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Nile Street facade.
Foundation stone 31 Oct 1874 by David Bower, architect Robert George Thomas, opened 23 Oct 1876 on site of earlier bond store. Building sold to Customs when library & nautical museum relocated Jul 1959 to St Vincent Street, transferred to Port Adelaide Corporation 1979, becoming a free library, moving to Church St 1991. First Institute opened Jul 1851 in meeting room of George Coppin’s White Horse Cellars Inn.
“a number of individuals, interested in the mental improvement of the Port, met at the Court-House, to found a Mechanics' Institute and Literary Institution and Library. . . Mr. Coppin had promised them the use of the Masonic Hall, also of his large and valuable library, and even a benefit at the theatre on their paying the necessary expenses.” [Register 29 May 1851]
“A meeting. . . was held at the White Horse Cellar, Port Adelaide, on Friday, September 2, for the purpose of establishing a library and reading-room. . . About 30 persons were present.” [Advertiser 3 Sep 1859]
“Opening of the Port Adelaide Institute. -The opening soiree of subscribers and the public. . . in the large room of the White Horse Cellar, which was densely crowded by the residents of the Port and its vicinity, not less than from 400 to 500 persons being present. . . The Institution had received a good supply of periodicals and magazines through the Adelaide Institute. They had also received a quantity of books. The Government had favorably entertained an application for rooms in the present Custom-House, where, it was to be hoped, they might shortly be domiciled.” [Advertiser 18 Oct 1859]
“subscribers to the Port Adelaide Institute held their first annual meeting in the Reading-Room, White Horse Cellar. . . the total number of subscribers had been 129. . . number of books on the shelves 350.” [Advertiser 26 Oct 1860]
“The buildings formerly occupied by the Customs Department, the Local Court, and the Police Station, but rendered vacant by the erection of the new buildings, are undergoing a course of alterations to fit them for the occupation of other branches of the public service. The late Custom-House is to be transformed into a Telegraph Office. . . The old Court-House has been handed over to the Port Corporation for a Town Hall — a purpose for which it is well suited. The Port Adelaide Institute will also be allowed the use of those premises for their library and reading-room.” [Register 26 Dec 1860]
“letter from the Port Adelaide Institute, asking when it would be convenient for the Council to allow them to occupy the Council room, proposed by the Government, when not otherwise engaged. The Town Clerk was instructed to reply the Corporation had no objection to their coming in, but think the room unsuited for their purposes, and suggested their making further application to the Government for a room for themselves.” [Advertiser 23 Feb 1861]
“The annual meeting of the subscribers of the Port Adelaide Institute was held in the Institute Room, North-parade. . . Gratification was expressed at the success attending the opening of the institute during three evenings of each week, for reading, &c, to afford an opportunity to those benefitted by the early closing movement.” [Advertiser 7 Oct 1863]
“The Committee of the Port Adelaide Institute have removed their Library and Reading-room to the Town Hall, the Council having granted the use of one of the rooms on the first floor for that purpose.” [Advertiser 28 May 1867]
“A meeting of the subscribers and friends of the Port Adelaide Institute was held on Friday evening, January 20, at the new reading rooms, lately the telegraph office, to take into consideration the desirableness of altering the annual payment of £1 to 12s.” [Advertiser 24 Jan 1871]
“For some years past this institution has been in a very languishing state, but recently its management has fallen into good hands. . . The library and public reading-room have been removed from the Town Hall, and the offices that were portion of the old Telegraph Station have been fitted up for these purposes. Since the committee reduced the subscription to 12s. per annum they have had a large increase of members, 140 being at the present time. . . the reading-room has been thrown open from 10 o'clock a.m. until 10 p.m. The Committee in making these alterations have had to engage a librarian, who could devote his whole time to the services of the Institute.” [Advertiser 6 May 1871]
“Port Adelaide Institute. . . One of the most noticeable features in connection with the Institute is the museum, which now occupies the third room. . . Curios from Europe, Asia; Africa, Fiji, and various parts of Australia, are ranged round the walls; fossils, shells, corals, birds, war weapons, ornaments, articles of dress, insects, reptiles, fish, human skulls, English and foreign coins. . . The collection was initiated by the present Librarian.” [Register 15 Jan 1872]
“Mr. David Bower, of Port Adelaide, had generously offered to give the sum of £500 towards the erection of a suitable building for the Port Adelaide Institute, the only condition being that a similar amount was subscribed by other means.” [Register 17 Oct 72]
“the old bonded store on the Government Reserve, the site of which has been handed over for the site of the new Port Adelaide Institute, is in course of being pulled down, we presume to make way for the new building. The store hitherto was leased by Captain Simpson, who generously gave up the lease before expiry in order to admit of the erection of the Institute at an early date.” [Advertiser 5 Dec 1873]
“The foundation stone of the new building for the Port Adelaide Institute is to be laid with much ceremony this afternoon by Mr. David Bower, whose liberal donation was the means of initiating the movement. A procession is to be formed at the Town Hall, and proceed by way of St Vincent and Mundy streets and the North Parade to the site of the building in the Commercial-road.” [Register 31 Oct 1874]
“Port Adelaide Institute. . . has already reached the level of the ground-floor. . . The foundation-stone, which is of Macclesfield marble, is to be placed in the south-east corner. . . immediately above the freestone moulded plinth, and will serve as a rusticated quoin. . . His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. M. Sinclair) said some of those present would remember a small wooden building which many years ago served for an Institute at Port Adelaide.” [Register 2 Nov 1874]
