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This piece belonged to a lady steward of a fine estate. She was always into everything, making sure all was in order, always getting caught on corners as she moved briskly from room to room, tearing clothes and breaking chains, so she kept her key on a sturdy necklace to keep it from loss. Years later, the estate is empty, the family having no heirs, and there is no need anymore to secure valuables behind a locked door. So the key is now purposeless, except as an adornment, and a memento, reminding you to enjoy your moments, because as, like Ozymandius’ empire, all things do come to an end.
Illustration for our website on whole-life Christian faith: sustainabletraditions.com. By J Fowler of WISELY WOVEN {Creative Media}
The reflected building was constructed in the 1860s during South Carolina's succession from the Union. For a brief two years, concurrent with the Civil War, it served as the mint for the Confederacy's currency. In 1865, it was shut down. For many years, it remained purposeless, but has since become a historic landmark. It now houses a supermarket and townhomes.
HWR_21_01. West window, seen from the body of the church, to show configuration and canopies of the 'Link Room', which dates from 1992.
St Matthias dates from 1844-46, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, but by the late 1870s was proving inadequate for purpose and structurally unsound, leading to an almost complete rebuild in 1880-81, with the tower following in 1889. Its stained glass includes a Kempe Tree of Life east window. Some 20 years ago the western two bays of the nave were adapted to form a 'Link Room'; the conversion represents an unbelievably insensitive example of architectural vandalism, as the purposeless tent-like canopies of the room's ceiling obscure not only major sections of a striking Burlison & Grylls west window but also, almost in totality, the Burlison & Grylls south aisle west window.
HWR_21.
Burlison & Grylls, 1906.
This was taken to represent the sadness after one of our many fertility failures. These failures put a stop to the dream of what life is suppsed to be like. The basic picture of family that many men and women take for granted. When what is supposed ot come so naturaly and easily is all of a sudden not only difficult but quite possibly impossible.
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Playground , a collaboration with Gitte NYgaard.
An outdoor installation, Playground was a compilation of innocence and familiar icons, playground elements, which went through a subtle manipulation: swings on a collision track, sea-saw off centre, slide with no bottom, a dead-end carousel.
Unlike most human initiated actions, which are aiming at some sort of benefit, the ‘ground’ will serve for investigations of non-profitable behaviour and purposeless action. Immediate satisfaction is reduced to impossibilities, and stagnation is more present than any activity.
好滴落
tw.youtube.com/watch?v=6wf8dyRfx18
cast your eye tears on to me
and I'll show you what you really need
give too much attention
and I'll reflect your imperfections
can't you see it's over
because you're the god of a shrinking universe
purposeless survival
now there's nothing left to die for
so don't struggle to recognize
now the cruelly heart-felt suicide
can't you see it's over
because you're the god of a shrinking universe
can't you see it's over
because you're the god of a shrinking universe
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On the recent 2023 edition of the Grand Street Parade :
"it looked as if some spectators along the route just joined in and began to walk along and make themselves a part of the parade ? "
May 27th, 2023 - Dismay, disillusion and some extreme disappointment prevail in Kentville over shocking changes and many missing regular entrees in this years 2023 Grand Street Parade ? Where is our famous Queen Annapolisa and where are the many Apple Blossom Princesses and their child attendants riding in their beautiful hand crafted decorated floats ? Where's the town criers ? And what about the dazzling majorette groups, the Scottish pipers and large multi instrumental marching bands that always attend ? And where are the Hantsport and Windsor floats and their large delegations ? And where are Digby, Aylesford, Annapolis Royal, Canning, Middleton, Wolfville, and more ? Why are so many of the Valley towns and villages that normally participate not included in the parade this year ? It was also a major disappointment for many when for the first time ever, Kentville Apple Blossom Princess (aka Miss Kentville) was no longer included as there are many town residents young and old who identify with the Apple Blossom Princess at this time of year ? However, the now purposeless Apple Blossom Princess float was used this year to transport a grouping of everyday town residents as they sat around together in a social scene meant to identity Kentville with diversity and inclusion ? The New Minas float also did not include an Apple Blossom Princess for this year, however her float was transformed into an advertisement for the famous New Minas UFO incident which all New Minions identify with. The Berwick float didn't include a Princess Berwick this year either. but was altered to proudly identify with the town's upcoming Centennial celebrations. And the Kingston float was also missing an Apple Blossom Princess this year but was instead promoting their long running Kingston Steer Barbecue that all Kingstonians readily identify with. It was good to see an RCMP contingent again although they sent far less officers this year than usual ? And it was notable that only 1 other large marching band appeared in the parade when usually 4 or more big bands, many with many pipers usually attend after traveling up from places like Cape Breton, Bridgewater, Dartmouth etc ? And where have all the pets and animals gone ? There's no horse teams, wooden wagons, riders or livestock this year ? Even the usual greyhound dogs weren't there ? Also noticed that some spectators must have just joined in and began walking along within the parade, and others must have come over from the Children's parade with their strollers to join in ? There was a variety of advertisers, most from out of town but some local ? There were various Political parties represented, with the largest delegation coming from the Kody Blois Liberals ? All in all, this Year's parade seemed a bare minimum and a weak effort that really missed the inclusion of royal pageantry and the 7 to 10 spectacular Princess floats, and also missed the large marching bands and majorette groups that usually enter, the usual agriculture horticulture and livestock component, the popular Scottish pipers bands that always attend, and also the many large out of town contingents that always normally participate ? This was not the famous grand street parade that patrons are accustomed to seeing, and did not represent the high standards and degree of professionalism set by all previous Grand Street Parades ? It became obvious that what was being advertised as a newer, bolder, more inclusive and more diverse parade was instead the exact opposite because this new version of our Grand Street Parade had lost the inclusion, diversity and the major contribution put forth by the absent Valley communities along with their individual Princess contestants and Child attendants that always come to Kentville to participate in the Queen Annapolisa competition, the Friday evening coronation gala at Acadia University in Wolfville, the many Princess Teas, and the Royal attendances at schools, hospitals, senior citizen homes and shut-ins, as well as appearances at the Friday night Memorial Park outdoor concert and fireworks, Royal attendances highlighting the Saturday morning Children's Parade, and a Royal trip down Main street Kentville aboard a beautiful hand crafted royal float in the famous Grand Street parade ?
And so, to quickly sum up, can a strange looking, incomplete, shortened, now Royal-less, newcomer mentality amateur version of our elite world-famous Kentville Grand Street Parade that was now missing her heinous Queen Annapolisa and also missing 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princesses and their individual 7 to 10 beautifully handcrafted Town Princess floats, and also missing much of the unique character and diversity usually provided by the numerous Valley villages and communities who were no longer included, and that also failed to include many of the large out of town marching bands and pipers and majorettes who usually attend, and that also lacked representation from local area farming, agriculture and livestock,, now signal the end of the once glorious Grand Street Parade era ?
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Some previous parades :
2011 Grand Street Parade Kentville 79th ABF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgh3Dh2xn8&t=208s
2012 Grand Street Parade Kentville www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1VBx50b18
2014 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo14IZKxp8&t=11s
2015 Kentville Grand Street Parade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBifeG2SdPY&t=47s
2016 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wedvN5_Iw&t=8s
2017 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozwyGpvfSY&t=1978s
2018 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOK1GmiLmNk&t=986s
2019 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdEx8Zf-q0&t=1492s
2023 Grand Street Parade - The exclusion of many usual participants and the denial of their valued diversity have marred the 2023 Grand Street Parade ? Many nearby Valley communities were missing in the Parade when longtime participants were no longer included ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view a complete (newcomer version) of the world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade press here www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
2025 Grand Street Parade May 31st- from 100,000 to 10,000 Parade attendance has shrunk to an all time low,
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54568017261/in/photost...
They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
A concerned Kentvillian must finally speak out, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874
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Logan Morse and a newcomer ABF Board of Directors break the hearts of Valley families especially the Children when moving to terminate the historic and long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant after 88 years ? Directors show no remorse, only saying that bold action was needed to improve, evolve and bring the pageant up to their modern standards ? www.pressreader.com/canada/annapolis-valley-register/2023...
May 26, 2023 - We Are the Ones. An unusual degree of disrespect shown when the long running all Valley Peoples Pageant is cancelled without either of consideration or consultation ? A modern generation of newcomer ABF Directors with bold new ideas have apparently proclaimed themselves to be the generation that will interrupt and then permanently end 88 years of wonderful multi Valley village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess enjoyment ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/apple-blossom-festival...
