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To think we used to think these Beautiful birds were simply Hedge sparrows. The Handsome Dunnock has always been in another class with its lovely song red eye and beautiful plumage.
Their Latin name is so much nicer and deserving. Prunellas they are :-)
This little flower is super tiny but I thought it was deserving to be shared as sooo pretty against the green grass
"Come Healing"
O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow
The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace
O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart
O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The Heart beneath is teaching
To the broken Heart above
O let the heavens falter
And let the earth proclaim:
Come healing of the Altar
Come healing of the Name
O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb.
Song by:Leonard Cohen
This Canopy is situated near India Gate In New Delhi, India.
Empty for many years till a deserving icon was placed.
It takes a hardy little tree to survive here. It is completely out in the open and exposed the the salt water and wind. I fell in love with this ugly little guy. He is deserving of this picture and many more.
'You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.' Buddha
Continuing my South Padre Island birds series. This isn't an ideal image in many ways but I'm posting it because is shows so clearly that each of these two species are well deserving of their names.
I've neither posted nor seen a Black-necked Stilt image displaying those stilts so conspicuously. And the spoon shaped bill on the Roseate Spoonbill is nicely displayed too.
By the way, the spoonbill isn't eating a small octopus...that's its foot.
Spotted these along the path through Rake Brook Reservoir Wood. Fully deserving of its common name Giant Funnel, Leucopaxillus giganteus. However, there are several 'Funnel' species of fungi.
Bahnhofsmission Lindau, Bodensee
(Lake Constance, Germany)
The railway missions are social aid organisations located on main railways stations. Deserving poors with various needs could ask there for help. In Germany the first one was founded in Berlin by pastor Johannes Burckhardt. In the beginning the aid was mainly offered to women the railway missions got more and more important during the time of the industrialisation. There are railway missions in several countries, in the UK it was founded in 1881, in USA its called Railroad Evangelistic Association, etc.
Die Bahnhofsmissionen sind soziale Hilfsorganisationen, die sich auf grossen Bahnhöfen befinden. Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Bedürfnissen können dort Hilfe finden. In Deutschland wurde die erste im Jahre 1894 durch den Pfarrer Johannes Burckhardt gegründet. In der Anlaufzeit ursprünglich hauptsächlich für Frauen gedacht, hatten die Bahnhofsmissionen eine wichtige Bedeutung in der Zeit der Industrialisierung gewonnen. Es gibt sie unter verschiedenen Bezeichungen auch in anderen Ländern, z.B. in Grossbritanien seit 1881, in den USA als Railroad Evangelistic Association, usw.
I'm still stuck on birds as we can't go far from home and do confess it's the colorful varieties that usually get my attention first. That said, the Eastern Phoebe is nothing fancy but like any living creature, is just trying their best to survive in a hostile world. They deserve to be included too.
I love to try to capture great flower shots there is something just so beautiful about what nature creates and catching it with a lens is one my many photographic passions.
Having the skill set finally to render an edit deserving of the subject is my reason for diving into my photo vaults for images that I felt didn’t get the treatment they deserved the first time around that and the utter boredom of lockdown without the ability to create new shots.
Cuba besides producing some of the most mind blowing sunsets produces plenty of flora to keep a macro photographer going for an entire vacation no matter how long.
The flower pictured here is a member of the orchid family through Cuban decent so maybe not so delicate and is called a lentifal also very plentiful at Brisas Sierra Mar our Cuban home away from home.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron 90mm 2.8 Lens at 1/13s, f/16 ISO 200 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz Denoise
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
1927 Mercedes-Benz Model K Wins Best in Show at Greenwich Concours
By Jeff Peek / Hagerty.com
Michael and Joannie Rich were looking for just the right car, and in the end, the right car found them. It proved to be a match made in concours heaven. The Pennsylvania couple’s one-off 1927 Mercedes-Benz Model K was chosen Best in Show at Sunday’s 25th Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, which returned to Roger Sherman Baldwin Park after a two-year hiatus.
“It came to us sort of by chance,” Michael says. “I was approached by somebody in the car world who said they had a neat car that I might be interested in. What really interested me was its Fleetwood body. Obviously, there are many coach builders, but it was from a place that’s only a half-hour down the road from us … a place I’d visited. I mean, the factory is still there. There’s a just a tremendous amount of history out of the Fleetwood factory. That’s what really attracted me to it—plus it’s the only one in existence.”
The car’s original owner, William Sloan of Rochester, New York, saw legendary Hollywood actor Rudolph Valentino’s Fleetwood-bodied Isotta Fraschini Roadster at the 1926 New York Auto Salon and fell in love with it. Except he wanted it on a Mercedes-Benz chassis. The car had been repainted in the decades that followed—Michael described it as “a pretty car with an ugly paint job”—and the Riches wanted to restore it back to how it looked when it rolled out of the Fleetwood factory. They entrusted the job to Steve Babinsky and Automotive Restorations in Lebabon, New Jersey.
