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Your body is 80 percent fluid. Stop drinking and see what happens. Coherent thoughts vanish, skin grows clammy, and vital organs wrinkle.
Deprive your heart of spiritual water, and your dehydrated heart will send desperate messages—hopelessness, loneliness, resentment. Where do you find water for your soul? Jesus said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38).
Let Christ be the water of your soul. Church activities might hide a thirst, but only Christ quenches it. Drink him. Receive Christ’s work on the cross, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship over your life, his unending, unfailing love. Drink deeply and often. And out of you will flow rivers of living water.
From Max Lucado's Come Thirsty
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Do you like that? (Do you like that? No)
Do you like that? (Do you like that?)
Push down into membranes and layers
Creating a slow dissection
I stumble into your tar trap
An addition to your collection
Do you like that?
Do you like that?
Do you like that?
Do you like that?
Fall into your eyes like a grave (all that is inside, all your anger)
Bury me to the sound of your name, oh (all your disgust, all your resentment)
Fall into your eyes like a grave (all your pain, all your pain)
Bury me to the sound of your name
All your pain (fall into your eyes like a grave)
All your pain (bury me to the sound of your name)
All your pain (fall into your eyes like a grave)
All your pain
Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will, or baseness of any kind).
And become useful and helpful and kind to one another, tenderhearted (compassionate, understanding, loving-hearted), forgiving one another [readily and freely], as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:31-32
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...both literal and imagined, shape our lives in profound ways. Some stand tall before us—walls of stone, locked doors, oceans vast and uncrossable—physical limits we can see and touch. These barriers are real and immediate, either protecting or limiting. With the right tools, time, or assistance, many physical obstacles can be dismantled, climbed, or circumnavigated. The effort may be great, but the path is clear.
But then there are the barriers we cannot see—the ones we construct in the deep recesses of our minds. These imagined walls are far more complex, woven from threads of fear, doubt, and insecurity. They do not require brick or mortar; they need only the power of our thoughts to stand firm. Unlike physical barriers, which others can see and help us break, these mental constructs are invisible to the outside world. No one knows the depth of our inner struggle, the quiet battle between desire and dread, ambition and hesitation.
Imagined barriers are insidious because they feel just as real as the tangible ones. They whisper that we're not good enough, not capable, not worthy. Or they keep us in fear or resentment of those different from us. And while physical obstacles may tire the body, these internal walls exhaust the soul, trapping us in a maze of our own making. The worst part? Often, we don’t even realize we’ve built them.
Recognizing that these barriers are self-imposed is the first step toward dismantling them. Just as we learn to climb a hill or break through a fence, we can teach ourselves to break through the limits of our minds. Courage is the tool. For every imagined wall, there is a doorway waiting to be found—if only we dare to look for it.
Ultimately, both kinds of barriers test us. Physical walls challenge our strength; mental ones challenge our spirit. But in overcoming either, we find the same reward: the freedom to move forward, unhindered, toward a world without limits.
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Alias: Disintegrator
Real Name: Maddison Daybreak
Gender: Female
Alignment: Villain
Powers: Is able to absorb various types of energy, which in turn charges her disintegration beam, projected from her visor. Thermal and light based energy gives her the most "juice"/charge. Besides the disintegration beam, she can project other types of light, plasma, and heat that are less powerful. In addition to these beams, she has super strength, and her armor makes her quite durable.
Backstory: Maddison had a pretty standard childhood. In fact, nothing really alarming had happened until just a couple weeks ago. When she would be taken from her family, and sent to Cooper's Landing. She would undergo experimentation, with them using the mystical greyish liquid that gave Captain Solar, and many others, powers once again. Maddison was there for weeks, subjected to various procedures, with some being more painful than others. But then he came. Captain Solar. Unfortunately, Maddison was left behind, as the facility collapsed around her. She screamed for help, but he was already gone. No one would save her. Her powers would first manifest itself in this moment, destroying the debris as it fell. She managed to escape, and get back home with minor bruising. Her family was so thankful to have her back, but Maddison never was the same after that. Her resentment towards Solar grew, wanting him dead for his failures as a hero. It's at this time, that she finds Chariot. The android, also having an interest in Solar being dead for locking up its master, Architect, decided to help outfit Maddison with a suit to help control her power. In return, of course, Chariot wanted in on the plan to kill Solar.