Annapolis Valley families are in shock and children cry upon learning their beloved Queen Annapolisa Pageant has been cancelled without notice, consultation, consideration or compassion ? Newcomer Directors say they are taking this bold action to improve, evolve and modernize the historic Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.saltwire.com/atlantic-
Valley residents lose a long time major public yearly entertainment event after the ever popular ABF Greenwood Airshow is terminated and will be no more. Fast forward to Aug 24, 2024, and corporate greed ? Air Show Atlantic Inc. now charges big bucks to see taxpayer owned aircraft at a taxpayer owned airport in a far inferior airshow ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52345513615
Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn and the Cornwallis Inn IS Kentville ! If you were to google the 2 words Cornwallis Inn you will get over 600,000 entries with almost all of them married to the word Kentville.. (what a great promotional tool) . The world famous Cornwallis Inn is the source of many fond memories for all local and Valley residents.. "It was the centre of everything’: The past and present of Kentville’s iconic Cornwallis Inn"
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/it-was-the-centre...
Kentville, an identity crisis. Help, Is there a Superhero out there to save Kentville from the newconers ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51811175986/in/album-7...
The controversial 2017 Grand Street Parade - Has Kentville once again been the target of exploitation ? After Warden Brothers, (Greenwood ) and Liberal MP L Glavine (Kingston) had all but hijacked Waterville Airport and then relocated it to their own home riding in the Kingston/Greenwood area, it seems that the town of Kentville must face yet another attack from the Kingston area when Alxys Chamberlain, the Kingston Apple Blossom Princess, and ABF Directors attempt to take yet another major source of revenue and major attraction away from the town of Kentville ?
Et tu, Madama Chamberlain ? The unconscionable attempted hijacking and subsequent recovery of Kentvilles's most beloved yearly event ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/18506181065
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade - Disregard for safety shown as unrestrained Senior citizens are precariously perched atop an unshaded, no sided, stop and go, large unstable jerking motion moving platform ?
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Exploiting a Queen for a photo op ? Politicians at the official opening of the 2023 Apple Blossom Festival pretend that there's still a Pageant while knowing full well that Queen Annapolisa has been terminated forever and will no longer be a part of this Festival ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53755100811/in/album-7...
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade ABF stewards defy Trudeau's call for diversity and inclusion ? Many nearby local Valley towns and villages that always normally attend are now excluded from the parade ? This exclusion also means an absence of the diversity provided from the attendance of these many local communities ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view the complete 2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade press here, www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
89th Kentville Grand Street Parade May 27th 2023,, It's the sad ending of an Era ? Organizers take away diversity when all Royal proceedings are removed from the festival, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52934419451
Facebook, Friends of Kentville - The site Administrator, a new arrival from PEI, says she wants to see Kentville as the queerest town in all of Nova Scotia ? www.facebook.com/groups/2588266877982288
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
Nov 16 2023 - Apple Blossom Princesses call for a return of Queen Annapolisa,
www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/communities/former-apple...
The Town of Kentville has moved to cut back and eliminate many hours of public outdoor entertainment that were held as a part of the Apple Blossom Festival ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52094784785
A medley of the guest Tribute bands that have performed at Memorial Park Kentville - Always free of charge in the past at the Apple Blossom Festival : Petty Larceny, Fleetwod Mix, Keep the Faith, Stones Tribute, Green River Revival, Viscious, Eddy's Basement, Matt Minglewood,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hqti9
Mean corporate greed is shown by the newcomer ABF directors in this years Apple Blossom Festival ? Instead of providing a free guest Tribute band at the free Memorial Park Friday night concert, it will now cost 50.00 pp to see the 'Queen tribute band' performance. that's 50.00 per ticket in 2025 ? acadiau.universitytickets.com/
A Scrooge-like cheap Town of Kentville rips off its own citizens (and right at Apple Blossom Festival time) ? Cold capitalism shown by the Town of Kentville and by the newcomer ABF management ? Citizens burdened with an out of pocket expense of TWENTY DOLLARS each just to attend an outdoor street dance held downtown on taxpayer owned property during Apple Blossom Festival ? Is there no sense of shame ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54546051832/in/photost...
She's Ruined It ! Our great Festival is no longer even recognizable ? How could anyone take a world class event and turn it into something that can only be described as stupid ? President Erica Gillis has to be the worst ever ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54493011308/in/dateposted
2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - A brief 45-minute and a very limited and compacted Kentville Grand Street Parade this year ? Zero large marching street bands and majorettes invited other than 1 mini version of the standard RCMP entrée, No Sottish pipers or pipe bands, zero in Royalty or their famous royal floats, Most of the regular nearby Valley village participants weren't here, Zero horses or wagons, No armaments, soldiers, bands or displays from the Aldershot military or Greenwood, etc etc, ? And yet the Guest parade announcer proclaims in quote @ 29:17, " this parade is the largest in Canada, incl Toronto - it's the longest with the largest route and has the most entries. " Wha-a-a-t, where did she come from and what is she talkin about ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuaIdrQi00
Mayor in Kentville Grand Street Parade - A new Royal rider rolls down Main Street aboard the Kentville Apple Blossom Princess float ? This year the newcomer Mayor graces the royal throne. 'Somebody get that king a crown and scepter '
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they've ruined it part 2 ? May 31st, 2025 Grand Street Parade - From 100,000 down to 10,000, Parade attendance shrinks to an all time low, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54568017261/in/photost.... Also see, They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
ABF Directors may disapprove and may have terminated the beloved Queen Annapolisa pageant and the multiple village Apple Blossom Princess competition but Valley residents will always admire, support, respect and remain fond of the British Monarchy. The majority of Valley citizens are delighted to hear that his Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla are invited and will be coming for a royal visit to Canada on May 26 and 27, 2025. This year's incomplete and now Royalty-less ABF starts on the 28th, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-canada-visit-1.7524946
The long proud history of past Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess winners has been removed from sight and erased from the official Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival website ? A special honorary history page dedicated to previous Queen Annapolisa winners from 1933 thru 2019 has been taken down and apparently replaced with jumbo size portraits of the newcomer President and other ABF directors who have taken over and ruined the world famous Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.appleblossom.com/history/past-queens
Meet the directors,
May 30th, 2025 - 20 dollar Hamburgers and Bouncycastles ? High level security enforcement for this years Memorial Park Friday night rock concert ? ( must have taken up most of the budget ) ? Town of Kentville brings in outside police, closes roads, and sets up manned traffic guard posts to provide tightened security for their Friday night Memorial Park Apple Blossom outdoor concert that in the past had always featured guest rock bands, interesting displays, and a Royal visit following the glamorous coronation ceremony in Wolfville, but has now been cut down to some kind of an outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, fireworks, air blown bouncy jumpers and minimal live local entertainment as the main stage event ? It has been reported that one parking violator was successfully apprehended thanks to the upgraded crowd control security and strict traffic control hired by the Board for this occasion ?
May 30th, 2025 Memorial Park Kentville - Seniors and those with disabilities are made to walk long distances in order to reach this year's disappointing ABF Friday night outdoor rock Concert that didn't bring in a rock band, (nor much of anything else) ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
Oct 4th, 2025 - 20 dollar Hamburgers and Bouncy castles - Kentville Harvest Festival Centre Square, A disappointing bare minimum harvest festival this year that forgot about horse drawn hayrides, pumpkin people scarecrow making, the local harvest and the local farmer ?https://www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54835089011/in/photostream/
Upgrade 2025 ? A large town expenditure is budgeted for a major cosmetic makeover to the Mayor's business backyard - Downtown Kentville Webster Street gets a complete and total beautification makeover with installations of brand new street paving and paint, new double wide sidewalks both sides, and new curb and gutter both sides ?
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Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630.
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Date: 02/01/2006 Time: 08:22 PM Visits: 17
The Grave Reminder
He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his Peace.
plutarch.
Most men speak when they do not know how to be silent,He is wise who knows when to hold his peace.Tie your tongue , lest it be wanton and luxuriate; keep it within the banks ; a rapidly flowing river soon collects mud.ambrose.
Silence in women is like speech in men , deny it who can, ben johnson
The unspoken word never does harm.kossuth
Silence is the ecstatic bliss of souls , that by intelligence converse. otway.
Silence is the understanding of fools and one of the virtues of thewise. boileau.
I do not know of those that therefore only are reputed wise , for saying nothing.shakespeare.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers og the gods.emerson
He who silent loves to be wth us , and who loves us in our silence has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.lavater.
