together. As we walked hand in hand, we came upon a bush. I have no idea what type of bush it was, even though it was part of our landscaping. It was both yellow and green, the type that looked a bit sharp but wasn’t.
We stopped and were looking at the bush when August without a word spoken looked up into my eyes. Instantly I knew his question and I said “You can touch it.” He gently reached out and started feeling the texture of a single branch, and smiled. It was at that exact moment, as if hit by lightning, that I felt like a grandfather for the first time…accepting responsibility for one of my roles in his life, to assist with discovery.
Fast forward seven years and I am at Custer SP photographing bison when I notice this little one. Its nose was inches from the ground and a few feet away from a lone blue flower. It moved from side to side, eyed fixed on the flower as if it was wondering what it was…a bit curious, a bit hesitant. A few seconds passed before it worked up the courage to approach the flower. When it bowed down to ascertain its fragrance, I took this photo.
Watching this bison reminded me of the thrill, the absolute blessing of discovery…making this shot a personal favorite from this trip!
Photo taken 22 May, 2023.
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[j]ust as the myths still live on in ghostly life as fables after they have died as real meaning, so the old rhythmic consciousness of Nature (it should rather be called participation than a consciousness) lives on as the tradition of metrical form. We can only understand the origin of metre by going back to the ages when men were conscious, not merely in their heads, but in the beating of their hearts and the pulsing of their blood—when thinking was not merely of Nature, but was Nature herself.
-Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction, 157.
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God will give you strength for every battle, Wisdom for every decision, and peace that surpasses understanding!!
Only if the ducks knew this because they are being chased by a large bird all over the pond!!
IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD
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Peace is the marriage of the people and the planet, with all attendant vows. - Anonymous
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. - Hafsat Abiola
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law. -
Kofi Annan
There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity. - Elise Boulding
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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pejorativ ...
Der französische Terminus wurde 1797 von Schiller ins Deutsche eingeführt. Bei Johann Wolfgang Goethe bedeutet Aperçu dann eine
„Synthese von Welt und Geist“,
wie sie sich in der Anschauung realisiert.
Im Zusammenhang von Goethes eigenwilliger Erkenntnistheorie handelt es sich um einen Zentralbegriff:
„Alles kommt auf ein Aperçu an. Es ist das Höchste, wozu es der Mensch bringt, und weiter bringt er es nicht.“
Ein solches Aperçu leistet die intuitiv-induktive Erkenntnis eines ‚Schemas‘, das für das Verständnis einer Vielzahl von Einzelphänomenen aufschlussreich ist.
Seither hat der Begriff jedoch eine merkliche Bedeutungsverschlechterung erfahren, sodass man heute pejorativ auch von einem „bloßen“ Aperçu sprechen kann – im Sinne einer zwar glänzend, beispielsweise paradox formulierten Behauptung, die aber unsolide ist, insofern es ihr an Beweisen und Belegen mangelt.
Es ist wie Glaube. Es ist eine kleine Serie. Ich zeige das Licht, aber nicht die Lichtquelle ...
;-) ...
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pejorative ...
The French term was introduced into German by Schiller in 1797. For Johann Wolfgang Goethe, aperçu then means a
“synthesis of world and spirit”,
as it is realized in contemplation.
In the context of Goethe's idiosyncratic theory of knowledge, it is a central concept:
“Everything comes down to an aperçu. It is the highest that man can achieve, and that is as far as he can go.”
Such an aperçu provides the intuitive-inductive recognition of a 'schema' that is informative for the understanding of a multitude of individual phenomena.
Since then, however, the term has undergone a noticeable deterioration in meaning, so that today one can also speak pejoratively of a “mere” aperçu - in the sense of a brilliantly, for example paradoxically formulated assertion, but one that is unsound insofar as it lacks evidence and proof.
It's like faith (the belief). It's a small series. I show the light, but not the light source ...
;-) ...
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You have to be able to afford a Porsche and not necessarily park between piles of scrap metal.
Seen in the old town centre of Wetzlar
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Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place. - Daniel H. Pink
Excerpt from www.watercanada.net/light-shower-towers/:
Toronto’s newest stormwater system is breathtaking.
Housed in the pavilion basement at Sherbourne Common, a new park in the city’s rapidly developing East Bayfront area, the treatment facility cleans collected storm and lake water with ultraviolet (UV) light. The treated water is then sent underground to the north side of the park where it is released through three nine-metre-high art sculpture towers. The water flows from the tops of the towers down metal mesh veils and into a 240-metre-long water channel, or urban river, where it then flows into Lake Ontario.
