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The moment is heavy with unspoken words, an eternity compressed into a fleeting gesture. A mother and grandmother, weathered by years of sacrifice, pour every ounce of their love, pride, and sorrow into this final kiss. Their hands, roughened by toil, hold the daughter close, as if trying to anchor her to a life she must leave behind.
This is not just a farewell—it is a rite of passage, a silent promise that their love will follow her into the unknown. Whether stepping into the servitude of another family or the quiet halls of the monastery, the daughter carries with her the weight of their devotion, their hopes, and their dreams.
The kiss is their gift, a blessing to shield her, a final act of selflessness in a world that asks too much of women like them. And though their hearts ache with the loss, they know they must let her go, trusting that the seeds of love they’ve sown will bloom in her future.
Beneath the shadow of the ancient stone,
A tender kiss, a love deeply known.
Hands calloused, yet a touch so kind,
A fleeting embrace, forever enshrined.
Through parting tears, a silent plea,
Carry us with you, wherever you’ll be.
Into the fields or cloisters’ embrace,
Our love remains, time cannot erase.
Hands rough from labour,
A kiss before the unknown,
Love in every breath.
Stone walls stand silent,
A mother’s heart softly breaks,
Farewell to her child.
Paths now diverging,
A kiss seals love eternal,
Life’s quiet echo.
Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
Galería Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
13 marzo - 10 abril, 2015
This man’s devotion or serenity enchanted me – I was watching him for a long time.
There’s a buddhist centre near my old house – the Nalanda – a centre based on sri lankan teachings. Different budhist practices from different countries have slightly different styles of workship – the Tibetian one is more similar to hinduism where Buddha is portrayed in various forms and devi plays a major role. I never found the time to go there till on Wesak Day, last Saturday.
It’s a very new centre and I was told it was started to offer students in the local univ (I live in a univ town) a place to workship and bond. What I liked about the place was they were very welcoming. Lights and flowers and food was given to all.
I’ve always loved the serenity of Buddha, I fell in love with one particular statue in chiang mai last year and was sitting in front of him forever. I’m also prone to sit and enjoy the chants of the workshipers – very soothing.
Few years back we had the opportunity to perform in a dance drama on Sidharta. Upon seeing our performance, the main buddhist vihara in KL invited us to perform again on the steps of their temple on a full moon day. It was one of our most memorable performance as there was just an amazing serenity to it facing the moon and performing to the world.
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"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."
— John Adams, in a letter to his wife, Abigail.
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A rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, preserved in Washington, D.C., written by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin before adoption by the Congress. "Franklin made only a few changes [to Jefferson's] ‘rough draft’ of the Declaration. The most important of his edits was small but resounding. He crossed out, using the heavy backslashes that he often employed, the last three words of Jefferson’s phrase ‘We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable’ and changed them to the words now enshrined in history: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’"
Quoting from Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson.
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▶ 2 July 1776
"Delegates at the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia officially separated the 13 American colonies from Britain by approving a motion for independence advanced by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. Twelve of the 13 colonies approved it (New York abstained, as its representatives did not have permission to vote for it at that time)."
☞ 4 July 1776
"The actual Declaration of Independence — whose principal author was Thomas Jefferson — was adopted (although not signed) by members of the Continental Congress. Jefferson had been writing it, draft after draft. He was one of the Committee of Five the Continental Congress set up to draft a declaration, with the other four being Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman."
☞ 2 August 1776
"Most of the delegates signed [the Declaration] on Aug. 2. That’s when the assistant to the secretary of Congress, Timothy Matlack, produced a clean copy. John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, signed first, right in the middle of the signature area. The last delegate to sign, according to the National Archives, is believed to be Thomas McKean of Delaware, some time in 1777."
☞ August 1776
"The British government in London didn’t know that the United States had declared independence until August."
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▶ Full text: National Archives.