And I love her silence .. silently silent..silently silence.. pin drop silence , perforated silence, pompous silence, pouted silence, peevish silence, pirouetted silence,pincushioned silence,pinfeatheredsilence,pilfered silence,pickpocketed silence,permissive silence,permeated silence,penitent silence,pantomimed silence,panached silence, panegyric silence, penurious silence,perceptive silence,perpetual silence,perplexed silence,possessive silence,postulated silence,predominating silence,preferential silence,premenstrual silence,preposterous silence,pretentious silence, preshrunk silence,pressurized silence,prismatic silence,priviliged silence,proliferative silence,prophylactic silence,pugnosed silence,pilferedsilence,pushovered silence,punctuated silence, protective silence,priviliged silence,prescribed silence,portholed silence,pointless silence,plastic silence,prophetic silence, prisoned silence.,punitive silence,prolongdsilence,pursued silence,purged silence,purposeless silence,psychotic silence,plaintive silence,
silenced by my prostrated ,,silence,
Buzzwords: silence
The rain came upon us and brought these faceless, shapeless, endless clouds which swallowed up the atmosphere and made our world end at the tops of our cars and radio towers. We became toys, busy, self-absorbed, purposeless toys sliding around on wet toy tracks, going places that don't really exist, with no higher purpose at all, because there was nothing above us but the paper-white lack of substance.
I-10 W, leaving El Paso on the way to Las Cruces, NM
from the docufiction Mermaids: The Body Found. aired in the Discovery Channel today, lol
I should read news with the same skepticism I analyze movies, literature, and fake documentaries, with the knowledge that fiction can be easily passed as fact if only the tone is set right. I know my Creative Writing B.A. was not totally purposeless (we English majors boast of those critical thinking skills honed in the literature classroom -_-), I should put said super powers to practical use!
I really don't know why people enjoy mind games... we get a thrill out of inventing things and trying to convince ourselves they are real... The oldest form of creative writing is Mythology, that is why there are still so many allusions to those folktales, passed down from generation to generation. We're still trying to hold those lies together, and we've told the same story so much, we don't know if it was created or witnessed.
+ today: Realizing, I'm still fascinated by literature! I need to read more!
Perhaps the “purpose” of pain is to alert us that we are not in our purpose, and that we are serving no purpose. We attempt to numb the pain with (drinking, drugging, clubbing, sexing, et al) in an effort to continue on that purposeless path, until either the pain becomes to great to numb, to great to bear, or forces us to change (redirecting us back towards our purpose). Perhaps God expects us to then use our stories and testimonies to rescue others from similar pains and injuries, and to give Him glory, thus giving our pain yet another purpose. Beauty from ashes...today!
#isaiah613 #james516 #positivity #thisismystorythisismysong #morningthoughts #loveoneanother #beauyfromashes #purposefrompain
Looking purposelessly out of the window, I saw a man disembarking a zeppelin from a van.
I didn't remember having ordered such cumbersome item, though.
When they attached a camera under it, I began to understand, see next picture.
I am here myself; as though this heave of effort
At starting other life, fulfilled my own;
Rose-leaves that whirl in colour round a core
Of seed-specks kindled lately and softly blown
By all the blood of the rose-bush into being -
Strange, that the urgent will in me, to set
My mouth on hers in kisses, and so softly
To bring together two strange sparks, beget
Another life from our lives, so should send
The innermost fire of my own dim soul out-spinning
And whirling in blossom of flame and being upon me!
That my completion of manhood should be the beginning
Another life from mine! For so it looks.
The seed is purpose, blossom accident.
The seed is all in all, the blossom lent
To crown the triumph of this new descent.
Is that it, woman? Does it strike you so?
The Great Breath blowing a tiny seed of fire
Fans out your petals for excess of flame,
Till all your being smokes with fine desire?
Or are we kindled, you and I, to be
One rose of wonderment upon the tree
Of perfect life, and is our possible seed
But the residuum of the ecstasy?
How will you have it? - the rose is all in all,
Or the ripe rose-fruits of the luscious fall?
The sharp begetting, or the child begot?
Our consummation matters, or does it not?
To me it seems the seed is just left over
From the red rose-flowers' fiery transience;
Just orts and slarts; berries that smoulder in the bush
Which burnt just now with marvellous immanence.
Blossom, my darling, blossom, be a rose
Of roses unchidden and purposeless; a rose
For rosiness only, without an ulterior motive;
For me it is more than enough if the flower unclose.
D. H. Lawrence
Logan Avenue, Winnipeg. The Bon Accord Block, no longer known as such, was once a multistorey building but a fire about 60 years ago resulted in the removal of all but the ground floor, which has long been home to Mitchell's Fabrics on Main Street. Around the corner on Logan, what was once the entrance to the upper floor suites now sits boarded up and purposeless.
Shot through this weird, previously purposeless rectangle cut into a wall of the top level on the Oak St SE parking ramp.
This reminds me scenes from Rollin or Franco's film where female vamps walk purposelessly around the garden.
“4me4you” visits Art First Gallery which featured work by Christopher Cook - a chance encounter on the way down..
Art First Gallery ..>The use of graphite powder in resin and oil suspension has been central to Cook’s practice for over fifteen years, its fleeting instability now mirrored in the current imagery. Where previously we have been taken to eerie motorway tunnels and theatre sets, we now have to work hard to identify cliff paths, skittering walkways, purposeless staircases and gnomic abstractions. Cook says that “the 'way down' is down a Ligurian hillside and also down to the unconscious”. The journey becomes a means of mapping the vagaries of the mind - pathways appear strewn with thornbush and it is possible to lose one’s footing. We sense the familiar but without roots or signifiers. Small, mysterious worlds within hidden cavities pull us in without explanation.
You have to have dreams. Little or big.
I've posted goals here, and they are more important to me than they have been in the past. They undergo continual modification:
geekbeer.com/Goals%20for%202013/
I think it's because I have less time: I must make the most of it.
Slogging through Project Euler (projecteuler.net) makes me realize several things.
That although I once may have been top of my class, that status is so far behind me that it is purposeless to consider.
That I actually enjoy programming.
That I wish there was some website like this for photography -- and not just for photography but for post-processing as well. Post in the modern age is 80% of the work, and I do not treat it as such.
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There are Friends and there are friends. I hate to categorize such things because they are all precious, but I find myself without Friends at the moment, aside of course from my magical Wife. It is the first such time that I can recall. I need to spend more time with Jake and Tom.
I see in those around me a constant desire to prove. I find that I simply want to enjoy, to learn, to laugh. Am I the best broom-sweeper? Who cares?
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There is a magic about parenthood that I cannot describe, but I miss it every time I am away from her. It is similar though not identical to the mysticism of the beginnings of love, except that it has yet to fade as that inevitably does. She is completely magical in ways I could not have imagined months ago.
I read that they are special because we do not remember the first years of our lives: They give those years back to us, vicariously.
She talks to us. Understands more than we realize. Wants more than we can give. Believes in us more than we do in ourselves. She trusts and laughs with inspiring enthusiasm. Even when I see her for a mere hour a day, she is a magic beyond my normal world.
May 2025 It's Grande Street Parade Month in Kentville,,
Pipers pass by the MTT (now Bell/Aliant) Telephone Office in the 2024 Kentville Grande Street Parade ;
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Bell Canada Union Busters - Apr 2004 - Bell Canada Toronto has turned its back on telecommunication telephone workers in Atlantic Canada and tried starving out 4300 striking telephone employees in a legal strike that has lasted 5 months while local Supervisors and scab labor try to cope ?
The marathon strike is finally over ? 4300 exhausted Bell Aliant employees from all 4 Maritime Provinces will finally return to work on Sept 16th 2004 after spending 5 months eating road dust on the picket line ?
www.itbusiness.ca/news/telco-union-ends-five-month-strike...
Bell Let's Talk ? Abandoning your telephone workers, refusing to talk to them, and leaving them out on the Street for 5 Months does not contribute to good mental health ? And, U Ottawa Scotty suggests that the internet, phones and the Social media are also all taking a heavy toll on the mental health and well being of today's society and so maybe there's some hypocrisy shown here by such a major profiteer of this phenomenon ? www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51844732131/in/album-7...
MONTRÉAL, Jan. 6, 2020 - the hatchet-man this way comes ? Bell welcomes Mirko Bibic as the new President and Chief Executive Officer, www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/bell-welcomes-mir...
