going_doing photos on Flickr

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Eh, dónde vais??? no me dejes!!!

Hey, where are you going ??? do not leave me !!!

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We makes lots of jokes about this guy, the Armadillo. If you drive through Texas you'll see lots of them flattened on the road. One joke goes: Do you know the real reason the chicken crossed the road? Just to show the Armadillo it could be done..:)

Take the ones you love And hold them close because there is little time by Seth Levon♫

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Disturbed - Hold on to Memories

Listen, everyone

The time will come when all of us say goodbye

Feel that aching in your heart

Leaving you broken inside

But we're never really gone

As long as there's a memory in your mind

So now go do the best things in life

Take a bite of this world while you can

Make the most of the rest of your life

Make a ride of this world while you can

Take the ones you love

And hold them close because there is little time

And don't let it break your heart

I know it feels hopeless sometimes

But they're never really gone

As long as there's a memory in your mind

So now go do the best things in life

Take a bite of this world while you can

Make the most of the rest of your life

Make a ride of this world while you can

And hold on to memories

Hold on to every moment

To keep them alive

The world's greatest tragedy

Souls who are not remembered

Cannot survive

So now go do the best things in life

Bring the fight to this world while you can

Make the most of the rest of your life

Shine your light on this world while you can

And hold on to memories

Hold on to every moment

To keep them alive

The world's greatest tragedy

Souls who are not remembered

Cannot survive

And hold on to memories

Hold on to every moment

To keep them alive

The world's greatest tragedy

Souls who are not remembered

Cannot survive

Balance by Marjan Smeijsters

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For the Macro Mondays theme "Balance".

Let us not forget to enjoy the little things of beauty that nature gives us. I found a fitting quote for further explanation.

"Live life in harmony. Balance the elements of life around you to live in peace. Let your worries go. Do not stress over things you cannot control. Live and be."

Quote - Jenna Bognar

And also raindrops fascinate me, every time again and again, by the way they balance on a leaf or a branch, before they drop down to earth ;-))

Happy Macro Mondays

"Feel what you need to feel .. by Nikki Heron

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and then let it go. Do not let it consume you."

Taken at Walsh County

Thankyou in advance for your support, faves, comments and awards!

I do appreciate you all 💖

Pryce "Mother's Day" Tribute by Azaria******♥

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You are my inspiration, my dreamer, my personal storyteller.....

Always behind the camera, I do not recall a single day of my childhood (1990's) that my mother was more than an arm's length from her camera. Award-winning photographer and accomplished writer. All love begins and ends here.

Graduation with Bachelors in Psychology...

Mother hands me a Nikon ($2,ooo camera) "I'm so proud of you my Bella, a psychology degree is a great backup plan! Now go do something you absolutely love. " So I did.

Thanks, Lawrence for inviting me to join

So Will I

The Onlookers by Steven Hromnak

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Having a few corners left over from the fun I had with my plastic cubes, I found myself seeing what more I could make of the images. One in particular was very colorful so I started with that one. I duplicated it a bit and that started to look interesting, I then added the yellow from the corner I cut off and that gave a bit of light to the dark. With some nice color going, I was off to look for a bit of texture which led me to a camping trip folder and a window from the side of a wooden building in Maryland. Turns out I really like that shot and went ahead and processed it too. A stone stairway from a monument at Gettysburg Battlefield also caught my eye so I gave it a try and liked it. Many, many times I head down this path and the image just doesn't work so I go find another. Just as many times the whole thing gets shelved and I go do something else. Every so often, as the piece gets developed, I like what I see as was the case here with The Onlookers. All in all, I used four images and included a collage in the first comment.

Happy Slider Sunday - HSS

Night shot of old Barn by Pat Clancy

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When we go do night shots, usually get several from one spot then a different angle. This is almost identical to one I loaded a few days ago, but during the exposure a car went down the highway and the auto lights moved across the barn. I figured it would be ruined but actually liked the results

What the hell am I going doing here? by Paul W Lucas Photography

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I captured this cool looking Breakdancing dude, at the Birmingham Digbeth Weekender: where there was a whole range of art, music, theatre and exhibitions!