Location - Kaller
Mission - Eliminate remaining separatist leaders
Mission report - Private TK-165 [Ivan Valus],
'When we were briefed about the target, and what we'd be doing there, I expected to be on the front lines, busting through the bunker and taking what remained of the Separatists leadership into custody. We landed on the outskirts of the Marek forest. Me and the other recruits, Shinies the captain called us, were ordered to hold back while the Clones took to the front lines.
And so we waited. It was during this time that I learnt that not only did we not like the clones, but the clones didn't like us. They thought we weren't fit for combat, some even went so far as to say that if we ourselves were clones, we would have been discarded and branded failures. Similarly, there was resentment among the human recruits. We'd seen how the clones had turned on their Jedi generals, how quickly they'd gone from friend to foe. Personally, it made me anxious, knowing that with a single command, the clones could turn on us without so much as a second thought.
After an hour, Captain Acer returned, and gave us our orders. Although his squad had failed to catch the Sep leaders, they had located them, in a bunker buried beneath the forest itself. We were assigned guard duty. Guard duty! After all our training, we were assigned to guard the bunker doors to make sure the Seps didn't escape. All this while the Captain and his troops searched the forest for anyone who hadn't made it to the bunker before the doors locked. From that moment on, me and the other human recruits saw the clones differently. We despised them, just as they despised us."
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"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
- Robert Tew.
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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
Revisiting this one from a couple of years back ..
Pentax K200D w Sigma 14/2.8
f/4 ISO200
Originally developed in Lightroom this touch up was in DxO PhotoLab6, Affinity Photo 2, Topaz Gigapixel and finished off in PhotoLab.
things fade away.
people outgrow each other, we move on, relationships fade out. the stress is relieved, the grief replaced, time passes and emotions lessen in impact. yet pain fills the confines of things like water fills a sponge, it percolates throughout the perforations until something, someone, can squeeze it out of you. till you let it leave--a cleansing, a release, a renewal.
goodbye bitterness, resentments, hurts, regret--bring in the healing.
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” Quote by Nelson Mandela
Macro Mondays theme: Poison
Rome Castel SantAngelo – Hadrian thought he couldn’t go wrong when he designed this new tomb for the emperors in 138, three years before his own death. He placed it on the uninhabited bank of the pestilential Tiber, where the imperial megalomania would cause no resentment, and he built it solidly to defend his memory against Time itself. Instead, his last resting place has seen more blood, treachery, and turmoil than any inRome; his ashes were still warm in the urn when Aurelian made it a bulwark in his walls, inaugurating its history as Rome’s chief citadel and dungeon.
Hadrian’s Mausoleum original design harked back to Augustus’ Mausoleum, though on a paranoiac scale, consisting of a massive 89 m solid square base topped by a cylinder 64 m in diameter and 20 m high, made of travertine with a white Parian marble veneer.
Like a giant planter, cypresses grew out of its top, while al the very summit of the tower stood a gilded quad Riga driven by a colossal statue ofHadrian (now replaced by the bronze angel).
The emperor was a great art collector, and beautiful statues adorned the sides; Henceforth it was known as Castel Sant’Angelo,
Dark, too, is the history of Castle Sant’Angelo’s bridge Ponte Sant’Angelo, Hadrian’s Pons Aelius, built in 134 to link his Mausoleum tothe city (the three central arches are Hadrian’s, the other two were added with the Tiber Embankments).
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
— Hugh Laurie
I randomly got the urge to take a self portrait the other night and this is what came of it. Having dreams and goals of leaving the place you were born can sometimes be difficult, it's something I've wanted for a long time and I think now is the moment, more than ever. I don't have a concrete plan for "escape" but I do know that nothing will stop me from living out my dreams.