Apr 12 2024 - Bell Canada’s 4,800 layoffs, largest in nearly 30 years, ‘feel like death by a thousand cuts,’ says Canadian Association of Journalists
www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/02/12/bell-medias-4800-jobs-...
Feb 2024 - Bell Canada cuts news in the East Coast - putting Maritimers in peril ? Cructal news coverage cut-backs targeting the Maritimes have created a local community safety hazard ? Bell Canada and CTV have deafened and blindfolded Maritimers after eliminating many hours of critical prime time local and community TV news programming in the Atlantic region ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53577394363/in/album-7...
Local news cuts at Bell come even after Bell was granted $40M in regulatory relief: montrealgazette.com/news/national/local-news-cuts-at-bell...
Feb 9th 2024 - Trudeau 'pissed off' by Bell Media's 'garbage decision' to lay off journalists ? On Thursday the media company — which owns CTV and BNN Bloomberg — announced 4,800 jobs "at all levels of the company" would be cut. Bell said it's the largest round of cuts in nearly 30 years. After announcing the job cuts Bell said it would push ahead with a more generous dividend payout to shareholders.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-bell-media-cuts-pissed-1...
Feb 11th 2024 - Las Vegas USA, - ( 'great Canadians eh' ) ,,
Bell and CTV live broadcast ten hours of American's Superbowl but ignore and refuse to show a minute of their own Countrie's Grey Cup ?
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Feb 11, 2025 - Bell Canada offering severance packages to 1,200 unionized employees'' www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-severance-packages-1.7456016
Aug 11 2025 - Bell CTV fills the full Maritime local news Noon hour with a non stop Trump news conference, but airs nothing on local Canadiana news or a critical Maritime forest fires update ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54714491205/in/dateposted
Aug 11, 2025 - there's no CTV local Maritime news at Noon today ? CTV runs a non stop Trump news conference from the USA , but does not update eagerly awaited news on the raging Maritime forest fires ?
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Logan Morse and a newcomer ABF Board of Directors break the hearts of Valley families especially the Children when they terminate the historic long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant after 88 years ? Directors show no remorse, only saying that bold action was needed to improve, evolve and modernize the pageant ? www.pressreader.com/canada/annapolis-valley-register/2023...
May 26, 2023 - We Are the Ones. An unusual degree of disrespect is shown when the long running beloved Valley Peoples Pageant is cancelled without consideration or consultation ? A modern generation of newcomer ABF Directors with new ideas have proclaimed themselves to be the generation that will interrupt and then end 88 years of wonderful multi Valley village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess history ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/apple-blossom-festival...
Annapolis Valley Families enter into shock and children cry upon learning that their beloved Queen Annapolisa Pageant has been cancelled without notice, consultation, respect, consideration or compassion ? Newcomer Directors say they are taking bold action to improve, evolve and modernize the historic Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.saltwire.com/atlantic-
Valley residents lose a long time major public yearly entertainment event after the ever popular ABF Greenwood Airshow is terminated and will be no more. Fast forward to Aug 24, 2024, and corporate greed ? Air Show Atlantic Inc. now charges big bucks to see taxpayer owned aircraft at a taxpayer owned airport in an inferior airshow ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52345513615
Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn and the Cornwallis Inn IS Kentville ! If you were to google the 2 words Cornwallis Inn you will get over 600,000 entries with almost all of them married to the word Kentville.. (what a great promotional tool) . The world famous Cornwallis Inn is the source of many fond memories for all local and Valley residents.. "It was the centre of everything’: The past and present of Kentville’s iconic Cornwallis Inn"
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/it-was-the-centre...
Kentville,, an identity crisis , help, Is there a Superhero to save Kentville ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51811175986/in/album-7...
The controversial 2017 Grand Street Parade - Has Kentville once again been the target of exploitation ? After Warden Brothers, (Greenwood ) and Liberal MP L Glavine (Kingston) had all but hijacked Waterville Airport and then relocated it to their own home riding in the Kingston/Greenwood area, it seems that the town of Kentville must face yet another attack from the Kingston area when Alxys Chamberlain, the Kingston Apple Blossom Princess, and ABF Directors attempt to take yet another major source of revenue and major attraction away from the town of Kentville ?
Et tu, Madama Chamberlain ? The unconscionable attempted hijacking and subsequent recovery of Kentvilles's most beloved yearly event ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/18506181065
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade - Disregard for safety shown as unrestrained Senior citizens are precariously perched atop an unshaded, no sided, stop and go, large unstable jerking motion moving platform ?
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Exploiting a Queen in a photo op ? Politicians at the official opening of the 2023 Apple Blossom Festival pretend that there's still a Pageant while knowing full well that Queen Annapolisa has been terminated forever and will no longer be a part of this Festival ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53755100811/in/album-7...
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade ABF stewards defy the Trudeau call for inclusion and diversity in Canada ? Many of the nearby local Valley towns and villages that always normally attend are now excluded from the parade ? This exclusion has contributed to the subsequent denial of the highly valued diversity brought with them ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view the complete 2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade press here, www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
89th Kentville Grand Street Parade May 27th 2023,, It's the sad ending of an Era ? Organizers take away diversity and create exclusion when all Royal proceedings are removed from the festival, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52934419451
Facebook, Friends of Kentville - The site Administrator, a new arrival from PEI, says she wants to see Kentville as the queerest town in all of Nova Scotia ? www.facebook.com/groups/2588266877982288
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
Nov 16 2023 - Apple Blossom Princesses call for a return of Queen Annapolisa,
www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/communities/former-apple...
The Town of Kentville has moved to cut back and terminate more hours of public long time outdoor entertainment ? The citizens of Kentville are to be once again punished by Town cost saving cut backs and cancellations to numerous days public entertainment that are always held at Memorial Park as an important part of Apple Blossom Festival celebrations ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52094784785
A medley of guest Tribute bands that have performed at Memorial Park Kentville - Always free of charge in the past at the Apple Blossom Festival : Petty Larceny, Fleetwod Mix, Keep the Faith, Stones Tribute, Green River Revival, Viscious, Eddy's Basement, Matt Minglewood,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hqti9
Mean and stingy corporate greed is shown by the newcomer ABF directors in this years Apple Blossom Festival ? Instead of providing a free guest Tribute band at the free Memorial Park Friday night concert, it's now going to cost you 50.00 pp to see the 'Queen' Tribute band performance. that's 50.00 per ticket in 2025 ? acadiau.universitytickets.com/
Scrooge and the Town of Kentville rip off its own citizens (and right at Apple Blossom Festival time) ? A cold capitalist attitude is shown by the Town of Kentville and by the newcomer ABF management ? Citizens are to be burdened with an out of pocket charge of TWENTY DOLLARS each just to attend an outdoor dance held downtown on taxpayer owned public streets of Kentville during the Apple Blossom Festival ? Is there no sense of shame left anymore ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54546051832/in/photost...
She's Ruined It ! Our great Festival is no longer even recognizable ? How could anyone take a world class event and turn it into something that can only be described as stupid ? President Erica Gillis has to be the worst ever ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54493011308/in/dateposted
2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - A brief 45-minute and a very limited and compacted Kentville Grand Street Parade this year ? Zero large marching street bands and majorettes invited other than 1 mini version of the standard RCMP entrée, No Sottish pipers or pipe bands, zero in Royalty or their famous royal floats, Most of the regular nearby Valley village participants weren't here, Zero horses or wagons, No armaments, soldiers, bands or displays from the Aldershot military or Greenwood, etc etc, ? And yet the Guest parade announcer proclaims in her, quote @ 29:17, " this parade is the largest in Canada, incl Toronto - it's the longest with the largest route and has the most entries. " Wha-a-a-t, where did she come from and what is she talkin about ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuaIdrQi00
2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - A new Royal rider rolls down Main Street aboard the Kentville Apple Blossom Princess float ? This year the newcomer Mayor will grace the royal throne,, 'Somebody get that king a crown and scepter '
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they've ruined it part 2 ? May 31st, 2025 Grand Street Parade - From 100,000 down to 10,000, Parade attendance shrinks to an all time low, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54568017261/in/photost.... Also see, They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
ABF Directors may disapprove and may have terminated the beloved Queen Annapolisa pageant and the multiple village Apple Blossom Princess competition but Valley residents will always admire, support, respect and remain fond of the British Monarchy. The majority of Valley citizens are delighted to hear that his Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla are invited and will be coming for a royal visit to Canada on May 26 and 27, 2025. This year's incomplete and now Royalty-less ABF starts on the 28th, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-canada-visit-1.7524946
The long proud history of past Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess winners has been removed from sight and erased from the official Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival website ? A special honorary history page dedicated to previous Queen Annapolisa winners from 1933 thru 2019 has been taken down and apparently replaced with jumbo size portraits of the newcomer President and other ABF directors who have taken over and ruined the world famous Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.appleblossom.com/history/past-queens
Meet the directors,
May 30th, 2025 - High level security enforcement for this years Memorial Park Friday night rock concert ? ( must have taken up most of the budget ) ? Town of Kentville brings in outside police, closes roads, and sets up manned traffic guard posts to provide tightened security for their Friday night Memorial Park Apple Blossom outdoor concert that in the past had always featured guest rock bands, interesting displays, and a Royal visit following a prestigious coronation ceremony in Wolfville, but is now severely cut back to some kind of an outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, fireworks, air blown up jumpers and some minimal live local entertainment as their main stage event ? Reports that one parking violator was successfully apprehended thanks to the upgraded crowd control security and strict traffic control hired for this event ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569
May 30th, 2025 Memorial Park Kentville - Seniors and those with disabilities are made to walk long distances in order to reach this year's disappointing ABF Friday night outdoor rock Concert that didn't bring in a rock band, (nor much of anything else) ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
.Upgrade 2025 ? There's been a large town expenditure budgeted for a major cosmetic upgrade to the Mayor's business backyard - Downtown Kentville Webster Street gets a total makeover with new installations of street paving and decal paint, new sidewalks both sides, and new curb and gutter ?
