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Wineglasses on a table. Lots of action in the room- presenters, attendees, service folks and then there is the #stemware just sitting on a table ready to snatched up by some anxious imbiber. A glass is picked up and gets trashed with wine after wine, I wonder if #glassware ever gets tipsy? Doubtful if it can even pass a sobriety test. Yes, wineglasses are the workhorse of any wine tasting. At best they are treated with excellent wines and at worse undrinkable plonk. Actually some suffer the ultimate indignity: They are dropped and broken into little pieces. If I were a wineglass I would rather be in the home of folks who never have big wine tastings. (August 17, 2015, San Francisco, CA)
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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.
5:05 AM and I'm on the road again.
75 minutes later The Dog Palace
is right in front of me. Mama &
Rocky are coming in fast .;-)
Still dark but light is just
starting to show up.
Rained part way.
Last few days have been a bit busy
taking care of personal issues. But
we will be returning to our regular
broadcasting schedule soon enough.
Did all the same same at The Bingo Room.
Crossed The Concrete Walking Bridge with
Mama and Rocky leading the way. Miss Zoomer
and The Baby Mickey greeted us on the other side.
Once at the nuns place a small yet special package
was handed off to the nurse nun.All the dogs were
given a quick rub down plus a field sobriety test
and IMO, They all failed miserably ! .........;-)~~~
While asking for their ID, drivers license and insurance
papers they would fall down on my feet, lick my toes
then get up, run big circles and crash into me.
Nun of them are allowed to operate any
motorized vehicles for 6 months,
maybe longer if they don't
cleanup their act fast.
This's serious stuff.
Now, all five of us take off to The Spirit House.
Zoomer way out in the lead with Mama/Rocky
next in line and of course Baby Mickey trying
to keep up with The Big Dogs.I'm on the scoop.
All The Hooligans were also cared for as usual.
After about 3 hours the scooter was packed
and I headed back for home where more
Loony Toony Dogs awaited my arrival.
Same Same Sobriety Test was given.
And yes, they too failed Big Time .;-)~
Thank You.
Jon&Crew.
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The regional council building at Rondellplatz in Karlsruhe is a typical post-war building, completed in 1961. Its staircase is also strictly and functionally structured, exuding the charm of timeless sobriety.
Agfa Super Isolette - Ilford XP2
"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."
Henry Ward Beecher
Part of CH series
Don Juan said in one of Carlos Casteneda's books "There is no completeness without sadness and longing, for without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless."
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"The story of the Wallace Fountains is remarkable. The true motivation of Sir Richard Wallace, the Englishman who lived most of his life in Paris and who donated funds in the second half of the nineteenth century to bring free, clean drinking water to Parisians, remains debatable. Was it simple altruism? Could it be guilt over the vast wealth he inherited? As an illegitimate child, did Richard Wallace seek legitimacy through his philanthropy? Was he trying to atone for the sins of his miserly father? Or, perhaps his rationale was simply a strong desire to wipe out public and private drunkenness among the poor, something he witnessed too often during the Paris siege of the Franco-Prussian War from 1870-71 and the Commune era that immediately followed. Whatever his motivation, the world can thank him. Through his focused efforts to combine practical design with extraordinary beauty and allegorical meaning, he created works of art that continuously serve the public by delivering clean drinking water to the population. He also gave Paris one of its most lasting and beloved iconic symbols.
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"The fountains were welcomed by Parisians. The siege and artillery bombing of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, as well as the destruction of the Commune episode that followed, devastated the city and destroyed many aqueducts and other sources of clean water. The price of potable water became very expensive. As a result, most poor people had difficulty obtaining and paying for water that was safe to consume. Moreover, most of the water sold by vendors and distributed on carts to the poor was drawn from the Seine River. That water was certainly contaminated, because at the time all the waste water from the streets and many of the sewers drained directly into the river. It seemed less risky to drink alcoholic beverages, which were often cheaper than the price of unsafe water. Given the choice, the lower classes were most apt to hydrate with beer or wine.
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"Wallace remained in Paris during the siege and the Commune period distributing his own funds for field hospitals, food aid, fuel and clothing for its poorest citizens. He saw firsthand the devastating effects of consuming alcohol when clean water was not accessible. In poor neighborhoods, Wallace must have witnessed “little ones, between two and three years of age, being fed on bread soaked in wine, and suffering from various ailments in consequence.”Sir Richard and others considered it a moral duty to keep the less privileged from falling into alcoholism simply because they had nothing else safe to drink. In the name of temperance, and from a sincere desire to use philanthropy for the common good, Wallace set about to commission the drinking fountains and deliver safe water to all.