“It was fun doing the restoration because we could visit it from time to time. I remember when it was down to a frame,” Joannie says. “We discussed the colors, and when we finally found the original color, we looked at each and said, ‘It’s interesting … not one I would pick.’ We sort of toyed back and forth about what we were going to do, and we decided if we were going to do it, we’d do it as it was.”
That proved to be a great decision. The Greenwich Concours d’Elegance is only its fourth public showing.
“The car world has a belief system, and the belief system is that certain cars are just super important, deserving of celebration and recognition,” says McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty, which owns the event. “The Mercedes-Benz Model K selected as best in show represents that greatness—one that the judges recognized following significant deliberation.”
The short-wheelbase (130 inches) Model K is powered by a 6.2-liter, switchable supercharged (kompressor) six-cylinder engine. From the right side of the bonnet/hood emerged three metal exhaust pipes merging at the lower edge to a single exhaust. This detail later became a hallmark of Mercedes-Benz supercharged cars.
“It’s a special car,” Joannie says. “I get so much enjoyment out of watching people’s reaction to it. They have so many questions. It’s been a lot of fun.”
Michael thanked his father “for getting me into this mess.”
“It’s a hobby,” Joannie jokingly corrected him.
“A mess, a hobby, organized chaos … I just wish he was here to see this.”
Something tells us he would be smiling.
À la claire fontaine m'en allant promener
J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle que je m'y suis baignée.
(refrain) Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, jamais je ne t'oublierai
Sous les feuilles d'un chêne, je me suis fait sécher.
Sur la plus haute branche, un rossignol chantait.
(refrain)
Chante, rossignol, chante, toi qui as le cœur gai.
Tu as le cœur à rire… moi je l'ai à pleurer.
(refrain)
J'ai perdu mon ami sans l'avoir mérité,
Pour un bouquet de roses que je lui refusai…
(refrain)
Je voudrais que la rose fût encore au rosier,
Et que mon doux ami fût encore à m'aimer.
(refrain)
As I was walking by the clear fountain,
I found the water so lovely I had to bathe.
(refrain) I've loved you for so long, I will never forget you
Under the oak's leaves, I lay and dried.
On the highest bough, a nightingale sang.
(refrain)
Sing, nightingale, sing, you who has a joyous heart.
Your heart is made for laughing... mine can only cry.
(refrain)
I lost my love without deserving it,
Because of a bouquet of roses I refused him...
(refrain)
I wish the rose were still on the bush,
And my sweetheart loved me still.
"À la claire fontaine" ("By the clear fountain") is a traditional French song, which has also become very popular in Belgium and in Canada - especially French-speaking areas such as Québec, New-Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI.
I love that song!:-]
Almost so perfect
Way that I want you
I'm almost deserving when I get close to you
I disappear - lost in the waves - I go under, under
I am an island
You are the ocean
So close we're touching, completely surrounded
But I cannot have you the way that I want to
Because I am an island you are the ocean
No I cannot have you, I cannot have you without.drowning
My breath is shallow, I just can't catch it
My heart is breaking, feel the waves crashing
New storm is building if it rages I'll go under, under
Because I am and island you are the ocean
So close we're touching, completely surrounded
But I cannot have you the way that I want to
cause I am an island you are the ocean
No I cannot have you, I cannot have you without.drowning
I see you out there
I'm lost in the blue
I'm part of the world but I cannot have you
cause I am deserted and you are too deep
I cannot love you without losing me
I am an island you are the ocean
we're so close we're touching, completely surrounded
But I cannot have you the way that I want to
cause I am an island you are the ocean
No I cannot have you, I cannot have you without.drowning
***
SVRCINA - Island
# aka "save me from myself again"
# it's been quite a while, but I process things differently, obsessively, et al., or so a few brilliant minds have informed me (& much more, of course), and I recognized and had already self-analyzed, reaching the same conclusions. Lyrics from Losing My Religion come to mind, the opening: "Oh, life is bigger, It's bigger than you, and you are not me, the lengths that I will go to." Emotional processing is obviously unique to each individual, an anguished sea of endless variations. I've sensed and directly experienced criticism of me and my emotions.... although I still have no idea what the point was. To offer hostility to the grief-stricken is callous, vapid, and utterly incompressible personally. Ok. I've encountered the feelings of people passing away, but this was/is unique. Despite the fact that I sought out objective assistance, I'll have a mere moment of memory, a small seemingly innocuous find, et al., and the day is utterly transformed. I don't know how, when, or if this changes... I thought to try Flickr for catharsis of a sort. So, thank you. Prost.
There’s a story behind this one so I decided to put it up.
For almost 4 years now old Magoo has been trying to capture one of the red kite birds that leisurely circle over our house on a regular basis and he’s failed miserably! Hundreds and hundreds of attempts and not a single one deserving of putting up. Four years. Sigh. Chuckle.
These fighter jets on the other hand, occasionally pass over and nothing about them is leisurely, you hear them coming at a terrific rate of knots , they are on you with a roar and then whoosh - gone. I’ve never had a camera with me when they do - or not with the right lens anyhow. But on this day I did have and was in a good place in the garden.
