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Kris Houghton, an immigration attorney who is going for the world record in "marathon run with a baby stroller." 2:32 is the time to beat, if you're wondering. His son, Emilio, will jockey the stroller. He's been "cutting weight."
I took this photo as part of a lesson in Katrina Kennedy's Exposure class. In my very suburban area, we have a few random farms scattered here and there. I took a walk about half a mile from my house to a soybean field. At least, that's what it is this year. This persistent little corn stalk came back despite the crop rotation.
Persistence Tour, Paris, France
January 20th 2014
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Tree growing through the seem in the SE 37th Tunnel under Interstate 90 - Bellevue's Eastgate neighborhood.
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Patient persistence in prayer: A reflection by Fr. Tony Nye SJ, first published in the Farm Street Church newsletter, November 2010:
WHY KEEP PRAYING?
“This Sunday’s gospel (Luke 18:1-8) tells the story of a widow who kept on coming to an unjust judge. She persisted in her request even though that judge seemed unable and unwilling to listen. The parable is prefaced with the words, ‘Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and not give up.’ Not that God our Father is in any way like that unjust judge. It is the trust and persistence that Our Lord is teaching us. He ends with reassurance about His Father’s response to our needs in prayer: ’Now will not God see justice done to his chosen who cry to him day and night even when he delays to help them?’
But why the delay? Why is it that I pray for something that is so important to me or to those I love or to the world around me, but God does not seem to answer? He leaves me waiting. Why should I persist in prayer and not give up? What use is praying any more?
St. Augustine pondered over this puzzle that most of us have some time in our lives. It is an a letter he wrote to a lady called Proba all about prayer. His answer is worth thinking about. God keeps us waiting so that we are made ready to receive what He wants to give us by increasing our desire. ‘He wants our desire to be exercised in prayer’, says St. Augustine, ‘thus enabling us to grasp what he is prepared to give.’ Because we are ‘small and limited vessels for receiving it.’ This is true of the grace and bliss God has in store for us. Waiting, persisting in asking, desiring widens our hearts to receive. Pray without ceasing does not mean repeating words over and over, but keep desiring, pray in your heart. Then our soul is like a bag that is stretched so that it is large enough for the gifts God wishes to give.
Here is a thought from another master of prayer, Blessed John Henry Newman. Like St. Augustine he shows that persisting in prayer is not to inform God. He knows in His infinite wisdom what we need, what is best for us. No, it is to change us, so that our hearts and minds grow by prayer. Pope Benedict had a lot to say on prayer during his memorable visit. He quoted these words from Blessed John Henry Newman at the end of his homily in the Beatification Mass:
‘a habit of prayer, the practice of turning to God and the unseen world in every season, in every place, in every emergency – prayer, I say, has what may be called a natural effect in spiritualizing and elevating the soul. A man is no longer what he was before; ... he has imbibed a new set of ideas, and become imbued with fresh principles.’ (from Parochial and Plain Sermons)."
Fr Tony Nye, SJ
(Pilgrim at prayer in San Sebastián de Garabandal, overlooking the Peña Sagra mountains, Cantabria, Spain.
Persistence Market Research predicts that the global animal drug compounding market will exhibits an impressive 8% CAGR during the forecast period (2020-2030).
I have tried so many times to photograph these little flowers, usually from the side and I am never happy with the shot so I tried a different perspective, not sure what I think of it yet!
Green turns to brown, as it always does this time of year, and yet I have some fresh blooms on this rosebush. Taken 26 November (!) 2009.
This is Dali's painting "Persistence of Memory" etched next to the face of a cubic grain of salt. Thousands of these etchings could fit on top of the salt!
Last week, this was still a work-in-progress. It didn't have the ribbing, and I was lacking a sleeve. But with a little bit of persistence, it's a sweater. Warm and cozy. A bit on the big side . . . but a sweater nonetheless.
Two more in the comments . . . including the all the grey on the temples. Blogged here.
Apply Persistence and Determination to your Real Estate Career and Ask for The Sale! - #livetrainingre - Knowledge in Real Estate is an important commodity to the Real Estate Agent; but Persistence and Determination shape the Successful Professional. There is a lot more to being a Real Estate Agent than Writing Contracts, Showing Homes, and Holding Open Houses... read more: bit.ly/14ujW0y
As the National Parade was in full swing, not everyone was fortunate to get a good view of what was happening, not with the loads of people blocking the view. But that didn't seem to stop this guy from getting a view up a tree Now that's what you call persistence.
Only a few seeds remained at the bottom of our 'doughnut' feeder, but this Parakeet was intent on trying to get to them.
Board in center runs the LEDs, plays back patters stored in flash. Creates a lovely effect. A fairly sophisticated project! By James Sears, recent ITP graduate
The plant from PM102354 has been blooming! It seems to be having trouble in the unseasonably hot weather; the leaves are getting mildewed, and it has not produced any seed. Still, it will give everything it has to try and reproduce. It was a windy day, and it took many tries to get this shot. Contrast-detect also naturally prioritizes the background. E-PM1 & 14/2.5.
Persistence - some years this tree will bloom in early January but early February is more normal. This year the poor thing kept getting blasted by snow, ice, and long stretches of sub-freezing cold. Most of the blossoms are shot but a few made it.
Novelist Carol Wallace and poet Elaine Terranova talk at the reception following their readings at the Sunday Best Reading Series.
The anemone bud - lower left in photo -- is almost ready to open , but the weather this morning is COLD : what should be dewdrops are solid ice globes, and frost crystals form all about. No matter!! It might even open tomorrow, if the sun is war, enough!
Piano in perspective. Actually is a very neat piano, which has the ability to sound like a harpsichord ...
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From Center for Women Veterans Facebook page on February 27, 2018. Found at: www.facebook.com/VAWomenVets/photos/a.1801245310179860/18...
I am #embodiment of #persistence His Divine Holiness #Paramahamsa #Bhagwaan #Sri #Nithyananda #Paramashivam www.Kailaasa.org
Novelist Carol Wallace and poet Elaine Terranova talk at the reception following their readings at the Sunday Best Reading Series.
dalà has isolated the central image of his best-known paintin and given it the same title. it is a simple figure: a limp watch draped over the branch of a dead tree. dalÃnean time is not rigid; it is one with space... fluid. the unexpected softness of the watch also representz the psychological fact that the speed of time, while precise in scientific use, is widely variable in human perception. when we are involved in pleasant activitiez or in work that absorbz all our attention, 'time flies', but when we are mired in boredom or discomfort, it dragz. the limp watch no longer 'keepz' time; it does not measure itz passage. thus, the speed of our time dependz only on us.
date: conceived and first cast in 1980; cast at a later date
material: bronze
technique: lost wax process
edition size: 6 plus 3 EA and 3 HC
maquette: original plaster, persistence of memory, 1980
direct intervention (created by dalÃ): the idea, image, original maquette and approval for the edition
indirect intervention (created by artisanz): the mold, lost wax process, and patina
Tisch College's Distinguished Speaker Series: Resistance + Persistence: Civil Debate in Divided Times Neera Tanden is the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress + previously served in the Obama and Clinton administrations. Bill Kristol is the founder and editor of The Weekly Standard + previously served in the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Tufts University Medford MA November 2017