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On the recent 2023 edition of the Grand Street Parade :
"it looked as if some spectators along the route just joined in and began to walk along and make themselves a part of the parade ? "
May 27th, 2023 - Dismay, disillusion and some extreme disappointment prevail in Kentville over shocking changes and many missing regular entrees in this years 2023 Grand Street Parade ? Where is our famous Queen Annapolisa and where are the many Apple Blossom Princesses and their child attendants riding in their beautiful hand crafted decorated floats ? Where's the town criers ? And what about the dazzling majorette groups, the Scottish pipers and large multi instrumental marching bands that always attend ? And where are the Hantsport and Windsor floats and their large delegations ? And where are Digby, Aylesford, Annapolis Royal, Canning, Middleton, Wolfville, and more ? Why are so many of the Valley towns and villages that normally participate not included in the parade this year ? It was also a major disappointment for many when for the first time ever, Kentville Apple Blossom Princess (aka Miss Kentville) was no longer included as there are many town residents young and old who identify with the Apple Blossom Princess at this time of year ? However, the now purposeless Apple Blossom Princess float was used this year to transport a grouping of everyday town residents as they sat around together in a social scene meant to identity Kentville with diversity and inclusion ? The New Minas float also did not include an Apple Blossom Princess for this year, however her float was transformed into an advertisement for the famous New Minas UFO incident which all New Minions identify with. The Berwick float didn't include a Princess Berwick this year either. but was altered to proudly identify with the town's upcoming Centennial celebrations. And the Kingston float was also missing an Apple Blossom Princess this year but was instead promoting their long running Kingston Steer Barbecue that all Kingstonians readily identify with. It was good to see an RCMP contingent again although they sent far less officers this year than usual ? And it was notable that only 1 other large marching band appeared in the parade when usually 4 or more big bands, many with many pipers usually attend after traveling up from places like Cape Breton, Bridgewater, Dartmouth etc ? And where have all the pets and animals gone ? There's no horse teams, wooden wagons, riders or livestock this year ? Even the usual greyhound dogs weren't there ? Also noticed that some spectators must have just joined in and began walking along within the parade, and others must have come over from the Children's parade with their strollers to join in ? There was a variety of advertisers, most from out of town but some local ? There were various Political parties represented, with the largest delegation coming from the Kody Blois Liberals ? All in all, this Year's parade seemed a bare minimum and a weak effort that really missed the inclusion of royal pageantry and the 7 to 10 spectacular Princess floats, and also missed the large marching bands and majorette groups that usually enter, the usual agriculture horticulture and livestock component, the popular Scottish pipers bands that always attend, and also the many large out of town contingents that always normally participate ? This was not the famous grand street parade that patrons are accustomed to seeing, and did not represent the high standards and degree of professionalism set by all previous Grand Street Parades ? It became obvious that what was being advertised as a newer, bolder, more inclusive and more diverse parade was instead the exact opposite because this new version of our Grand Street Parade had lost the inclusion, diversity and the major contribution put forth by the absent Valley communities along with their individual Princess contestants and Child attendants that always come to Kentville to participate in the Queen Annapolisa competition, the Friday evening coronation gala at Acadia University in Wolfville, the many Princess Teas, and the Royal attendances at schools, hospitals, senior citizen homes and shut-ins, as well as appearances at the Friday night Memorial Park outdoor concert and fireworks, Royal attendances highlighting the Saturday morning Children's Parade, and a Royal trip down Main street Kentville aboard a beautiful hand crafted royal float in the famous Grand Street parade ?
And so, to quickly sum up, can a strange looking, incomplete, shortened, now Royal-less, newcomer mentality amateur version of our elite world-famous Kentville Grand Street Parade that was now missing her heinous Queen Annapolisa and also missing 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princesses and their individual 7 to 10 beautifully handcrafted Town Princess floats, and also missing much of the unique character and diversity usually provided by the numerous Valley villages and communities who were no longer included, and that also failed to include many of the large out of town marching bands and pipers and majorettes who usually attend, and that also lacked representation from local area farming, agriculture and livestock,, now signal the end of the once glorious Grand Street Parade era ?
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Some past Grand Street parades :
2011 Grand Street Parade Kentville 79th ABF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgh3Dh2xn8&t=208s
2012 Grand Street Parade Kentville www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1VBx50b18
2014 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo14IZKxp8&t=11s
2015 Kentville Grand Street Parade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBifeG2SdPY&t=47s
2016 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wedvN5_Iw&t=8s
2017 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozwyGpvfSY&t=1978s
2018 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOK1GmiLmNk&t=986s
2019 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdEx8Zf-q0&t=1492s
2023 Grand Street Parade - To view a complete (newcomer version) of the world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade press here www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
A concerned Kentvillian must finally speak out, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874
Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630.
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"The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen. . . . You must learn to wait properly . . . letting go of yourself . . . "
from Zen in the Art of Archery
Taken for The "I Have to Shoot What?!" 52-Week Challenge - Week 12: "Leading Lines"
Feels like
I have known you
From somewhere before-
When the earth was young,
And faith was not pretending
On one God.
And it was then that I would sit by your side
Watch the wind pass idly by,
This serenity painted death
Would be the death
Of time and reason.
So this was how we made
Love, out of our own image
Embraced, caressed, cared
While the heavens wept
Because of their purposeless
Existence.
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I told her: "You didn't know it, but you were with me at the temple Sunday morning. I had been awake all night, had a rather disappointing burn night, and was unable to sleep due to the ephedra I'd taken. I decided to walk out to the temple since I had not seen it since the dedication and it was the last sunrise of its existence. I was nearly dead on my feet but I shuffled out there just the same with my two cameras. I picked a spot on the third tier to sit and climbed up, feeling drained and just emotionally dead and purposeless. I watched people mulling about but I was completely disconnected from it. Something in front of me caught my eye, this fluorescent piece of paper in a plastic sheet holder tied around the turning about 4 inches from my legs. I almost dismissed it, but something made me read it. Imagine my joy when I recognized your essay, and my atention widened and I saw your gifts from last year tied to the turnings. Of all the places I could have sat that morning, I sat right in front of the things you left at the temple. I can't even describe how hopeful that made me feel. "
I was just quickly browsing through my old folders & found this super simple snapshot that I've obviously taken during one of my purposeless walks around town. I decided I actually really liked it, so here we go!
“4me4you” visits Art First Gallery which featured work by Christopher Cook - a chance encounter on the way down..
Art First Gallery ..>The use of graphite powder in resin and oil suspension has been central to Cook’s practice for over fifteen years, its fleeting instability now mirrored in the current imagery. Where previously we have been taken to eerie motorway tunnels and theatre sets, we now have to work hard to identify cliff paths, skittering walkways, purposeless staircases and gnomic abstractions. Cook says that “the 'way down' is down a Ligurian hillside and also down to the unconscious”. The journey becomes a means of mapping the vagaries of the mind - pathways appear strewn with thornbush and it is possible to lose one’s footing. We sense the familiar but without roots or signifiers. Small, mysterious worlds within hidden cavities pull us in without explanation.