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"The four Wallace caryatids, holding up the dome of the fountain, represent four virtues – kindness, simplicity, charity and sobriety. Each figure is different and can be distinguished by the way each bends her knees and by how each tunic is draped. However, which caryatid is which virtue is not apparent to the viewer."
~ wallacefountains.org
Find below quotes at
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/moliere.html
Moliere, French Playwright
Date of Birth: January 15, 1622
Date of Death: February 17, 1673
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.August 17, 2008
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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August 18, 2008, Monday, Feastday of
St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious, of whom found much more than below at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Frances_de_Chantal
Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot, baronne de Chantal, January 28, 1572 – December 13, 1641) was born in Dijon, France. The mother of six children (three died shortly after they were born), she was widowed at the age of 28. She met Saint Francis de Sales when he preached at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon and was inspired to start a Catholic religious order for women, the Congregation of the Visitation. She died at the Visitation Convent in Moulins, one of those she founded, and was buried in Annecy.
Marie Bocko, OCDS | email: mlbocko@twcny.rr.com
wrote below reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
Ezekiel 24:15-23
Deuteronomy 32:18-21
Matthew 19:16-22
All of the Commandments I have observed. What do I still lack?
(see Matthew 19:20)
The Old Testament clearly reveals that the Israelites were chosen by God to make Him known in the world. Their land, however, was surrounded by heathens, enemy nations whose slack morals tempted God's people to imitate them. God used prophets to restore them to the true faith, but in Ezekiel's time He also saw a need to speak to them with a "rod."
Having shut God out, they rendered themselves helpless, open to invasion and some of their prominent citizens taken captive. Among them was the prophet Ezekiel who, despite enemy taunting, worked to preserve their beliefs while in exile. He paid the high cost of discipleship, hoping that one day these men would help restore their nation to God. Eventually this took place and Ezekiel earned being called "the father of Judaism."
In today's reading Ezekiel's beloved wife died, but God told him not to show any of the accepted outward signs of mourning. Instead he was to suffer a pain so inexpressible as to render him overwhelmed, in a stupor. This innocent, faithful man's condition was to show God's people that their infidelity to Him would bring them a suffering far beyond losing a loved one; they would be separating themselves from Him, the very Source of their lives.
Today's gospel reading teaches the rich young man and us that our faith in, and love for, God should vastly exceed that which we may have for anyone or anything in this world. The genuine following of God's Commandments is best seen in poor and afflicted people who retain their love and trust in God despite their sufferings. Unlike the rich young man, they are not trying to earn a high moral score or gain spiritual riches.
O Blessed Lord, may we love You in all things and above all things. May all we do and say bring Your peace into this world and help lead all people to Your heavenly joy. Amen.
EXPLORE # 198 on Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Yo realmente"X" al Guareo...
prefiero estar sobrio!!
I really really "X" Guareo....
I prefer to be sober!!
Winchester Cathedral
Death of Thomas Thetcher, 1764
To members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) the name Thomas Thetcher, a grenadier in the North Regiment of the Hants Militia, is synonymous with the foundation of their organisation. But the curious link between Thetcher’s grave in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral and AA is less well known to the wider public.
Thetcher died aged 26 on May 12, 1764 after drinking contaminated ‘small’ beer. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral churchyard with the following inscription on his tombstone:
In Memory of
Thomas Thetcher
a Grenadier in the North Regt. of Hants Militia, who died of a violent Fever contracted by drinking Small Beer when hot the 12th of May 1764. Aged 26 Years.
In grateful remembrance of whose universal good will towards his Comrades, this Stone is placed here at their expense, as a small testimony of their regard and concern.
Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold small Beer,
Soldiers be wise from his untimely fall
And when ye’re hot drink Strong or none at all.
This memorial being decay’d was restor’d by the Officers of the Garrison AD 1781.
An Honest Soldier never is forgot
Whether he die by Musket or by Pot.
The Stone was replaced by the North Hants Militia when disembodied at Winchester, on 26 April 1802, in consequence of the original Stone being destroyed.
And again replaced by The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1966.
