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Blessing my new house. Thai monks who stayed in the Netherlands for 3 months, have blessed my house :)
Eight of her grandchildren and all her children and their spouses died of AIDS. Her surviving grandchild is in SHARE program.
A ceremonial blessing at the Krobo Millet Festival in Krobo, Ghana. The Millet Festival attracts local royalty and even the President of Ghana.
This work by Jasmine Nears is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Learn more about the Blessing Ceremony on the Festival Blog: www.festival.si.edu/2014/hong-kong-crew-begins-work-on-fl...
Rows of 9 feet joss sticks being lit for a properous Chinese New Year ahead.
Each stick represents a blessing, either for family or work, and each family might have multiple sticks lit.
You can't believe the sheer amount of smoke these things emits, but well, it's tradition!
Learn more about the Blessing Ceremony on the Festival Blog: www.festival.si.edu/2014/hong-kong-crew-begins-work-on-fl...
For half a century, fisherman Wayne Blessing has traveled from his home in Greensboro to the Hatteras surf and the Frisco Pier. " The challenge is a certain thrill that comes from feeling something on the line," he says. "I guess it's the same allure the gambler has."
Read about Wayne Blessing and more in Ray McAllister's Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks, available in bookstores, through online booksellers, and at www.blairpub.com/alltitles/hatterasisland_hardcover.htm.
Details of one of the two A.J.Davies windows from the nave of the chapel.
In March 2015 work began on the demolition of the Victorian chapel at Leicester Royal Infirmary, the controversial action being the first stage in an expansion of the present hospital complex. Sadly the chapel was deemed to be in the way of these plans and sacrificed, but fortunately all the stained glass windows were rescued from the building before work began.
The windows were removed by Norgrove Studios of Redditch, where I took the opportunity to photograph all the panels before they were packed away to be put into storage and face an uncertain future (I had photographed the complete windows when they were still in situ a year earlier). There is talk of mounting some of the windows in artificially lit units at some stage as all served as memorials to former staff at the hospital.
However there is some concern over which might receive this priority treatment; there has been talk of returning the four Kempe saints to view purely because he is believed to be the most significant artist represented in the chapel's windows. However three Arts & Crafts windows at the west end were in my mind the more significant pieces here, but it isn't clear what might be done with them, or the Victorian and modern windows from the apse.
Therefore I show the windows in detail here, very likely for the last time in natural daylight, with the aim of keeping the memory of their beauty and craftsmanship alive.
Blessing my new house. Thai monks who stayed in the Netherlands for 3 months, have blessed my house :)