I learned from nature that optimism can lead to hope, no matter how tough our days are, the dark clouds will clear and the sun have to shin again. The pain people experience in the past is what makes them enjoy today's happiness. Let's start our days with love and optimism.

 

تعلمت من الطبيعه ان التفائل يزرع الامل وان الايام مهما كانت قاسيه فلابد ان تنقشع الغيوم وتشرق الشمس من جديد، دعوة من القلب لكل الاحبة بالتفائل فاتراح الامس هي من جعلتنا نتذوق افراح اليوم

Optimism.

The yellow is a little over because i am Blood2Blood Qadsawi :p

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Taken with a Canon EOS 40D.

 

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Rainbows and storm clouds over Grand Traverse Bay

Sigma 60mm f2.8 DN

Cactus with Silver Umbrella up left 3/4.

Light up your face with gladness

Hide every trace of sadness

Although a tear may be ever so near

Thats the time you must keep on trying

Smile, whats the use of crying?

Youll find that life is still worthwhile

If you just smile..

 

by -nat king cole

 

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Enjoy your day, thanks for your visits and comments.

Bologna street...and???!!! Nikon F2 Photomic japanese reflex- Nikkor 50mm f 2,0 nai-Ilford

...classroom smile: portrait of a young girl in her village school in rural Rajasthan, India

 

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Oracle

 

Lost

Loneliness

Optimism

Returning

  

HKD

 

Mercury diving into Hades

To bring Persephone back to the upper world

 

Mercury energy brings depression into balance.

 

HKD

  

If you like see my YouTube Video:

 

"Dark Night of the Soul"

 

www.youtube.com/user/koppdelaney#p/a/u/1/EaRQPzamppo

 

Mural on the boarded storefront of Emerald City Guitars in Seattle’s historical Pioneer Square District, during the Coronavirus lockdown.

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Voigtländer Nokton VM 21mm f/1.4 ASPH + Fujifilm X-T2.

Minolta Rokkor-X 50mm f/1.4 (aperture unknown)

it's always good to search for positivity. every time i take pictures my day feels so much better.

i tried to open my eyes more but it was too bright. also, if things work out then i should be taking photos with makayla tomorrow. wicked excited for that!

 

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"For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you."

 

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Willy Whackit dreamed of playing baseball in the majors. He knew if he hung out in the corn long enough, the scouts would come. Unfortunately, Willy had no idea what corn looked like and, so, hanging out in the bushes didn't make him famous. Willy did get discovered, arrested and now has a photo on the post office wall after he jumped bail.

 

Huron, California 2007

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Optimism

 

My self is

Lifting me higher

  

HKD

  

Energy of high self-esteem

   

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أؤمن اني س اكون يوما

ما اريد

حيث ما اريد

مع من اريد

 

حبيت اشكر اختي

( A-A-M )

على النصائح اللي تقدمها لنا

كثير استفدت منها **

  

it feels unreal to live here in temp home..like i would be in another country. can't explain. still must be optimistic and keep the head high..hopefully soon we'll be back home again.

 

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Follow -> Present is past.

 

I hope you're about to have an amazing day.

 

I've made that my goal.

 

In the last five or six... shit... maybe seven years I've been in so much trouble.

 

I've been in a lot of trouble I've deserved and that's a bummer but it doesn't bother me.

 

But trouble you find yourself in that you don't deserve to be in...

 

that's a different story.

 

Especially when it's motivated by revenge... anger... or a vendetta.

 

I've had a hard time dealing with that.

 

A really hard time.

 

Paying thousands upon thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees to deal with pure fiction.

 

And when fiction gets you into trouble that becomes a 'real problem.'

 

I've gone through a number of trials...

 

in one the prosecution told me that if I didn't take their 'deal' that they were going to ask the judge to send me to jail for a year.

 

Damn... for something that never happened... a malicious and manipulative fabrication.

 

I hope you never know what that experience is like.

 

But it happens to people every single day in this country.

 

Yesterday I was able to put all of that behind me.

 

It feels so good.