There is so much I could say here, so much I want to say…about my life and history, friends and family, bad experiences and resentments, longings and far away love, but instead I'll just let the image do the talking. Have a good day everyone:D
**I would like to put a small disclaimer saying that there was some pretty significant liquifying involved in this photo slim me down a bit and make me look more "sickly" and "weak". It is for artistic purposes only, and I felt like I should make it known incase it was obvious. Other wise I don't really care :P
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
"Blanco o Negro"
Una noche un anciano indio Cherokee le contó a su nieto la historia de una batalla que tiene lugar en el interior de cada persona. Le dijo: “Dentro de cada uno de nosotros hay una dura batalla entre dos lobos. Uno de ellos es un lobo malvado, violento, lleno de ira y agresividad. El otro es todo bondad, amor, alegría y compasión”. El nieto se quedó unos minutos pensando sobre lo que le había contado su abuelo y finalmente le preguntó: “Dime abuelo, ¿cúal de los dos lobos ganará?”.Y el anciano indio respondió: “Aquél al que tu alimentes”
Bristol's name is derived from the Saxon 'Brigstowe' or 'place of the bridge', but it is unclear when the first bridge over the Avon was built. The Avon has a high tidal range, so the river could have been forded twice a day. The name may therefore refer to the many smaller bridges over the lesser known River Frome, in the marshy surrounding area, which is now largely built over. The first stone bridge was built in the 13th century, and houses with shopfronts were built on it to pay for its maintenance. A chapel with gate crossed the roadway in the centre. [Adam's Chronicles of Bristol]
A seventeenth century illustration shows that these bridge houses were five stories high, including the attic rooms, and that they overhung the river much as Tudor houses would overhang the street.[1] At the time of the Civil War the bridge was noted for its community of goldsmiths. Houses on the bridge were attractive and charged high rents as they had so much passing traffic, and had plenty of fresh air and waste could be dropped into the river.[1] Its population was also perceived to be strongly parliamentarian.[1]
In the 1760 a bill to replace the bridge was carried through parliament by the Bristol MP Sir Jarrit Smyth.[2] By the early 18th century, increase in traffic and the encroachment of shops on the roadway made the bridge fatally dangerous for many pedestrians, but despite a campaign by Felix Farley in his Journal, no action was taken until a shopkeeper on the bridge employed James Bridges to provide designs. The commission accepted the design of James Bridges after many long drawn out disputes which are still unclear. Bridges fled to the West Indies in 1763 leaving Thomas Paty to complete it between 1763 and 1768. Resentment at the tolls exacted to cross the new bridge occasioned the Bristol Bridge Riot of 1793. The toll houses were turned into shops before they were removed. In the 19th century, the roadway was again congested, so walkways were added on either side, the supporting columns disguising the classical Georgian design. The current metal railings date from the 1960s.
Before the Second World War, Bristol Bridge was an important transport hub. It was the terminus of tram routes to Knowle, Bedminster and Ashton Gate, and other trams also stopped here.[3] It lost importance when Temple Way was built further upstream in the 1930s,[4] and when the tram system closed in 1941.
“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.” ~ John Fowles
"Blood red lips traced with a tongue they shine,
Cut thought a crowded room.
A look can say a lot sometimes
And so I take all my past attractions
And project on you.
Every disappointment's and mistake,
Some resentment from a one-night heartbreak.
My head is spinning
My hands go damp,
But still I force an introduction
And I ask you to dance.
You feel like home up against me so close,
Though we've just met tonight .
There's still so much that we still don't know,
But I'm fairly certain"
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Bitterness
Bitterness is deep and painful resentment that festers and does not go away; it includes an unwillingness to forgive. Envy can be a factor. Bitterness can be against others who have wronged or mistreated us. It could be against God because of bad things that have happened in our lives. If not removed, it becomes an emotional cancer that eats body and soul.