“4me4you” visits Art First Gallery which featured work by Christopher Cook - a chance encounter on the way down..
Art First Gallery ..>The use of graphite powder in resin and oil suspension has been central to Cook’s practice for over fifteen years, its fleeting instability now mirrored in the current imagery. Where previously we have been taken to eerie motorway tunnels and theatre sets, we now have to work hard to identify cliff paths, skittering walkways, purposeless staircases and gnomic abstractions. Cook says that “the 'way down' is down a Ligurian hillside and also down to the unconscious”. The journey becomes a means of mapping the vagaries of the mind - pathways appear strewn with thornbush and it is possible to lose one’s footing. We sense the familiar but without roots or signifiers. Small, mysterious worlds within hidden cavities pull us in without explanation.
"Illgill Head is known to most visitors to Lakeland as Wastwater Screes, although the latter title is strictly appropriate only to the stone strewn flank that falls so spectacularly into the depths of Wast Water. Much of this north-western slope, however, is bracken covered and grassy, the screes descending only from the actual summit and its southerly continuation to Whin Rigg. It is here that the fellside from top to bottom, down even to the floor of the lake 250' below the surface, is piled deep with stones lying at their maximum angle of rest, 35-40 degrees, through a vertical height of almost 2000'. The top of the fell is a smooth sheepwalk; these many acres of loose and shifting debris must therefore have resulted from the disintegration of crags that, ages ago, rimmed the top of the fell: some rocks remain still in a state of dangerous decay. The screes, when seen in the light of an evening sun, make a picture of remarkable colour and brilliance: a scene unique in this country.
The opposite flank, descending to Burnmoor and the shy little valley of Miterdale, in patches of heather and bracken, has, in contrast, nothing of interest to show.
The Summit
There is nothing at all about the actual summit to give a hint of its dramatic situation almost on the lip of the tremendous plunge to Wastwater. All is grass - dry springy turf, that, on a hot day, cries aloud for a siesta; but heavy sleepers should not so position themselves that they can slide down the gradual decline to the rim of the cliffs, 35 yards from the cairn. This remarkable point of vantage, high above the lake, should be visited nonetheless: if it is omitted the whole ascent becomes purposeless."
- Alfred Wainwright
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The long running Queen Anapolisa Coronation Gala at Acadia University U Hall Wolfville N.S. has been terminated - There's been a stunning announcement in 2023 . A new generation of ABF Board of Directors has moved to end the long running 88 year old Queen Anapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant thus ending the prestigious official Friday evening crowning ceremonies and the Royal Party visit to Memorial Park in Kentville for the outdoor stage show and lightiing of the fireworks ?
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Following a 2 year absence due to Covi,, the 2022 Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival. (and Parade) will be held as per usual this year.. Unfortunately the Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess competition has had to be postponed until next year due to time constraints.
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Shocking news from ABF,
* There's been a stunning development at ABF. *
Apparently in a new younger generation there are those who harbor resentment towards our nations history, for English colonialism, and even for the Monarchy ? Other minority groups have voiced discontent over the diversity and inclusion issue ? And so it seems that the current ABF Board of Directors has listened to the concerns and complaints of a few small minority groups while apparently ignoring and excluding the overwhelming majority of Valley residents ? And it appears that this current Board of Directors chose to resolve such discontent by simply moving to implement and execute the nuclear option and the final solution ? And therefore after a highly successful lengthy run of 87 consecutive years in a row, the extremely anticipated, very popular, family oriented, inclusive and diverse, multi village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant along with the prestigious Royal Coronation crowning ceremonies held in Wolfville have all been terminated forever by this current board of Directors ?
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival 2023 - ABF Board of Directors has announced drastic new changes in format and even deeper cut-backs to the annual People's Festival ? Concerns over ceremony, symbolism, the monarchy and colonialism, along with some complaints over inclusion and diversity may have had an influence on the current ABF board of Directors and they have seen a need to update the long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess pageant in order to bring it up to a standard they view as being more relevant to the current times ? And so the Directors must have held an extremely private 'think tank' last Winter, and without notifying, caring, considering or consulting with any of the long time participating Valley communities, they had decided that rather than trouble themselves any further with this pesky issue, why not just take the easy way out and simply get rid of it ? And so it seems they made a final decision in private last Winter and moved to execute the final and fatal solution to their problem by ordering that the iconic 87 year old Pageant competition be immediately shut down and terminated forever ? And therefore, as a result of an uninclusive and uncontested decision made in private, one of the longest running, popular, identifiable, well known, highly anticipated, most inclusive and diverse, proud all family events that has ever benefited Valley residents of every age, has just been taken away ?
This unconditional act of finality will now end the long running 88 year reign of her royal Heinous Queen Annapolisa and will terminate all participation of the 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princess contestants and their child attendants that represent 7 to 10 local Valley communities ? It will also mean the end of the many beautiful hand crafted award winning Princess floats that always highlight Grand Street Parade, and it will also signal the end of the ultra glamorous Queen and Ladies-in-waiting Crowning ceremonies held annually and televised each year from Acadia University in Wolfville ? This also puts an end to the many popular community Princess Tea events, and also ends all Royal Party visitations to local Schools, hospitals and old folks homes that are so welcome and appreciated by Students, Seniors and shut-ins ? This also signals the end of Royal Party appearances at Kentville Children's Parade, at the Memorial Park Friday night open air concert and fireworks, and all Royal attendances at many other events held annually throughout the Valley and the Province ?
It appears now that current ABF Officials led by President Logan Morse along with Kentville town rep Lindsey Young have not only interrupted the Pageant in 2022 when they temporarily postponed it, but have now in 2023 moved to terminate this prestigious event forever explaining that their radical decision has been made to improve, include, modernize and evolve the famed beauty pageant ? This final act of termination ends almost 90 years of royal pageantry and also leaves a huge gap in the Festival itself ? It will also negatively affect so many of the nearby Valley communities who always participate and enter contestants in the Pageant ? The ending of such an important multiple community event and the taking away of the better half and Star of the Apple Blossom Festival brings forth the question of what replacement is planned, and what are local towns and villages that always play major roles in both the Queen and Princess competition suppose to do now ? And what about Valley youth and the childhood dreams of one day becoming a child attendant or an Apple Blossom Princess or even a Queen ?
You have to marvel at the level of ego and disrespect shown by this latest Board of Directors who have dared appoint themselves as the ones that will end the Pageant and then to think that Valley residents are stupid enough to believe that by cancelling and taking away a cherished and long running event, that they have in some perverted way of thinking moved the Valley forward or improved and modernized anything ? It seems far more likely that they have taken the Valley on a giant step backwards and they have robbed the people of a much beloved, long running, multi community, all inclusive, local production that has always been a highly anticipated all Valley highlight for the past almost 90 consecutive years ?
Why current ABF Management who have applied themselves to be the stewards who are in charge and responsible for the promotion and presentation of this event, appear as unable to perform their duties and do the job they are compensated to do and do what their predecessors have always done so well before them each and every year for the past 87 years often in far more trying circumstances and in far less prosperous times, is hard to understand ? And you have to wonder, Whatever happened to the # 1 rule in business that says that if you can't do the job because of inexperience, immaturity, inability, incompetency, bias, or just plain stupidity, then,, You're all FIRED ! (and a Class action recovery suit may be forthcoming ?)
Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn, and the Cornwallis Inn IS
Logan Morse and a newcomer ABF Board of Directors break the hearts of Valley families especially the Children when they terminate the historic long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant after 88 years ? Directors show no remorse, only saying that bold action was needed to improve, evolve and modernize the pageant ? www.pressreader.com/canada/annapolis-valley-register/2023...
May 26, 2023 - We Are the Ones. An unusual degree of disrespect is shown when the long running beloved Valley Peoples Pageant is cancelled without consideration or consultation ? A modern generation of newcomer ABF Directors with new ideas have proclaimed themselves to be the generation that will interrupt and then end 88 years of wonderful multi Valley village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess history ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/apple-blossom-festival...
Annapolis Valley Families enter into shock and children cry upon learning that their beloved Queen Annapolisa Pageant has been cancelled without notice, consultation, respect, consideration or compassion ? Newcomer Directors say they are taking bold action to improve, evolve and modernize the historic Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.saltwire.com/atlantic-
Valley residents lose a long time major public yearly entertainment event after the ever popular ABF Greenwood Airshow is terminated and will be no more. Fast forward to Aug 24, 2024, and corporate greed ? Air Show Atlantic Inc. now charges big bucks to see taxpayer owned aircraft at a taxpayer owned airport in an inferior airshow ?
