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Taken at 'The Mill'
"WE CANNOT CHANGE YESTERDAY
IT'S ALREADY GONE; FADING AWAY
WE LIVE INT HE WORLD; HERE TODAY
OUR PRESENCE EXISTS; BE WHAT IT MAY
ACCEPT WHAT LIFE IS; IN YOUR OWN WAY
SET A SMALL GOAL; JUST ONE FOR TODAY
KEEP TAKING STEPS; IT'S LIKE A RELAY
FORWARD YOU MOVE; GROWING EACH DAY
REFLECT ON GOOD THINGS; NO MATTER HOW SMALL
GRATITUDE FOR LIFE; WILL MAKE YOU FEEL TALL
WRITE THEM ALL DOWN; REMEMBER EACH DAY
THEN LOOK BACK ON LIFE; IT WAS REALLY OK."
BY Louise Wolfers
Enjoying the crisp fall air thinking over how she will not get her wand no time soon, she accepted her fate that she messed up bad and will have to finally deal with her punishment.
All losses are caused by different reasons, but a select few of them happen because something was straight out taken from us, or we were taken ourselves. Imagine being not only stripped of your clothes, your dignity, and your pride, but also being forced to go along for the ride. A ride that involves no acceptance, no going with the flow, no ability to fight, just being absolutely forced to comply with everything and everyone being taken from you.
This can all be metaphorical to describe a situation in your life, but it can also be exactly what it describes. Sex trafficking is still a very real thing and is one of the worst kind of losses you can go through as a human being. Did you know that over 27 million people a year are forced into jobs, not just sexual ones, but hard labor jobs as well? You hear about the numbers sometimes of women and girls forced to be sex slaves, but you don't hear about the number of slaves working on farms, ranches, in mines, and this doesn't even include the number of inmates locked up on bogus crimes and forced to do the jobs society has deemed undesirable. Silenced, subdued, shackled, and sometimes raped repeatedly, there are depths a person can fall into that are unimaginable while the rest of the world declares "We should do something." While sipping their starbucks, and going to get a massage on the weekend at the spa from one of the trafficked women in town.
Next time you feel like you've lost everything, just remember there's a lot further you could fall, and your situation can most likely be fixed a lot easier than some other people's darkest days.
Explore #331....Thank You, Friends ♥
"Don't regret what might have been. Accept what is and rejoice in what is yet to be."
Here's another attempt at layering. I used the "Elysium (cool)" texture [twice] and finished with the "Pure Milk" overlay from the wonderful Florabella Collection.
I'm sorry I haven't been on flickr much lately. I will be off and on, as I am still doing the "Big Purge" in my house. We are finishing up in our home office (nearly 28 years of accumulated papers) and then intend on going through the rest of our house. Every closet, drawer, cabinet and shelf will be tackled. And let's not forget the garage!
If you have a moment.... please watch this short video of Alex Wong dancing. He brings tears to my eyes! He is oh, so very talented! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKffaDRIRE
Thank you for your continuous friendship! ♥
I'll be on the road soon.
Not this road.
But still...
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'Acceptance'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Ultrafine 400
Process: PMK; 1+2+100; 13mins
Nebraska
July 2023
I have been playing with the Deep Dream Generator (an AI image generator which takes your base photo and/or instructions into consideration while constructing the image), trying to make images which illustrate some of the many many haikus I have written.
I thought I would show a few of them to you all.
This was based on a photo of my sister laughing, just a year before she died. Alzheimers took her memories of her life, her jobs, her adventures, her travels.... but it never took away her soul, her love, or her laughter. It would have eventually taken away even that, but she died of kidney failure before the Alzheimers could kill her more slowly. She never stopped being accepting, gracious, kind, cheerful, and loving. I was so impressed by her amazing attitude. I don't know if I would be able to be like that if my memories were being erased. Maybe, with her example in front of me, I could.
I liked the image (although I had to work on it a LOT to fix weirdnesses) because on the right side is a mass of dark flowers, which to me seems to symbolize her memories fading into darkness, and behind her are what might be interpreted as angel's wings, waiting for her.
This woman doesn't actually look like my sister, but I really liked it anyway. Here is a link to the original photo of my sister, upon which this AI generated image was based:
www.flickr.com/gp/23310196@N06/15z35rp12E
The haiku I wrote, which this is supposed to illustrate, reads:
Seeing you laugh while
Your memories disappear...
I am in awe of you.
Man with dog on Inchandoney Beach, Cork, Ireland on a sunny February day in 2010.
Today's contact brings beauty each day to the world of Flickr. Sparth. A wonderful photo gallery.
“The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.”
