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on the beautiful island of sifnos
(22) the gospel of thomas
Yeshua said to them,
When you make the two into one,
and when you make the inner like the outer
and the outer like the inner
and the upper like the lower,
and when you make male and female into a single one,
so that the male will not be male nor the female be female,
when you make eyes in place of an eye,
a hand in place of a hand,
a foot in place of a foot,
an image in place of an image,
then you will enter the kingdom.
Taken from quite a distance, zooming in and cropping a bit, I tried to capture the midwinter, midnight flowering that occurs above Oslo when the new year begins.
Two minutes after Midnight.
Each of us has his own Alice, curious and fearless, ready for new adventures and new discoveries!
But when we get older, Alice becomes smaller, there are fears, insecurities!
But in dreams and through dreams we still are drawn to adventure and achievements, and it helps us to realize the dream into reality!
But even if we sometimes feel lost because of the fact that everything around us is changing and sometimes too fast, Alice somewhere inside and always with us!
This is my current thinking, such was the mood today and I wanted to somehow translate it! Maybe it was she ...
There is 8 photos together!
(Sorry for my english )
I was walking in Berbera old town when a man came to me. I had to answer for the 500th times to the questions "what are you doing, from where do you come, are you a journalist..". The man was a teacher, and he accepted to let me take pictures of the students.
He is supposed to send me his mail to receive the pics..
© Eric Lafforgue
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened ~~ John M. Richardson, Jr
'Mother and Child' is such a rich and strong theme.
No one stays indifferent to it, and depending on the interaction, it can raise very varied feelings.
Usually good advice.
Don't hand your camera to your sweetie to hold when ya gotta go to the bathroom. Take it with you.
Why you should always have your camera with you. Window in a public restroom at Pillar Point, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."
- - Will Rogers
His good advice is something our politicians should take to heart.
Best viewed LARGE
"Spanish bar" cake that I "had" to make during tax preparation. It's a spicy cake recipe that I have tweaked to perfection. Mine is made with currants, sultana and golden raisins and walnuts. Topped with cream cheese frosting. I made small heart-shaped cakes for fun and to take longer frosting them and less time doing my taxes. The taxes are done now, so I can stop baking... :D
...when Heaven provides wisdom and trusts God's People to fulfill Humanity's destiny for love and peace forever...
When I was a child, I always dreamt of being an adult. Being an older person meant having to make decisions for yourself, creating one’s own private path, so to say. I wanted to be taller, to grow hair on the angles of my baby face, to be able to drink alcohol and light a cigarette without hiding from the elders of my life.
And now that I am? Now that I have experienced grown up things? Hmm.. Lord only knows how much a lot of us want to be brought back to a certain point in our younger lives and never, ever grow old.
But hey, with age comes experience, and with experience comes with wisdom right? So who am I to complain… it’s just that sometimes, It’s really hard to get un-tangled ☺ Have a great Sunday everyone ☺
When this shopping center was built, they added some Walmart architectual details, such as the unique blockwork and the red and blue striping, to match the store. Walmart been gone for many years, and most of the striping has been repainted grey. This section is still original.
My boy Cash. He's going on 8 years old now. Oh, how time flies...
I'm in the heart of my crazy summer work season, so if I'm not around much for the next 2-3 weeks, you'll know why. Not much flickr time with 25 stops a day! Hope you're all enjoying your summer... or winter depending on where you live. =)
As I was trying light trails for the first time. I suddenly heard a siren approaching behind me and knew I had to get it in the shot.
When the Illinois Central started the new unit grain train service to Iowa elevators on the former CC&P, they refered to them as Super Trains. They usually looked super too. Pairs of the then-new black SD70s and full consists of aluminum-body grain hoppers. They ran then on fast schedules and they usually had priority over the regular freights. A westbound empty Super is on the east side of Rockford, IL on February 8, 1998 behind the IC 1019, 1017 along with CCP 2005, 2003 and repainted Paducah 8411.
When Binbrook shut, it was removed to the ranges at Pendine, and last heard of in 1994.
As they say, ....'There's only fighters, and targets'
My camera and I haven't been too close this last week or so. She wants to head out and hit the trails, and I have to keep denying the chance in favor of, well, those various reasons that always seem to get in the way of doing the things we want to do.
Instead, today, when I'm feeling every one of the years I've seen fly by, I decided to dig into the archives and find a moment when the only thing that mattered was the complete cessation of time. When the day kissed the night and everything stood still.
when the branches hit the fan
I never miss an opportunity to look "up" . . .
especially when my patience is being tested
or just for "so" . . .
So . . . here you go . . .
Not what one would technically call
"Airborne plants"
no water needed here . . .
for display only . . .
How COOL, don't you think?
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling.
Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
~ Bill Shankly ~
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive.
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
(Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Not much to add to this, except maybe, why Saint Exupéry TODAY (tonight) and here!?!
EVERYBODY must know the book LE PETIT PRINCE... if you don't; let me know and I'll organise the library bus to bring you a copy!!!
I have read and re-read this little booklet in German, French, English and most likely even in Italian - it's easy to understand and it contains 'stuff' to re-think for ages.... it's subtly bringing facts of life to the point and it is so lovingly written that you can't hold anything against the writer - even if you sometimes might want to! It is - in short - probably the most lovable book anybody can find.