“The elevations are on the Venetian-Italian style. . . There being no amount available for a tower, a lookout has been provided for by constructing a mansard roof over the angle of the Commercial road and Nile-street, so that when entertainments are going on a flag can be hoisted. A niche for a statue is also provided above the doorway into the class-room facing Nile-street.” [Advertiser 24 Oct 1876]
“The materials used in the construction of the building are rubble-stone from Dry Creek, bricks and freestone from Teatree Gully, and the dressings are of Portland cement and freestone. The foundation, which is of concrete, is laid on the old level of the Port. There is an entrance from the Commercial-road and two from Nile street.” [Express & Telegraph 24 Oct 1876]
“Our first Institute was opened in a small wooden building; we migrated thence to the Town Hall, and subsequently to the Custom-House.” [Register 24 Oct 1876]
“The was a large gathering of ladies and gentlemen in the Port Adelaide Institute Lecture-hall on Tuesday afternoon, July 27, to witness the ceremony of unveiling the large oil painting which recently arrived from England, and to celebrate the inauguration of a fine art gallery for Port Adelaide. . . the splendid collection of photographs of Thorwaldsen's sculptures sent to the museum by Christian IX., King of Denmark, were exhibited. . . Mr. Huson's picture, which measures about 6 feet by 4 feet 6 inches, depicts an English country scene. The subject is ‘The Quiet Stream’.” [Advertiser 28 July 1880]
“The Museum and Art Gallery connected with the Port Adelaide Institute contains a number of valuable exhibits, and these have lately been increased by several cultural history specimens, old books, curios and pictures. . . The curators have lately added to the permanent exhibits two large paintings of the Port River in the early days.” [Advertiser 31 Oct 1896]
“Among several further exhibits which have been secured for the recently established nautical museum at Port Adelaide is a model of the British full-rigged ship Craigendarroch, and the figurehead of the barque Garthneil, one of the last of the British sailers.” [Advertiser 8 Jun 1933]
“An old fashioned ship's gun, believed to have belonged to an English frigate. It was dredged from the bottom of the Fort River several years ago, and is now in the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum.” [Advertiser 25 Jul 1933]
“Converted into a nautical museum with models, figureheads, photographs, and pictures of ships connected with early Port Adelaide as the main features, the Port Adelaide Museum has been reopened. . . Many interesting nautical .specimens have been acquired for the museum. At a recent auction sale in Adelaide, the bell of the barque County of Merioneth was bought. This ship, which is ending its days at Port Adelaide as a coal hulk, was built at Liverpool in 1880.” [News 9 Aug 1933]
“the Art Gallery has just purchased a rare and beautiful old oil painting on wood by an unknown artist, and probably of the 15th century French period. The Director (Mr. McCubbin) is very enthusiastic about the acquisition of their first example of that period, and so well preserved, too. Subject of the painting: St. Martin of Tours and St. Nicholas. According to Mr. McCubbin, it was in the art gallery at Port Adelaide Institute for many years, but little is known of its Australian history, how it came here, and during recent weeks it has hung on the gallery walls at North terrace, where its striking subject and rich coloring have been much admired.” [Advertiser 21 Oct 1943]
“The painting, known as 'St. Martin of Tours and St. Nicholas,' was purchased by the gallery Board from the Port Adelaide Institute authorities in 1943. It has now been identified by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, as being by the 'Master of the Uttenheim Altarpiece,' Tyroleset School, and dated about 1460. . . The curator of the institute gallery (Mr. Vernon Smith) said last night that he believed the picture was found in the false bottom of a packing case among a number consigned to a printer who worked in the basement of the institute building, about the end of last century. The printer, E. H. Derrington, gave the picture to the institute. . . the painting was on exhibition at the Port Adelaide Institute's art gallery for many years, but few people knew of its existence. It was lent to the National Gallery in 1943 and subsequently purchased from the institute.” [Advertiser 23 Aug 1950]
“Port Adelaide Nautical Museum. . . Space was becoming desperately short and conditions were very over-crowded. . . New exhibits were continually being presented or lent to the museum. The museum is run and maintained by the Port Adelaide Institute. Money for its upkeep is raised by the institute's subscription library. . . The museum, which was the only one of its type in Australia.” [Advertiser 6 Jan 1954]
___ Sarah Scott
Happy 3rd birthday Miss Saucy Socks (Sadie) {happy 4th birthday}
p.s. later we will be celebrating with a birthday cake (shaped as a bone; filled with ground beef, seasoning & cream cheese frosting) & pressies of course.
p.s.s. and it snowed over night....woop, woop!
p.s.s.s wanna roll in the snow with me & come to my pawtee?
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
What Celebs Found at this Awesome Gift Suite
From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
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Polo: work uniform
Skirt: Target
Cardi: Target
Tights: Kmart
Boots: Payless
Bracelets: mostly made by me, 2 are from Target.
I had another outfit planned for today, but I started making bracelets last night and needed to wear them all today. (I am so instant gratification.) So I went with a simpler outfit that coordinated with my jewelry.
No polo shirts tomorrow, hooray!
On page 4A! :-o Awesome!
Small Stuff 2 art exhibit boasts, well .... small art
Minuscule works represent big ideas, immediate gratification.
November 29, 2008
Cash and carry. That's how to maneuver Small Stuff 2, a group art show that offers holiday deals for some tasty visual morsels. This is Bear and Bird Boutique & Gallery's second edition of the exhibit in which all pictures and objects measure at most 8 by 10 inches.
