1969 - My sister Brenda age 19 & me at 16. If I look miserable, you're right. It was close to fall, still humid at times. I was going through hell in my personal life. What, you say, can a 16 year old possibly have that much to worry about in her personal life? Well, I was about 3.5 months pregnant, and daddy of baby decided to take a hike. I was heartbroken & had morning sickness all day long, both at the same time.

When we unceremoniously dissolved our relationship with the Jetta, my wife decided she was done owning crap. While we had previously purchased the brand new Intrepid RS for her, it too turned out to be crap so this was going to be a pretty high bar.

I was heartbroken to get rid of the 45mpg Jetta, but not heartbroken to get rid of buying diesel, and had no intention of going back. So this meant we were in the market for a mildly used car that got something in the high 30s+mpg. My positive experience with the Highlander was making me considerably more open to hybrid cars or even fully electric, although we couldn't afford any of those. The resale value of most foreign cars that don't suck is annoyingly

high. Enter our savior, Ford? Yeah, I know, surprised me too.

The gen2 Ford Fusion has been sought-after since Ford had the brilliant insight to finally make a car that looked good. It came in 4 or 5 packages with a couple being hybrids. Unlike the '06 Highlander Hybrid which only uses its battery-powered engine to start rolling the car from a stop (and to add some punch when you would like to go faster now), the Fusion will run full battery power until you use up half the juice, reserving the rest for slow/parking lot driving and additional power for speeding up. The ads for the car listed it as being able to go roughly 20 miles on a full charge. When we got the car, we were very disappointed to see that it was really only able to go about 12. We had the insight at one point to take the car to a dealer to have them do some listed recall repairs and when we got it back, its battery range had magically jumped up to 21 miles.

I found the car in a dealership in Michigan and talked to them several times before we drove out to pick it up. The salesman was pretty surprised that we would travel that far for a car. I told him it wasn't the first time.

This car was the absolute top-of-the-line loaded with all the toys model of Energi. It included the dumbest of all add-ons, the assisted park feature. This beauty would parallel park the car for you at the touch of a button using the 8000 +/- sensors that surrounded the body. I personally never got up the nerve to try it because, you know, car loan.. and I don't think anyone else in my family ever did either.

This car never became mine. It was great to drive, had plenty of power on battery or gas, and was super comfy. I got about 42mpg when I drove it but found that my wife has a slightly heavier foot than I do as she would consistently get in the high 30s. At some point we were heading somewhere in the car; the first time I had ridden in it in some time. I pointed out this really bad noise and asked when that started. After listening to it the whole trip I scheduled an appointment to have the transmission checked. Sure enough, Ford strikes again. We had had the car for three years at that point. The tranny place was surprisingly honest with me and said, you should get rid of this car now. I left and started my search. We were both enthralled with this car and still could not find something, that we could afford, that would compete with it, so we did the dumbest thing we could think of and we traded this one in at a local dealer for a newer one.

Last year we were heartbroken because we thought we lost this one, but we found it this year!

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We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

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Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

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Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

Why guys become DJs... ;)

Heartbroken: EVERY Monday night at Studio80 on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam! Party: Heartbroken Venue: Studio80 Coverage by: Waking up in Amsterdam!

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

The overnight shower had left the soil tender beneath the forest floor and I wondered lying there if the soil felt as sore as I do when I am heartbroken. Today however, I had to promptly get rid of the thought because I was out there to heal myself. My therapy was going well. One cannot beat the therapeutics of earth smell mixed wizardly with the aroma of everything else on that healing bed. That was till she interrupted. In her pinkish-purple outfit, the stunning enigma was alone, very close to me and very beautiful. My eyes refused to look anywhere else and I felt inebriated. The intoxication crept up to my soul when the wind picked up a melody and she broke into a shimmering dance without a damn care for the eventual. I knew she lives for three days only and here she was living her days like withering away was only a hypothetical possibility. In the softest whisper she said, ‘Life is meant to be lived, not survived… you know that don’t you?’ And then she smiled and broke into another tango with the wind. I crawled up closer to her and snuggled. I wanted her to know that she had mended an utterly flawed man who felt heartbroken no more.