― Christina Baker Kline
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
THICH NHAT HANH
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Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 70-210mm F/4 "Beer Can" Lens. Oak/Conifer Foothills section within the Eastern Cascades region. Klickitat County, Washington. On the first day of July 2022.
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4200 K
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
- Melody Beattie
- explored #1 - thank you!!
I'm finding a lot of folks my age are feeling the same way I do right now. We grew up being told to just go get a degree. Stop at nothing to get one. Go into debt and pay whatever for the education, because with a degree you can pay it off in no time. It's worth it. It doesn't matter what your degree is in, you just need one. And it will bring you success in the real world.
But this isn't the case anymore, is it? Now the market wants a Master's with 10 years of experience. And it's shrinking to the point that it can make such demands because goodness knows there are thousands of us grasping for that one opening.
I'm not mad nor do I blame society/parents for engraining such teachings in us. A degree was truth for so long and with the exception of a few conspiracy theorists, no one saw this recession coming. We were prepared for one type of world, only to get out in it and learn the hardest lesson of all – things change.
So, let's be done with bitter. Let's be done being victims. Let's be done with “life's not fair.”
Instead, let's be smarter. Let's define the next greatness. Let's rise above and create a better society.
I'm accepting that horizons have changed. It's a brave new world baby. Here's to jumping in with both feet.
Nessuna situazione può diventare favorevole finché non ci si adatta ad essa e si cessa di spossarsi con errata resistenza
Hard. Hard to accept. Hard to conceive
And all I have to offer are
A hug, love
and a flower.
To all who are in pain, to all
who are different, separated
and those I cannot understand.
And to my loved ones
NJ Transit's Autism Acceptance unit brings a Raritan Valley Line train into Bound Brook station. In the background, a few double stack cars of NS 23G can be seen between the trees. If 23G had only arrived a few seconds earlier...
NJTR 4506 ALP-45DP
This folks is where she takes the material and then places it. There is so much more I'd like to post in this series but don't know right now wheather I will or not, hope you all like this series so far and thank you all for the visits and comments. Made explore # 462 On 11-22-09-Thank you all so very much.
Hi all,I recently entered two pieces into the St.Helens Open Art competition and both were accepted into the exhibition,pretty pleased :)
This is one of them,the other is in the comments below.
Anyone wishing to see the exghibition,its in the Godfrey Pilkington gallery,upstairs from St.Helens central library,right near the town hall,
Thanks for looking,
Chris.
PS,the exhibition is on from this wednesday,(16th November) for around a month I think :)
Today I'm heavy-hearted. Lifeless. Without color. Or joy. The more I fight to "right" myself, the more frustrated I become. So today I decided to accept it. Today is hard...that's all. (pause, doorbell rings)
It's early afternoon and the doorbell just rang. I'm in my bed wondering if I should grab my robe and answer it. What the heck. I slosh to the front door with my hair in more directions than a compass. Oh well.
I utter an apology while the door is in mid-swing. A young woman stands holding a vase of three yellow rose buds. Oh. My. Goodness. Someone has sent me flowers!!! NO joke.
Hmmmm, imagine that. How ironic.
I have a term for these unexpected delights. I call them God Hugs.
I think I'll make some tea and open the curtains!!
(Thank you, dear Tanya for sharing your sweet texture)
Also used Pioneer Woman's Lovely and Ethereal action
and Soulful's Sweetness Honey action
Inspired by Kellene: www.flickr.com/photos/40980447@N04/3963748587/
(hungry man in tenderloin, sf, 10/12/06)
hungry john quinn hunched over a trash can in the tenderloin. as i pass, he stands vacantly staring nowhere in particular. he wears a black leather jacket and hospital bottoms. there's darkness about his eyes; the whites aren't white, rather slight shades off his skin. but when the light catches, so do they.
i circle and return from another direction. he's grim and i expect dismissal. i ask if i can take his picture. he smiles and says "why sure you can." he has only a single tooth. he lives in a nearby "poorly ventilated" low income hotel. he just got out of the hospital and has been trying to get money for food. he had a heart attack. says he's had to quit smoking.
i ask about his blue eyes. if anyone else in his family has had them. says no, "just me and my mule"
there's an animation in him that he seems to save. and an intelligence that surprises. we talk of the time he met martin luther king in the airport leaving for india. we talk of his graduation from berkeley, his acceptance to law school, and the drug use which would take him elsewhere.
he talks of south africa's "honorary whites", india's untouchables, and sartre's essence of a man.
and he describes an exchange between south africa's botha and nelson mandela, when the latter was in prison. botha insists that mandela renounce violence as an alternative if he wishes release.
mandela refuses, responding that there is no alternative to life; and that he will do whatever is necessary to live.
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