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" A child within
Has healing ways
It sees me through
My darkest days
I'm gonna keep catching that butterfly
In that dream of mine
I'm gonna keep catching that butterfly
In that dream of mine "
- THE VERVE -
Catching the Butterfly
"Paris Streets 443, Conscious." The historic Musee Des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France, is covered in a decorative mural to hide the underlying construction.
"Bridge To The Future - SUBCΘNSƆIΘUS MΛNIFΞSTΛTIΘNS" // "The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun & falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.":
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be conscious of yourself as consciousness alone,
watch all the thoughts come and go.
Come to the conclusion, by direct experience,
that you are really consciousness itself,
not its ephemeral contents.
.....
Clouds come and go in the sky,
but the appearance and disappearance or the clouds
doesn't affect the sky.
Your real nature is like the sky, like space.
Just remain like the sky
and let thought clouds come and go.
- Annamalai Swami -
another dedication on my father's day of passing.
He gave me this guitar that you see here in the year 1978.
This is a work by the artist Kader Attia, which he actually named Couscous.
This is also a work by a photographer who thought the work was called something else for the longest time and read Couscous as Conscious.
This is a work by a human who wakes up in the middle of the night, thinking dead people are alive and that she should call them. And that same human can't get back to sleep.
This is a work by a human who suffers, laments, thinks a lot about life and realizes this is what separates the conscious from the unconscious.
This is a work of someone who is interested in all layers of consciousness and wish her subconscious would communicate more with her non subconscious so that she knew how she truly felt about reality before she went to sleep and was unconscious.
This is also the work of someone who feels that to be conscious means one must have a conscience.
This is the work by a human who struggles with the idea that she would ever really be unconscious even if she were in a coma.
This is the work of a human who is wondering if she is actually in a coma and all of this is a very vivid presentation of how her brain is still experiencing life in a separate dimension than what we would always classify.
This is the work of magic desolation, textures, and light. Let's keep thinking about these things and realizing things about ourselves.
This is a reason why humanity might be worth saving after all.
More by Kader Attia: kaderattia.de/works/
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I feel too self-conscious bugging people for portraits. So I'm learning SL photography on my own with my home on the sea as background. Getting the light right and all that takes more patience than I would have thought. If anyone more experienced has any suggestions or tips, please let me know.
Instead of feeling self-conscious bugging people for portraits, I'm learning SL photography on my own. My overly-decorated home will be the main background as I figure things out. Getting the light right and all that takes more patience than I would have thought. If anyone with more experience has any suggestions or tips, please let me know.
I had been with this bird for some time waiting to see the open tail , but nothing, then a noisy group on small children arrived , I was with the flamingos and suddenly he gave a scream and opened his tail, I had to run back to him to take some shots, and he was so regal and sure of his beauty..... he turned to me when he saw I was taking pictures !! a really regal and sociable peacock !
conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands ;-)
Oscar Wilde
HGGT! HFF! Truth Matters! Lies have consequences!! Resist the Despicable Orange Cockroach Poo Tin Puppet!
narcissus, daffodils, 'Jules Verne', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
~ Sigmund Freud
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"Yellow Flower"
KT Tunstall.
Still the pulse survives
The conscious candour of our conversation
Lovely as you are
I see the strain, the pain, the degradation
Strips of light delightful
Either side of bars so thick and wide
You hide them with a colourful sigh
Falling at your feet in sheer joy
That you are able to receive me like a favourite chair
Soaking up the tea as if by magic it'll make me
Ever warmer even after you're not here
Could I be a boat for you a while?
Could I stay afloat for you and sail in your smile?
Could I be a boat for you
And navigate this weight for you
Could I be a boat for you a while?
You are the yellow flower of my youth
The scent of nothing wasted
With little left to prove
Oh graceful evergreen you take me
Over every hill I ever dreamed
And others, just illusions
Only seeming to be
Falling at your feet in sheer joy that you are able to
Receive me like a favourite chair
Soaking up the tea as if by magic it'll make me
Ever warmer even after you're not here
Could I be a boat for you a while?
Could I stay afloat for you and sail in your smile?
Could I be a boat for you
And navigate this weight for you
Could I be a boat for you a while?
After noting that the Edinburgh portion of the southbound Caledonian Sleeper departed from Waverley's platform 11 at 11.40pm, I checked out the empty stock movement and saw it was due to arrive from Polmadie CMD at 9.58pm, travelling as 5C11.
So, duly positioned on platform 10 to snap it as it arrived, it turned out the more pleasing shot was this one taken on platform 11 just after the loco had been uncoupled and the driver was carrying the connecting cable in hand - no doubt to save the shunter a lugging job as he moved the engine to the other end of the train ready for departure.
As mentioned the train goes forward as 1C11 at 11.40pm. At Carstairs it will be linked up with the Glasgow portion before heading south through the night with arrival at London Euston scheduled for 7.02am. The timings are relatively comfortable and on this occasion the travellers pulled into Euston 30 minutes ahead of schedule - no doubt the operators were happy seeing as the new sleeper stock was being used, on this occasion without incident, and presumably a few of the passengers were quite happy with the early alarm call too!
10.08pm, 13th June 2019
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as one might suspect, the stair owners are the same artists who created the colorful glass objects in recent posts.
When we don’t speak each other’s language, we “talk” with our hands. We point, make a gesture, or draw in the air.
