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In the early days Veere was a flourishing commercial city. This prosperity can be found in the beautiful historical premises. The town of Veere arose in the twelfth century. The following centuries the town was being used to store Scottish wool. Veere still has these typical Scottish homes, which were built in the sixteenth century by rich Scottish merchants. At the Kaai in Veere, two of these Scottish houses still stand, and they remind people of the wool trade back in those days. Antique collections of the last private owners are among the things which can be admired here. Also fans of porcelain, furniture, style rooms and stitch costumes have much to look at. In the Scottish houses you can regularly go to see different expositions of the artists from Veere.
Big church
Big church Veere
The big church is from 1348 and it is a really great sight. As from 1811 the church was being used by Napoleon’s soldiers as a military hospital; the church was a beggars house and a barrack for a while as well. You can still clearly see the traces of an eventful past.
Welcome to the beautiful city of Uzerche under the sun, pearl of Corrèze - New Aquitaine - France - Europe
Histoire d'Uzerche
Uzerche surnommée La " Perle du Limousin " est implantée sur la crête d'un escarpement rocheux entouré par une courbe serrée de la Vézère.
Les premiers, les Gaulois s'installèrent sur ce piton rocheux.
César, après avoir conquis la Gaule, choisit de laisser quelques garnisons dans la région, avec pour mission, à Uzarcba, de surveiller les passages de la Vézère.
Le site occupait une position stratégique. Il surplombait le col de Sainte-Eulalie où se trouvait un important carrefour routier antique, d'origine préromaine. L'une des routes joignait l'Armorique au Bassin Méditerranéen, une autre permettait de franchir la Vézère à gué.
Très tôt, ce col fut équipé d'un lieu de culte consacré à une martyre espagnole du 3ème siècle, Sainte-Eulalie de Mérida.
En 480, les Wisigoths pillent et détruisent Uzerche.
Pépin le Bref, conscient de l'intérêt du site, fait bâtir une forteresse et une église protégées par une haute muraille flanquée de dix-huit tours.
La ville se dote de portes, dont la Porte Bécharie qui subsiste encore. Trente an après leur défaite à Poitiers (732), les Sarrasins envahissent une seconde fois le Limousin.
Durant sept ans la ville résiste à leurs assauts et se libère du siège par un habile stratagème. Un blason symbolisant (selon la légende) cette victoire est sculptée sur la porte Bécharie.
En 909, les Normands saccagent la cité.
Au 10ème siècle, les Carolingiens décident d'y fonder un monastère sous la conduite de l'abbé Gaubert. Un incendie en 1028 met un terme à la prospérité que connaît la communauté.
Le 12ème siècle est une période faste, les grands de ce monde traversent la cité et s'arrêtent au monastère : Henry II d'Angleterre et Aliénor d'Aquitaine, leur fils, Richard Cœur de Lion.
La ville résiste à plusieurs sièges, dont celui des Anglais, méritant ainsi le surnom d'Uzerche-La-Pucelle, celle qui n'a jamais été prise.
Dès le 14ème siècle, son développement justifie l'adage " Qui a maison à Uzerche a château en Limousin ". La noblesse de robe va construire hôtels et maisons fortes jusqu'au 16ème siècle.
En 1575, le vicomte de Turenne, à la tête des Huguenots, saccage l'abbaye.
La puissance de son abbaye et la création d'une sénéchaussée royale firent d'elle une capitale du Bas-Limousin.
Source la Corrèze.com
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History of Uzerche
Uzerche, nicknamed the "Pearl of Limousin", is located on the crest of a rocky escarpment surrounded by a tight curve of the Vézère.
The first, the Gauls, settled on this rocky peak.
Caesar, after having conquered Gaul, chose to leave some garrisons in the region, with the mission, in Uzarcba, to monitor the passages of the Vézère.
The site occupied a strategic position. It overlooked the Sainte-Eulalie pass where there was an important ancient road junction, of pre-Roman origin. One of the roads joined Armorica to the Mediterranean Basin, another made it possible to ford the Vézère.
Very early on, this pass was equipped with a place of worship dedicated to a 3rd century Spanish martyr, Sainte-Eulalie de Mérida.
In 480, the Visigoths pillaged and destroyed Uzerche.
Pépin le Bref, aware of the interest of the site, had a fortress and a church built, protected by a high wall flanked by eighteen towers.
The city is equipped with gates, including the Porte Bécharie which still remains. Thirty years after their defeat at Poitiers (732), the Saracens invade Limousin a second time.