Lean on Me by 🌸Gwyn🌸

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Anyone blessed to have a friend to lean on in the time of need is truly blessed.

~~Wanna~~ Thank you for putting up with all my let's go do... etc.

🎼: Lean on Me ~Bill Withers~

✈️ : Cherishville

You just call on me brother, when you need a hand

We all need somebody to lean on

I just might have a problem that you'll understand

We all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear

That you can't carry

I'm right up the road

I'll share your load

If you just call me (call me)

If you need a friend (call me) call me uh huh(call me) if you need a friend (call me)

If you ever need a friend (call me)

Call me (call me) call me (call me) call me

(Call me) call me (call me) if you need a friend

(Call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me)

133/365 - Good morning! :) by ♡ M i c h e l l e ♡

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Smile on Saturday theme: Mugs & co.

Taken outside on my deck with my daughter's coffee in one of my favourite mugs :) A little quite time before the day begins...

I am posting early as I am heading out to go do some work at the farm before the temperature heats up for the day. We are getting ready for planting our crops and we have stones which need to be picked from the field first. This is not a favourite chore of ours, that's for sure (and like to do it in the morning or in the evenings when it is cooler), but a task which needs to be done each year to ensure a better yield.

Thanks so much for your visit. Happy Saturday and HSoS! :)

First sign of life by Thuyhn

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

Melancholy Hill by Dark D Bugaatti Salmson

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Up on melancholy hill

There's a plastic tree

Are you here with me

Just looking out on the day

Of another dream

Well you can't get what you want

But you can get me

So let's set out to sea

'Cause you are my medicine

When you're close to me

So call in the submarines

'Round the world will go

Does anybody know her

If we're looking out on the day

Of another dream

If you can't get what you want

Then you come with me

Up on melancholy hill

Sits a manatee

Just looking out for the day

When you're close to me

Hurts to be Human by 🌸Gwyn🌸

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“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” – Jack Kornfield

"There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go."

–Jessica Hatchigan

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."

—Steve Maraboli

🎼: Hurts to be Human~ Pink ft. Khalid~

Will you make it sound so pretty even when it's not?

Didn't choose but it's the only one we've got

And sometimes I get so tired

Of getting tied up in my thoughts

You're the only one that often makes it stop

God, it hurts to be human

Without you I'd be losing

And someday we'll face the music

God, it hurts to be human

But I've got you, you, you, you, you, you, hey

And you've got me, me, me, me, too

Like we're buckled and preparing before the crash

Like we're walking down a road of broken glass

Now if we defeat all odds

And it was us against the world

You can count on me

You know I'd have your back

God, it hurts to be human

Without you I'd be losing

And someday we'll face the music

God, it hurts to be human

Wanderer by John Frisch

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I usually only see green herons on spring migration so was surprised to see this one in the middle of the summer. It must have been looking for a good place to eat. Myself, I will be taking a flickr break to go do some wandering myself.

Field_Sparrow_WEB_2U6A0272 by Claude Lecours

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Went to Carden Alver for my first time in the summer months - - I've only ever been there in the winter months for whatever reason.

I'm sure glad we got up early to go do that drive - - saw lots of great birds that I never see closer to home.

Wilson's Snipe, Eastern Bluebirds, Eastern Towhee to name a few - - I'll have to process a few.

This is a Field Sparrow from the trip - - not overly exciting but I loved the interaction I experienced by standing still and watching several hunt for caterpillars for their young - - that's another sparrow in the background on the hunt as well.

Field Sparrow - Carden Alver - Ontario

Alstrom Point - Gunsight Butte by Craig Dorman

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As the sun goes does down behind you at Alstrom Point, the rock changes colour.

Alstrom Point, Utah, USA

35/52 ... soft evening light ... by Suus

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52 weeks for dogs ... week 35 ... OMG - OMD ...