I heard it coming, no time to lift my 20x magnifier, no time to think or check aperture or exposure, I just turned towards the noise and then it was on me, unseen but without thinking I guessed at height and direction and spun around to get ahead of it, paused an instant and then hit the shutter button - one shot. No time to see if I had been unbelievably lucky for there was another one coming. I quickly turned towards it, made the same guess, spun ahead, paused and fired! Again, one shot.
I lifted up my 20x magnifier to take a look and see what if anything I had - the shots were taken so I knew I had clouds but I was beyond flabbergasted to discover I had caught the very fast moving jet not once, but twice. Honestly, I stood there stunned, it seemed….insane. It still does. Of course I didn’t know if they were sharp or blurred I can never tell even with the 20x but as you can see it was sharp, they both were.
Two shots, two hits on the lightening fast jet I think earns Magoo the title of ‘Topgun’ on this occasion at least, whilst my attempts at the slow moving kites earn me an empty water pistol award. Hopefully, I’ll be successful one day but until then these two photos give me cause for optimism and still raise a bemused and amazed smile and quite a bit of head scratching:^)
The fire of 1917 had devastated whole areas of Thessaloniki's centre (the Jewish quarter for example) and the rebuilding programme, at least of major buildings, followed the Art Deco style. Some of these buildings are architecturally very eclectic and interesting and well-deserving of restoration work (such as this one). My impression is that Thessaloniki's urban landscape is waiting for a major push in that direction. Leica M8, Voigtlaender 35/1.4.
Just thought I'd upload a picture for International Women's Day 2019 today...The Bitch is just as deserving of celebrating as any other female in my opinion... Asha and I send our Love to all Bitches out there....
Taken at Sunny's Photo Studio
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Pose: Girls A-Le/Late Night
Wow really proud of this one Thank you ALL!!!! Not sure if deserving..again Thank you (Oct 9 2023)
Many years ago I came across these words below and was able to pen them to both my parents before they passed away and have been able to pen them to many deserving friends ever since : )
"Your Extravagant Journey through my life has left me overflowing with a thousand memories"
In the midst of those beautiful clouds and that awesome blue sky, I would say this bird is having an Extravagant Journey...just imagine flying amdist it all like he is...wow....what a rush that would be! Enjoy!
Selma, AL | March 04, 2007
"Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I'm going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every day, not just in Capitol Hill but also back here in the district. Please give a warm round of applause for your Congressman Artur Davis.
It is a great honor to be here. Reverend Jackson, thank you so much. To the family of Brown A.M.E, to the good Bishop Kirkland, thank you for your wonderful message and your leadership.
I want to acknowledge one of the great heroes of American history and American life, somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage, somebody who I have admired all my life and were it not for him, I'm not sure I'd be here today, Congressman John Lewis.
I'm thankful to him. To all the distinguished guests and clergy, I'm not sure I'm going to thank Reverend Lowery because he stole the show. I was mentioning earlier, I know we've got C.T. Vivian in the audience, and when you have to speak in front of somebody who Martin Luther King said was the greatest preacher he ever heard, then you've got some problems.
And I'm a little nervous about following so many great preachers. But I'm hoping that the spirit moves me and to all my colleagues who have given me such a warm welcome, thank you very much for allowing me to speak to you here today.
You know, several weeks ago, after I had announced that I was running for the Presidency of the United States, I stood in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois; where Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech declaring, drawing in scripture, that a house divided against itself could not stand.
And I stood and I announced that I was running for the presidency. And there were a lot of commentators, as they are prone to do, who questioned the audacity of a young man like myself, haven't been in Washington too long.
And I acknowledge that there is a certain presumptuousness about this.
But I got a letter from a friend of some of yours named Reverend Otis Moss Jr. in Cleveland, and his son, Otis Moss III is the Pastor at my church and I must send greetings from Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. but I got a letter giving me encouragement and saying how proud he was that I had announced and encouraging me to stay true to my ideals and my values and not to be fearful.
And he said, if there's some folks out there who are questioning whether or not you should run, just tell them to look at the story of Joshua because you're part of the Joshua generation.
So I just want to talk a little about Moses and Aaron and Joshua, because we are in the presence today of a lot of Moseses. We're in the presence today of giants whose shoulders we stand on, people who battled, not just on behalf of African Americans but on behalf of all of America; that battled for America's soul, that shed blood , that endured taunts and formant and in some cases gave -- torment and in some cases gave the full measure of their devotion.
Like Moses, they challenged Pharaoh, the princes, powers who said that some are atop and others are at the bottom, and that's how it's always going to be.
There were people like Anna Cooper and Marie Foster and Jimmy Lee Jackson and Maurice Olette, C.T. Vivian, Reverend Lowery, John Lewis, who said we can imagine something different and we know there is something out there for us, too.
Thank God, He's made us in His image and we reject the notion that we will for the rest of our lives be confined to a station of inferiority, that we can't aspire to the highest of heights, that our talents can't be expressed to their fullest. And so because of what they endured, because of what they marched; they led a people out of bondage.