For seven years the city resisted their assaults and freed itself from the siege by a clever stratagem. A coat of arms symbolizing (according to legend) this victory is carved on the Porte Bécharie.
In 909, the Normans sacked the city.
In the 10th century, the Carolingians decided to found a monastery there under the leadership of Father Gaubert. A fire in 1028 put an end to the prosperity of the community.
The 12th century was a prosperous period, the great of this world crossed the city and stopped at the monastery: Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, their son, Richard the Lionheart.
The city resisted several sieges, including that of the English, thus deserving the nickname of Uzerche-La-Pucelle, the one that was never taken.
From the 14th century, its development justifies the adage "Who has a house in Uzerche has a castle in Limousin". The nobility of the robe built hotels and fortified houses until the 16th century.
In 1575, the Vicomte de Turenne, at the head of the Huguenots, sacked the abbey.
The power of its abbey and the creation of a royal senechaussee made it a capital of Bas-Limousin.
Source la Corrèze.com
Created by Daniel Chester French in 1880 at the age of 30, the sculpture is a bigger than life "allegorical figure group". Law holds a tablet while she strides forward. Power is the seated male to her left. Prosperity is a seated female holding a cornucopia (hidden from view behind the others).
Apologies for leaving out Prosperity. The piece is behind a locked gate and I could not get a view of her.
Daniel Chester French is best known for his magnificent and immense sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
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A half-open bud of Rosa ‘Prosperity’ against the winter's blue sky. The petals present a crapy texture and a soft pink touch in this season. This bud will not fully open until it fades away.
Rosa ‘Prosperity’ (hybrid musk) bred by the Reverend Joseph Hardwick Pemberton (1919).
“Let your yearning for life challenge you to leave behind a second sun which the earth can orbit!”
― Lawren Leo, Horse Magick: Spells and Rituals for Self-Empowerment, Protection, and Prosperity
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Tomorrow is Diwali,the festival of lights.I wish all my Flickr friends a very Happy Diwali .May this year be full of peace,happiness,good health and prosperity.
Je vous souhaite une très belle fin d'année entourée de ceux qui vous sont chers.
Je vous présente mes voeux les plus sincères d'amour , de santé, de prospérité...pour l'année à venir!
Merci à tous et toutes pour vos partages, vos mots, votre humour, vos critiques. A l'année prochaine pour de savoureux échanges!!
Sandrine ;-)
I wish you a wonderful New Year surrounded by those you loved.
I offer you my best wishes for love, health, prosperity ... for the coming year!
Thank you to everyone for your shares, your words, your humor, your criticism. See you next year for tasty exchanges !!
Sandrine;-)
Eternal One: I am in control—calm and serene.
I am watching quietly from where I dwell
Just as surely as the heat shimmers in the blazing sun
and the dewy mists cool the warmth of a harvest day.
For even before the harvest begins, when the buds blossom
and the flowers make way for the ripening grapes,
God will cut back their shoots with pruning shears,
lop off and clear away the spreading branches. ~ Isaiah 18: 4-5
“It’s because I want you to remember that character counts. You can be the best there ever was at something, but if you have no character, what do you have? On the other hand, if you have very little as far as accomplishments but you have character, well, then you’re all right in my book.”
― Chris Fabry, Dogwood
Dogwood blossoms on a Vriginia Spring day.
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2019 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
This Tern chases all of the other Terns away from the tidal gate area at Bolsa Chica. He wants is all and he's quite successful!
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2019 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
Minor crop - best enlarged - it's easier to see the two fish he caught in his beak
Augustijnenrei in the Ezelstraat Quarter, in northern Bruges, Flanders, Belgium.
It is a watercourse which runs as an extension of the Speelmansrei, from the Ezelbrug to the Torenbrug, from where it continues as the Gouden-Handrei. A street of the same name is located on the northern bank and runs from the Vlamingbrug to the Oost-Gistelhof.
The name "Augustijnenrei" refers to the lost Augustinian monastery founded around 1276. Located in one of the wealthiest districts of the city, the monastery church became the religious center of the Spanish and Italian nations, as well as of the Chamber of Commerce. The merchants of Genoa, Lucca, Pisa, Venice, the nations of Castile and Navarre had their chapel there.
Guilds and craftsmen also came to the Augustinians via the Commerce Chamber, among whom the skippers, the tapestry weavers, the gray workers, the barbers and surgeons, as well as the fencers, had their altars there. They brought wealth and prosperity to this monastery.