In 1918, a young American soldier named Bill Wilson, who was encamped near Winchester with his US Army unit while en route to the Western Front, visited the city’s cathedral and chanced upon Thomas Thetcher’s grave. Wilson was struck by the inscription and also by the similarity between Thetcher’s name and that of a boyhood friend, Ebby Thacher. After the war, Wilson became a successful businessman, but heavy drinking marred his career and he was eventually told that he would either die from his alcoholism or have to be locked up permanently.
Remarkably, however, Wilson and a handful of fellow alcoholics – including Ebby Thacher – discovered a way to achieve sobriety. He became a founding member of Alcoholics Anonymous and wrote a book about his battle with drink in the hope of inspiring other alcoholics. In it he recalled his visit to Winchester Cathedral and how the gravestone had caught his eye, describing it as an ‘ominous warning which I failed to heed’. Clearly, he had forgotten the part of the inscription which read: ‘When ye’re hot drink Strong or not at all’…
There is no evidence that Thomas Thetcher was an alcoholic. In the mid-18th Century most people drank small beer – a weak brew – rather than water which carried cholera, typhoid and other diseases. It is likely that the ‘violent fever’ which killed Thetcher was caused by one of these diseases which had not been killed off in the making of that particular batch of beer. Ironically, had Thetcher drunk ‘strong’ beer, which had a higher alcohol content, he would probably have survived.
The book in which Wilson tells of his visit to Winchester Cathedral – AA’s famous ‘Big Book’ – has sold around 30 million copies. In 2011, Time magazine listed it among the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923. A year later the Library of Congress designated it as one of 88 ‘Books that Shaped America’.
The tombstone that Bill Wilson saw in 1918 was the copy of the 1764 original erected in 1802. In 1966 it was moved for safekeeping to the Royal Hampshire Regimental Museum at Serle’s House in Winchester where visitors can still see it. It was replaced in the cathedral grounds by the present updated copy, which is also based on the 1764 original.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Just a long and tall house in my hometown Hof
Hasselblad 503 CX
Carl Zeiss CF 2.8/80 Planar
Ilford FP 4
Starting February with elegance, modernity and sobriety with my new MVMT watch! I love its classic design.
You can buy MVMT watches in stores throughout Spain 🇪🇸
Yo realmente"X" al Guareo...
prefiero estar sobrio!!
I really really "X" Guareo....
I prefer to be sober!!
Lebuh Ampang + Kodak Colour Plus 200
Outing with faizaljoy, kupih & suhaimisalleh
the soundtrack Ugly Kid Joe - Menace to Sobriety
And hoping that everybody´s head has returned to sobriety by now :)
I think this one is just the right image to post as my first serious upload in the New Year.
Shot in Shanghai Lujiazui.
© Andy Brandl (2012)
Don´t redistribute - don´t use on webpages, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
See my "profile" page for my portfolio´s web address and information regarding licensing of this image for personal or commercial use.
"No tengo preferencias en cuanto a las flores, siempre que sean salvajes, libres y espontáneas"
Edward Paul Abbey.
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Tanita Tikaram. Twist in my Sobriety
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Jesse and Mike rent a hotel room for three hours in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Although Jesse has been attempting sobriety by living with her parents in upstate New York, she continues to relapse by coming to Manhattan and using.
Para uma das fotógrafas que mais admiro e estimo... e de quem tenho o privilégio de ser amigo!
Feliz aniversário, Paulete!
Beijocas e felicidades mil...
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I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York
See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York
whoa I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
whoa I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
whoa I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
whoa I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun
Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run
If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Be yourself no matter what they say
Be yourself no matter what they say
(Be yourself no matter what they say...)
whoa I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
Today I turned one year new. It is my first annual sober birthday as it is called. 365 is an interesting series of numbers. Being on Flickr I have a daily reminder of a much deeper goal(Thank you all) and a huge appreciation of getting there. Although I didn't actively participate in any 365 type of group or project, silently I have been doing mine beside yours. My start to sobriety also coincides with my start on flickr (I joined earlier and posted 2 food shots, then forgot about it until this year). Flickr allowed me to get outside of myself and see all of the wonders the world has to offer, that and I got the shutterbug pretty quickly as well. With help from Agnieszka I manged to begin to navigate my way around the camera.