 

Shit... I got into so much trouble in the last few years that it started to weave itself together.

 

'This trouble' and 'that trouble' came together and they became 'one trouble.'

 

I blew the whistle on some government wrongdoing that hurt a lot of people.

 

A few people are going to spend quite a bit of time in federal prison for it.

 

People in your government who were either responsible, complicit or negligent got away with it completely and remain in positions of authority in your government today.

 

There should be a few more going to prison but they're powerful and wealthy people and their only punishment for destroying the health and lives of so many people are millions of dollars in legal bills and the disgrace of their names.

 

I will always maintain that they murdered those people.

 

To them I say 'fuck you... you deserve it... in fact you deserve so much more.'

 

If nothing else karma will have your ass.

 

In the end I believe that I will be personally responsible for a whole bunch of attorneys making more than a hundred million dollars.

 

Maybe hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

Stirred up a shitstorm on that one alright.

 

The prosecution of these government officials by the government is a disgrace in itself.

 

They seem hell bent on keeping the truth from the people and prosecuting only to the extent that they need to in order to look like they actually 'gave a shit.'

 

Your government has a propensity to try not to make itself look bad.

 

I can assure you that anyone you've ever seen prosecuted for government corruption wasn't really prosecuted for that... they were prosecuted for 'stepping on the toes' of someone else in a powerful position or a coalition of people in positions of power.

 

But I go on without anger or malice in my heart.

 

Because it's filled with love and light.

 

I have spent so much time in court in the last five years I never want to walk through the doors of a courthouse again.

 

I don't like courthouse doors.

 

They give me the willies because I know what goes on there.

 

It isn't fair or pretty or real.

 

And as much as I've been there I've never seen 'justice' once.

 

I've only seen highly intelligent people manipulate the realities of what happened to try and change the outcome for their clients.

 

And I've seen them do that well.

 

I once spent a day on the stand as a witness... cross examined by the defense they just tore me apart... got me to admit to things I couldn't believe I admitted to even as I admitted them... precisely the way that they wanted me to admit to them.

 

I got off that stand that day expecting to be taken straight to jail in handcuffs.

 

For a long time.

 

I whispered to the attorney... 'did I just admit to a felony?'

 

That letter I wrote to the Chief of Police... the one that in his chambers the Judge complimented me for saying 'I have never seen such a despicable letter written to a public official in all my time as a judge'...

 

he said it with a smile because he knew that I was right.

 

How can it be 'blackmail' if you tell a guy that if he doesn't 'do the right thing' that you're gonna 'squeeze his nuts in the nutcracker until they pop.'

 

But they really made it look like blackmail... or witness tampering at the very least.

 

And I signed that letter with my name.

 

'Statute of Limitations' you've been a friend to me.

 

I got off that stand and I didn't even like myself.

 

I realized that they could have done the same thing to Mother Teresa.

 

A good lawyer could tear her apart and make an evil dictator look like a 'victim' of her 'diabolical scheming and manipulative ways.'

 

I've seen so many things I only wish I could 'unsee.'

 

But I stood up and did the right thing.

 

Sometimes that was the hardest thing to do.

 

Gahd it cost me a lot.

 

I did my civic duty.

 

If no one stands up to fight evil and challenge wrongdoing the world will crumble into a state that I'd hate to see it fall into if only for the fact that I have children who will have to live here even after I'm gone.

 

Yesterday I became free of the last vestiges of those years of conflict.

 

It was the most personal battle in that long series of battles.

 

I don't think it's really sunk in yet.

 

I keep 'looking behind me' still.

 

Thinking 'what in the hell is gonna happen next.'

 

I must have asked the attorneys a half a dozen times... is this it... is it over... can any of this shit be regurgitated... revived... dug up... brought up again or otherwise reincarnated to come back and haunt my ass anymore?

 

'No' I was told again and again.

 

I still don't believe it.

 

Maybe it will sink in over the next couple of 'conflict free' weeks.

 

I've learned so much.

 

I've learned that when you go to court and there's a dude there to sketch you with pastels that you're in a world of shit.