... Drift is a beautiful border collie, but that is ofcourse just the outside, not important to me ... I'de like to think that despite his behavioral problems, he can be beautiful on the inside as well, given him the chance naturally. I have to avoid "situations", evade many other dogs and "correct" him on so many occasions, that sometimes I forget how cuddly and cosy he can be when he feels safe ... and at times I have to remind myself to "go do good things" with him, let him do stuff he really knows well so he can build up more confidence ... This is the look where he is as open as it gets while trying to seduce me to play, the toy is already in my lap ;).

So I just got this one shot (normally it's a lot more) and put away the black box and go play !

2017-08-30_162002_sooc

Araniella cucurbitina 3mm by Paul Knapper

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Green Orb-weaver releasing silk into the wind, when enough has been released she will let go,

does this make her a flying spider

Running Wild. Running Happy (17/52) by Todd Wynia

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Jasper got all excited on Saturday when I told him we were going to go do an action photoshoot in the green space. This was shot blind with me running as fast as I could, holding the camera down and out, doing my best to keep the thing pointed at Jasper. You can see my shadow holding the camera out. It's been one of my favorite photo techniques because you get some unique perspectives. It's one of Jasper's favorites too because he gets to run with Dad. 52 Weeks for Dogs, Shoot from the Hip challenge.

Hitting the High Notes by SolanoSnapper

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I’ve wanted to photograph the feral chickens in a vacant lot near my home for a long time. I decided to organize a Chicken Art theme today at We’re Here! and hope for the best.

It’s still raining, so I consulted the hourly weather app to pick the most optimistic time, packed up my weather resistant Pentax camera, and set out with my fingers crossed. Of course, when I arrived it was too wet out and the chickens, being smarter than I am, were somewhere else warm and dry.

I decided to go do my grocery shopping while I already had the car out, and on my way home I detoured to that little field again, with the slimmest of hopes. There they were! And the sun came out!

Some days the Chicken Gods smile.

Rio - the cable-stayed bridge over Gulf of Corinth by Zygmunt Borowski

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Rio-Antirion bridge was at time opening the world's longest cable-stayed bridge. The idea of building this bridge was already in the 19-th century. It was put into service in 2004, just before the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens. It was built in very difficult conditions because it is a place where there are earthquakes, strong winds are blowing, the sea bottom is unstable and the depth reaches 65 meters. The pillars of bridge should also withstand impact of the tanker. The total length of this bridge is 2452 m

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Most Rio-Antirion był w momencie otwarcia najdłuższym na świecie mostem wantowym. Pomysł budowy tego mostu powstał już w XIX wieku. Oddano go do użytku w 2004 roku, tuż przed otwarciem olimpiady w Atenach. Wybudowano go w bardzo trudnych warunkach gdyż jest to miejsce gdzie zdarzają się silne trzęsienia ziemi, wieją bardzo silne wiatry, dno morza jest niestabilne a głębokość dochodzi do 65 metrów. Filary mostu powinny również wytrzymać uderzenie tankowca. Całkowita długość mostu wynosi 2452 m

International Fairy Tale Day by Marian Kloon

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OLEG:

You look sad Peter.

PETER:

So am I. That's because of that nasty war.

OLEG:

That's really bad, Peter, but there's not much we can do.

We can only hope that Putin stops the war.

We better go do something. Today is International Fairy Tale Day, did you know that? I can read you a fairy tale.

PETER:

I didn't know that Oleg. I want you to read Snow White.

OLEG:

Ok....I'll start..

Once upon a time...long ago...

What are you doing now Peter?

PETER:

I give Snow White a kiss.

She is so beautiful and lovely.

OLEG:

The prince already gives that kiss to Snow White.

PETER:

Then I'm the prince

OLEG:

First let me tell the story of Snow White..ok?

PETER:

Sorry...ok Oleg

Frühlingsgruß by VintageLensLover

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Habt einen schönen sonnigen Sonntag alle miteinander!

