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We need to realize and understand the importance of our surrounding nature, both the flora and the fauna and also our different human communities, all important, all contributing facts to our world, none of them to be set aside. We need to embrace and be all inclusive! We need to do this now, greed and wars are not the solution, sharing and peace are the solution!!! Let us start right now my Flickr friends!
Vanessa Williams - Colors Of The Wind HD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVqO83OYow
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To all my friends and family who bring sunshine to my life, I give to you a little ray of Winter sunshine and wish for you all a very Happy, Peaceful and Healthy New Year in 2017 and always. Lots of love, Poppy xo
“We cannot glimpse eternity by closing our eyes and eternity is in a single moment, so live each moment with heart and eyes wide open, fling open wide your arms, pull it to you and embrace it, enjoy it as a child would do and let it pass into the next, ad infinitum ...”
- AP
"in our dreams we live our lives and in our lives we live our dreams." - AP
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu38a7w9Ss4
THE SWEETEST DAYS – VANESSA WILLIAMS
WHERE BEAUTIFUL STILL WATERS RUN
When I've had a happy day
I don't want it to end
in my memory it can last forever
and in my heart, my friend
because like all friends a memory can
bring love and warmth to mind
and leaves us with appreciation
of all that we found kind
I try to live within the moment
I try to breathe and find
my inner voices quieten in the stillness
and memories spring more easily to my mind
I feel the soft touch of your fingers
curl around my own
and close my eyes; breathe in your goodness
and feel myself at home
contentedness is not complacent
it knows it can be torn
but worry not within this moment
enjoy this simple morn
for unexpected pleasures carry
memories and us through time
and warm us in the depths of Winter
when mountains are so hard to climb
you came and made a change in me
enriched me beyond price
the ache within me is now filled with gladness
you melted my heart of ice
you bathed me in a pool of longing
eyes glistened in the sun
diamonds sparkled on the surface
where beautiful still waters run
a soul may not be tangible
but I swear yours was to me
I was placid; softened in your aura
you set my body free
so that I may float above those mountains
where stormy skies may darken
and snow-capped peaks that may hinder my journey
can no longer stop me from being hearkened
my voice is gentle; softly spoken
since to me you brought your light
and I will sleep and dream of memories
that warm me through the night
and when I wake and see the sunlight
peeping through the clouds
I'll smile and sigh with deep contentment
and say your name out loud
to thank you for the memories given
that left my heart in wonder
and found me wanting to surrender
to the faintest sounds of thunder
for in the storm I'm closer to you
I feel so strong; alive
and truly living in the moment
I know I will survive …
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A compilation of two of my photographs
Obélisque de Louxor is a 75 ft high Egyptian obelisk standing at the center of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. It was originally located at the entrance to Luxor Temple, in Egypt. The Luxor Obelisk was classified as a historical monument in 1936.
The Luxor Obelisk is over 3,000 years old and was originally situated outside of Luxor Temple, where its twin remains to this day. It was moved to the center of Place de la Concorde by King Louis-Phillipe. It was gifted to France by Muhammed Ali, Khedive of Egypt.
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American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, CA, no. CL-R.R. # 129 / SC18581. Photo: Bill Fitz-Patrick. Caption: The New Miss America, Vanessa Williams, had a brief meeting with President Reagan at the White House and they spent their time discussing how one keeps in shape on a busy, busy schedule. Williams said her meeting with the President was the most memorable moment of her reign so far. The White House state dinner she attended shortly after winning her crown was her second most memorable event. October 17, 1983.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) had quite a prolific career. He began in the 1930s as a successful film actor for Warner Bros., later became a television star, served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, became the governor of California (1967-1975), and lastly, served two terms as President of the United States (1981-1989).
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the son of the shoe salesman and storyteller Jack Reagan and Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan. He was born in 1911 in Tampico, Illinois, but grew up in Dixon. His first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River in Lowell Park, near Dixon, in 1927. He rescued 77 people in this position. He was then educated at Eureka College, where he earned a degree in economics and sociology. During his studies, he excelled in politics, sports and theatre, and was a member of the football team and captain of the swimming team. During his studies, Reagan led a student revolt against the president of the college. After college, Reagan began his career at a regional radio station as a sportscaster. When he accompanied the Chicago Cubs on a trip to California as a reporter, he came to Hollywood for an audition. The film company Warner Bros offered him a seven-year acting contract in 1937. Reagan spent the next few years in Hollywood as an actor in B-movies. Although his roles were often overshadowed by those of others, he received good reviews for his acting. Reagan's first major role was the lead in the film Love is on the Air (Nick Grinde, 1937). In 1938, Reagan acted alongside actress Jane Wyman in the film Brother Rat (William Keighley, 1938). They married in 1940. By then, he had appeared in 19 films, including Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939) starring Bette Davis. Reagan often embodied elegant and respectable personalities with firm morals and principles such as the role of George "The Gipper" Gipp in Knute Rockne, all American (Lloyd Bacon, 1940) with Pat O'Brien. This film later earned him the nickname "The Gipper". In 1941, he was voted the fifth most popular actor of the new generation in Hollywood. Reagan's favourite role was in Kings Row (Sam Wood, 1942) with Ann Sheridan. He played a man who had been doubly amputated and who uttered the words 'Where's the rest of me?' He later used these words as the title of his autobiography, which came out in 1965. Although the film was scratched by Bosley Crowther, the New York Times critic at the time, many critics today consider Kings Row to be one of Reagan's best films. The film was nominated for three Oscars.