They took them across the sea that folks thought could not be parted. They wandered through a desert but always knowing that God was with them and that, if they maintained that trust in God, that they would be all right. And it's because they marched that the next generation hasn't been bloodied so much.
It's because they marched that we elected councilmen, congressmen. It is because they marched that we have Artur Davis and Keith Ellison. It is because they marched that I got the kind of education I got, a law degree, a seat in the Illinois senate and ultimately in the United States senate.
It is because they marched that I stand before you here today. I was mentioning at the Unity Breakfast this morning, my -- at the Unity Breakfast this morning that my debt is even greater than that because not only is my career the result of the work of the men and women who we honor here today. My very existence might not have been possible had it not been for some of the folks here today. I mentioned at the Unity Breakfast that a lot of people been asking, well, you know, your father was from Africa, your mother, she's a white woman from Kansas. I'm not sure that you have the same experience.
And I tried to explain, you don't understand. You see, my Grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya. Grew up in a small village and all his life, that's all he was -- a cook and a house boy. And that's what they called him, even when he was 60 years old. They called him a house boy. They wouldn't call him by his last name.
Sound familiar?
He had to carry a passbook around because Africans in their own land, in their own country, at that time, because it was a British colony, could not move about freely. They could only go where they were told to go. They could only work where they were told to work.
Yet something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, 'Ripples of hope all around the world.' Something happened when a bunch of women decided they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry, looking after somebody else's children. When men who had PhD's decided that's enough and we're going to stand up for our dignity.
That sent a shout across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son, who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world had a chance.
What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, “You know, we're battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we're not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites. So the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.
This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama.
I'm here because somebody marched. I'm here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we've got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn't cross over the river to see the Promised Land. God told him your job is done. You'll see it. You'll be at the mountain top and you can see what I've promised. What I've promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I've fulfilled that promise but you won't go there.
We're going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens. There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed. Like Moses, the task was passed on to those who might not have been as deserving, might not have been as courageous, find themselves in front of the risks that their parents and grandparents and great grandparents had taken. That doesn't mean that they don't still have a burden to shoulder, that they don't have some responsibilities. The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90% of the way there. We still got that 10% in order to cross over to the other side. So the question, I guess, that I have today is what's called of us in this Joshua generation? What do we do in order to fulfill that legacy; to fulfill the obligations and the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today?
Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back; but, there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year, we occasionally celebrate the various events of the civil rights movement, we celebrate Dr. Kings birthday but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means is an everyday activity.
Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back, but there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year. We occasionally celebrate the various events of the Civil Rights Movement, we celebrate Dr. King's birthday, but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means, is an everyday activity.
Moses told the Joshua generation; don't forget where you came from. I worry sometimes, that the Joshua generation in its success forgets where it came from. Thinks it doesn't have to make as many sacrifices. Thinks that the very height of ambition is to make as much money as you can, to drive the biggest car and have the biggest house and wear a Rolex watch and get your own private jet, get some of that Oprah money. And I think that's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with making money, but if you know your history, then you know that there is a certain poverty of ambition involved in simply striving just for money. Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence. You have to fill that with something else. You have to fill it with the golden rule. You've got to fill it with thinking about others. And if we know our history, then we will understand that that is the highest mark of service.
Second thing that the Joshua generation needs to understand is that the principles of equality that were set fort and were battled for have to be fought each and every day. It is not a one-time thing. I was remarking at the unity breakfast on the fact that the single most significant concern that this justice department under this administration has had with respect to discrimination has to do with affirmative action. That they have basically spent all their time worrying about colleges and universities around the country that are given a little break to young African Americans and Hispanics to make sure that they can go to college, too.
I had a school in southern Illinois that set up a program for PhD's in math and science for African Americans. And the reason they had set it up is because we only had less than 1% of the PhD's in science and math go to African Americans. At a time when we are competing in a global economy, when we're not competing just against folks in North Carolina or Florida or California, we're competing against folks in China and India and we need math and science majors, this university thought this might be a nice thing to do. And the justice department wrote them a letter saying we are going to threaten to sue you for reverse discrimination unless you cease this program.
And it reminds us that we still got a lot of work to do, and that the basic enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, the injustice that still exists within our criminal justice system, the disparity in terms of how people are treated in this country continues. It has gotten better. And we should never deny that it's gotten better. But we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough. That until we have absolute equality in this country in terms of people being treated on the basis of their color or their gender, that that is something that we've got to continue to work on and the Joshua generation has a significant task in making that happen.
Third thing -- we've got to recognize that we fought for civil rights, but we've still got a lot of economic rights that have to be dealt with. We've got 46 million people uninsured in this country despite spending more money on health care than any nation on earth. It makes no sense. As a consequence, we've got what's known as a health care disparity in this nation because many of the uninsured are African American or Latino. Life expectancy is lower. Almost every disease is higher within minority communities. The health care gap.