The Flickrverse has been exactly what I have needed to get through this year. Something to focus on and see results. A daily interaction of sorts. When I started this journey I had very little knowledge of what it would or could look like. And...lets just say that I am more than pleased!! I know I have said it before, but this year has been pure magic. And, I owe a ton of thanks to all of you for the comments, support, friendship and for sharing your photos with me. I have seen some of the most amazing shots here and everyday it makes me strive to become better at how I see the world. THANK YOU!!!
As for the cake....It is all about chocolate today. I baked it, dressed it and now I am going to eat it too. All of it. Well, maybe I will share a bite with Agnieszka, but no more than that. I wish that I could share it with all of you as well, but the photo will have to suffice. Just know that it is very good and rich and decadent and above all delicious!
You can bake one too if you like.....email me for the recipe!
And if you do, please tell me how it is!
Happiest of Holidays to everyone! And have a happy, fantastic New Years! See you in a few weeks....off to Poland via the Czech Republic.....yes!
Last summer a friend of ours, now in her (nearly) mid-eighties, gave us a selection of bottles from her basement.
She'd kept this wine for a couple of decades. But in the meantime she had given up drinking. She wanted it out of the house.
We were glad to be the beneficiaries. We are slowly going through what she gave us.
This was a 22-year-old French red and it held up very well. We drank it over a couple of nights this week. Mmmm.
Photo by Darkyn Dover
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Winchester Cathedral
Death of Thomas Thetcher, 1764
To members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) the name Thomas Thetcher, a grenadier in the North Regiment of the Hants Militia, is synonymous with the foundation of their organisation. But the curious link between Thetcher’s grave in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral and AA is less well known to the wider public.
Thetcher died aged 26 on May 12, 1764 after drinking contaminated ‘small’ beer. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral churchyard with the following inscription on his tombstone:
In Memory of
Thomas Thetcher
a Grenadier in the North Regt. of Hants Militia, who died of a violent Fever contracted by drinking Small Beer when hot the 12th of May 1764. Aged 26 Years.
In grateful remembrance of whose universal good will towards his Comrades, this Stone is placed here at their expense, as a small testimony of their regard and concern.
Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold small Beer,
Soldiers be wise from his untimely fall
And when ye’re hot drink Strong or none at all.
This memorial being decay’d was restor’d by the Officers of the Garrison AD 1781.
An Honest Soldier never is forgot
Whether he die by Musket or by Pot.
The Stone was replaced by the North Hants Militia when disembodied at Winchester, on 26 April 1802, in consequence of the original Stone being destroyed.
And again replaced by The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1966.
In 1918, a young American soldier named Bill Wilson, who was encamped near Winchester with his US Army unit while en route to the Western Front, visited the city’s cathedral and chanced upon Thomas Thetcher’s grave. Wilson was struck by the inscription and also by the similarity between Thetcher’s name and that of a boyhood friend, Ebby Thacher. After the war, Wilson became a successful businessman, but heavy drinking marred his career and he was eventually told that he would either die from his alcoholism or have to be locked up permanently.
Remarkably, however, Wilson and a handful of fellow alcoholics – including Ebby Thacher – discovered a way to achieve sobriety. He became a founding member of Alcoholics Anonymous and wrote a book about his battle with drink in the hope of inspiring other alcoholics. In it he recalled his visit to Winchester Cathedral and how the gravestone had caught his eye, describing it as an ‘ominous warning which I failed to heed’. Clearly, he had forgotten the part of the inscription which read: ‘When ye’re hot drink Strong or not at all’…
There is no evidence that Thomas Thetcher was an alcoholic. In the mid-18th Century most people drank small beer – a weak brew – rather than water which carried cholera, typhoid and other diseases. It is likely that the ‘violent fever’ which killed Thetcher was caused by one of these diseases which had not been killed off in the making of that particular batch of beer. Ironically, had Thetcher drunk ‘strong’ beer, which had a higher alcohol content, he would probably have survived.
The book in which Wilson tells of his visit to Winchester Cathedral – AA’s famous ‘Big Book’ – has sold around 30 million copies. In 2011, Time magazine listed it among the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923. A year later the Library of Congress designated it as one of 88 ‘Books that Shaped America’.
The tombstone that Bill Wilson saw in 1918 was the copy of the 1764 original erected in 1802. In 1966 it was moved for safekeeping to the Royal Hampshire Regimental Museum at Serle’s House in Winchester where visitors can still see it. It was replaced in the cathedral grounds by the present updated copy, which is also based on the 1764 original.