 

I've learned that when Dr. Phil chimes in you're fucked.

 

I've learned that I look goofy on television.

 

I've learned how awkward it is to see your life all over the newspapers, the TV, the radio and especially the internet.

 

I've learned so many things.

 

I have seen the very worst in human behavior and I hope I see nothing like it ever again.

 

I've watched people fight just to fight and in the end only end up fighting with themselves.

 

I've seen people pervert the justice system with their vendettas and try to use the courts of this state purely for revenge.

 

I've sat there or stood there and watched people lie under oath.

 

Flat out lie.

 

No big.

 

I've seen people violate the orders of the court without getting so much as a slap on the hand.

 

I've seen people get away with murder.

 

But I did what I had to do.

 

And in the end most of the bullshit and the shennanigans were made apparent by the light of day.

 

Maybe it took an excruciatingly long time.

 

But I've seen a judge make wise and fair judgements.

 

That's the one thing I'm left with being impressed with throughout the debacles of these last few years.

 

I don't know how the hell these judges do it.

 

They always hear two very different stories and they've got to render a judgement and go home and sleep that night.

 

Yesterday a judge thoroughly impressed me with his command of the courtroom and the fairness of his judgement.

 

But if he could have only 'heard the truth' he would have probably judged things differently.

 

Our legal system makes it hard to even bring the truth in front of that judge not just sometimes... but all of the time.

 

I'm not sure if I'm at liberty to say much more at this point...

 

partly because I still can't believe I'm done with this shit... and partly because I've had that liberty 'taken away from me' and I don't know where that stands.

 

I slept better last night than I have in a long time.

 

I woke up ready to take on the day and focus on the things in my life that need to be focused on...

 

not to deal with a bunch of bullshit that wasn't real in a fight that was being obviously fought for the sake of fighting it and nothing else.

 

The morning sunshine looked so much brighter today.

 

I feel so much lighter.

 

My heart is filled with love and light.

 

I feel free.

 

I am filled with an optimism that I haven't been filled with in a long time.

 

And I feel good.

 

I feel really good.

 

I hope you're feeling good and optimistic today too.

 

I hope you're feelin' that love and light just like I am.

 

Never Going Back Again

Optimism!

Photo captured via Minolta MD Rokkor-X 85mm F/1.7 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Early November 2020.

 

Exposure Time: 0.5 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4198 K * Plug-In: 43 Autumn Lightroom Presets * Filter: Hoya HMC CIR-PL (⌀55mm) * Elevation: 2,436 feet above sea-level

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View of the west side of Cleveland the day after a snow storm (taken from the MetroHealth tower)

 

explored Feb 7, 09 #224

The We're Here! gang is admiring plants growing in cracks today.

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Taken for Our Daily Challenge for the 7th March 2011; "half".

 

Is the glass half empty, or half full?

After searching online for quotes for this image to do with optimism and "the glass is always half full", I know feel very optimistic and inspired, and will never look at the glass as "half empty" again!

 

A couple of my favourites from my searching -

 

"I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet." Hugh Hefner (!)

 

"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve" J K Rowling (I kinda think that's true).

   

Oooo and I nearly forgot, my Sigma 10mm-20mm lens arrived this morning! YAY, Happy Birthday to me (a bit early though!). It arrived really quickly. Took like 4 days to get from Hong Kong to Sydney to Darwin!

:-D

There are no rules anymore - those German beasts can do 150mph through here and they do!

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Athens, Greece.

 

[ Canon EOS 600D ]

 

© 2015 Jordan Kevrekidis

 

(this is a photograph, no photo-editing)

Clem brought his daughter, Lucy, to work with him. She had never ridden in a train engine before let alone driven one. Pretty big day for a four year old. Too bad Clem suffered a heart attack and hadn't bothered showing Lucy how to stop the train!

 

The above story is fictitious.

 

Kern County, California 2013

Optimistic graffiti in a downtown alley.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRCGzNcf1Ag

 

Marc Ribot - “Optimism of the Spirit”