Und entschuldigt bitte, dass ich hier zur Zeit nur spärlich kommentiere. Bei uns steht eine größere Renovierung ins Haus (nach Ostern) und ich bin zu Zeit in jeder freien Minute damit beschäftigt, alles zu verpacken und aus zu sortieren. Erschreckend, was sich in 20 Jahren alles so ansammelt. :-)

Have a nice and sunny Sunday. And please excuse me for not commenting so often here as you are used by me. We are going do up the complete ground floor of our house and I am packing boxes every free minute I have. Striking which stuff one collects in 20 years. :-)

The Hero... by Joe Zavala

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youtu.be/QImBolnTVH8

Having not had internet for a couple of weeks nearly a month I was lent by a friend some anime to watch....and I got addicted to ONE PUNCH MAN!!

If you guys haven't watched it give it a go as it is so utterly good and funny.

Wanted to give it a go doing a picture in SL of him lol. All in a bit of fun hope you enjoy it!

Joe

a million(explored) by aishia

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ahhhh car shots

i took a million of em

ok

well

i kind like it?

idk

ugh

bleh

ack

ack?

yea ackkkkk

(:

im tired

imma go

do somethin

stalk streams

posiibly pass out somewhere

:D

join me and jazzy's group

text pictures :D

And we go at each other like blank ettes Who can't find their thread and their bare by ♫•✿AniKa✿•♫

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Power of an Eagle (20170528-151558-PJG) by Dragon Master

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It is a rare occasion, these days, that the weather and my time allow me an opportunity to go do some photography. Such was the case, this afternoon, so I went to visit my favourite eagles. I was fortunate that it wasn't long when I was presented with a lift-off of a mature bald eagle. This was about the third beat of its powerful wings.

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The Origins of the Universe by Brian A. Fox

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Put the TV on pause to go do something and when I came back, this was the image on the screen. Took some fiddling with camera settings to get a good shot of it. Didn't rewind to see the brand name, but I assume this is the end of the bristles of an electric toothbrush. Rather has the look of a rosetta stained glass window, or "The Big Bang." Clever advertising photo -- impress us with the products beauty, if not any efficacy to clean teeth!

Are You Still Up For It, Senator? by ILIGHT

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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, â€œYou 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."

Time To Cowboy Up Close Up by DJ Logan

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Time to go do my set, you wanna come you say? Just look at my profile for where I am at any given day,

Visit this location at Sunny's Photo Studio in Second Life

untitled by Christian Robold

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what is it that we (or I) can expect from photography? where do we want to go? do we develop? is this art? will it become art? how deep does it go?

"Destiny (is a very big word)"

A blog article that circles around these questions (even if it doesn't name them all explicitly).

www.chris-r-photography.net/blog/2019/11/29/s0tfzb1zssh7b...

And pictures, poems and more blog articles you find under the usual website address

www.chris-r-photography.net

Give A Little Whistle! by Gizzardtreedude

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Whilst having a leisurely walk through the woodland the other day, I heard a whistle:

“Pffffsssiiiiiiiiiiiiii”

“Eh where did that come from” I looked around

“Over here”, said a strange voice

“Where, I cant see you?” I looked around but I couldn’t see the wood for the trees.

“Psssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”

Ohhhh, there you are!” There was a little face in the side of the tree trunk.

““Yes, here I am, what are you doing here, you look lost?” It asked.

“Oh just rambling around, having a look here and there”

“You don’t know where you are going do you?”

I thought about this for a moment, slightly hesitant with my reply. “Errrrrrrrrrrr, no!”

“Now listen carefully….When you get in trouble and you don't know right from wrong,

give a little whistle!, pfffff pffferrrr, Give a little whistle!”

“What do you mean?” I asked

“Take the straight and narrow path, and if you start to slide,give a little whistle!, pfffff pffferrrr

Give a little whistle!”

“Right, okay, I think I’ve got that” I replied”

“Just one more thing..and always let your conscience be your guide”

“Have you got a thing about Pinocchio, or something?” I asked, looking at him rather strange.