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Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn and the Cornwallis Inn IS Kentville ! If you were to google the 2 words Cornwallis Inn you will get over 600,000 entries with almost all of them married to the word Kentville.. (what a great promotional tool) . The world famous Cornwallis Inn is the source of many fond memories for all local and Valley residents.. "It was the centre of everything’: The past and present of Kentville’s iconic Cornwallis Inn"
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/it-was-the-centre...
Kentville,, an identity crisis , help, Is there a Superhero to save Kentville ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51811175986/in/album-7...
The controversial 2017 Grand Street Parade - Has Kentville once again been the target of exploitation ? After Warden Brothers, (Greenwood ) and Liberal MP L Glavine (Kingston) had all but hijacked Waterville Airport and then relocated it to their own home riding in the Kingston/Greenwood area, it seems that the town of Kentville must face yet another attack from the Kingston area when Alxys Chamberlain, the Kingston Apple Blossom Princess, and ABF Directors attempt to take yet another major source of revenue and major attraction away from the town of Kentville ?
Et tu, Madama Chamberlain ? The unconscionable attempted hijacking and subsequent recovery of Kentvilles's most beloved yearly event ?
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2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade - Disregard for safety shown as unrestrained Senior citizens are precariously perched atop an unshaded, no sided, stop and go, large unstable jerking motion moving platform ?
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Exploiting a Queen in a photo op ? Politicians at the official opening of the 2023 Apple Blossom Festival pretend that there's still a Pageant while knowing full well that Queen Annapolisa has been terminated forever and will no longer be a part of this Festival ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53755100811/in/album-7...
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade ABF stewards defy the Trudeau call for inclusion and diversity in Canada ? Many of the nearby local Valley towns and villages that always normally attend are now excluded from the parade ? This exclusion has contributed to the subsequent denial of the highly valued diversity brought with them ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view the complete 2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade press here, www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
89th Kentville Grand Street Parade May 27th 2023,, It's the sad ending of an Era ? Organizers take away diversity and create exclusion when all Royal proceedings are removed from the festival, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52934419451
Facebook, Friends of Kentville - The site Administrator, a new arrival from PEI, says she wants to see Kentville as the queerest town in all of Nova Scotia ? www.facebook.com/groups/2588266877982288
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
Nov 16 2023 - Apple Blossom Princesses call for a return of Queen Annapolisa,
www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/communities/former-apple...
The Town of Kentville has moved to cut back and terminate more hours of public long time outdoor entertainment ? The citizens of Kentville are to be once again punished by Town cost saving cut backs and cancellations to numerous days public entertainment that are always held at Memorial Park as an important part of Apple Blossom Festival celebrations ?
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A medley of guest Tribute bands that have performed at Memorial Park Kentville - Always free of charge in the past at the Apple Blossom Festival : Petty Larceny, Fleetwod Mix, Keep the Faith, Stones Tribute, Green River Revival, Viscious, Eddy's Basement, Matt Minglewood,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hqti9
Mean and stingy corporate greed is shown by the newcomer ABF directors in this years Apple Blossom Festival ? Instead of providing a free guest Tribute band at the free Memorial Park Friday night concert, it's now going to cost you 50.00 pp to see the 'Queen' Tribute band performance. that's 50.00 per ticket in 2025 ? acadiau.universitytickets.com/
Scrooge and the Town of Kentville rip off its own citizens (and right at Apple Blossom Festival time) ? A cold capitalist attitude is shown by the Town of Kentville and by the newcomer ABF management ? Citizens are to be burdened with an out of pocket charge of TWENTY DOLLARS each just to attend an outdoor dance held downtown on taxpayer owned public streets of Kentville during the Apple Blossom Festival ? Is there no sense of shame left anymore ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54546051832/in/photost...
She's Ruined It ! Our great Festival is no longer even recognizable ? How could anyone take a world class event and turn it into something that can only be described as stupid ? President Erica Gillis has to be the worst ever ?
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2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - A brief 45-minute and a very limited and compacted Kentville Grand Street Parade this year ? Zero large marching street bands and majorettes invited other than 1 mini version of the standard RCMP entrée, No Sottish pipers or pipe bands, zero in Royalty or their famous royal floats, Most of the regular nearby Valley village participants weren't here, Zero horses or wagons, No armaments, soldiers, bands or displays from the Aldershot military or Greenwood, etc etc, ? And yet the Guest parade announcer proclaims in her, quote @ 29:17, " this parade is the largest in Canada, incl Toronto - it's the longest with the largest route and has the most entries. " Wha-a-a-t, where did she come from and what is she talkin about ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuaIdrQi00
2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - A new Royal rider rolls down Main Street aboard the Kentville Apple Blossom Princess float ? This year the newcomer Mayor will grace the royal throne,, 'Somebody get that king a crown and scepter '
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they've ruined it part 2 ? May 31st, 2025 Grand Street Parade - From 100,000 down to 10,000, Parade attendance shrinks to an all time low, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54568017261/in/photost.... Also see, They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
ABF Directors may disapprove and may have terminated the beloved Queen Annapolisa pageant and the multiple village Apple Blossom Princess competition but Valley residents will always admire, support, respect and remain fond of the British Monarchy. The majority of Valley citizens are delighted to hear that his Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla are invited and will be coming for a royal visit to Canada on May 26 and 27, 2025. This year's incomplete and now Royalty-less ABF starts on the 28th, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-canada-visit-1.7524946
The long proud history of past Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess winners has been removed from sight and erased from the official Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival website ? A special honorary history page dedicated to previous Queen Annapolisa winners from 1933 thru 2019 has been taken down and apparently replaced with jumbo size portraits of the newcomer President and other ABF directors who have taken over and ruined the world famous Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.appleblossom.com/history/past-queens
Meet the directors,
May 30th, 2025 - High level security enforcement for this years Memorial Park Friday night rock concert ? ( must have taken up most of the budget ) ? Town of Kentville brings in outside police, closes roads, and sets up manned traffic guard posts to provide tightened security for their Friday night Memorial Park Apple Blossom outdoor concert that in the past had always featured guest rock bands, interesting displays, and a Royal visit following a prestigious coronation ceremony in Wolfville, but is now severely cut back to some kind of an outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, fireworks, air blown up jumpers and some minimal live local entertainment as their main stage event ? Reports that one parking violator was successfully apprehended thanks to the upgraded crowd control security and strict traffic control hired for this event ?
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May 30th, 2025 Memorial Park Kentville - Seniors and those with disabilities are made to walk long distances in order to reach this year's disappointing ABF Friday night outdoor rock Concert that didn't bring in a rock band, (nor much of anything else) ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
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On the recent 2023 edition of the Grand Street Parade :
"it looked as if some spectators along the route just joined in and began to walk along and make themselves a part of the parade ? "
May 27th, 2023 - Dismay, disillusion and some extreme disappointment prevail in Kentville over shocking changes and many missing regular entrees in this years 2023 Grand Street Parade ? Where is our famous Queen Annapolisa and where are the many Apple Blossom Princesses and their child attendants riding in their beautiful hand crafted decorated floats ? Where's the town criers ? And what about the dazzling majorette groups, the Scottish pipers and large multi instrumental marching bands that always attend ? And where are the Hantsport and Windsor floats and their large delegations ? And where are Digby, Aylesford, Annapolis Royal, Canning, Middleton, Wolfville, and more ? Why are so many of the Valley towns and villages that normally participate not included in the parade this year ? It was also a major disappointment for many when for the first time ever, Kentville Apple Blossom Princess (aka Miss Kentville) was no longer included as there are many town residents young and old who identify with the Apple Blossom Princess at this time of year ? However, the now purposeless Apple Blossom Princess float was used this year to transport a grouping of everyday town residents as they sat around together in a social scene meant to identity Kentville with diversity and inclusion ? The New Minas float also did not include an Apple Blossom Princess for this year, however her float was transformed into an advertisement for the famous New Minas UFO incident which all New Minions identify with. The Berwick float didn't include a Princess Berwick this year either. but was altered to proudly identify with the town's upcoming Centennial celebrations. And the Kingston float was also missing an Apple Blossom Princess this year but was instead promoting their long running Kingston Steer Barbecue that all Kingstonians readily identify with. It was good to see an RCMP contingent again although they sent far less officers this year than usual ? And it was notable that only 1 other large marching band appeared in the parade when usually 4 or more big bands, many with many pipers usually attend after traveling up from places like Cape Breton, Bridgewater, Dartmouth etc ? And where have all the pets and animals gone ? There's no horse teams, wooden wagons, riders or livestock this year ? Even the usual greyhound dogs weren't there ? Also noticed that some spectators must have just joined in and began walking along within the parade, and others must have come over from the Children's parade with their strollers to join in ? There was a variety of advertisers, most from out of town but some local ? There were various Political parties represented, with the largest delegation coming from the Kody Blois Liberals ? All in all, this Year's parade seemed a bare minimum and a weak effort that really missed the inclusion of royal pageantry and the 7 to 10 spectacular Princess floats, and also missed the large marching bands and majorette groups that usually enter, the usual agriculture horticulture and livestock component, the popular Scottish pipers bands that always attend, and also the many large out of town contingents that always normally participate ? This was not the famous grand street parade that patrons are accustomed to seeing, and did not represent the high standards and degree of professionalism set by all previous Grand Street Parades ? It became obvious that what was being advertised as a newer, bolder, more inclusive and more diverse parade was instead the exact opposite because this new version of our Grand Street Parade had lost the inclusion, diversity and the major contribution put forth by the absent Valley communities along with their individual Princess contestants and Child attendants that always come to Kentville to participate in the Queen Annapolisa competition, the Friday evening coronation gala at Acadia University in Wolfville, the many Princess Teas, and the Royal attendances at schools, hospitals, senior citizen homes and shut-ins, as well as appearances at the Friday night Memorial Park outdoor concert and fireworks, Royal attendances highlighting the Saturday morning Children's Parade, and a Royal trip down Main street Kentville aboard a beautiful hand crafted royal float in the famous Grand Street parade ?