The church, monastery and school were sold in 1797 and largely demolished in the following years. The space where the monastery used to be was occupied by a brewery, a garage and a few houses. Until 1950, parts of the closing wall still existed. Until about 1980 relics of the monastery building were still present along the Augustijnenrei.
On the site of the former monastery church there is now a parking lot and a small square with lime trees along the Augustijnenrei. What remains of the former abbey is the large garden, the farm in Jan Miraelstraat and a former part of the college in Hoedenmakersstraat. In 1987, excavation works were carried out and 14th-century burial vaults with paintings were uncovered, as well as foundations of some parts of the monastery.
The Augustijnenrei lied at the foot of the first city walls of Bruges and was dug in 1127-1128 together with the Smedenrei, the Speelmansrei and the Gouden-Handrei. In 1270 the Augustijnenrei, together with the other inner canals, was deepened to allow shipping on it.
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Dear friends and sponsors
I wish you all much health, peace, joy, faith and prosperity this Christmas and in the New Year.
I will be on vacation for a few days, but I will be back after January to be with you all year long, God willing.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!!
A big hug to each one of you ^^
For MACRO MONDAYS, this week’s theme: "Currency".
The Coin (1 inch in Diameter) in the front with Chinese Character 乾隆通寶 was a kind of cash coins produced under the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty (1735 to 1796).
The gold ingot behind the coin called Yuanbao 元寶, was also a currency used in the first dynasty of Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC.
At the present days, they remain a symbol of wealth and prosperity and are commonly depicted during the Chinese New Year festivities.
As today is Chines New Year's Eve, I wish my Flickr friends a healthy and prosperous year!
HMM!
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D’où vient la tradition du muguet ?
En France, la tradition d'offrir du muguet remonte au Moyen Âge. À l'époque, on considère le muguet comme une plante sacrée, associée à la déesse romaine de la fertilité, Flora. Cette fleur blanche, symbole de pureté, était utilisée pour honorer la déesse au printemps, sa période de sa floraison.
Au fil des années, la tradition se transforme, et la plante est de plus en plus offerte comme un porte-bonheur.
Offrir du muguet à quelqu'un est donc une manière de lui souhaiter du bonheur et de la prospérité pour l'année à venir. En plus de cela, le muguet symbolise aussi le renouveau souvent associé à l'amour et à la romance.
Le muguet et la Fête du 1er mai, origines
La fête du Travail est célébrée dans de nombreux pays à travers le monde, mais son origine remonte à la fin du 19ème siècle en Europe, en particulier en France.
À cette époque, les travailleurs se battent pour de meilleures conditions de travail, des salaires décents, des droits sociaux et politiques. Les premières manifestations du 1er mai ont eu lieu aux États-Unis en 1886, où des travailleurs organisent des grèves massives pour réclamer la journée de travail de huit heures.
En France, la fête du Travail est instaurée le 1er mai 1890. Cette journée consacre la reconnaissance des droits des travailleurs, la solidarité entre les travailleurs et travailleuses, et la journée de 8 heures.
Pour célébrer cette victoire, les travailleurs et travailleuses organisent une grande manifestation, le 1er mai. Pendant la manifestation, on distribue des brins de muguet, qui symbolisent la solidarité et l'espoir. Depuis lors, la tradition du muguet au 1er mai est devenue une coutume populaire en France. De même que la vente de muguets est une tradition populaire, elle est officiellement reconnue par le gouvernement français en 1941.
(d'après le site Rouchette.com sur Google)
In advance....
Where does the tradition of giving lilies of the valley come from?
In France, the tradition of giving lilies of the valley dates back to the Middle Ages. At the time, the lily of the valley was considered a sacred plant, associated with the Roman goddess of fertility, Flora. This white flower, a symbol of purity, was used to honour the goddess in spring, when she was in flower.
Over the years, the tradition has changed, and the plant is increasingly given as a good luck charm.
Giving someone a lily of the valley is a way of wishing them happiness and prosperity for the coming year. As well as this, the lily of the valley also symbolises renewal, often associated with love and romance.
Lily of the valley and 1st May, origins
Labour Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, but its origins date back to the end of the 19th century in Europe, particularly in France.
At that time, workers were fighting for better working conditions, decent wages and social and political rights. The first May Day demonstrations took place in the United States in 1886, when workers organised mass strikes to demand the eight-hour working day.
In France, Labour Day was introduced on 1 May 1890. This day consecrated the recognition of workers' rights, solidarity between workers and the 8-hour working day.