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"The path that was Joseph's-his pilgrimage of faith - ended first, that is to say, before Mary stood at the foot of the cross on Golgotha, and before the time after Christ returned to the Father, when she was present in the upper room on Pentecost, the day the Church was manifested to the world, having been born in the power of the Spirit of truth. Nevertheless, Joseph's way of faith moved in the same direction: it was totally determined by the same mystery, of which he, together with Mary, had been the first guardian. The Incarnation and Redemption constitute an organic and indissoluble unity, in which "the plan of revelation is realized by words and deeds which are intrinsically bound up with each other." Precisely because of this unity, Pope John XXIII, who had a great devotion to St. Joseph, directed that Joseph's name be inserted in the Roman Canon of the Mass-which is the perpetual memorial of redemption - after the name of Mary and before the apostles, popes and martyrs."
-Pope Saint John Paul II, Redemptoris Custos (Guardian of the Redeemer), 1989
"Con đường lữ hành đức tin của Thánh Giuse kết thúc trước, nghĩa là trước khi Mẹ Maria đứng dưới chân thập giá trên đồi Gôngôtha, và trước thời điểm Đức Kitô trở về cùng Cha, khi Mẹ hiện diện ở lầu Tiệc Ly vào lễ Ngũ Tuần, ngày mà Giáo hội tỏ mình ra cho thế giới, sau khi được sinh ra trong quyền năng của Thánh Thần Chân lý. Tuy nhiên, con đường đức tin của Thánh Giuse cũng theo một hướng đó, hoàn toàn được quy định do cùng một mầu nhiệm mà Giuse cùng với Mẹ Maria là người được ký thác đầu tiên. Mầu nhiệm Nhập Thể và mầu nhiệm Cứu chuộc, tạo thành một duy nhất tính hữu cơ và bất khả phân ly, nơi đó “chương trình mạc khải được thực hiện qua các biến cố và lời nói liên kết mật thiết với nhau”. Chính vì duy nhất tính này mà Đức Gioan XXIII, người rất sùng kính Thánh Giuse, đã quyết định thêm tên của Thánh Giuse vào Lễ Quy Rôma của Thánh lễ, để muôn đời tưởng nhớ ơn Cứu độ, bên cạnh tên của Mẹ Maria, trước tên các Thánh Tông đồ, các thánh Giáo hoàng và các thánh Tử đạo."
-Thánh Giáo Hoàng Gioan Phaolô II, Redemptoris Custos (Đấng gìn giữ Chúa Cứu Thế), 1989
This shrine to Saint Joseph, which has a relic in the heart of the statue, is at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Richardson, Texas. Artist Nancy Rebal created the artwork for this shrine, and it was dedicated in March 1997.. This picture was also taken after the first time I experienced the Holy Mass in Latin (still the Missal of Saint John Paul II), which is celebrated at this parish on the third Thursday of every month. May Saint Joseph intercede for us on his feast day to protect the Universal Church, the Church in Việt Nam, and all those who have Saint Joseph as their patron saint, which includes (perhaps most men and some women in the Church.)
Đền Thánh Giuse này, có thánh tích ở giữa lòng bức tượng, nằm tại Nhà thờ Giáo xứ Thánh Giuse ở Richardson, Texas. Bức ảnh này cũng được chụp sau lần đầu tiên mình được kinh nghiệm Thánh lễ bằng tiếng Latinh (vẫn là Sách lễ của Thánh Gioan Phaolô II), được cử hành tại giáo xứ này vào ngày Thứ Năm thứ ba hàng tháng. Xin ngài chuyển cầu cho chúng con trong ngày lễ kính ngài để bảo vệ Hội thánh Hoàn vũ, Giáo hội tại Việt Nam và tất cả những người có Thánh Cả Giuse làm thánh bổn mạng, bao gồm cả mình nữa (có lẽ đa số người nam và một số người nữ trong Giáo hội.)
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The best way to appreciate jazz music is going to a live concert and watching how notes are created on the spot. Playing music is like making love. Love is a game of involvement and devotion. And notes being generated by such a relationship between the musician and their instrument make you experience a sense of deep love.
Location: Ferrara Jazz Club - Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy
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St Joseph's R. C. Church, Dinnington. Christian churches have Mothering Sunday half way through Lent as a break from Lenten abstinence and is the only day we have flowers in church during Lent. We do not worship Mary but pay devotion to her as the mother of Our Lord.