Artist Jill Anholt’s Light Showers water towers are lit at night; as people move over the bridge of the water channel, motion sensors trigger shifting light patterns in the water as it falls from the sculptures. The mesh veils of the art sculptures are designed to capture water in the winter to form unique ice patterns.
Regardless of its attractiveness, the system and others like it have elicited some blowback from critics, especially in a time when many municipalities are worried about growing infrastructure deficits. Are the extra features necessary? Anholt’s sculptures don’t contain UV lamps and play only a minor role in the treatment process—they provide further aeration and act as a conduit to bring treated water to raised pools.
While some people may criticize Waterfront Toronto’s choice, others believe the art is a worthwhile investment. Waterfront Toronto chair Mark Wilson sees it as a catalyst for the further development of the East Bayfront neighbourhood. “The park has already helped us attract private and public sector partners who are working with us to transform this former industrial area into a dynamic new community,” he says. The City plans to recover the cost for the art feature—$1.9 million—through development fees as part of Waterfront Toronto’s public art strategy.
Others argue that making infrastructure visible is important to public understanding. During last April’s Out of Water: Sustaining Development in Arid Climates conference at the University of Toronto. (see “In the Eye of the Beholder,” a blog post at www.wordpress-139196-653073.cloudwaysapps.com), one audience member said water infrastructure is often designed to blend with the environment. “Often, we don’t even know it’s there—but is that a good thing?” she asked. Maybe it’s important, she posited, that we see, recognize, and feel comfortable with the mechanisms that allow us to maintain the lives we’re accustomed to living and, at a basic level, survive.
During a presentation at the Ecocity World Summit this August in Montreal, Concordia University graduate student Cecilia Chen discussed the importance of mapping the flows of streams and aquifers beneath and around urban spaces to increase awareness that cities are, in some ways, nothing more than watersheds. Water’s role in an urban ecosystem, she said, goes unrecognized because it travels underground and out of sight. It’s only when a storm-drain overflows and what she calls “hybrid water” becomes visible that awareness increases.
James Roche, director, parks design and construction for Waterfront Toronto, isn’t interested in separating infrastructure, landscape, and public space. “There’s more to gain from combining these fields,” he says. Roche says we ignore water’s important, though background, role in commerce and cities. “It changes how we live on a daily basis. The Sherbourne Common design helps to bring water back into the public realm.”
Following in the tradition of projects such as Stephen Holl Architects’ Whitney Water Treatment Plant in New Haven, Connecticut—a long, stainless steel building built in an inverse-raindrop shape—and Hervé Descottes’ breathtaking lighting design for the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York, Sherbourne Common serves as a reminder of the role water plays in our lives.
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A bit of a miracle getting so close to this species as they are extremely shy and wary. Normally they spot you and hide. However, on passage migration they appear to be much more confiding. They are usually found on desolate moorland and mountain sides but on passage migration they have been recorded on the coast and even in peoples gardens. They will stay if you have berries!
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Slightly smaller and slimmer than a blackbird - male ring ouzels are particularly distinctive with their black plumage with a pale wing panel and striking white breast band. The ring ouzel is primarily a bird of the uplands, where it breeds mainly in steep sided valleys, crags and gullies, from near sea level in the far north of Scotland up to 1,200m in the Cairngorms.
Breeding begins in mid-April and continues through to mid-July, with two broods common, and nests are located on or close to the ground in vegetation (typically in heather), in a crevice, or rarely in a tree. The young are fed a diet consisting mainly of earthworms and beetles.
Overview
Latin name
Turdus torquatus
Family
Chats and thrushes (Turdidae)
Where to see them
Ring ouzels can be found in upland areas of Scotland, northern England, north west Wales and Dartmoor. When on spring and autumn migration they may be seen away from their breeding areas, often on the east and south coasts of the UK where they favour short grassy areas.
When to see them
Ring ouzels arrive in March and April and leave again in September.
What they eat
Insects and berries
UK Breeding:-
6,200-7,500 pairs
Conservation
22 July 2011
The first national survey in 1999 estimated the UK ring ouzel population at 6,157-7,549 pairs, with further range contractions and a likely 58 per cent decline in population size since 1988-91.
Recent studies aimed at understanding these declines suggest that low first-year, and possibly adult, survival may be the main demographic mechanisms driving the population decline. The large population decline qualifies the ring ouzel for inclusion on the red list of birds of conservation concern.