And so, to quickly sum up, can a strange looking, incomplete, shortened, now Royal-less, newcomer mentality amateur version of our elite world-famous Kentville Grand Street Parade that was now missing her heinous Queen Annapolisa and also missing 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princesses and their individual 7 to 10 beautifully handcrafted Town Princess floats, and also missing much of the unique character and diversity usually provided by the numerous Valley villages and communities who were no longer included, and that also failed to include many of the large out of town marching bands and pipers and majorettes who usually attend, and that also lacked representation from local area farming, agriculture and livestock,, now signal the end of the once glorious Grand Street Parade era ?
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Some previous parades :
2011 Grand Street Parade Kentville 79th ABF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgh3Dh2xn8&t=208s
2012 Grand Street Parade Kentville www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1VBx50b18
2014 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo14IZKxp8&t=11s
2015 Kentville Grand Street Parade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBifeG2SdPY&t=47s
2016 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wedvN5_Iw&t=8s
2017 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozwyGpvfSY&t=1978s
2018 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOK1GmiLmNk&t=986s
2019 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdEx8Zf-q0&t=1492s
2025 Grand Street Parade - To view a complete (newcomer version) of the world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade press here www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
A concerned Kentvillian must finally speak out, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874
Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630.
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Sai Baba On KNOW WHY YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN YOUR..
It is said sometimes less is more!
A specific word of Swami can convey a message that resonates for a lifetime.
A single word of Swami has the power to transform a life. A small word i.e. "Go" from Swami's mouth at Darshan time brings joy, elation and expectations. Divine words appeal to our mind, demand transformation, charge our "batteries" and bring comfort & solace into our life. However, transformation can only happen if we pay attention and use this body given by God for a higher purpose. In 1977 Swami gave small clues to why we have been given Life, vision & eyes, legs, hands, intelligence, mouth, Ears and human body. Swami gives small but true definitions and we at `Sathwic food' have collected them on a single small webpage for as they say Less is more.
KNOW WHY YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN YOUR...
1. Life
2. VISION & EYES
3. LEGS
4. HANDS
5. INTELLIGENCE
6. MOUTH
7. EARS
8. HUMAN BODY
www.freewebs.com/sathwicfood/sai_baba_on_why_you_have_bee...
LIFE: It is not for searching for food all through and eke out a livelihood but it is to enable you to search and search God. (S.R.B.M.- p.17- Sai Baba)
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VISION & EYES:
It is for seeing everything that is around you? No, certainly not. It has been given to you to help you to see the Supreme One, the omnipotent Divinity.
(S.R.B.M.- p.27- Sai Baba)
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LEGS:
Are theses legs given to you to go round all the streets and the narrow lanes in a purposeless manner? No, they have been given to you so that you may visit the temple of God. (S.R.B.M.- p.36- Sai Baba)
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HANDS:
They have not been given so that you may continually feed your mouth with these hands. They have have been given to you so that you may perform Puja ( worship) with flowers to the Lord. (S.R.B.M.- p.46- Sai Baba)
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INTELLIGENCE:
It is not to be used for the purpose of accumulating wealth. Intelligence has been given to you so that you may realize that all that you see around is temporary and transient phenomenon. (S.R.B.M.-p 54- Sai Baba)
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MOUTH:
Is it to utter all kinds of words? No, it has been given to you so that you might sing the glory of the Lord. (S.R.B.M.-p 61 - Sai Baba)
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EARS: Is it for hearing all the sounds that are uttered near you? No, the ears have been given to you so that you may listen to songs relating to the glory of God. (S.R.B.M.-p 68- Sai Baba)
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HUMAN BODY:
Is it to take to all corners of the world? No. that is not the purpose. You have been given this body so that you may demonstrate with its help the truth of the statement that the body is intended for doing good to other human beings. (S.R.B.M.-p 79 -Sai Baba)
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Source: S.R.B.M - Summer Roses in Blue Mountains- 1977- (Sai Baba discourses)
Here is my message from Jesus, delivered to Kurt Vonnegut's brain to his hands to Barnes & Noble to my brain to my hands to the internet:
“Once upon a time on Tralfamadore there were creatures who weren’t anything like machines. They weren’t dependable. They weren’t efficient. They weren’t predictable. They weren’t durable. And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose, and that some purposes were higher than others.
These creatures spent most of their time trying to find out what their purpose was. And every time the found out what seemed to be a purpose of themselves, the purpose seemed so low that creatures were filled with disgust and shame.
And, rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes. But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn’t high enough.
So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too.
And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be.
The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn’t really be said to have any purpose at all.
The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else.
And they discovered that they weren’t even very good at slaying. So they turned that job over to the machines, too. And the machines finished up the job in less time than it takes to say ‘Tralfamadore’.”
And be good for goodness sake!
"Salo (robot from Sirens of Titan) was inspired to make so many statues by the showy ways in which Earthlings behaved. It wasn't so much what the Earthlings did as the way they did it that inspired Salo.
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky – as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
The big eye was a glutton for great theater. The big eye was indifferent as to whether the Earthling shows were comedy, tragedy, farce, satire, athletics, or vaudeville. Its demand, which Earthlings apparently found as irresistible as gravity, was that the shows be great.
The demand was so powerful that Earthlings did almost nothing but perform for it, night and day – and even in their dreams.
The big eye was the only audience that Earthlings really cared about. The fanciest performances that Salo had seen had been put on by Earthlings who were terribly alone. The imagined big eye was their only audience."
Happy confusing holiday where we celebrate Jesus with a bunny and chocolate!
After Kendrix returned and took back the quasar sabre, Karone was left feeling rather purposeless. She returned to KO-35 where she developed a new psychic ability. No one really knows how, but it is believed that the Galaxy Book contained some special properties which interacted with her Karovan psychic predisposition (most people on KO-35 can access a psychic power, usually telekinesis). Her new ability, omniligualism, allows her to speak, read and understand any language in the universe. This made her perfect as a translator on Terra Venture which was turning into a checkpoint for alien immigrants. To better handle conflict and to survive deep space on her new galaxy glider (custom built for her by Damon), engineers on KO-35 made her a new ranger suit. Karone was able to approve the final design and asked that some aspects of the Lost Galaxy rangers suits were included. Karone is also now married to Zhane who runs security at the KO-35 spaceport.
"Cancer originates in a gene mutation, so it's actually not an enemy from the outside," the doctor explained. "It's not like a bacteria or a virus that invades our body from the outside to produce a disease; it's a changing of our own cells."
If the cancer is identified early, then it has high chances of being eradicated from the body. But for many patients, the cancer has recurred or has already spread before its detection. In those cases, fighting it aggressively with chemotherapy and radiation is purposeless, Xu believes.