Hands is about the language of conscious and unconscious gestures. Beya Gille Gacha created eleven hand gestures at the invitation of Fenix. She covers her life-like sculptures with thousands of beads from Cameroon, her mother’s homeland.Wanneer we elkaars taal niet spreken “ praten “ we met onze handen. We wijzen, maken een gebaar of tekenen in de lucht.
Handen gaat over de taal van bewuste en onbewuste gebaren.
Beya Gille Gacha maakte op uitnodiging van Fenix elf handgebaren. Ze bedekt haar levensechte sculpturen met duizenden kralen uit Kameroen, het land van haar moeder.
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I have to be conscious, if you like, of the impossibility of photography :-)
Pieter Hugo
HMM! Justice Matters! No one is above the law!
prunus mume, weeping japanese flowering apricot, 'Bridal Veil', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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- One of the best views of St Paul's - the symmetry of the bridge complements the formal classical architecture.
In my opinion this is best shot, just after sunset as here, where the dome is lit up & highlighted, & the wonderful blue lights of the Millenium bridge come on (although they take on a turquoise colour through the glass panels of the bridge)
Not the easiest shot as there's a fairly small window of opportunity between the bridge lights coming on & the light levels dropping too much - which means the dome tends to give blown highlights & needs HDR treatment (even then doesn't look quite as good)
The other big problem is the people like me who walk all over the bridge! - it gets busier than an ice cream van on Brighton beach on a sunny bank holiday Monday - especially at this time!
If you want to capture the beauty of the blue lights on the bridge there's no option other than to use a 10 stop filter and get a 60 second exposure (minimum) to remove the crowds.
Even then you'll need to take a few shots because there's always a few stragglers who stop for ages to take in & photograph the great view & ruin even 60 second shots.
If you're not a fully paid up photo crazy geek like me and feel a bit self conscious with a tripod this is THE place to shake off those inhibitions because you have to stick your tripod smack bang in the middle of the half landing of the bridge!
But hey - if you can make it here - just like New York - you can make it anywhere!
Elephant ACes stretch things out as they roll northbound through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO.
I'm sure nothing's changed from a conscious operating decision, but I've been catching a lot of paired ACes lately. Nothing wrong with that...
“I am more consciously and peacefully united with God’s will. I am more completely determined to abandon all care for my own interests into God’s hands through our Lady, even and especially my highest spiritual interests. I am no longer taking care of my own progress and my own sanctity because it is hopeless. I leave it to Mary’s direction, to the Living Christ within me, acting in me, controlling all that I do for His love. It is true, for the moment at least, He seems to have a much fuller control.
“All that matters is to give everything, and the quicker, the better. Fighting, struggling, rebelling, delaying make it harder, but not more meritorious. On the contrary, less. So it is fruitless to multiply difficulties and delays. Give everything and give it in the quickest possible way. All that matters is the gift. That is what pleases God, atones for sin, converts the world, and leads us into the joys of heaven even here on earth.”
- Thomas Merton (July 20, 1947) from A Year with Thomas Merton
The sea is pure therapy. It has a unique ability to completely calm and reset me. I crave it when I'm not there. Much like the mountains but they present a bigger challenge. A regular dose of both is vital to my wellbeing though. This coastline has got me through some tricky times in the past so I am conscious never to take it for granted. Portknockie in Morayshire, Scotland.
It's one of those things you never really consciously take note of: The specific characteristics of the trees around where you live. Until you move to another geographic area where the trees are different.
I've lived in a few different climates and each has its own unique trees that become associated with the experience. When you see those types of trees again after an absence, it is like seeing old friends! In that way, the sight of these tall poplar trees in their June foliage in Washington stirred strong emotions in me. Just like the closely related cottonwood trees, their leaves have a silvery backside that twinkles in the summer wind. They will always signify summer to me and I just love them!
Photographed in Fort Steilacoom Park, Tacoma, Washington.
I have a few things to show you today from a few of my favourite second life designers.
Earrings
iNeed Inspire earrings are fitted for LelEvoX Female heads, they come with a HUD to change the metal and pearls, (black, white/silver and gold)
iNeed Mainstore LM maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shocking%20Blue/53/233/22
Nails
BodyArts - Natural Stilleto Nails. They are fitted for Belleza GenX, Legacy, Reborn and Lara/LaraX
A colour changing HUD so you can pick a natural colour for your nails.
BodyArts Mainstore LM maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Courtesy/183/245/30
BodyArts MP marketplace.secondlife.com/de-DE/stores/193422
Nose Piercing
[VIPERA] Vibora Piercings Available at Main store and MP Unrigged mesh piercings with HUD for colour changing: → Metals: 6 colours → Gems: 9 colours → Hide/Show each piercing
Vipera Mainstore LM maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Utopia%20Isles/143/161/4004
Vipera MP marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/24996
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Paulo Coelho, “Eleven Minutes”
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Martin Luther King Jr.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren Kierkegaard
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️
In our earth-lab, a life form has existed randomly, thanks to the reaction of atoms of the ingredients which were already there, in the lab, for the creation of this life form. It has started to develop and expand on the earth, randomly. Later, after billions of years, it got conscious, randomly , but not all life forms have headed to the same direction. The evolution occurred according "the tree of life”.
Speculation:
Big bang has sealed the fate of our future by creating the atom based universe, like all the necessary ingredients were put in a beaker, in a chemical lab, to become the expected ( not randomly) chemical solution.
A life form is the expected result, depending of the time, of the existence and reaction of ingredients in a beaker.