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I think the word "Alone" has been touched on over and over in this series of photos, however it needs it's own space because it may be the hardest of all the pills to swallow. It's one thing to go through a situation where you've lost everything, but to go through it by yourself is by far the worst feeling in the world. Often times what separates those who make it back on their feet, to those who never recover, is one simple thing. Support.
We're all different people, and everyone who falls has their own reasons for falling. One thing we all have in common though is that any single one of our individual falls can be broken up by another person choosing to get involved. What hurts more than anything in the world is falling, and seeing everyone you ever considered a friend just watching. No one offering to help, no one trying to prevent or even slow your decent, just watching, pitying, and coldly turning the other cheek. There's no feeling lonelier in the world than knowing in your time of need, when it's finally YOU who needs help, that everyone, even the ones you helped at points when you stood tall and they needed a hand, will just let you fall.
If you know someone who is struggling, no matter what that struggle is, let them know you see them. If you care about them, let them know. You might be the reason they recover, you might be all they needed, but you'll never know unless you try.
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When you’ve lost everything and all the initial feelings wear off and thoughts are processed, it can feel like your drowning. How did you end up sinking so deep? How are you going to get back to the surface for a breath of air? Are you going to get back at all, or is this how and where it ends? Is everything over?
No matter how far it feels, this is a fight for your life. You have to push, you have to fight! One more kick, one more stroke! Keep going! You won’t be defeated, not this time. You can make it. You’re good enough to do this. Don’t worry about what comes next, don’t stress over what came before, just make it up to catch your breath. You’ll be ok. Just don’t... give.. up...
Have you ever felt like no matter how many people you've been there for in your lifetime when they needed someone, that no one seems to be there for you when you really need a friend? Are you the first person who volunteers to help, and feel like you're the last person who gets any help back? When you're in your hour of need, do you notice people tending to look the other way instead of putting their hand on your shoulder and telling you it'll be ok?
It's really hard when you've hit rock bottom and realize who your friends really are, in some cases you may not have any at all. Not real ones. It's these moments that show who someone really is, any one can pretend to be your friend when you're on the top of the world, when there's something they can gain from being close to you. The others make you feel even more alone, tossed out, rejected as they carry on without you.
If you're reading this, and you ever need a friend, or a shoulder to cry on, I'll be there for you.
The Soul of black and white Pictures ONLY
This week I found, quite by chance, on my FastStone software, a possibility called 'image strip builder'.
So I tried it and this is my second attempt, posted for
Saturday Self-Challenge: something I found.
The flowers came from my archive of pink flowers - and I couldn't resist also adding a border to the image.
Happy weekend, everyone!
🌸🌺🌷remembering Clare, always
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What a 50's vintage Ford Anglia is doing in this scene is beyond me...
awesome body:
[ INITHIUM ] KARIO V.2.21 ♥
awesome outfit:
GUILTY 130 Joy Set ♥
awesome pose:
[..::CuCa Designs::..] Nico Pose Set ♥
strips of land in the Venice lagoon draw figures that from the sky seem mysterious geoglyphs to be discovered.
All losses are caused by different reasons, but a select few of them happen because something was straight out taken from us, or we were taken ourselves. Imagine being not only stripped of your clothes, your dignity, and your pride, but also being forced to go along for the ride. A ride that involves no acceptance, no going with the flow, no ability to fight, just being absolutely forced to comply with everything and everyone being taken from you.
This can all be metaphorical to describe a situation in your life, but it can also be exactly what it describes. Sex trafficking is still a very real thing and is one of the worst kind of losses you can go through as a human being. Did you know that over 27 million people a year are forced into jobs, not just sexual ones, but hard labor jobs as well? You hear about the numbers sometimes of women and girls forced to be sex slaves, but you don't hear about the number of slaves working on farms, ranches, in mines, and this doesn't even include the number of inmates locked up on bogus crimes and forced to do the jobs society has deemed undesirable. Silenced, subdued, shackled, and sometimes raped repeatedly, there are depths a person can fall into that are unimaginable while the rest of the world declares "We should do something." While sipping their starbucks, and going to get a massage on the weekend at the spa from one of the trafficked women in town.
Next time you feel like you've lost everything, just remember there's a lot further you could fall, and your situation can most likely be fixed a lot easier than some other people's darkest days.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Rijnhaven, Terraforming, Machines (slightly cut from B & L)
As I wrote earlier, the Rijnhaven is being redeveloped. This harbour was created in 1895 to offer shelter for Rhine vessels (rijnaken), when during the winter these vessels could not operate due to freezing of the rivers.