Blacks are less likely in their schools to have adequate funding. We have less-qualified teachers in those schools. We have fewer textbooks in those schools. We got in some schools rats outnumbering computers. That's called the achievement gap. You've got a health care gap and you've got an achievement gap. You've got Katrina still undone. I went down to New Orleans three weeks ago. It still looks bombed out. Still not rebuilt. When 9/11 happened, the federal government had a special program of grants to help rebuild. They waived any requirement that Manhattan would have to pay 10% of the cost of rebuilding. When Hurricane Andrew happened in Florida, 10% requirement, they waived it because they understood that some disasters are so devastating that we can't expect a community to rebuild. New Orleans -- the largest national catastrophe in our history, the federal government says where's your 10%?
There is an empathy gap. There is a gap in terms of sympathizing for the folks in New Orleans. It's not a gap that the American people felt because we saw how they responded. But somehow our government didn't respond with that same sense of compassion, with that same sense of kindness. And here is the worst part, the tragedy in New Orleans happened well before the hurricane struck because many of those communities, there were so many young men in prison, so many kids dropping out, so little hope.
A hope gap. A hope gap that still pervades too many communities all across the country and right here in Alabama. So the question is, then, what are we, the Joshua generation, doing to close those gaps? Are we doing every single thing that we can do in Congress in order to make sure that early education is adequately funded and making sure that we are raising the minimum wage so people can have dignity and respect?
Are we ensuring that, if somebody loses a job, that they're getting retrained? And that, if they've lost their health care and pension, somebody is there to help them get back on their feet? Are we making sure we're giving a second chance to those who have strayed and gone to prison but want to start a new life? Government alone can't solve all those problems, but government can help. It's the responsibility of the Joshua generation to make sure that we have a government that is as responsive as the need that exists all across America. That brings me to one other point, about the Joshua generation, and that is this -- that it's not enough just to ask what the government can do for us-- it's important for us to ask what we can do for ourselves.
One of the signature aspects of the civil rights movement was the degree of discipline and fortitude that was instilled in all the people who participated. Imagine young people, 16, 17, 20, 21, backs straight, eyes clear, suit and tie, sitting down at a lunch counter knowing somebody is going to spill milk on you but you have the discipline to understand that you are not going to retaliate because in showing the world how disciplined we were as a people, we were able to win over the conscience of the nation. I can't say for certain that we have instilled that same sense of moral clarity and purpose in this generation. Bishop, sometimes I feel like we've lost it a little bit.
I'm fighting to make sure that our schools are adequately funded all across the country. With the inequities of relying on property taxes and people who are born in wealthy districts getting better schools than folks born in poor districts and that's now how it's supposed to be. That's not the American way. but I'll tell you what -- even as I fight on behalf of more education funding, more equity, I have to also say that , if parents don't turn off the television set when the child comes home from school and make sure they sit down and do their homework and go talk to the teachers and find out how they're doing, and if we don't start instilling a sense in our young children that there is nothing to be ashamed about in educational achievement, I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was something white.
We've got to get over that mentality. That is part of what the Moses generation teaches us, not saying to ourselves we can't do something, but telling ourselves that we can achieve. We can do that. We got power in our hands. Folks are complaining about the quality of our government, I understand there's something to be complaining about. I'm in Washington. I see what's going on. I see those powers and principalities have snuck back in there, that they're writing the energy bills and the drug laws.
We understand that, but I'll tell you what. I also know that, if cousin Pookie would vote, get off the couch and register some folks and go to the polls, we might have a different kind of politics. That's what the Moses generation teaches us. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Go do some politics. Change this country! That's what we need. We have too many children in poverty in this country and everybody should be ashamed, but don't tell me it doesn't have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don't think that fatherhood ends at conception. I know something about that because my father wasn't around when I was young and I struggled.
Those of you who read my book know. I went through some difficult times. I know what it means when you don't have a strong male figure in the house, which is why the hardest thing about me being in politics sometimes is not being home as much as I'd like and I'm just blessed that I've got such a wonderful wife at home to hold things together. Don't tell me that we can't do better by our children, that we can't take more responsibility for making sure we're instilling in them the values and the ideals that the Moses generation taught us about sacrifice and dignity and honesty and hard work and discipline and self-sacrifice. That comes from us. We've got to transmit that to the next generation and I guess the point that I'm making is that the civil rights movement wasn't just a fight against the oppressor; it was also a fight against the oppressor in each of us.
Sometimes it's easy to just point at somebody else and say it's their fault, but oppression has a way of creeping into it. Reverend, it has a way of stunting yourself. You start telling yourself, Bishop, I can't do something. I can't read. I can't go to college. I can't start a business. I can't run for Congress. I can't run for the presidency. People start telling you-- you can't do something, after a while, you start believing it and part of what the civil rights movement was about was recognizing that we have to transform ourselves in order to transform the world. Mahatma Gandhi, great hero of Dr. King and the person who helped create the nonviolent movement around the world; he once said that you can't change the world if you haven't changed.