Although Ronald Reagan called Kings Row the film that made him a star, he was unable to capitalise on its success. He was called into active service with the US Army in San Francisco two months after the film's release and would never regain star status in films in the future. He served nearly four years with the World War II stateside service in the first Motion Picture Unit. In the post-war period, he resumed his film career with The Voice of the Turtle (Irving Rapper, 1947), John loves Mary (David Butler, 1949), and The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman, 1949) with Patricia Neal. He earned a reputation as a "poor man's James Stewart" in the early 1950s with starring roles in several small Westerns such as The Last Outpost (Lewis R. Foster, 1951), Law and Order (Nathan Juran, 1953), and Cattle Queen of Montana (Allan Dwan, 1954) with Barbara Stanwyck. He also worked regularly as a voice actor and narrator for films, such as the Oscar-winning short Beyond the Line of Duty. From the 1950s, Reagan was also a regular on increasingly popular television. He appeared from 1954 to 1962 as a host in 260 episodes of the weekly anthology Western series General Electric Theater, named after the electrical corporation General Electric. His last film was the remake of The Killers (1964). From 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 to 1960 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), which is seen as the beginning of his political involvement. In the late 1940s, he was an informant for the FBI and named fellow actors whom he assigned to a group with communist ideas. After his career as an actor, Reagan went into politics. As a member of the Republican Party, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, before becoming the 40th President of the United States, succeeding Democrat Jimmy Carter, and ruling the country for two terms in office from 1981 to 1989. Reagan's first term as president was mainly characterised by a supply-side economic policy, later called Reaganomics, with an emphasis on tax cuts to stimulate economic growth, restrictions on the supply of money to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, a reduction in government spending and a limitation of the power of trade unions. He was re-elected president in 1984. His second term was dominated by foreign events, such as the end of the Cold War, his bombing of Libya in 1986 and the exposure of the Iran-Contra affair, which damaged his government's image: it turned out that arms had been secretly supplied to Iran, the proceeds of which had financed rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan publicly described the Soviet Union as "the empire of evil" and supported anti-communist movements worldwide. At the same time, however, Reagan sought a diplomatic way out of the arms race between the US and the Soviet Union, resulting in the conclusion of the INF Treaty in which both countries agreed to destroy a large number of (nuclear) missiles. After Reagan stepped down as president in 1989, he and his wife moved into a house in Bel Air, Los Angeles; in addition, the couple owned the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara. Reagan died of pneumonia, partly caused by his poor condition due to Alzheimer's disease, at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, in 2004. He was 93. Ronald Reagan was the first and, until the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the only US president to be divorced. After a dispute over Reagan's political aspirations, his first wife, Jane Wyman filed for divorce in 1948, citing Reagan's activities for the Screen Actors Guild as the reason for the irreconcilable distance. The couple had two children, Maureen (1941-2001) and Christine (1947, died after one day) and adopted a third child, Michael (1945). In 1949, Reagan met actress Nancy Davis, after she approached him in his capacity as president of the Screen Actors Guild to help her with matters concerning her appearance on the Hollywood blacklist (on the list she had been mistaken for another Nancy Davis). They married in 1952 and had two children, Patti (1952) and Ron Jr. (1958).
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Vanessa Williams - Colours of the wind
Think you own whatever land U land on
Earth is just a dead thing U can claim
But I know ev'ry rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things U never knew (U never knew...)
Ref.:
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat Y he grinned
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains
Can you paint with all the Colours of the Wind
Can you paint with all the Colours of the Wind
Come run the hidden pine trail of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once never wonder what they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat Y he grinned
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains
Can you paint with all the Colours of the Wind
Can you paint with all the Colours of the Wind
In a circle in a hoop that never ends
How high does the sycamore grow
But if U cut it down then U'll never know
An you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For wether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
Need to paint with all the Colours of the Wind
You can own the earth and still
All U'll own is earth until
U can paint with all the Colours of the Wind
This is a group collaborative collage for Amma's Circle of Love Letters done a couple of years ago.
