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‘Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.
Because unless you believe that the future can be better,
you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’
~ Noam Chomsky ~
It's a new dawn,
It's a new day,
It's a new life,
and I'm feeling good...
Still feeling very fortunate after the storms. My heart goes out to all of those still without power, and those that have lost so much.
Now, either the drug store dropped their processor in pea soup, or La Grange Motel is in Emerald City.
Heavy rain and leaden skies but they still have their sunglasses on. We did eventually see an hour's tennis so it sort of worked.
Surprisingly a lot of people have not seen these eggo waffles with Star Trek images printed on them. I decided that star trek on my food is kind of strange, but having philosophical food is not bad at all.
Note the tea, earl grey, hot.
Erik (Left) in a narration recording session with me (center) with actress Julie Harris at Cape Cod Community Television in 1995. We had a great time working together there on staff from 1995 to 1998 and had many adventures shooting music videos with bands in the area. You were a one of a kind my brother and I'll always remember your sincerity, humor, optimism, and unguarded friendship.
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"64% of people are optimistic about their own lives, but only 24% are optimistic about society as a whole"
Making my way home from the pub, I thought that I'd try a photo of the
moon. With no tripod. As a result, I was overjoyed with how well this
turned out i.e. not abysmal.
One More Productions at The GEM Theatre is proud to present
THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL, GALA Night!
Based on the series by Stephen Hillenburg
Book by Kyle Jarrow
Musical Production Conceived by Tina Landau
Original Songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady A, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I.
And Songs by David Bowie, Tom Kenny & Andy Paley
Additional Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton / Additional Music by Tom Kitt
*Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants, and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
The stakes are higher than ever in this dynamic stage musical, as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage. The power of optimism really can save the world!
Photographer: Dave Safley ModernPics.com
After the lock-down, the panic was followed by an optimism concerning the ecological problems. This unexpected pause was viewed as that stop that the eco-scientists were talking about as a need for the Earth to start restoring itself. We will have a new normal and this terrible wound to humanity is also an unexpected healing effort for the planet. We tend to forget though, that it is mainly the absurd protocols of our current capitalistic system that have to do with a non-stop production and productivity logic that we need to change and not just have a temporal pause. We forget the massive ecological footprint of the Internet by moving most of our acts there. These paranoid and paradoxic protocols of waste of capitalism and non-stop logic are still out there and can be visible in the hectic chaos of oil [prices-(non)consumption-production-storage cost] and the flights of the empty airplanes [in the need to keep their place (their monthly slots) in the air].
A photo taken through a window of a quarantine, an almost central London room, of the urban landscape seen through the “lens” of the most common urban waste : the transparent plastic bag, can remind us that the absurdity that is still out there and this sudden stop is the best opportunity for change.
Since the 1990s, a more active and open civil society sector has developed across the Russian Federation. While civil society institutions and civic engagement in Russia are not new, the growth of the sector in recent years created hopes that Russian civil society could become the voice for a more effective democratic system, more efficient social services, and a check against corruption and centralized power. At the same time, the increasing interconnectivity between Russian and international civil society institutions created a sense of optimism that an interconnected “Euro-Atlantic civil society” could make positive contributions to difficult geo-political challenges.
Of late, however, these hopes have largely been put on hold. Russian civil society institutions are facing a variety of political and social pressures, and are becoming less connected to international partners. Geo-political relations between Russia and the Euro-Atlantic community have worsened, and international civil society groups and donors have become the object of suspicion as instruments of external interference. At a political level, prior optimism about a “re-set” in Russia-Euro-Atlantic relations has faltered, however, with implications for support for civil society institutions.
There is an urgent need to rebuild bridges and to reestablish a serious dialogue about the role of Russian civil society and relations between diverse civic actors domestically, as well as between Russian organizations and international partners. In cooperation with, and with the generous support of, the Yeltsin Presidential Center and Yeltsin Foundation, this Symposium will address the challenges and opportunities currently facing civil society in Russia as a means to understand the needs and perspective of Russian civil society groups and to consider new approaches to international civil society engagement with Russia.
I used my bike light to illuminate this - not entirely sure I'm happy with the result :P
As seen on Valencia, near 24th with the youthful* bendycam 19.
*guest adjective provided today by the always lovely Briony