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“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
By Arundhati Roy
More rando crowns than I'll probably ever use but just want to make sure I have one when I need one!
הדרך אל האושר
רצופה מכשולים,
הבאים בגלים,
יורדים ועולים.
הדרך אל האושר
זרועה אכזבות,
נפלים של תקוות
ואהבות נכזבות.
הדרך אל האושר
מלאה חללים,
שלא מצאו עוד כוח,
להמשיך ולצמוח.
הדרך אל האושר
היא כמו שביל,
שאין איש יודע,
לאו הוא מוביל,
ומה מחכה בסוף המסלול –
הפתח לגן עדן,
או מצוק תלול...
הדרך אל האושר
היא התמודדות מתמשכת;
לא אתייאש,
ותמיד אמשיך ללכת;
אפול, אמעד ולא אפחד,
אזנק ואקום,
גם אם אעשה זאת לבד.
האושר הוא כאן,
אם לא נעזוב;
נגלה אותו,
אם נמשיך לאהוב;
אם פעם נבין,
שהוא לא הרחק ואי שם;
אלא מחכה לנו כאן,
קרוב וחם.
הוא נמצא בשביל,
בו אנו הולכים;
ליד כל מכשול,
עליו אנו דורכים;
בצד כל חלל,
ששוכב לו אומלל,
שאינו מבחין
כמה קרוב הפוטנציאל.
הדרך אל האושר
היא דרכי;
כל צעד ושעל,
גרגיר וחלקיק;
אקווה לסגל,
נקודת מבט נכונה;
ואנרגיות לתעל ,
ולממשן בתבונה;
ובעזרת האל,
והרבה תפילה,
ודאי שאצליח,
לסלול המסילה
Here, old men covered with wounds, beheld their wives, hugging their children to their bloody breasts, massacred before their faces; there, their daughters, disemboweled and breathing their last after having satisfied the natural wants of Bulgarian heroes; while others, half burnt in the flames, begged to be dispatched. The earth was strewed with brains, arms, and legs.
I completely missed the fronds in the background when I was shooting this. Luckily, the camera didn't.
"Seascape" © Donna, Acrylic, 16"x16"
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It clearly says on this MetroCard that it expires on 07/31/10. An optimist would argue that it should work on that day, but in fact it did not.
Still, I can't complain. I found it on the ground last November and it still had some money on it. Here's a New York Times story about these cards.
Louisiana is reported to be losing 25 to 35 square miles of coastal wetlands each year – one football field of land per hour. The causes of the land loss are from natural causes and human interference, and include reduced sediment flow from the Mississippi River and its tributaries, land subsidence, and sea-level rise. To combat the diminishing and degrading coastal habitats, Jefferson Parish instituted a program that found a role for discarded Christmas trees to lessen wave energy and to combat erosion. Wooden cribs are constructed parallel to the shoreline to hold the trees. Volunteers, the Louisiana Air National Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and others have coordinated the collection and placement of trees in these pens to lessen the impact of waves and storms. The calm water between the cribs and coast traps sediment and allows for plants and aquatic life to establish. Jefferson Parish has been tracking the impact of this Christmas tree recycling project. Between 1998 and 2015, an unprotected area of shoreline lost over 23 acres of habitat, while a section protected by trees only lost 3 acres. The Christmas tree recycling program not only assists coastal habitats but generates awareness among Louisiana residents and provides an opportunity for participation in making a difference for the coast.
The quilt is to be viewed from the top to the bottom, representing a relative sequence over time as viewed at one location. No quantitative data is implied in terms of spatial or temporal patterns sewn. Each horizontal gray strip of fabric represents breaks in time. At the top of the quilt, one sees a wide strip of “plant” fabric representing a marsh coastline, and a smaller piece of “water” fabric representing the coastal water. As one moves down to the next row of plant/water fabric, there is less of the land fabric and more of the water fabric. This is to represent erosion occurring along the Louisiana coast, where marsh habitat is being lost from wave energy, subsidence, seal-level rise, etc. As one moves down the next several rows, there is a continued loss of the coast with an increasing encroachment of water. In the middle of the quilt, a Christmas tree crib appears. The successive rows show a reduction in loss of the marsh over time, reflecting the results shared by Jefferson Parish (still marsh loss but less volume when the Christmas trees were put in place).
This is my story of coastal optimism – a story of habitat loss and degradation that is slowed by the placement of discarded Christmas trees.
Here, myself and Jen Mercer, my mentor my savior, are loading green bamboo flags into the mountaineer Kevin Emery's sled that he tows behind his snow machine. The flags are used to mark waypoints, which are "good" routes (marked with green), and to mark crevasse locations, marked with a portentous black. We optimistically load up many green flags.