After having bought copies of a very beautiful CD, read by Will Quadflieg (in German) for my nearly blind mother, my little sister and the children of my bros-in-law, I got a copy of my gift sent back to me by little sis..... and after a very long time I have inserted it in the car CD player, where I listen to it on my way to .... somewhere! It made me aware once again how absolutely wonderful this aviator and writer is expressing himself in his work.
These four-leaf-clovers are my latest pride and joy. The make lovely red flowers and if you care to stroll down in the comments, you'll find more close-up shots of those little darlings. I wish all of you who still live through Thursday, A HAPPY GORGEOUS GREEN THURSDAY and to the rest of us a BEAUTIFUL GREEN FRIDAY!
For the shutter sisters: Hello..... (sunshine, morning, night, happiness, smiles!)
Good night, little princesses, little princes - sleep tight!
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Story Hour Readers: First Year- Second Half by Ida Coe and Alice J. Christie, illustrated by Frederick W. Richardson. Copyright 1913 by American Book Company.
"The fellowship of books is real.
They're never noisy
when you're still.
They won't disturb you
at your meal.
They'll comfort you
when you are ill.
The lonesome hours
they'll always share.
When slighted they
will not complain.
And though for them
you've ceased to care
Your constant friends
they'll still remain."
~ Edgar Guest ~
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Location: Home
When I lived in Colorado, the porcupines seemed to be about the size of a basketball. Here in Alaska, they are more the size of a medicine ball.
This buy was busy eating willow buds along side the park road.
SL has kicked me hard more times than I can count since the day I came here. There have been so many moments when I’ve sat back and asked myself, Why am I even still here? Today was one of those days.
Someone I trusted deeply, someone I looked up to and called my brother, hurt me in a way I never expected. He used his alt to try to get involved with me, telling me it was his friend, when all along it was him. Even in a virtual world, that kind of betrayal is still wrong. Trust is trust, family is family, and what happened crossed a line for me.
We were family. We were good. Or at least, I thought we were. I never imagined that someone I considered my brother would look at me and think I would use an alt to get North. I would never do something like that to someone I loved and respected.
And let me make something very clear: I am not dating anyone here. Zero. I don't want a relationship, I don't want drama, and I don't want anyone trying to fill a space in my life that I am not offering.
Right now, I want to be alone.
I have given so much of myself to people here. I have trusted, loved, defended, stood beside people, and called them family. But every time that trust gets broken, another piece of me goes with it. My heart has been through enough, and honestly, it isn't strong enough for another betrayal.
So I am stepping back. Not because I don't care, but because I finally have to care about myself.
I don't know what the future holds for me in SL. Maybe I'll find my way back to the things that once made me happy. Maybe I'll simply disappear for a while. But one thing I know for certain is that I will not beg anyone to understand my heart, and I will not continue putting myself in situations where trust can be used against me.
Sometimes the hardest goodbye isn't because you stopped loving someone. It's because they showed you that the person you thought they were was never the person you truly knew.
Tonight, I choose peace. I choose distance. I choose myself.
And for now, that's enough.
When the lights naff, think differently.. One from a couple of hours in Dinorwic doing Infrared yesterday afternoon.
"When cats take over the world
Everyone will be kind
You could jump on the counter
And eat whatever you find
You could cough off a hairball
And no one will mind
Maybe we’ll all purr
When cats take over the world"
I invite all my friends to see this video of a brazilian NGO for stray cats. The images are lovely and the music, "When Cats Take Over The World", by a folk singer named Jamie Anderson, is the ultimate anthem for kitties. Enjoy!
When you see a photograh it is not easy to judge heights etc.
That is a full grown man sitting on the top of these rocks
O.k. ... So my heater has been acting up for a couple weeks. Some days the thermostat won't kick it on. I fiddle with it...and eventually it comes on. Well today...nothing. I went to work, came home for lunch and realized it was out of whack. I tried to fix it to no avail. I bundled the dogs up with blankies on the couch and went back to work. Came home, it's still not working. Snoopy is in a bit of a panic when he's cold. He likes to burrow and heat up his surroundings. I had his sweater on but sometimes his little front leg gets tweaked. It's 68 degrees in the house and I usually keep it like 72-74. (I know, we're wussies! ) ; ) Everybody has their pleasure...ours at my house is being cool in the summer, and warm in the winter/spring. I pay my SMUD utility bill, so "I do what I want." They're coming tomorrow to fix the unit.
Moob: man-boob, Snoopy has one big one. hee hee
3/29/06 It's fixed! Yeah, It's rainy and cold, but we're all warm and toasty.
When I started SquishTish, I was only sewing for Pullip until I got a custom request that, truly, changed my life and influenced me greatly :)
That order, followed by many others, was made by Leslie, our beloved Bogostick here on Flickr. She encouraged me to sew more for Barbie, she helped me to start sewing for Poppy and she has been my closest dolly friend for almost 5 years!
My most basic and good-for-all dress pattern was made because of her!
So I decided it was time to name a dress after Leslie, one that had been made based on her personal taste and on particular details she chose :)
I, thus, present to you The Leslie Dress: a shift dress, with bateau neckline and pockets, to which I'll be able to add a variety of sleeves and details! And you'll be amazed at how beautiful it looks in bright colours, with an elbow length sleeve ;)
Thank you so much for everything you do for me, Leslie! <3