To celebrate this victory, workers organised a major demonstration on 1 May. During the demonstration, lilies of the valley were distributed, symbolising solidarity and hope. Since then, the tradition of lilies of the valley on 1 May has become a popular custom in France. Just as selling lilies of the valley is a popular tradition, it was officially recognised by the French government in 1941.
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No Photoshop, no digital processing, it is a real calendar of the old year
Here, In Northern Italy, at the sunset hour on 5th January, somewhere, there is the tradition to burn Calendars of the just passed year with the hope that the new year will be more and more full of wonderful things in Love, Joy, Happiness, and Prosperity
so......
LOVE, JOY, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY
FOR ALL OF YOU
FROM THE VERY DEEP OF MY HEART
IN THIS NIGHT AND FOREVER.
MAY YOUR DREAMS BECOME REAL.
YOUR FRIEND
Elisabetta
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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The bluebird is a symbol of hope, love, and renewal and is also a part of many Native American legends. It symbolizes the essence of life and beauty. Dreaming of bluebirds often represents happiness, joy, fulfillment, hope, prosperity, and good luck.
"Prosperity", a traditional Yorkshire fishing coble, hauled up on the beach at North Landing, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.
Another addition to the "Trip to Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia 2024."
This photo was taken in a souvenir shop in Dalat, Vietnam.
The fat man in the back is Budai. He was a legendary Chinese monk Qieci (契此) who lived in the 9-10th century. He was nicknamed Budai as he was always carrying a large cloth sack (布袋 budai). He is now an icon of good luck and fortune. In Vietnam, he is also identified with Maitreya Bodhisattva (弥勒菩薩).
Inviting cats are probably of Japanese origin. It is another icon of business prosperity.
They are the symbols of Love and Prosperity. A pair of Sarus crane (Grus antigone) was standing together in their natural habitat under a cold and misty morning. The situation was not for a handsome portrait as they were located against the light with a small ray of light hitting them by a narrow angle. But as Nature photographers know the wild animals most of the time offer frames in challenging situations. However it was my pleasure to frame such a charismatic frame in a back-lighten foggy condition. Soon the fog faded away and I had a prosperous sunny day for the shooting. Pics was taken from Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India.
also sounding like "lucky gold" in Chinese, kumkwat is a symbol of good fortune and prosperity.
It is a Chinese tradition to place a pot of fully bloomed kumkwat at home during the festive season.
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
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inside the famous Galleria Vittorio Emanuele...
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BELIEVE IN PEACE AND LOVE...
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LOVE, JOY, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY
FOR ALL OF YOU
FROM THE VERY DEEP OF MY HEART
IN THIS NIGHT AND FOREVER.
MAY YOUR DREAMS BECOME REALITY.
YOUR FRIEND
Elisabetta
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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Memory of a good companion lost last week, never did like his pic being taken, gone but not forgotten
Guang Fu Temple
The temple, which is a mix of modern and Art Deco architecture styles, is believed to be over 100 years old.
It started out as a small wooden temple with Tua Pek Kong as its resident deity.
Over the years, the temple was renovated and extended but some of its original furnishings such as the ornately carved wooden altar and the statues of the deities were maintained.
Today, other than the Tua Pek Kong, devotees can also offer prayers to other deities such as the Goddess of Mercy and Buddha in the temple.
Tua Pek Kong (God of Prosperity)
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Butterworth, Penang 🇲🇾
September 2023
........an enucleated mother probably purposely blinded begging with her child.
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A billion people on this planet live way below the poverty level
and live in horrendous conditions.
The West is to be congratulated for its prosperity and high standard of living thought and technology
However we all live on this planet, together
for materialism is certianly no panacea for happiness, success and inner tyranny.
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
M Theresa
Siem Reap
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.” Immanuel Kant
Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.
-Jacques Diouf
Photography’s new conscience
Happy Holidays everyone :)
I want to wish you all the happiest of time and wish you all the joy, good health, prosperity etc.
This year was rough for everyone and i hope for the better with the New year coming very soon!
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So hard to resist a beautiful red apple.
They are a symbol of prosperity, wealth, temptation, perfecton, beauty, fullfilled goals and desires.
Diwali is a festival of lights. The festival is widely associated with Lakshmi, goddess of prosperity. In Jain tradition, Diwali is celebrated in observance of "Mahavira Nirvana Divas", the physical death and final nirvana of Lord Mahavira.
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[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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