If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first and that is something that the greatest and most honorable of generations has taught us, but the final thing that I think the Moses generation teaches us is to remind ourselves that we do what we do because God is with us. You know, when Moses was first called to lead people out of the Promised Land, he said I don't think I can do it, Lord. I don't speak like Reverend Lowery. I don't feel brave and courageous and the Lord said I will be with you. Throw down that rod. Pick it back up. I'll show you what to do. The same thing happened with the Joshua generation.
Joshua said, you know, I'm scared. I'm not sure that I am up to the challenge, the Lord said to him, every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. Be strong and have courage. It's a prayer for a journey. A prayer that kept a woman in her seat when the bus driver told her to get up, a prayer that led nine children through the doors of the little rock school, a prayer that carried our brothers and sisters over a bridge right here in Selma, Alabama. Be strong and have courage.
When you see row and row of state trooper facing you, the horses and the tear gas, how else can you walk? Towards them, unarmed, unafraid. When they come start beating your friends and neighbors, how else can you simply kneel down, bow your head and ask the Lord for salvation? When you see heads gashed open and eyes burning and children lying hurt on the side of the road, when you are John Lewis and you've been beaten within an inch of your life on Sunday, how do you wake up Monday and keep on marching?
Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to travel. We traveled because God was with us. It's not how far we've come. That bridge outside was crossed by blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, teenagers and children, the beloved community of God's children, they wanted to take those steps together, but it was left to the Joshua's to finish the journey Moses had begun and today we're called to be the Joshua's of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across this river.
There will be days when the water seems wide and the journey too far, but in those moments, we must remember that throughout our history, there has been a running thread of ideals that have guided our travels and pushed us forward, even when they're just beyond our reach, liberty in the face of tyranny, opportunity where there was none and hope over the most crushing despair. Those ideals and values beckon us still and when we have our doubts and our fears, just like Joshua did, when the road looks too long and it seems like we may lose our way, remember what these people did on that bridge.
Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey, the prayer that God gave to Joshua. Be strong and have courage in the face of injustice. Be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice and hatred, in the face of joblessness and helplessness and hopelessness. Be strong and have courage, brothers and sisters, those who are gathered here today, in the face of our doubts and fears, in the face of skepticism, in the face of cynicism, in the face of a mighty river.
Be strong and have courage and let us cross over that Promised Land together. Thank you so much everybody.
God bless you."
Massif de 178 hectares, la dune du Perroquet propose une grande diversité de milieux: pelouses rases, pannes humides, fourrés arbustifs... qui méritent tous d'être découverts au cours d'une visite guidée naturaliste. Le calvaire érigé en mémoire des marins qui ont péri en mer est une autre des attractions de cette zone particulièrement sauvage à la faune et flore extrêmement riche.
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With its 178 hectares, the "Dune du Perroquet" ("Parrot Dune") offers a wide variety of natural zones: shaven lawns, wet grounds, shrub thickets ... all deserving to be discovered during a naturalist guided tour. The memorial built in memory of the sailors who perished at sea is another of the attractions of this particularly savage area.
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Black Bears are so fascinating to watch with their interesting individual personalities. A beautiful and too often misunderstood animal that is deserving of our profound respect. For one they help make our forests so beautiful with the way they fertilize the forests with the fish they eat.
One of the alleys I walk through on my way to the tube in the evening. The buildings are original Victorian tenements apartments for the "deserving poor" of the area. Still social housing and not gentrified
Just what the title expresses. Don’t think that I wouldn’t find plenty of places deserving that caption in Spain! Bad taste is universal!
Dana, my parent's foster greyhound, has become very affectionate and close to their other greyhounds. She always likes to rest her head on their backs. She is such a sweet and loving dog, I hope she finds a deserving home
If ever there is a lake deserving of panoramas this is it. Handheld using viewfinder markings to keep the frames at the same height. Stitched in Lightroom. Quite pleased with the lighting which provided a variety of highlights and shadows across the range.
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Rifugio Pian de Cengia/ Büllele Joch Hütte is the highest mountain hut in the Sexten Dolomites. The dorm features bunk beds sleeping up to 13 guests. Meals and drinks are available to passing hikers and hut guests. Having just left the previous hut an hour before we did not feel deserving of a break and walked past this cute place, which seems a shame in hindsight. The huts are cozy affairs and enable hikers to stay high for days or weeks without the need to go down into the valleys to resupply. To avoid crowds we decided to go early in the season as soon as the huts open. Remaining patches of snow were a small price to pay for travelling outside the main season.
JAGO: *Reading.* “Whilst Cinderella was sitting beside the Prince in a lovely alcove, and looking at the moon from under a bower of orange blossoms, she heard the clock strike the first stroke of twelve. She started up and fled away as lightly as a deer.”
DAISY-MAUD: “Oh my!” *Puts paw to mouth.* “Cinderella forgot her Fairy Godmother’s warning!”
JAGO: “Indeed she did, Daisy-Maud.”