PS: A big thanks to John for this 'therapy session'.

My nephew was stillborn at 35 weeks on July 31. My family is heartbroken.

My brother and sister-in-law had chosen a Lion King/jungle theme for their nursery and I had picked up a bunch of Cotton + Steel fabrics to make something after the baby was born. I ended up embroidering a little piece from the fabric for his parents instead. I'm not an angel kind of person, but it seemed like the thing to do. Sometimes you stitch for art, and sometimes you stitch for therapy.

They did not know the sex of their child prior to his birth, and had jokingly referred to him as Bart, but once he was born they could not imagine giving him any other name. The back is all wonky but it doesn't matter.

hello new camera, only got to use it late so the light was pretty crappy.

say hello to good photos at last flickr.

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

March 6, 2015. I am heartbroken.

You gave me joy, bleeding knees and elbows, you've been abused by drunken randoms, drunken me I admit too, you came to the club with me, you were my valentine, you've been treated rough sometimes but you treated me rough too.. I just never thought it would come to this.

Heartbroken: EVERY Monday night at Studio80 on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam! Party: Heartbroken Venue: Studio80 Coverage by: Waking up in Amsterdam!

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

Number 70 already! This one combines two of my favorite things 1) Love & 2) Saying 'fact' after stating something.

Part of my ongoing Doodle-a-day project.

utterly heartbroken by the loss of five sailors in the Farallones race this weekend:

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/15/MN6R...

fair winds and following seas

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

The people that remained, are heartbroken, all they had has been lost. In conversation with them, it becomes clear that PTSD has set in, as despite their best efforts to salvage what is left, there is very little to build upon. They are without power, water, roofs, and in many cases any of their belongings. One resident pictured here, Eliseo Nunez Ruiz (first image) told us he was doing his best to not visualize his own suicide, but he felt he was losing the battle.

One of the days, we followed some local health care workers to Toa Baja City, a area on the northern coast, built on the alluvial deposits of the three rivers that flow nearby. There isn’t much intellectualization that can describe what happened there, and the only words that come to mind is destruction. Pure and absolute. Flood waters rose 15-20 feet, filling first then the second floor (second image). Many of the residents have just left, the keys sit in the flooded cars, the homes emptied, doors left open, plants begin to grow over everything and bulldozers just push the destroyed remnants of people’s belongings into piles so more disaster relief crews can move through the streets. (@joshuacogan for the @who)

This past week, I had the opportunity to travel to Puerto Rico with the World Health Organization to do some documentation of the post hurricane recovery. It was a short trip, just a few days really, and in such a short period of time, doing justice to any experience or telling of someone else’s experience is fraught with ignorance and assumptions. There are elements you can learn from being in conversation with people, and some you can from witnessing, but there is also a language of heart that goes beyond the words and thoughts. Now 70 days past the devastating hurricane, the immediate trauma has past, and the long-term work of repair is setting in.

I saw this girl in NYC, it broke my heart. At the time I was on a bus and couldn't get off. We spent 2 hours walking around looking for her. She looked like she was deeply upset. She was shaking from crying.

I was struck by the huge amount of homeless people there was in NYC, in fact in all the cities we visited in the USA there was a lot of homeless people.

This girl still haunts me, I wish I could have given her some money...

We lost our beloved dachshund the day after Thanksgiving 2014. It has been such a hard year without him! We got him when he was 6 weeks old and lost him at 14 3/4 :) The best darned weiner dog we've ever had, the only but who's counting?! Our poor boy was sick and needed relief.. Oscar had the best life being loved by SO many. We miss him all the time and I find days where I wish he was here to cuddle for selfish reasons. I never thought I'd love an animal as much as this guy. You're my boy Osco!

It was very late last Monday night, and I was shooting the second weekly edition of a brand-new party at Studio80 called Heartbreak.

It's described as: "Frankie D. and guests spin the sweetest soul, sophisticated jazz, dirtiest funk with a splash of hip-hop."

