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Daffodils are not my favorite flower. They are not as showy, not as delicate, not as layered as other flowers. They are not as colorful, and the yellow ones are really hard to capture well... the balance of light and exposure a fine line to walk without washing out or muting the colors. Yet every spring they bloom, when the trees are bare and the ground covered in brown leaves and the threat of snow and ice very real. They pop their brave heads out of the hard ground and pepper my yard with bits of sun in an otherwise bleak landscape. When the cold front blows in today, I can look out my window and have hope: summer is right around the corner!
chonburi, thailand. this shot was taken at the stroke of 12 and captures over 8 firework displays throughout the entire city at 12 midnite. have a very photographic newyear....
Rose against adversity
The yellow rose can indicate strength and are encouraging for someone going through a difficult time such as when healing from illness or surgery. I see this one as hope against adversity. The strength and optimism of the yellow/orange rose fighting its way forward and not giving up.
Jumping spider stalking a rather large bluebottle fly on a windowsill. It got a bit closer before sensibly deciding that perhaps it was a bit large
Otto Road
Vilonia, Arkansas
Faulkner County
Anyone that doesn't find this funny probably shouldn't be one of my contacts. I've had a bad week. The topper was my A/C going out. I went to my hometown after the A/C was fixed. I was driving around looking for things to shoot, and I saw this.
It occurred to me....
Shit happens but life goes on!!
I love making the most of the bad weather, and when other people are tucked up warm or muscles clenched cowaring under an umbrella I'm dancing in the rain and jumping in puddles. I guess you could call it optimism
27 tomorrow and still an idiot :)
Springtime............comes every year without fail, no matter how long winter tries to hold on.
May 1 is May Day. Enjoy they day everyone :-)
Extract from Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem 'Optimism' inscribed on a paving slab in Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA (located next to City Lights Bookstore).
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woes. No path is wholly rough;
Look for the places that are smooth and clear,
And speak of those, to rest the weary ear
Of Earth, so hurt by one continuous strain
Of human discontent and grief and pain.
Talk faith. The world is better off without
Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
If you have faith in God, or man, or self,
Say so. If not, push back upon the shelf
Of silence all your thoughts, till faith shall come;
No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.
You cannot charm, or interest, or please
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
from 'Poems of Pleasure' (1902)
For more information about Ella Wheeler Wilcox, go here: www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/
Poster responding to the theme of 'Optimism' this year's Brisbane Design Week.
For more details see the Eye Events page: blog.eyemagazine.com/?page_id=158
Outside a cafe in Wimbledon, 7pm on a cold, rainy, dark evening in January. I like the flowers: nice touch!
Αν η ανοχή γεννιέται από την αμφιβολία, ας διδάξουμε τους πάντες να αμφιβάλλουν για όλα τα μοντέλα και τις ουτοπίες, να αμφισβητούν όλους τους προφήτες της λύτρωσης και τους «αγγέλους κακών».
Εάν είναι να καταργήσουν τον φανατισμό, ας προσευχηθούμε για την έλευση των σκεπτικιστών."
Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
Trump & Erdogan were in Belgium for a NATO meeting.. and over 12000 Belgians took to the streets to protest their presidencies.
It’s objectively too late to restrain population and consumption growth so as to avert what ecologists of the 1970s called a “hard landing.”
It is the lie that human society can continue growing its population and consumption levels indefinitely on our finite planet, and never suffer consequences.
Perhaps Donald Trump succeeded because his promises spoke to what civilizations in decline tend to want to hear. It could be argued that the pluralistic, secular, cosmopolitan, tolerant, constitutional democratic nation state is a political arrangement appropriate for a growing economy buoyed by pervasive optimism. (On a scale much smaller than contemporary America, ancient Greece and Rome during their early expansionary periods provided examples of this kind of political-social arrangement). As societies contract, people turn fearful, angry, and pessimistic—and fear, anger, and pessimism fairly dripped from Trump’s inaugural address. In periods of decline, strongmen tend to arise promising to restore past glories and to defeat domestic and foreign enemies. Repressive kleptocracies are the rule rather than the exception.
Arctic Frontiers 2020, Side event, A source for Arctic optimism: The Blue Bioeconomy
Bryndís Björnsdóttir Head of Industry Solutions, Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D Dr., Matis, Iceland
Photo:Terje Mortensen/Arctic Frontiers 2020
Optimism or pessimism? Either way, half of this class contains liquid and half does not.
I've fallen in love with the Canon 40mm f/2.8 (as if I hadn't already said that enough). It just looks nice, I'm not sure what it is specifically, but it makes me happy every time I use it. I find that I have to 'warm up' to it first, but once I get back in the groove I get keeper after keeper with it.
Oh... allowance for inserting bills of 10, 20, and 50 denomination. Even I don't need that much junk food.