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I am trying to decide if Tansy would like a KW friend here or if she would prefer to be my only KW doll.
I really do like the tan Missy that is on pre-order at the moment at Jpop. But I don't like the long wait times that come with a Jpop pre-order.
Decisions, decisions..........
I wasn't sure about uploading this picture.
I was watching this lady whilst i was having a coffee. She looked lost in her thoughts and dare i say alone. I didn't want to invade her privacy but felt compelled to take the picture.
I look and stare so deep in your eyes
I touch on you more and more every time
When you leave, I'm begging you not to go
Call your name two or three times in a row
Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feeling and my pride is the one to blame
'Cause I know I don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can
Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's
Got me looking so crazy right now (in love)
Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch
Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch)
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss
Got me hoping you'll save me right now
Looking so crazy in love's
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love
When I talk to my friends so quietly
Who he think he is? Look at what you did to me
Tennis shoes, don't even need to buy a new dress
If you ain't there, ain't nobody else to impress
It's the way that you know what I thought I knew
It's the beat my heart skips when I'm with you
But I still don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can
Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's
Got me looking so crazy right now (in love)
Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch
Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch)
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss
Got me hoping you'll save me right now
Looking so crazy in love's
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love
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~*~Enjoy, my friends...
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Dave Koz & Montell Jordan . Careless Whisper
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My little piece of SL which is open tot he public, Strange Thoughts.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sparkling%20Champagne/25/6...
We were on a brief vacation at the seaside in Milano Marittima, a locality of the ancient town of Cervia and I could not refrain from trying some sunrise sessions. If you are not an occasional visitor of my photostream, you will know that this is a recurrent custom for me :-)
In this stretch of the Adriatic shoreline beaches are exploited to the last inch for tourism - beach umbrellas and chairs literally everywhere...
So I decided to try a different environment. Cervia is renowned for its "sweet" salt, produced there since Etruscan times. Indeed, the town is nested between the sea and the saltpans. This is the first shot of a series dedicated to the saltpans of Cervia at sunrise.
The saltpan is an environment rich in biodiversity - full of bird calls and fluttering wings... I have even spotted a large group of pink flamingos in the distance, but they were too far to be decently captured by my poor 300 mm lens.
This photograph is from my second sunrise session at Cervia saltpans, and my 14 years old son Jack was with me - with his brand new Nikon Coolpix 610 and my old tripod - his very initiation to this kind of photography, although it was not his first sunrise ("A wonderful experience", he yawned as we were heading back to the hotel, "yet not to be repeated too soon" ;-)).
The world around us was absolutely still and silent, but for the calls of the birds in the darkness (there were none here, though). When we arrived at the chosen place (quite near the house portrayed in my Reflections from the past) the stars were still shining in a velvety night sky. Then curtains of light began to rise from the horizon, revealing a translucent sky draped with just a few clouds - some moderately interesting ones, still not enough for my taste... however one cannot summon magnificient clouds at her will :->.
However the surface of the water was as still as a glass mirror and was giving wonderful reflections. Then, at last, even the brightest stars had a last shiver and faded. The sun rose above the horizon and the diverse life of the saltpan began unfolding in its full scope.
I have to admit that I am not highly satisfied with this shot, but sometimes it is better a modest photo than no photo at all :-) Hope that you will enjoy it anyway.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Some bands in the sky returned here... they seem to be due to use of the MMM mask from Saul Goode's excellent script - not always, though...
"The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
“A Child’s Garden of Verses” by Robert Louis Stevenson and illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat. Copyright 1915 by the Saalfield Publishing Co.
William Shakespeare quotes.
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This is believed to be the oldest remaining Roman amphitheatre in the world. It pre-dates the Flavian Amphitheatre (the Colosseum, Rome) by some 100 years.
Pompeii's amphitheatre is thought to be the first built from stone - previous ones having been wooden.
Australia has gone lockdown mad, the world is on the verge of something big, and I'm going to take a few days off to process things.
In 1955 Allen Ginsberg wrote one of the most powerful and controversial poems of the 20th century, "Howl". In it he raged against forces that conspired to destroy human creativity and authenticity. It was prophetic. His opening line is the perfect description of our current era.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
Then it got even darker!
"What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money!"
And on he went. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
In 2016, barely two months before his death, the great musical prophet Leonard Cohen (may his memory be blessed), left us with a powerful series of songs that seem to foreshadow changes that at the time we had no idea were about to hit the world. The title track was dark enough:
"If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame
Magnified, sanctified
Be the holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y
And then he got darker again with "Puppets".
Early in the 20th century T.S Eliot wrote the poem that summed up the impasse that humanity had come to in "The Waste Land". That was powerfully obscure, but when I first studied it in high school, I was even more impressed by the relative simplicity of another poem of his that got to the nub of modern humanity. It is clearly echoed in the very different work of Allen Ginsberg. His 1925 poem “The Hollow Men” describes 'a desolate world, populated by empty, defeated people.' It begins:
"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion..."
And it ends with these prophetic words:
"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
To use an old obscure Hebrew word:
SELAH
Here's a video everyone should watch. It explains a lot of what's going on right now all around the world:
"MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill" www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
Still not convinced something is going on to erase our true humanity? Well check out this official World Economic Forum video:
"When Humans Become Cyborgs | DAVOS 2020"
Vyšehrad is a historical fort located in the city of Prague, Czech Republic. It was probably built in the 10th century, on a hill over the Vltava River. Situated within the castle is the Basilica of St Peter and St Paul, as well as the Vyšehrad Cemetery, containing the remains of many famous people from Czech history, among them Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Karel Čapek, and Alphonse Mucha. It also contains Prague's oldest surviving building, the Rotunda of St Martin from the 11th century.