I would have to agree! ;)

Heartbreak: Every Monday night at Studio80!

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Coverage by TLG

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Heartbroken: EVERY Monday night at Studio80 on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam! Party: Heartbroken Venue: Studio80 Coverage by: Waking up in Amsterdam!

Heartbroken Daddy

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

Posted @withregram • @worldbirdsanctuary The World Bird Sanctuary is heartbroken to share the passing of Murphy, our bald eagle and extraordinary foster dad. Murphy was found deceased in his aviary early morning of Saturday March 15th as we checked on our animals after storms and tornadoes came through St. Louis the night before. Our veterinarian performed a necropsy which showed that Murphy had sustained trauma to his head. We are unable to determine if Murphy was spooked and hit his head while jumping off a perch or if wind and precipitation played a part in the injury. While Murphy experienced countless storms through the years with us without issue, this storm may have contributed to his passing. His three aviary mates are all healthy, and his aviary did not sustain any damage. All of our birds in outdoor aviaries have access to shelters to protect themselves from storms. We have contingency plans for different types of environmental situations, but this particular storm did not require any bird evacuations as no tornadoes approached WBS. While we do everything that we can to keep our birds safe, accidents outside of our control can happen.

As we mourn this tragic loss, we are thankful that his 33 year life surpassed the typical lifespan for Bald Eagles. His dedication as a foster dad touched the hearts of millions around the world, leaving an especially profound impact on those fortunate enough to have worked with him. While Murphy has delighted guests onsite for years with his vocalizations and personality, it wasn't until 2023 when he decided to incubate a rock that he gained an international following. As Murphy's eaglet grew so did our love of him. Murphy's eaglet continued to grow strong under his watchful gaze and went on to be released back to the wild. The following year, Murphy fostered a second eaglet in need with the same dedication he gave the first.

We could not have asked for a better ambassador and role model. We are incredibly grateful for the community that came together as a result of his heartwarming story. We are devastated by this loss and know that the community mourns with us. Murphy will be deeply missed, but his legacy will live on in the memories of those who loved him

Finally found a use for the fingerknitting I learned in fifth grade.

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Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

Cold, rainy + gloomy Vancouver reflects my inner weather. Tara McPherson could not have painted a better picture of the feeling of heartbreak, loss and the deadness left inside. Where there once was a full beating heart is now a huge gaping hole filled with a sickly ink flower. Hey, we all die sometimes.

Down On Love by Sarah Blasko

Lately you've been down on luck

crying out for the man above

I believe in miracles

but a miracle you can't control

You've got to find the strength inside

to lead you out of here

One step guides another

'till the way becomes clear

Lately you've been down on love

You believe that it's a poison cup

Love it takes a leap of faith

And faith will guide you all your days

And all your life you've waited

for someone to understand

To wake you up and speak your name

and take you by the hand

How'd you lose your faith in love

what brought you to your knees tonight

I believe in answered prayers

But the answers are found everywhere

So open up your windows

and unlock the doors

You hear them whispered in the night

down cold and lonely halls

Haiti #Wecare

We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.

Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:

Prodev

www.prodevhaiti.org/

Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.

Here are some the instructors that will be present:

Volha

Angelina

Bryan

Yxia

Rene

Josip

Celeste

Anna

Edmee

Will

Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!

Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa

i love when i quote fight club

The idea was by my friend who is also the main character.

don't ask questions just enjoy.

Explore #483

The most difficult thing is when your mind keeps repeating memories when all you really have to do is let them go.

That gets even more challenging when everything you are surrounded with,are part of the memories.

I know it's too emotional,but that's all I got right now..

I really hope you get what I'm trying to say.

dedicated...

Enjoy

Margarette is so smart. She covered her face when she knew I was going to take a snap.

Saw a guy leaning against a bin like this on my way into work last week so thought it would make a good pose. The subway was chosen as the single light on the path side made a good spotlight and seemed a likely place you would find someone in this position and the title comes from a song by Dan Auerbach and even has a line about being under a bridge.