But the ideas behind each piece are big and weirdly delightful. Some examples include Jason Limon's I Don't Know robot, an acrylic on wood that could serve well in the office as cubicle decor; and Kelly Vivanco's cameo of a stoic tomboy, frog tucked neatly in her lapel pocket. Oh, and make sure to catch Sandalwood's Cat Whisperer by May Ann Lucidine. It summons the faintest ghost of Edvard Munch's The Scream, but despair is eschewed and, instead, sweet snips of autumn and winter float around the face of its delicate heroine.
More than three dozen local and national artists fill out the lineup. A caveat: You like it, you buy it, you take it home. No leaving art to languish on the gallery's walls until you find time to pick it up.
-Emma Trelles
If you go Small Stuff 2 opens tonight with a reception from 7-10 featuring complimentary wine, cheese and treats. Whatever's not sold will be displayed through Jan. 10 at Bear and Bird Boutique & Gallery, upstairs from Tate's Comics, 4566 N. University Drive, Lauderhill. Free admission; 954-748-0181 or bearandbird.com
I LIKE BIRDS
I HATE BEES
this is a drawing i did. I think i know what im going to use it for. It too very long - i regret every moment of this until someone clicks "favorite" on this wretched gratification machine.
home from tour!
I surprised Lauren with a 6 month old dachshund puppy for her birthday & graduation. Needless to say, she loves the heck out of the little guy. What better to capture the moment than a Polaroid?
Polaroid Automatic Land 420
Closest possible focusing distance
Dial set to +1 bright
Fuji FP-100c
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar, up close and personal.
Taken with a Canon 300d (the original Digital Rebel), and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens.
Polaroid 600 Business Edition camera, type 779 film (expired 2004)
This Polaroid was scanned with my new Epson 4490 scanner. I hope it looks good on your computer screen! :-| Let me know!
Wren checks the pulse, but it's no use - the limo is dead // Spring 2013 // PX 680 ff Polaroid film // you can't tell from there, but this Limousine was Totally Exploded; and the other thing you can't tell from there was how many drugs used to ride around in there fer real though // under the expressway at Claiborne Ave and St. Bernard, New Orleans LA
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The Botanist; containing accurately coloured figures of tender and hardy ornamental plants; with descriptions, scientific and popular; intended to convey both moral and intellectual gratification. Vol. 4, 1840. | src internet archive
First shot with my "new" 1970's Polaroid Land Camera 340. Just love the saturated colors it produces.
St Margaret, Luddington-in-the-Brook, Northamptonshire
Leaving Great Gidding, I decided to defer gratification and not head straight on to my long-intended goal of Little Gidding, but to head in the opposite direction to Luddington in the Brook, about a mile to the west. This didn't appear to be in my Huntingdonshire Pevsner, and after cycling for a few hundred yards I discovered the reason why, as I passed a sign welcoming me to Northamptonshire. The village is delightful, but I couldn't see the church even though it was on my map. I asked a bloke washing his car, and he directed me up a back lane to where I could see the pretty stone spired church across a field of sheep. A footpath led me through the field, much to the surprise of the sheep, and the little church was in a tiny churchyard accessible from the field.
It was locked without a keyholder notice, but the real star here is the huge range of grotesques and gargolyes clustered along the top of the walls. Fascinating. By now it was the hottest part of the day, but as I turned south- eastwards for the first time it was into a fairly strong wind full of Sahara dust which would keep me company all the way back to Huntingdon.
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A pleasant cycle ride in the Huntingdonshire Wolds, on the brightest, warmest day of the year so far. I set the alarm for 5am and got up to make coffee, have breakfast and see the world grow light. At a quarter to six I cycled down to Ipswich station and caught the 0600 train to Peterborough. Arriving at 0730 I lugged my bike across the long bridge to the far platform to catch the train to Huntingdon, where I arrived at 0800. Huntingdon is on the east coast main line, but this is a small station - the woman inspecting tickets looked at mine in disbelief. "You came from Ipswich this morning? You must have started early!"
I pushed my bike into the High Street and Market Place, and bought provisions for the day. The market was being set up, and few of the shops were open. It was pleasing to walk around a small town getting itself ready for the day when I had already travelled almost a hundred miles. I set out along the ancient Great North Road, the Roman Ermine Street, for a cycle ride in the Wolds. Over the course of the next eight hours I would visit 17 churches, of which I saw the inside of eight. It must be said that most of the others had keyholder notices, but I wanted to get as many churches for my money as possible (£35 for a day return!), and so only went for a key twice. Having said that, it was clear that west Cambridgeshire, the former Huntingdonshire, is not as good for open churches as south Cambridgeshire or east Cambridgeshire. My real goal for the day was Nicholas Ferrar and T S Eliot's Little Gidding, but there would be other delights and surprises in store. It would be a day of stone churches and stone spires, of gargoyles and grotesques, of almost no stained glass at all, medieval or otherwise, except for one fabulous moment. It would be a day of hazy hills and lots of spires off in the distance that brought A E Houseman to mind.
I had just finished officiating a wedding at this prison. On my way out, I decided to snap this photo of the sign at the end of the driveway. As I was getting ready to shoot the photo, I saw a pick-up truck with the prison logo on the door pull up at the other end of the driveway. (I was obviously being watched.) Not wishing to deal with whoever was in the truck watching me, I stopped in my tracks and took the photo from further away than I would have liked to be. Since I was using an instant camera with instant film, my distance from the sign caused the photo to be blurry. After snapping this photo, I quickly returned to my car and drove off.
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Well, this photograph is not only about instant gratification. It's also about the value of good things.
This is my second pair of Red Wing 2233 boots, which I bought 14 years ago in 1996, and which are my weekend boots for general mayhem and destruction (I have a pair from 2003 which I use during the week). This is the part about the value of good things - sometimes it's cheaper to buy more expensive but excellent things, as long as you take just a bit of time every now and then to take good care of them.