This Book of Hours illuminated ca. 1470 contains stunning examples of full-page miniatures in the style of Willem Vrelant, most likely originating in Bruges. Given that several prayer cycles contain indications of a female suppliant, as well as a majority female saints in the litany, the book was either owned or co-owned by a woman. The artist or artists have chosen to alternate between color and near-grisaille miniatures throughout the text and the calendar, making for a strikingly varied program of images.
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This Book of Hours was completed for the Use of Tournai and was illuminated ca. 1500 under the influence of the Master of the Prayer Books. Synthesis of text and decoration is well balanced in this manuscript. Evidence of an early owner is found on fol. 18v, where he is depicted in prayer with St. William the Great. However, because St. William the Great is not mentioned in the calendar, the manuscript may have been intended for an owner other than the gentleman portrayed in the full-page miniature on fol. 18v. Featuring fifteen full-page miniatures (inserted), twenty-nine panel miniatures, as well as some illusionistic borders, this manuscript has an ambitious pictorial program. However, there is also a sophisticated interrelationship between the textual and pictorial programs, a relationship especially apparent in the Suffrages.
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Walking the course that winds into the trees behind Kinkakuji, behind giftshops and coffee stalls - the real places of devotion in Modern Japan - you can still find some of the purpose of this venerable place. At one point, using it as his retirement home, the Shogun chose this place for its peace, its tranquility and because it was imbued with calm - the calm of smoke swirling from incense in an autumn breeze.
Going away to Vietnam for two weeks, so I am bucking my usual 1-photo-per-(4)-days style. Thanks for looking - please comment if you have time, and most of all Happy Christmas.
Location: Dhamrai,Dhaka
Charak Puja (also known as Nil Puja) is a Hindu folk festival, held in southern Bangladesh and West Bengal on the last day of the month of Chaitra (in Bengali calendars called Choitro).
Similar festival in Maharashtra is called Bagad, while in Vizianagram, Andhra Pradesh it is called as Sirimanu utsavam.
People believe that the festival will carry prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year. The festival is actually a festival to satisfy "Lord Shiva", the great "Debadideb" of Hindu Religion. Though the festival takes place on the mid night of Chaitra Songkranti, the preparation phase usually starts before one month of the day.
The arrangement team of the festival go from village to village to procure the necessary components like paddy, oil, sugar, salt, honey, money and other items with the arranged cosmetics such as Shiva, Parvati and Narod. The cosmetic Shiva is locally called "Nil Pagol" or "Jal Katha". On midnight of the Songkranti, the worshippers are gathered together to worship the God and after puja the prasad is distributed.
Illustration of Charak Puja from Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal (1832) by Sophie Charlotte Belnos (1795-1865)
In one place, it is also known as "Hajrha Puja". The woman doesn't take the meal before Puja on this day. Sometimes in this festival a human "Charak" is made ready to satisfy the Lord Shiva. The "Charak" is tied with a hook (Borshi) on his back and then he is moved around a bar with a long rope. Though it is risky, they arrange it.
Sree. V. Dakshinamoorthi Swaamikal...
the icon of Indian Classical music...
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These husband and wife, both are devoted; he is devoted to Lord Krishna and she is devoted to her husband, touching his feet on every step.
© 2007-2010 Manmohan Sharma
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Photoblog : Spinning the Life
It's like a never-ending,
once you get hold of the music.
It's keeps playing in your head.
Never stop hanging onto you.
Then, a music instrument,
is just a thing that produce something you love, music.
Amazing. I'm very glad that,
i'm not blind nor deaf.
Or i wouldn't be able hear,
music that filled my life,
and wouldn't be able to see, or take pictures of,
things that are worth, things that are beautiful,
and of course, wouldn't be addicted
in taking pictures.
Cos' i'll never realise,
how wonderful is this world.
A woman in a sari prays to Lord Ganesh during the Hindu festival of Ganesh Chaturthi in Kolkata, India.
Ganesh Chaturthi is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of the elephant-headed god of prosperity on earth. It lasts 10 days and ends with the immersion of the Ganesh murti (idol) into water.
Although mostly celebrated in Mumbai, Ganesh pujas are organised throughout India.