DAISY-MAUD: “Oh! Please keep reading, Jago. I want to know what happens to poor Cinderella!” *Concerned.*
JAGO: *Reading.* “The Prince followed, but could not catch her. Indeed he missed his lovely princess altogether, and only saw running out of the palace doors a dirty little girl whom he had never beheld before, and of whom her certainly would never have taken the least notice.”
DAISY-MAUD: “Well! I like that!” *Offended.*
JAGO: “What’s wrong Daisy-Maud?”
DAISY-MAUD: “The Prince is perhaps not so deserving of Cinderella as a bride, if he cannot look beyond her rags and recognise her! Look! There is a picture of Cinderella mid transformation from princess to servant girl.” *Points paw to illustration.* “She still looks beautiful, even in her rags and tatters.”
JAGO: “I know, Daisy-Maud. Don’t be too quick to judge the Prince. The tale isn’t over yet.”
DAISY-MAUD: “I’m certainly glad that my bear prince, Benny likes me for who I am, and not just when I am wearing pearls and jewels!”
JAGO: “Oh yes, Daisy-Maud, Benny loves you just as you are, and so do I!”
DAISY-MAUD: “Oh I love you too, Jago! You are the best big brother anybear could have! I love spending time with Benny, and I love spending time with you too! You read so beautifully, and story time with you is very special and precious to me.”
JAGO: “That’s so lovely of you to say so, Daisy-Maud! I love story time with you too. I missed our story time whilst you were still living with Mummy June in Norfolk and I was here with Daddy.”
DAISY-MAUD: “Well now we need never be apart again, my wonderful big brother.”
JAGO: “And thanks to the magic portal, you don’t have to be separated from your prince, Benny!”
DAISY-MAUD: “Oh yes! I am so grateful to Fairy Mum for making the portal between here and Mummy Marian’s house! We are very lucky bears to live the good life we do, aren’t we Jago?”
JAGO: “Indeed we are, Daisy-Maud. Not all bears get such a nice home to live in, or books of faerie tales to read, or Mummies like Mummy Marian and Mummy June, or Daddies like ours.”
DAISY-MAUD: “I’m glad we are lucky, Jago.”
JAGO: “Me too, Daisy-Maud. Shall I keep reading now?”
DAISY-MAUD: “Oh yes please, Jago. Let’s see if Cinderella gets to live as happily ever after as us.”
JAGO: “I think she will, Daisy-Maud.”
Jago and Daisy-Maud are reading my first edition 1920 copy of Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper published by George Sully & Co., illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. Margaret Evans Price was a U.S. toy manufacturer. With her husband, Irving Price, and Herman Fisher, she co-founded Fisher-Price Toys in 1930.
Jago was a gift from a dear friend in England. He is made of English mohair with suede paw pads and glass eyes. He is a gentle bear, kind and patient who carries an air of calm about him. He is already fitting in with everyone else very nicely.
Daisy-Maud is Jago's little sister and was made by the same friend in England who made him. She is made of German mohair with floral fabric cotton paw pads that match her pretty sunhat, and glass eyes. A sweet and loving little girl bear, she is happy to be reunited with her big brother, Jago, and enjoys being spoiled by her Daddy.
Mood; I WILL SURVIVE - Benedetta Caretta feat. Petar Markoski
And on the path of self-acceptance,
These twelve illusions you shall shed:
The illusion of being unwanted:
For, in truth, there is no such thing as an unwanted soul.
The illusion of being unlovable:
For your true self is love.
The illusion of unworthiness:
For you are always deserving of love and success.
The illusion of being weird:
For there is no such thing as normal.
The illusion of needing external validation:
For your worth is never dependent on another's approval.
The illusion of being insignificant:
For your presence impacts all of humanity.
The illusion of being powerless:
For within you lies the strength to shape your destiny and influence the world.
The illusion of not being good enough:
For you were born good enough.
The illusion of being a burden:
For your existence is a precious gift, and your contributions add value.
The illusion of being unsuccessful:
For success is subjective, and your path is uniquely yours.
The illusion of being ugly:
Because that label only ever reflects the viewer being incapable of seeing beauty.
And the illusion that aging decreases your value:
For, in truth, you are not a body but a soul.
Words by Tahlia Hunter
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Ten facts about pigs:
1. Pigs are very clean animals
2. Pigs can’t sweat
3. Pigs are smarter than your dog
4. Mother pigs sing to their babies
5. Pigs love belly rubs!
6. Pigs have an excellent sense of direction
7. Pigs dream and like to sleep nose-to-nose
8. Pigs have excellent memories
9. Pigs suffer immensely on factory farms
10. Pigs are deserving of good lives
More facts from World Animal Protection 10 Facts About Pigs
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This species is only known from high elevation bogs and heaths with wild blueberries (the host plant). A remnant of a formerly widespread species that now (closest to Maryland) persists only in an isolated area in Dolly Sods Wilderness and other similar high elevation habitats in Tucker County, West Virginia.
Based on my research, this species' last record in Maryland is from 1985. There are no recent records of this species in the neighboring Virginia. Today, principally found in high elevations of Tucker County, West Virginia in isolated populations.