Which brings me to the title and the question of instant gratification - the boot on the right was exactly like the boot on the left before I spent ten minutes caring for it with lots and lots of shoe polish, and a good brush. Ten short minutes to go from a wreck to something absolutely stunning. This feeling of instant personal realization is priceless for our self worth, considering that we have jobs where the time scales between starting something and seeing (or not) the fruits of that labor can be measured in weeks, months, or even years.
That's why it's great to have a few things in life that are this quick and fulfilling.
Attica, Athens
d=32 mm
Decadrachm circa 465, AR 42.13 g. Head of Athena r., wearing crested helmet, earring and necklace; bowl ornamented with spiral and three olive leaves. Rev. A - Q - E Owl standing facing., with spread wings; in upper field l., olive-twig with two leaves and berry. Gulbenkian 515 (these dies). Jameson 2080 (these dies). Svoronos pl. 8, 13. Seltman 448, group O (A303 / P 383). C. G. Starr, Athenian Coinage 480-449 BC, 54.
Extremely rare and of the highest numismatic and historical interest, undoubtedly one of the most prestigious Greek coins. A superb portrait well struck in high relief. Good very fine
Ex Ira and Larry Goldeberg sale 7.6.2000, 3125 (illustrated on the front page).
Athens decadrachms rank high among the prizes of ancient Greek coinage, with few examples existing in public or private collections. The purpose of these massive coins, and their dating, has long excited debate among scholars. In recent years a careful study of hoard evidence has shattered some enduring myths, and these coins are now attributed to a period of perhaps several years in the mid-460s B.C., making them contemporary with the ‘Demareteion’ decadrachms Syracuse. According to Herodotus, this denomination was used to pay bonuses to Athenian citizens for surpluses from the nearby silver mines at Laurium. Had this been true, the decadrachms would have been struck in the years following the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon in 490 B.C. It is interesting that both ancient literary accounts concerning decadrachms – Herodotus for Athens and Diodorus Siculus for the ‘Demareteion’ issue of Syracuse – are incorrect, and have caused a great deal of misunderstanding. The purpose of decadrachms has also been debated. Barclay Head, writing nearly a century ago, echoed the thoughts of his contemporaries when he said decadrachms were "…chiefly issued on special occasions or for the personal gratification of Tyrants or Kings, and not for common currency." In fact, we now know the decadrachms of Athens and the Syracusan issues in the style of Kimon and Euainetos had legitimate and enduring roles in the monetary system, though never a commonplace one. The large silver coins of Northern Greece (principally octadrachms and dodecadrachms) were purely commercial coins, quite often struck for export. The decadrachms of Acragas, and possibly the ‘Demareteion Master’ decadrachms of Syracuse, may be exceptional in this regard, as the latter may have a yet-unrecognized commemorative purpose, and the former almost certainly commemorates a charioteer’s victory at the 92nd Olympiad in 412 B.C.
NAC29, 183
WHEN I THINK OF CAP AND TRADE...I cannot but help recalling the cap and trade deals that were made in numerous markets of this genre. Most of the trades were impulsive and without too much expectation for profit. Basically, the trades here were for the simple and instant gratification of the trader. What happened to the investments will never be known. If there is a Czar in charge of cap and trade, let us reconsider reinstituting the Representatives and Senators in the next election, 2010, with real government representatives who will listen to the constituents and answer their phones. When the House passed the bill against the people's will, an error of dynamic proportion was incurred upon the populace. The people were against it, are against it, and if it passes in the Senate, let us vote selectively in 2010 and send the bums home.
my dad used to own this shop. he retired in 2002. he sold it to the electric company that polluted the stream behind the shop. at one point there were gas pumps, but the EPA forced my dad to remove them after they wrongfully concluded the pumps were polluting the stream. "the electric company got away with murder," my mom says. imagine big business getting away with something.
i used to play with the cash register in this small room with the windows. i would take imaginary orders on the carbon copy slips. i sold girl scout cookies to my dad's costumers. my mom put the order form for the cookies in that room. with the windows. next to the coffee. there was always coffee. never any milk, only powdered creamer.
at one point, my cousin started an audio business behind these windows. the logo is still there. you can see it in the photo. next to this are the bays. that was where the action was. friends and regulars would always stop by. drink coffee. shoot the breeze. i don't know how my dad worked on cars with so many people hoovering around him. when a bay was empty, i would play on the lifts that raised the cars. whenever i visited, it was my job to answer the phones and rub kitty litter into the floor to soak up any oil.
on a photo quest, i stopped here the other day and peeked inside one of the large bay windows. the floor along the back wall where large tool boxes once stood was covered with green algae. the slime of time. i wanted to take pictures, but i couldn't. imagine me not feeling in the mood to take a photo! i didn't want "the station" (as everyone referred to it) to be remembered as desolate and dirty. run-down. potentially hazardous. instead, i searched for a section of the building that time hadn't raped. that water hadn't damaged. where glass hadn't been broken. i came to this corner. and that was the only picture i took.
Eco-pod is economical, socially responsible and environmentally sound design typology and prototype solution for the new century. It promises to be carbon free, low cost and environmentally sound solution as it is personally gratifying. Because of its transportability and size, it allows instantaneous gratification for communities which require immediate solutions to their plight to save their natural environment.
Of my glorious history of facial hair growth, this is a sterling moment of glorious gratification. My ego is comfortable with its size.
BOULEZ conducts ZAPPA. by Frank Zappa. performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporaine & the Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort.