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”—Philippians 4:4-7
“The world will change because of your smile…To sit, to smile, to look at things and really see them—these form the basis of peace work.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Peace should come from within. What is to be done in order to obtain this peace? We should live our life understanding and discriminating between the eternal and the non-eternal. That is the only way. We will get peace only through the knowledge that God alone is eternal. We love everything and everyone with expectation. It is only because of expectation that we hate. Hatred and anger come when our expectations are not fulfilled, when our desires are obstructed.”—Amma, Awaken Children Vol. II, p.65
Video of “Let There be Peace on Earth”, sung by Vanessa Williams
www.squidoo.com/let_there_be_peace_on_earth
Starlings moving as individuals, yet a wonderful group harmony of wholeness:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE
(Thank you, He Marli for this video!)
May we all move towards the One in whatever paths we are on, leading up the same mountain!
Vintage record company promotional photo of singer/actress Vanessa Williams. Great style and beauty. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!
This stunning image of Vanessa Williams was shot by Dexter Browne at her home in Marina Del Rey 2002. Her and Rick just had Sasha. I was Vanessa's family photographer for 4 years.
Syracuse University (SU) in Syracuse, NY, is a private research institute, with nationally recognized communications and business administration programs, as well as college basketball, football and lacrosse teams - Go Orange!
Even snow-covered, these pictures show the beautiful 19th century Roman architecture of the campus buildings on "The Hill," some of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, mixed with the newer, contemporary buildings, such as Newhouse I and II, which are part of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, one of the top ranked communications schools in the country.
Famous SU Alums include: US Vice President Joe Biden; first African-American Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis; Intel Cofounder Arthur Rock; Carmelo Anthony, Forward for the Denver Nuggets; Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family; Broadcaster Bob Costas; Washington Redskins Quarterback Donovan McNabb; and Performers Dick Clark, Taye Diggs and Vanessa Williams.
Marc Cherry present tis tv serie in 2004, with Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan, Dana Delany, Vanessa Williams,...
The Heart Truth® is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Through the campaign, NHLBI leads the nation in a landmark heart health awareness movement that is being embraced by millions who share the common goal of better heart health for all women.
The campaign message is paired with an arresting visual—the Red Dress—designed to warn women that heart disease is their #1 killer. The Heart Truth created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002 to deliver an urgent wake-up call to American women. The Red Dress® reminds women of the need to protect their heart health, and inspires them to take action.
Seeking to advance the symbol, The Heart Truth forged a groundbreaking collaboration between the Federal government and the fashion industry, an industry intrinsically tied to female audiences. As a result of this partnership, fashion leaders—including top designers, models, and celebrities—have demonstrated their support for the issue of women and heart disease by participating in The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collections at New York’s Fashion Week annually since 2003.
For more information visit, www.hearttruth.gov.
Vanessa Williams arrives on the red carpet for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 20, 2009.
As part of Syracuse University's South Campus, this athletic complex is where the Syracuse Football, Basketball and Lacrosse athletes practice.
Syracuse University (SU) in Syracuse, NY, is a private research institute, with nationally recognized communications and business administration programs, as well as college basketball, football and lacrosse teams - Go Orange!
Even snow-covered, these pictures show the beautiful 19th century Roman architecture of the campus buildings on "The Hill," some of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, mixed with the newer, contemporary buildings, such as Newhouse I and II, which are part of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, one of the top ranked communications schools in the country.
Famous SU Alums include: US Vice President Joe Biden; first African-American Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis; Intel Cofounder Arthur Rock; Carmelo Anthony, Forward for the Denver Nuggets; Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family; Broadcaster Bob Costas; Washington Redskins Quarterback Donovan McNabb; and Performers Dick Clark, Taye Diggs and Vanessa Williams.
Syracuse University (SU) in Syracuse, NY, is a private research institute, with nationally recognized communications and business administration programs, as well as college basketball, football and lacrosse teams - Go Orange!
Even snow-covered, these pictures show the beautiful 19th century Roman architecture of the campus buildings on "The Hill," some of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, mixed with the newer, contemporary buildings, such as Newhouse I and II, which are part of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, one of the top ranked communications schools in the country.
Famous SU Alums include: US Vice President Joe Biden; first African-American Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis; Intel Cofounder Arthur Rock; Carmelo Anthony, Forward for the Denver Nuggets; Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family; Broadcaster Bob Costas; Washington Redskins Quarterback Donovan McNabb; and Performers Dick Clark, Taye Diggs and Vanessa Williams.