After the creation of the harbour,the transit freight traffic to Rotterdam continued to increase and the new Rijnhaven was made suitable for large sea-going vessels by deepening it. As planned, the Rijnhaven became an important port for the transhipment of bulk goods 'on stream' - the sea-going vessels were moored on buoys, separate from the quay and their cargo was directly moved to rhine ships. In de 70/80s of the last century, the Rijnhaven lost its transhipment function and was brought back to its old function. In 2015, the rhine ship berths were moved to, among others, the Maashaven. Enabling the redevelopment of the old harbour.
It will be partly (30%) filled up (pure terraforming) to enable the realization of amongst others an office/apartment building strip with up to 200m high edifices, called the 'Skyline Posthumalaan' with an adjacent park and city beach. And there will be the floating Rijnhavenpark too here. Shown here are works for that park – in this case floating terraforming.
This is number 258 of Urban Frontiers and 296 of Rotterdam harbour and industry.
Not a blog post - just something my rather tired self enjoyed making, using two things I was really thrilled about putting together. Only to then end up following my whims into highlighting the silhouette only. And you know what? Sometimes, that's alright. Leave something for the imagination.
Body: CZ - Slim - a sincere thank you to Cloud Zifer for his incredible generosity, while I was out there exercising some serious idiocy. It's been an interesting journey leaning into this body in contrast to other possible combinations for this particular body type. And you know what? I enjoy it a lot, and wish there were more content out there for it. For something that is just like this - a simple moment. Which brings me to how thrilled I was that the pants were coming with this fit as well.
Pants: Thirst - Kane Jeans @ Equal10. To be entirely honest, a pair of jeans is a pair of jeans most of the time - there isn't much they can do differently. Steady, simple, just...there, you know? The majority won't inspire ideas or do anything other than...obviously, be a pair of jeans. And if you're like me, then many will inspire some kind of neurotic inspection around how well the cuffs fit around my favorite shoes, and how awkward it can look. So having something that IS different, that simply inspires different ideas and demands a different use, something that simply channels a different set of moods, tickles the part of me that's chronically chasing visuals.
Now if only I COULD wake up fully so I can resume normal transmission, that would be great.
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Went for a little Safari in a park today and how amazing it was to see those three cute little zebras walking all together in a special order that can make you think that they just bleached !
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* Left Horse *
➵ Horse : [Teegle] "Cassidy" the Connemara Pony (available at Teegle Main Store)
➵ Coat : :AppyBottoms: Teeglepet - Convict
* Middle Horse *
➵ Horse : [Teegle] "Cassidy" the Connemara Pony
➵ Coat : :AppyBottoms: Teeglepet - Savannah
* Right Horse *
➵ Avatar : [Teegle] Connemara Avatar (available at Teegle Main Store)
➵ Coat : :AppyBottoms: Teeglepet - Zuzu
* On all Horses *
➵ Mod (ears, mane & tail) : :AppyBottoms: TeeglePet - Zebra (Connemara)
Another one of those moments when the inner photo editor says "stop right here and photograph this." Though there is nothing there to photograph, when I see the scene in the camera's frame I understand on an intuitive level what it is about. Later I can see the appeal of the several angled planes and lines, the subdued red, cyan, and neutral color, the rhythm of asphalt markings, building openings and bricked-in openings, signs, overpainted graffiti, and peeling plaster, the empty asphalt and flat sky, together adding up to an eerily serene and orderly, though empty and desolate, scene with no content, agenda, metaphor, or irony other than the space itself and the shapes that enclose it.
I had some FUN with kids telling how "Möbius strip" works, and letting them practice with the red thing.
If you haven't heard about "Möbius strip" which was discovered by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing (each one discovered independently) in the late 19th century, you may find from the internet.
Every spring, the Netherlands bursts into vivid colors as bulbs shoot and thousands of flowers blossom. The Dutch landscape is complemented by beautiful stripes of color. Visitors from all over the world travel to The Netherlands to be able to experience rows of flowers stretching to the horizon.
Punkte und Streifen.
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Für“Looking close….on Friday!“ am 22.10.2021.
Thema:“Dots and Strips“ Punkte und Streifen.
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A spectral Christmas Eve walk at Ivinghoe Beacon.
Despite knowing this walk so well, there were a couple of moments when I lost my bearings in this blanket of fog.
A lot of the farmers around here introduced 3 metre conservation strips around their fields a number of years ago. The idea is to encourage the return of the many endangered species of farmland birds that declined following the introduction of intensive farming techniques. Certainly it seems to have worked with good populations of Skylarks, Meadow Pipits, Yellowhammers and Corn Buntings at this location. Not that I saw any in this pea souper!