Middlesex, EMI Records Limited, 1984. the CD version, issued as CDC 7 47125 2.
4-11/16" silver CD printed silkscreen in plain 5-9/16 x 4-7/8 hinged plastic case with 4-3/4 x 4-3/4 cover booklet, 8 pp printed offset, stapled wrappers.
music. 7 "dance pieces", with accompanying choreographic notes by Zappa, 3 performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporaine conducted by Pierre Boulez at IRCAM, 1o & 11 january 1984, the others "during the three-month period thereafter" at the UMRK by Zappa on synclavier. cover painting by Donald Roller Wilson. small crease to front cover of booklet & deletion abrasion to spine of case else fine...
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when not really knowing what to work on, there's nothing like the instant gratification of something cute that doesn't have to fit.
cute little amigurumi guy from lionbrand yarns.
... H hook, mostly 'vanna white' acrylique with a splash of 'red heart'.
kyoto, japan.
the story behind this shot is:
there are actually two stones, one pictured here, and the other at the opposite end about 20 ft. away.
this stone is called "love-fortune-telling" stone. if you walk safely from this stone to the other with your eyes closed, for once, your wish will be granted. if you can't, it will be long before your love is realized. and it is said taking advice requires you to have someone who'll help you achieve your love.
but it looks like these 2 lovely ladies want some instant gratification lol.
overlooking SF coastline.
--- okay, so this polaroid was from my little adventure today with Charlie. it was awesome and the view was amaaaazing, but little did we know how crazy of a "walk" we got ourselves into, lol. I mean, we had to hike over the mountain thru some trees, then some ridiculous trails, sandy roads and a bajillion stairs to get down to that beach, then back up the mountain to get back to civilization.. all this in the blaring sun while, me lugging around 2 cameras, and him, lugging 3 (two pretty damn heavy film cams at that too), hahah. anywhooo, we made it out alive and then quenched ourselves with some good old boba at TapEx afterwards :)
I started a journal a couple years ago, mostly to knock the rust off my writing. In flipping through past entries, I noticed one topic that cycles disturbingly through this self-indulgent tome. That topic is Balance - or more precisely, my despair over its absence in my life. It seems that I too often find myself doing one thing while wishing I could be doing something else. So I capture that angst in my journal, toss it into a bucket called “My Lack of Balance” and then set about thinking analytically, yet again, about how to fix this recurring problem. Unfortunately for me, the fix is almost always to work faster or more efficiently or to try to make my day longer by sleeping less.
Anyway, I'm finally starting to see Balance as just an illusion, like this photo of a Chihuly glass work, which appears to be many balls balanced skillfully on one glass ball, but is instead just a small crop of a large row boat filled with those very glass balls (“The Float Boat”, Chihuly Collection). Here's what I mean about Balance being an illusion. If you work 50 or 60 hours a week, perhaps more, and that makes you happy, and if you can live with everything else being a lower priority, then that is Balance for you. If that does not make you happy, and if you cannot continue to live with everything else getting the short shrift, and if you've been unsuccessfully wrestling with this for years, then what we have here is some sort of delayed gratification on steroids. Time to call it what it really is.
Delayed gratification is one of those concepts you dutifully teach your kids, even though you personally loathe it, deep down inside. It is in that rucksack you have carried around since childhood, along with eating everything on your plate and arranging your life to please others. It is one of those ideas that works in small doses but may not be advisable as the general rule. It has, apparently, taken me six decades to begin to sort this out, and by “sorting out”, I only mean seeing it for what it really is. A choice. My choice.
Note: The Float Boat is part of the Chihuly Collection, permanently housed in St. Petersburg, Florida. This collection is amazing in so many ways, but for me the best part is that the museum allows visitors to photograph, at will, anything in the museum. How forward-thinking of them. This abstract photo was taken without flash and processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Italy-June-22-001.jpg - 43601 BytesVerbania, Italy: June 25, 2004
In his commentary to his own book, Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta, Srila Sanatana Gosvami quotes the following verses:
athaitat paramam guhyam
srnvato yadu-nandana
su-gopyam api vaksyami
tvam me bhrtyah suhrt sakha
["My dear Uddhava, O beloved of the Yadu dynasty, because you are My servant, well-wisher and friend, I shall now speak to you the most confidential knowledge. Please hear as I explain these great mysteries to you.I am telling you the most hidden knowledge."
(Srimad-bhagavatam 11.11.49)]
sri-bhagavan uvaca
na rodhayati mam yogo
na sankhyam dharma eva ca
na svadhyayas tapas tyago
nesta-purtam na daksina
vratani yajnas chandamsi
tirthani niyama yamah
yathavarundhe sat-sangah
sarva-sangapaho hi mam
(Srimad-bhagavatam 11.12.1-2)]
In the 11th Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Lord Krsna tells Uddhava, "O My dear Uddhava, you are very near and dear to Me. You are My friend, commander-in-chief and advisor, and we have so many other relationships as well. I am therefore going to reveal to you the most important and hidden knowledge."
"O friend, the association of My most elevated devotees cuts to pieces all desires for worldly sense gratification. That high-class mahat-sanga, association of pure devotees, can control Me. On the other hand, philosophical analysis, piety, yoga, chanting the Vedas, accepting the renounced order of life, performing severe austerities, giving in charity, non-violence, following instructions for discipline in the practice of yoga, taking vows, visiting and bathing in holy places chanting confidential mantras cannot do so."
You should also think like this. These activities cannot help you anywhere near as much as mahat-sanga can help. Mahat-sanga is the most favorable activity for advancement in devotion to the Lord. Controlling the mind and senses - along with mahat-sanga it is ok, otherwise not. If anyone has taken sannyasa but has no devotion or strong faith in the self-realized guru, the above-mentioned pious activities are all performed in vain. External activities alone cannot help you.