1. Bitterness is unacceptable to God and must be replaced with kindness, compassion, and forgiveness.
Hebrews 12:14–15 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled. (NASB)
James 3:14 But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don’t sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom. (GNT)
Ephesians 4:31–32
2. Jesus provides the great example.
1 Peter 2:21–23 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: “Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth”; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. (NKJV)
3. Although we don’t always understand God’s plan, we must trust his sovereignty and will. Job is a great example.
Job 1:20–22 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. (NKJV)
Job 2:10; Isaiah 55:8–9; Romans 8:28
4. Bitterness is a characteristic of the unsaved and is an unacceptable emotion for a believer.
James 3:10–11 Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen! No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same opening. (GNT)
Acts 8:23; Romans 3:9–18
5. In his time, God will judge the unrighteous and unrepentant.
Psalm 37:1–2 Don’t be worried on account of the wicked; don’t be jealous of those who do wrong. They will soon disappear like grass that dries up; they will die like plants that wither. (GNT)
Romans 12:17–19 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” (ESV)
6. If our own failure to resist temptation is the cause of our bitterness, we must gain assurance that God’s restoration comes with his forgiveness.
Psalm 51:10–12 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. (ESV)
Psalm 42:5; 85:4–7; Micah 7:18–19
7. Each believer has his own areas of bitterness to work on.
Proverbs 14:10 Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can fully share its joy. (NLT)
Biblical Narratives
• Job, lack of bitterness, Job 1:21–22; 2:10
• Naomi, bitter over her losses, Ruth 1:20
• Esau with Jacob, Genesis 32–33
• David’s trust in the Lord, Psalm 37
Practical Steps
• Write about your area of bitterness. Talk to God about the injustice you feel. Write steps to move toward forgiveness and freedom.
• Read the topic Forgiving Others in this book. Make a list of those you need to forgive.
• Study Matthew 18:15–20. What steps do you need to take to move toward reconciliation?
• Pray for God to soften your heart so you are willing to give up bitterness. Commit to pray for those who have hurt you.
Keith R. Miller, Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling Men (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2014), 50–52.
ODC-Reflection
Taken out the Jeep window.
Saw this downtown today. It's the window in the laundromat.
"Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection."
Debasish Mridha
"...I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" - a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all - to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself....then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe.
From "Eat, Pray, Love"
An excellent source of gratitude and inner peace is to spend a moment, every day, thinking of someone to love. Remember the old saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away?” The love equivalent might read, “Thinking of someone to love each day keeps your resentment away!”
If you give this little exercise a try, I think you’ll find that your day is a little more peaceful.
~Richard Carlson, author of the book “Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff”
I’ve been doing this exercise and I feel even better and happier. I appreciate more the small things in life and grateful for even the little blessings that come my way every day. So, I’m sending you my love, hope you have enough peace and love to share. Enjoy a sunrise or sunset without any resentment in your heart. Love ya, dear friends! ;)
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Human minds
Frail and scared
Freed by death, and death is fair
Hopeless souls
Play a part
In my wicked work of art
Such relief
Every time
Taking life, to take what's mine
At the end
Here we lie
Here we're killers or we die
When the world was turned to gray
The hatred wouldn't go away
Resentment in chains
In the coldest of all hearts
A voice descends, the light departs
Madness remains
Play the game
Paint your scene
Taking this to the extreme
Masterpiece
Dark design
Your last moments, only mine
It's a need
Here in dust
Kill the world that stole from us
Take your place
Let it be
In my crimson symphony
When the world was turned to gray
The hatred wouldn't go away
Resentment in chains
In the coldest of all hearts
A voice descends, the light departs
Madness remains
I feel it in my bones
A need to be your god
A need to strike you down
When order disappeared
And madness took control
The conscience in me drowned
I want to be your guide
Into the afterlife
It's a gift, look past the pain like I do
I want to see your eyes
Just before your demise
When only fear remains inside you
When the world was turned to gray
The hatred wouldn't go away
Resentment in chains
In the coldest of all hearts
A voice descends, the light departs
Madness remains
Maaad aaad aadness
Maaad aaad aaadness remains
Maaad aaad aaadness
Maaad aaad aaadness remains
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee replied, “The one you feed.”