“Yeah, love Jiminy, love the film, sing that song all the time!”

“Right okay, I’m off” and I walked off down the nearest path “Strange trees in these parts.......”

2ТЭ10Л-792 | Ocniţa | 02.05.2018 by Max Kashenkov

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2TE10L-792 // 2ТЭ10Л-792 (Calea Ferată din Moldova, CFM)

(PL)

W lokomotywowni Oknica (mołd. Ocnița) odpoczywa sobie dwuczłonowy 2TE10Ł o numerach 792 człon A

(ros. 2ТЭ10Л-792А) i 1250 człon A (ros. 2ТЭ10Л-1250А), który w nocy z 01.05 na 02.05 wrócił luzem ze stacji Mohylów Podolski (ukr. Могилів-Подільський) na granicy mołdawsko-ukraińskiej, po zaprowadzeniu tam pociągu nr 48 relacji Kiszyniów — Moskwa. Zdjęcie ze szlaku w drodze na Ukrainę z pociągiem nr 48: www.flickr.com/photos/162341334@N05/54465683433/in/album-... .

"Ługanka" będzie odpoczywać cały dzień, a w nocy z 02.05 na 03.05 zostanie podzielona — człon 2TE10Ł-792А pojedzie do Bielc (mołd. Bălți), natomiast do członu 2TE10Ł-1250А dołączony zostanie jego bliźniaczy człon B 2TE10Ł-1250 (ros. 2ТЭ10Л-1250Б).

Za "ługanką" uruchamia się 3TE10М-0151 człon А (ros. 3ТЭ10М-0151А), który uda się luzem do stacji Mohylów Podolski (ukr. Могилів-Подільський) na Ukrainie, w celu podjęcia pociągu nr 47 relacji Moskwa — Kiszyniów i poprowadzi go do stacji Oknica (mołd. Ocnița). Zdjęcie owego luzaka ze szlaku: www.flickr.com/photos/162341334@N05/53739439042/in/album-...

Na samym końcu depo, w sekcji napraw taboru, stoi lekko uszkodzony człon A 3TE10М-1225 (ros. 3ТЭ10М-1225А), który we wczesnych godzinach porannych tego samego dnia przyprowadził do Oknicy (mołd. Ocniţa) skład pociągu nr 341 relacji Moskwa — Kiszyniów. Zdjęcie ze szlaku:

www.flickr.com/photos/162341334@N05/53846476714/in/album-...

Miejsce wykonania:

Mołdawia, lokomotywownia Oknica (depou Ocniţa).

(ENG)

At the Ocniţa locomotive depot (Moldova), a two-unit 2TE10L locomotive is resting, with units numbered 792A (Russian: 2ТЭ10Л-792А) and 1250A (Russian: 2ТЭ10Л-1250А). It returned light (without a train) during the night from May 1st to May 2nd from Mohyliv-Podilskyi station (Ukrainian: Могилів-Подільський) on the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, after delivering train no. 48 on the Chișinău — Moscow route. A photo from along the route: www.flickr.com/photos/162341334@N05/54465683433/in/album-... .

The “Luganka” (nickname for the locomotive) will rest all day, and during the night from May 2nd to May 3rd, it will be split — unit 2TE10L-792A will head to Bălți (Moldova, while unit 2TE10L-1250A will be joined by its twin unit B, 2TE10L-1250B (Russian: 2ТЭ10Л-1250Б).

Behind the “Luganka,” unit A of locomotive 3TE10M-0151 (Russian: 3ТЭ10М-0151А) is being started up. It will head light to Mohyliv-Podilskyi station (Ukrainian: Могилів-Подільський) in Ukraine to pick up train no. 47 on the Moscow — Chișinău route and haul it to Ocniţa station (Moldova). A photo of this light-engine movement along the route: www.flickr.com/photos/162341334@N05/53739439042/in/album-...