Performing Vedic fire sacrifices and developing gardens, children's schools and areas for cow protection also cannot help you. Daksina (bringing money to Gurudeva.) alone will not help. You will have to serve internally, in pure devotee association, so that pure bhakti will come to you. In that association you will learn how to control Krsna in no time.
Otherwise, fasting on the holy day of Ekadasi, worshiping demigods and even Deities of the Lord, chanting brahma-gayatri and other mantras, and taking bath in Ganga alone will not help you. Lord Krsna has also mentioned always telling the truth, not stealing, and being detached from the world. They will also not help you. They will control and attract you. Without mahat-sanga, even observing the Ekadasi fast will be like reward-seeking activity. You will thus be controlled, bound by the subsequent material pious results.
Mahat-sanga must be included in these activities in order for them to be beneficial to you. If you neglect mahat-sanga and you also neglect asat-sanga (association of materialists), even this will not be favorable. If one neglects asat-sanga and at the same time neglects sat-sanga, this is not only of no use, but it is dangerous. This is because one will again be attracted by asat-sanga. In fact, that person is still in asat-sanga, the association of his own polluted mind and heart.
Asancaya means not to collect anything, and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami is an example of a devotee who did not collect material paraphernalia. If asancayah is done for bhakti or is a result of bhakti, and if it is done in mahat-sanga, then it is okay. Otherwise it is nothing. It is not okay. To collect paraphernalia is sancayah. Asancayah is good in connection with bhakti. Then it is favorable. If it is not for bhakti, it is not favorable. Brahmacarya (celibacy) will also not be favorable.
Mauna is the practice of silence. To be silent among worldly persons is somewhat good, but don't be silent in the assembly of Gurudeva and Vaisnavas. Chant Hare Krsna, ask those pure devotees questions with honor, and try to hear their harikatha. If you are always speaking hari-katha, this is real mauna.
Mahat-sanga will control you and cut all bad worldly attachments. Lord Krsna will come to you and you will be able to attain krsna-bhakti - krsna-prema.
Our acaryas have expressed their desire for pure bhakti in their prayers. They prefer pure bhakti over going to Vaikuntha.
pasu-paksi ho'ye thaki swarge va niroye
tava bhakti rahu bhaktivinoda-hrdoye
[Be my life in heaven or in hell, be it as a bird or a beast, may devotion to You always remain within the heart of Bhaktivinoda.
(Sri Siksastaka, Song 4)]
Our acaryas want bhakti and mahat-sanga. For them, without mahat-sanga there is no need of heaven or even the spiritual world of Vaikuntha. Suppose one person is hearing hari-katha in bona-fide mahat-sanga, and another person is in Vrndavana with the monkeys, taking bath in the Yamuna and performing parikrama of Govardhana - but is not in mahat sanga. Who is better? The person in mahat-sanga is better. A kanistha-adhikari, a neophyte devotee, cannot understand this fact, but Sri Krsna Himself confirms it.
mad-bhakta yatra gayanti tatra tisthami narada:
"O Narada, I am present wherever My devotees are chanting."
(Padma Purana)
It is for this reason that Krsna is saying, "Life is only successful in the association of the mahat-purusa. It is only successful in mahat-sanga." What more can I tell about this subject? What to speak of having their association, even to hear the glorification of this kind of mahatma gives the fruit of bhakti.
Vidura has said:
srutasya pumsam sucira-sramasya nanv anjasa suribhir idito 'rthah tat-tad-gunanusravanam mukunda- padaravindam hrdayesu yesam
["Persons who hear from a spiritual master with great labor and for a long time must hear from the mouths of pure devotees about the character and activities of pure devotees. Pure devotees always think within their hearts of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, who awards His devotees liberation."
(Srimad-bhagavatam 3.13.4)]
Scholars of the Spiritual science have established this tattva. We must hear sastra, but in mahat-sanga; not here and there. Krsna takes rest in the heart of His devotees. He is always present in their hearts' glorification of Him; so go to these persons. By their association you will attain devotion to Lord Krsna and your life will be successful.
Dhruva Maharaja prayed, "O Prabhu, to meditate on Your lotus feet and to hear Your sweet pastimes, a rasika-bhakta attains so much happiness."
sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
["The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self."
(Srimad-bhagavatam 1.2.60)]
That happiness cannot be achieved by brahman realization (realization of the impersonal aspect of Krsna.) What more can I say on this subject? The life of the heavenly demigods is finished after some time. Kala (personified Time) cuts off their heads and they come to this world again. However, those who are always serving in high-class association will not fall down; they will not die. In this verse, beginning "Srutasya pumsam sucira-sramasya",Sri Vidura refers to "bhagavat bhakta-sanga" and "tad-bhakta-sanga." One is the mahat (self-realized pure devotee), and one is mahat-sangi sanga, the self-realized associates of that mahat. The second is better. Do you understand?
For example, Sri Caitanaya Mahaprabhu is mahat-sanga and Srila Rupa Gosvami is mahat-sangi sanga. The association of Sriman Mahaprabhu's associate is superior, because that associate, His pure devotee, can better give you what Mahaprabhu came to give; the most elevated service to Him.
In his commentary, Srila Sanatana Gosvami quoted verses from scriptures like Sri Brahma-samhita, from so many Puranas, from the Upanisads and Srutis, and especially from Srimad-bhagavatam. He proved that pure devotee association is the root of all bhakti. By this, Lord Krsna can be controlled forever.