(Cherokee Legend)
Forgiveness is easy. It's when you say "I am OK with you." following a time when you may not have been. This can be reached through either strength or weakness. Dogma or logic. Kindness or apathy. It isn't exactly a reset of things, nor is it a second chance or clean slate. It's none of those things because you don't forgive a person for their actions; you forgive a person for how the actions affect you. Think of it as the driver who crashes a bus/train/car of people: you don't forgive the driver for his misdeed ... you forgive him for the pain and suffering which you have endured. Justice, punishment, atonement ... these are NOT parts of forgiveness.
Arriving at this state isn't always so easy, however, because sometimes people cannot bring themselves to that level of acceptance. Sometimes, things are NOT OK. There are extremes of non-forgiveness where a person fights against acceptance, apologies, healing time, trust, family bonds, and all of the other things which should help resolve issues. What results from this is a grudge, and it's an ugly thing. It's a bitterness and resentment which feeds itself from stubbornness, grief, unhappiness, blame, or even hatred. I've tried reasoning with people with grudges, and have always ended up backing away slowly with one of those 'omg yikes' looks on my face. Not all unforgiveness is awful, I don't think. You can just walk away from a bad experience, putting it behind you. Or if you can't separate, you can try to coexist ... but it's a chancy move which can lead you down either a path of unhappiness or back on track to actual forgiveness.
Some people think that you have to get over your problem/pain before you forgive. I think that quite often it's the opposite: forgiveness can come first. 'Forgive and Forget', we've all heard. This makes a ton of sense to me, as you forgive (emotionally), then later forget (mentally). Hmmm. I think those can go either way.
As with apologies, it is never to late to forgive.
Inhale love and peace .. exhale your hatred and resentments away
Inhale calmness and confidence .. exhale your fears and worries
Inhale happiness .. exhale your sadness and depression
Inhale kindness .. exhale irritability and anger away
Inhale positive and creative thoughts .. exhale negative and harmful thoughts
Ennis and Elliot St. George
Very different in personality. They're trying to become closer, since they're all each other has left in the world. Elliot is unaware, perhaps by choice, of her sister's resentment towards her.
Loss is a difficult thing to work through alone.
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Campagna di sensibilizzazione per la salvaguardia del patrimonio artistico di Roma, senza scopo di lucro
Awareness campaign for the preservation of the artistic heritage of Rome
#PortaSanGiovanni è una delle porte che si aprono nelle #MuraAureliane e deve il suo nome alla vicina #BasilicadiSanGiovanni in Laterano. Voluta da #PapaGregorioXIII fu probabilmente edificata su progetto di #GiacomoDelDuca già collaboratore di #Michelangelo alla realizzazione di #PortaPia. Venne inaugurata nel 1574 e la sua apertura fu necessaria per agevolare il traffico da e per il sud d'Italia decretando la definitiva chiusura della vicina e ben più imponente #PortaAsinaria, di epoca aureliana, divenuta ormai quasi inagibile per il progressivo innalzamento del livello stradale circostante e del tutto inadeguata a sostenere il volume di traffico. La porta dava infatti accesso alla via Campana, l'odierna #viaAppiaNuova, che per le prime tre miglia seguiva il tracciato dell'antica via Asinaria, già #viaLabicana. Porta S. Giovanni è legata a tradizioni popolari romane, oggi praticamente scomparse, come quella della #nottediSGiovanni (tra il 23 e 24 Giugno) in cui era diffusa l'usanza di mangiare le lumache, le cui corna simboleggiavano la discordia (il significato del tradimento è molto più recente). Mangiandole si seppellivano nello stomaco i contrasti e i rancori accumulati durante tutto l'anno trascorso, dando all'usanza un significato di riconciliazione.