Certainly an S1 (Highly state rare) species deserving of conservation status.
For identification purposes, this species is similar to the common and widespread Colias philodice and Colias eurytheme, but note the signature pink edging on the fringes and the single circle (rather than two unequal circles) at the end of the discal cell.
William (our youngest son) was just as surprised as we were last night and came home with a very large (19") trophy from the St. John Ambulance Brigade Division 59C/D. The George B. Lamont Award for Most Outstanding Regular Member.
He really is dedicated and most deserving.
~the 2008 plate with his name is on the right side of the base~
OUTFIT: : Roslyn / Kynlee Outfit (Tres chic)
HAIR: Angelic x Merch / "Loraya" (The Grand Event:)
PURSE & ACESSORIES: Luxecode / Elvee Sunglass (The Grand Event:)
Luxecode / Capuci Bag Big FP CROC (The Grand Event:)
Luxecode / Elvee Head Scarf (The Grand Event:)
POSE: HERITAGE / DESERVING IT (The Grand Event:)
When I look into the eyes of an animal I see a soul,, They are pure and full of love ❤ Deserving of respect, love and kindness.
Humans can be cruel and fickle. One day they love you the next their just gone. When you make an animal a part of your family they will love you always.
Human Kind... Be Both. ʕ·͡ᴥ·ʔ
Another iPhone photo of one our of local hero's in Strathaven on a charity run. This girl is an ultra distance runner and this was a 50 mile challenge. This was taken in our award winning park. It was to raise money for our local food bank. It's nearly Christmas & I can't think of a more deserving cost. Rosie is a member of the very active & successful "Strathaven Striders" running club. I was faffing about with my iPhone trying to do some intentional camera movement with a long exposure.
I made this capture on the last day of spring by some people's definition, including mine. The LMWR is in Stevensville, MT and is named after the late Montana lawyer, judge, US House member and Montana Senator as well. This good gentleman was the consummate conservationist and worked for many years with the aim being working towards preserving, conserving, and protecting Nature's wild places, and all the living things within them. A great man, indeed, and certainly deserving of this very honorable legacy.
A spring storm was brewing in the southern valley here, some 15 miles away down by the town of Hamilton, MT. But, as all photographers know, storm fronts often supply the very best
chances and the best conditions for dramatic photography.
I'm a dedicated front-chaser now myself, that is until the lightning starts striking. Gotta split the scene when that starts.
I will settle for having made some compelling lightning shots many, many years ago, when I was very young and virtually immortal.
On this particular day this was quite the encounter. This is a stretch of Armand Bayou that flows by Bay Area Park and sometime there are some interesting characters perched on the old branches and trees that the visitors enjoy perching in. The winds were tolerable without a lot of chop on the water, so the canoe wasn’t bobbing up and down like a cork with a fish on the line. I was able to get a decent capture of this Brown Pelican as I drifted up to his position. I should have backed off but he/she launched not long after I captured this shot.
Have decided to attempt a test run tomorrow and hope things go smoothly. The winds are supposed to be light, which is always a plus when it comes to canoeing. Wishing everyone a wonderful week ahead.
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The declaration by UNESCO in 1984 of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba as Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and its inclusion on the list of those deserving this privilege, are but proving a reality. This monument has become a symbol of the city of Córdoba, and one of a highly rich past. But, above all, it is the city’s distinguising mark in the world. Thus, one automatically and inevitably relates Córdoba with the current Cathedral. When hearing the word ‘Córdoba’, the first thing that comes to most minds is the Mosque.
La declaración de la Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba por la UNESCO, en el año 1984, de bien Patrimonio de la Humanidad, y su inclusión en la lista de merecedores de tal privilegio, no hace más que evidenciar una realidad. Este monumento se ha convertido en símbolo de la ciudad de Córdoba, y de riquísimo pasado. Pero sobre todo, es la seña de identidad de la ciudad en el mundo. De esta forma, el hecho de relacionar Córdoba con la actual Catedral es algo casi automático e inevitable. Casi todo el mundo, cuando oye la palabra Córdoba, lo primero que se le viene a la mente es su Mezquita.
Córdoba (Spain).
...We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden...
Today is the birthday of Anya Dobrova – my good old friend and fair sister in arts, very talented collage artist, one of my best models and heroes of my photo-tales, parables and koans. I have deposits of her taken photos at my SSD. I made not that much of them, as they (and Anya) are deserving. Old friendship has its ups and downs, and seems that now is one of the downs. And I could make photos only of people who are inspiring me at the moment. A bit like making love. Because an art is in a way akin to love. Both are creative acts. It was partially because of one talk with Anya about another friendship of mine, which is at even more down stage now, and I felt that Anya is talking rather strange things about it. I was disappointed. This too shall pass, as wise man said. Anya is far too good for not make art with her. And one piece of good news is that life is unpredictable.
(Definitely to be continued…)
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"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
— Kahlil Gibran
Love delicate flowers in group of three with very artistic looking branches. Japanese looking motif. Deserving of haiku poem.