The root mahat-sanga is Gurudeva - if he is really a qualified and bona-fide Guru.
All the verses quoted by Srila Sanatana Gosvami in this regard are called rasayana (the most pleasing elixir, the reservoir of transcendental mellows), and at the end of his commentary on Sri Brhat-bhagavatamrta, he gives fully thickened rasayana. He quotes the words of Srila Sukadeva Gosvami:
jayati jana-nivaso devaki-janma-vado
yadu-vara-parisat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam
sthira-cara-vrjina-ghnah su-smita-sri-mukhena
vraja-pura-vanitanam vardhayan kama-devam
["Lord Sri Krsna is He who is known as jana-nivasa, the ultimate resort of all living entities, and who is also known as Devakinandana or Yasoda-nandana, the son of Devaki or Yasoda. He is the guide of the Yadu dynasty, and with His mighty arms He kills everything inauspicious as well as every man who is impious. By His presence He destroys all things inauspicious for all living entities, moving and inert. His blissful smiling face always increases the lusty desires of the gopis of Vrndavana. May He be all-glorious and happy!"
(Srimad-bhagavatam 10.90.48)]
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“Life’s desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one’s works.”
- Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.10
Well, I'm not sure quite how gratifying it is.
I decided to go for the new coffee machine, which is an extravagance, but it's something that will get used many times a day every single day and that makes it worth investing in.
I love real coffee, but I don't love the hassle that comes with it. That's why a bean to cup coffee machine is a dream come true for me. Proper coffee with less time and fuss than making a cup of tea.
Unfortunately the new machine won't get delivered for 2-4 weeks, and that means we're back to instant for a wee while.
I vowed to myself when I got my machine that I'd never turn into a 'coffee wanker' - you know those people who would turn their nose up at a mug of instant like it was a piss flavoured milkshake. So I'm bearing it with a good grace and enjoying a change in taste for a short while.
Instant can be really nice, but...well it's just not the same. :)
America’s Sweethearts dazzle Yongsan
By Staff Sgt. Cody Harding
cody.harding@korea.army.mil
YONGSAN GARRISON - The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, America’s Sweethearts, put on a full day of entertainment for the Soldiers and Families of Yongsan Garrison as part of their worldwide USO tour Dec. 18.
The cheerleaders, who were on their 31st such event in the Republic of Korea, started their day with a visit to the K-16 Airfield, where they entertained and spent time with the Aviation units on the post. There, they shared lunch with the Soldiers, took time out for autographs and photos, and even held a small performance on the base.
Their next stop took them to Collier Community Fitness Center, where they hosted a cheerleading ‘clinic’, an open house teaching event for the youth of Yongsan. They stopped to talk with the young girls who came to learn from the athletes, as well as take pictures and sign autographs for them.
Eric Yim, FMWR coordinator for Area II, said that putting together the show was a concerted effort by the USO, FMWR, Armed Forces Entertainment and volunteers from the Community. This was his fourth year helping host the event.
“It makes me feel good because our Community members are having a great time out here with the Soldiers during the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders show,” Yim said.
At the end of the day, America’s Sweethearts ended their visit with a large show, complete with songs, dances and even presents for lucky Cowboys fans in the audience. After their performance, Col. William Huber, the Yongsan Garrison commander, presented each cheerleader with his coin as a show of appreciation.
Working on the event left John O’Connor, a recreation specialist with the Moyer Communities Activity Center, with a sense of accomplishment for being part of the team that put the show together for Yongsan.
“Mainly gratification that we’re able to put on something for the Community,” O’Connor said. “Especially since it is tough being overseas and away from their natural Communities back home.”
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
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From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
What Celebs Found at this Awesome Gift Suite
From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
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Pleasure is a positive sensation being commonly conceptualized as somehow opposed to pain. Pleasure can be brought about in different ways, depending on how every individual senses the feeling of pleasure. Some feel this phenomenon through music, sexuality, writing, accomplishment, recognition, service, and any other imaginable activity; even pain.
It also refers to "enjoyment" related to certain physical, sensual, emotional or mental experience.
1 Desire, Inclination (...wait upon his pleasure -- Shakespeare)
2 a state of gratification
3 a. sensual gratification b. frivolous amusement
4 a source of delight or joy
Pleasure may also be defined, at least in some contexts, as being a significant reduction in discomfort.
Person or thing that causes enjoyment
French: plaisir m,. désir m
Verb
to pleasure (third-person singular simple present pleasures, present participle pleasuring, simple past pleasured, past participle pleasured)
(transitive) to give pleasure (especially sexual pleasure) to
Translations
German: Vergnügen bereiten
A religiousity of events repetitiously shown as actuality, to fill our thought cells, with the elemental basics of irrelevant distractions. The natural order of pre-established program-feeds echoes throughout the electronic, miasmatic nets, so that the political, psychopathic criminals running this planet can safely SMILE IN UNISON@ pseudo-important non-events of SELF-PROMOTION & ELITIST gratification! Meanwhile, thousands of these "world leaders" OWN the KOOL-AID of SUBJUGATION, as they instill programmed, stimulus-response electromagnetically, through cell phones, blasting subconscious, subliminal messages & programs, designed to redirect man-kind's goal, & quests for true liberation & freedom. FORGET FUKUSHIMA, FORGET CHILDREN WHO work as slaves, & go to bed hungry every night, starving in the world's ghettos, while wealthy bankers, Ngos, stockbrokers & rulers, scientists, & computer programmers enlist the most modern technology to consolidate their control over the intentionally drugged masses of human ignorance! FORGET SYRIA, FORGET CHINA, FORGET HEALTH CARE & EDUCATION. It's all about Paris Hilton, New Jersey trash-re ality crap, "star- dom," & making millions on the Internet...FORGET COMPASSION & VALUES, FORGET YOUR FELLOW BEINGS, FORGET MORALS & cleaning-up HAITI! like Timothy Leary used to say, "Turn On, Tune-in & DROP OUT," only this time it is electric drugs & phones, not LSD. DON'T DRINK THEIR KOOL-AID or FRY YOUR BRAIN-Question authority, even physicists, they work for the NUCLEAR CARTELS...