I took my myself down to the mouth of Loch Lomond for the last days of summer, lots of people enjoying the Loch late in the evening. You can see the side of Ben Lomond. Have a great weekend.
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Seeing the world in black and white can offer a certain simplicity, like an old photograph capturing moments in stark contrast. It strips away the nuances, leaving behind a clarity that can be comforting. Yet, it's an incomplete portrayal of life's rich tapestry. Life, with its myriad shades of gray, is a symphony of complexities, emotions, and experiences. It's the vibrant hues that give depth to our existence, the subtle gradients that shape our understanding, and the colorful spectrum that makes every story uniquely human. While black and white may offer clarity, it's in embracing life's full spectrum that we truly appreciate its depth and beauty.
Peace? check. Love? Got it. Understanding? Sometimes but not usually. Tolerance is more common, but Understanding is, understandably, hard to come by.
Sorry, not trying to preach. But I always try to tie my titles and stories in with my insatiable desire to drop pop culture references.
Understanding the causes
of being and beings
is a task without end
Het doorzien van de
achtergrond van het zijn
en de wezens
is een taak zonder einde
Etching, aquatint, image 15x9 cm, paper 21x24 cm
(c) Drager Meurtant, 2019
© Reza Ghasemi
Nature is an art created by God while its understanding is an art formed by humankind.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
The groin, or entrance to the river and marina was busy with various forms of water craft coming home, perhaps understanding that the storm, whilst still not imminent, wasn't too far away. I'm sure you have to have be careful of all the various distractions on the water. The light had changed too, becoming duller.
Moon over Árbæjarsafn, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Arbaer Open Air Museum, or in icelandic: Árbæjarsafn, consists of more than 20 old buildings originating mostly from the centre of Reykjavik. Around the middle of the 20th century interest arose to preserve (to icelandic understandings) old buildings. The centre of Reykjavik around the turn of the 19th century was mainly made up of wooden houses being in a rather different state of maintainance. Also turf houses were still a quite normal sight in Reykjavik. Along with the increasing construction of buildings of more durable material the wooden buildings got into danger to disappear slowly out of the centre of the city. Actually the maintainance of wooden buildings is still a problem in Reykjavik where quite a few house owners do not care about the condition of their old wooden house. In the Arbaer Open Air Museum houses will be found that are of historical and artistic relevance. Through the preservation of the old houses memories will be kept alive with the older days and may prevent that the ties with the past get lost. The Arbaer Open Air Museum was opened in 1957 and gives the icelandic population as well as foreigh visitors a good idea of the architecture, way of life and living conditions in earlier days in Reykjavik.
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She descended in silence, a wisp of the divine sculpted into flesh. The heavens split behind her, spilling gold across the storm-ridden sky. Her radiance was moonlight upon the crest of a wave.
Her wings were a cathedral of white feathers, each bearing the weight of untold sorrows and whispered prayers. She was not merely beauty. She was purpose incarnate. A sentinel between the mortal and the eternal.
Her gaze held no judgment, only understanding. She did not come to strike down nor to redeem. She was the quiet before the reckoning, the pause before the truth.
As the clouds swirled around her and the earth trembled beneath her feet, the world held its breath, waiting for the words she would speak, the message she would bear.
For an angel does not come without reason.
And this one had come to change everything.
Icy Brúarfoss Waterfall, in Winter Iceland
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We know what he wants and he knows we know.
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In the end there doesn't have to be
anyone who understands you.......
There just has to be someone who
wants to.
Robert Brault
Visitors to Stowe Gardens between 19 October and 14 November this year will be able to walk amongst the silhouettes of 200 life-size soldiers in the historic landscape gardens.
This moving statement of commemoration, remembrance and honour offers visitors space to reflect and connect within the natural landscape around Octagon Lake.
The installation is created in partnership with Standing With Giants, a community-based project which works to raise understanding and appreciation of our freedom and to remember and pay tribute to those who gave their lives so we could live ours today.
These riders are coming to a huge Black Hills Harley Davidson event held just outside Rapid City. Thousands park during the day and visit the booths and vendors. I had fun driving a virtual monster truck, Raptor. I am now an "Off-road Warrior." Took me two tries. And I took out only one tree. *grin*
We spent a good part of the day in Sturgis, and ten took in a concert at the Buffalo Chip campground.
I have very poor Internet access on the road... and very little time when I get back to the motel. I mean I have to sleep sometime.
So, I will catch up to my Flickr friends later. Thanks for your understanding.
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