At the very end of the depot, in the rolling stock repair section, stands a slightly damaged unit A of locomotive 3TE10M-1225 (Russian: 3ТЭ10М-1225А), which in the early morning hours of the same day brought train no. 341 on the Moscow — Chișinău route to Ocniţa (Moldova). A photo from along the route: www.flickr.com/photos/162341334@N05/53846476714/in/album-...

Location:

Moldova, Ocniţa locomotive depot.

Date: 02.05.2018

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Good Morning by trs125

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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

~William James

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Simplicity.....

I never get tired of this place. So I hung curtains there this morning. LOL! Guess I had better go do something constructive in my own house now!

Games people play by trs125

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Do not pass go... do not collect $200. *sigh*

Two Coots by Melissa San Francisco Gal

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Coots in a pond, just outside the condo where we stayed in Mammoth Lakes.

Hope your week is off to a good start. Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.

We have been in no danger from the wildfires, and we have not been affected by any of the Public Safety Power Shutoffs. My sympathy and hope is with all the people who have lost their homes or livelihoods and with those who have been evacuated and have no place to go.

Does anyone want to have a climate change debate?

Purrs, is it play time by MystiLee Willowind

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Dance, The Soul's Hidden Language, Expresses What Words Cannot. In Its Rhythm, Love Makes Every Movement Meaningful. by Ecaps Deman

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♫ Van Halen - Can't Stop Lovin' You ♫

There's a time and place for everything, for everyone

We can push with all our might, but nothing's gonna come

Oh no, nothing's gonna change

And if I asked you not to try

Oh could you let it be

I wanna hold you and say

We can't throw this all away

Tell me you won't go, you won't go

Do you have to hear me say

I can't stop lovin' you

And no matter what you say or do

You know my heart is true, oh

I can't stop lovin' you

" TIME EXPIRED " by Doda -Maryoga

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"Time Expired" by Vern Blosum 1962

exhibited at MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York City

Time Expired ... zero minutes …

Om,did it ? Where did it go ? Does it really Exist ?

Do I have to subscribe to Her again and start counting every second of my life ?

Well,time to jump-start the rusty engine of my Flickr vehicle and begin posting in a retrograde flow ...

- it was parked from July 2018 to November 2018 -

But,I shall have to use at once the promptness of energy and the pleasure of carefreeness.

I decided to bridge the gap between my long Flickr Absence & my Return through Art.Apparetly,art's impact on the beholder doesn’t stop with paint on canvas ...

A Parallel between Modern Art & Real Life

" Art still has truth.Take refuge there." Matthew Arnold

The Halfway Mark by Rosie English

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Just as these brave/foolhardy/awesome(you choose) bridgeclimbers reached the half way mark for their Sydney Harbour Bridgeclimb at sunrise the other day - I too today have reached my half way mark. Today (New Years Eve - yes, I am ahead of a lot of you ;)) is my 50th birthday. They say a lady never reveals her age however , as most of you may now know , I ain't never made no pree-tence of being a lay-dee ))) .

So 50 years down and just 50 to go - does this mean I have to stop wearing my beanies and hi-tops now ???(I don't think so !!!)

Now, even more importantly - this bridge is the centre of the New Years Eve celebrations tonight and there will be just 1.6 million people hanging down around the harbour . Will I be there ? - hell no, unless its on Paul Allens superyacht which is docked centre stage right now - I will be heading for the hills, literally, up to my friends in the Blue Mountains where there will be 1.6 people there ;)

Happy New Year to you all - I will check in next year and let you know all know how 2015 is looking as I am a day ahead of most of you :) .

The Mother***ing Trona Pinnacles by Gales of November

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Pulling away from the yard at Oxy, where they just set out the majority of their inbound train, Trona Railway's afternoon job is headed back home. I liked this spot because you can see the majority of the pinnacles unlike many spots where they are just off to the side. The Pinnacles include about 500 tufa spires rising out of the Searles Dry Lake basin. This was such a fun trip and I am so glad I pushed myself to go do it.

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