I needed some instant gratification so I sewed two of the curves together before I finished all of them. I'm happy they've lined up so well!
Blogged here: enfurnoh.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/doll-quilt-swap.html
St Margaret, Luddington-in-the-Brook, Northamptonshire
Leaving Great Gidding, I decided to defer gratification and not head straight on to my long-intended goal of Little Gidding, but to head in the opposite direction to Luddington in the Brook, about a mile to the west. This didn't appear to be in my Huntingdonshire Pevsner, and after cycling for a few hundred yards I discovered the reason why, as I passed a sign welcoming me to Northamptonshire. The village is delightful, but I couldn't see the church even though it was on my map. I asked a bloke washing his car, and he directed me up a back lane to where I could see the pretty stone spired church across a field of sheep. A footpath led me through the field, much to the surprise of the sheep, and the little church was in a tiny churchyard accessible from the field.
It was locked without a keyholder notice, but the real star here is the huge range of grotesques and gargolyes clustered along the top of the walls. Fascinating. By now it was the hottest part of the day, but as I turned south- eastwards for the first time it was into a fairly strong wind full of Sahara dust which would keep me company all the way back to Huntingdon.
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A pleasant cycle ride in the Huntingdonshire Wolds, on the brightest, warmest day of the year so far. I set the alarm for 5am and got up to make coffee, have breakfast and see the world grow light. At a quarter to six I cycled down to Ipswich station and caught the 0600 train to Peterborough. Arriving at 0730 I lugged my bike across the long bridge to the far platform to catch the train to Huntingdon, where I arrived at 0800. Huntingdon is on the east coast main line, but this is a small station - the woman inspecting tickets looked at mine in disbelief. "You came from Ipswich this morning? You must have started early!"
I pushed my bike into the High Street and Market Place, and bought provisions for the day. The market was being set up, and few of the shops were open. It was pleasing to walk around a small town getting itself ready for the day when I had already travelled almost a hundred miles. I set out along the ancient Great North Road, the Roman Ermine Street, for a cycle ride in the Wolds. Over the course of the next eight hours I would visit 17 churches, of which I saw the inside of eight. It must be said that most of the others had keyholder notices, but I wanted to get as many churches for my money as possible (£35 for a day return!), and so only went for a key twice. Having said that, it was clear that west Cambridgeshire, the former Huntingdonshire, is not as good for open churches as south Cambridgeshire or east Cambridgeshire. My real goal for the day was Nicholas Ferrar and T S Eliot's Little Gidding, but there would be other delights and surprises in store. It would be a day of stone churches and stone spires, of gargoyles and grotesques, of almost no stained glass at all, medieval or otherwise, except for one fabulous moment. It would be a day of hazy hills and lots of spires off in the distance that brought A E Houseman to mind.
This is the only Target I have seen to ditch the Video Game Case format...they now use special plastic locked cases so customers don't wait forever...I personally like the video game case look better, but their main focus is on instant gratification for the guests.
Well, this li'l guy right here is the reason for my absence from Flickr for the past year or so. I know that's not an excuse to some, but between the sleepless nights, the 3am nappy changes, the midnight feedings, the constant worrying about his health, the laughter, smiles, yawns and tears...I get tired. Burnt out. Photography had to take a back seat (it still does). Suddenly there are other priorities than the ones I'm used to. It's been many moons since I've last used a film camera (it's all digital instant gratification now, to satisfy the needs of my wife & the sake of social media). I can't remember the last time I agitated a roll of film in a developing tank. The smell of black and white film chemicals are but a distant hazy memory to me. My film scanner is on a long sabbatical leave. Many cameras, lenses and photographic accessories were sacrificed and sold in the name of infant formula and disposable diapers.
But heck, this guy is definitely worth it. My wife and I...we've waited 7 years for him and now that he's here by the grace of God, he has become the focal point of our lives. Everything revolves around him. Happiness is magnified somehow. Sadness has also multiplied. Fear is never ending. Worry is eternal. We have discovered whole new ways of viewing things now.
He is 1 year and 4 months old now. The last 16 months have gone by strangely fast for me. It's like time goes faster somehow. It's like one minute I know he can only crawl and in the other minute I discover he can already walk. Weird.
I took this last year in July, I think (see it's already been a year!). I didn't realize I haven't posted any of his photos on my Flickr and for that I apologize. Whereas other people here upload photos of their newborns the minute they slide out of their mothers, I couldn't find the time. Don't get me wrong, there's tons of photos of him but I am loathe to go through all of them. Editing would be a nightmare. Besides, they're all digital *smirks* :p
One smile from this guy has the ability to brighten up my whole day. A hearty laugh and I'm pretty much all set for the week. A kiss and I'm up in the clouds. He bawls and I can't sit still. He hurts himself and I feel the utmost despair.
It's a whole new me, a whole new us and a whole new world.
This is Gibran Zayd Omar bin Dani Irwan. He is my son and he's worth everything...worth waiting for, worth living for.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
What Celebs Found at this Awesome Gift Suite
From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
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