Porta San Giovanni is one of the doors that cross the Aurelian Walls and takes its name from the nearby Basilica of St. John in Laterano. Commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII, it was probably built on the design of Giacomo Del Duca, already contributor to the realization of Michelangelo's Porta Pia. It was inaugurated in 1574 and its opening was necessary to permit traffic to and from the south of Italy decreeing the definitive closure of the nearby and far more impressive Porta Asinaria, of Aurelian era, which has become almost unusable for the gradual raising of the surrounding road level and totally inadequate to support the volume of traffic. The door gave access to the Via Campana, now Via Appia Nuova, which for the first three miles followed the route of the ancient Via Asinaria, formerly Via Labicana. Porta S. Giovanni is linked to the Roman traditions, practically disappeared today, like that one of the night of St. John (between 23 and 24 June). On that night people had the habit of eating snails whose horns symbolized discord (the meaning of betrayal is much more recent). Eating them, all the conflicts and resentments accumulated throughout the past year were buried in the stomach, giving a meaning of reconciliation to that practice.
Testo di Alessandro Loschiavo
Yes, I like to photograph the landscape more & yet feel that it is the people who make a place beautiful. I like to have a chit-chat with people before I photograph them & that has been quite an eye-opener for me. Before I visited Kashmir, frankly I always harbored a certain grudge against the Kashmiris & felt they were responsible for the situation that was there. What has come out of this two-week trip is that for the commoner, like anywhere else in the country, what matters is food on the platter, money in the safe & peace in the land. Kashmiris are beautiful & friendly folks, we just need to purge the mist that shrouds Kashmir, forget the resentment of the past & shake a smiling friendly hand.
...and ambitions are low,
and resentment rides high,
but emotions won't grow,
and we're changing our ways,
taking different roads.
... then love, love will tear us apart again. " - joy division
a sunny sunday in munich - springtime has arrived
"I’ve come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call 'the physics of the quest’ - a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. and the rule of quest physics maybe goes like this: 'if you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all - to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself… then truth will not be withheld from you."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
This is the third in my "rain plant" series.
Have you heard this parable?
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
One is Evil! . It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
'"Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, '"The one you feed."
EXPLORE # 381 on Wednesday, January 30, 2008
There is a battle of two wolfs inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. Which wolf wins? The one you feed.
~~Cherokee Proverb
Thank you for sharing the experience,
Bev
@all right reserved ... Moon & Back Photography
I'm really struggling to create anything I want to lately. Being so restricted with time, and my inability to travel to different locations has resulted in feeling stale and in some way I'm feeling resentment towards photography. I really can't wait until I'm able to break out of this. Until all the things holding me back are finally non-existent and I can create freely.
Life has no guarantees...
Mind has no boundaries...
Love has no expiry date....
Compassion has no nameplate...
Soul has no death...
Deception has no depth....
Beauty has no age....
Truth has no gauge....
Anger has no friend....
Courage has no dead end....
A lie has no conscience....
Conflict has no sentience...
Violence has no cadence....
Cruelty has no penance...
Resentment has no fragrance....
Harmony has no grievance...
Worry has no silence...
Equanimity has no violence...
Freedom has no cage....
Humility has no retirement age....
~Mamta Agarwal
Makeup & photos by Andy at Translife..
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29 Oct 14
In the aftermath of the Third Great War, the International Reclamation Mission was created by the new Global Federation to help clean up battlefields of psionic anomalies and rampant genetically engineered fungi and flora deployed by the warring nations.
Pressurised trucks, nicknamed "snails", provided a mobile base of operations and shelter against spore storms for Reclamation agents in the field. This was particularly vital due to the rudimentary nature of the agents' protective gear, which often left the face unprotected.
Most Reclamation Agents were soldiers of the last Great War. The poor conditions drove many to banditry or an early death. Much of the resentment was passed onto their children and grandchildren. The anger of these people rammed into dilapidated space stations and seemingly abandoned by the terrestrial elite, caused the First Space War to become almost inevitable.