The beauty and the pain of being human. Images.

[Iloveyou]

I discovered the immensely rich and diverse blog of the American photojournalist Steve McCurry – to go through it is kind of addicting, but it would also be too much at once. So I'll share little by little. Have a short stopover before journeying on.

All contributions about beauty and pain of being human are welcome.

(All images and quotes are from Steve McCurry's blog)


https://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/afghn-12813ns1.jpg?w=900&h=600



The walking tree?



https://juan314.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/steve-mccurry-on-the-road-15.jpg?w=869&h=587


All language is a longing for home. Jalaluddin Rumi.

Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot.



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Conversations are the heart of what it means to be human. Theodore Zeldin.

[Iloveyou]

https://hyperperfo.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/yugoslavia-10137.jpg



Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Langston Hughes

[Iloveyou]

This is a cross-post from another thread – for all who haven't seen it yet, and it fits here very well.

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HUMAN by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

What makes us human?

2000 women and men from 60 countries, from the most different cultures and walks of life, telling a very personal story about women, love, work, poverty (vol. 1), about war, forgiving, homosexuality, family and life after death (vol.2), about happiness, education, disability, immigration, corruption and the meaning of life (vol. 3).

After having watched the first half of vol. 2 all the little sorrows have shrinked to the size of nanoparticles :)

It's more than four hours, but it works quite well to tune in at various points. If you make sure to start with vol. 1 and bear with it at least for the first seven minutes – I think I need not to say more.

https://www.youtube.com/user/HUMANthemovie2015

[ZooLife]

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Langston Hughes


If literature could literally bleed this would surely be in the category.

http://vividlife.me/ultimate/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/takeyourbreathaway.png

[Iloveyou]

-jHv-YLL46A

[Iloveyou]

https://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/usa-10550.jpg?w=900&h=600



https://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/italy-10405.jpg


You can only come to the morning through the shadows. J.R.R.Tolkien

Between the idea and the reality / between the motion and the act / falls the shadow. T.S.Eliot.



https://sientateyobserva.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/lv_0093_final-flat_4elephants_flat_0-e1424364487702.jpg


. . finding the sublime.

[Iloveyou]

http://guardache.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ok-indicates-that-landmines-have-been-cleared.jpg?w=782&h=526

'ok' indicates that landmines have been cleared

[Bill Ryan]

https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kevin-carter-vulture.jpg?w=700&h=466


This famous, heart-wrenching photograph was taken in 1993 by South African journalist Kevin Carter.

Carter later said that he did not try to help the little girl, and afterwards, sat under a tree and "Talked to God". He committed suicide a little over a year later.

[Bill Ryan]

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Having posted the above, I have to balance it with this. Humans are always drawn to help others (and beat up on themselves when they do not)... one of the divine attributes that makes us what we all are.

http://www.smartearningmethods.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rescue1.jpg

[Limor Wolf]

The human journey is the epitom of all deep experiences of sadness and beauty and challenges combined, let it be a good reminder and advocacy for any verdict that may be taken somewhere with regads to the human species, there's nothing like it in edges and polarity and unity and enormouse potential.

Thank you very much I loveyou and Bill for your great compassion that is so evident in your posts, may we find the freedom, the right and obligation to live indepedently to our beauty rather than to our various hindrances

:angel:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ZwaEzMtJw

[Fanna]

This is a history of "what brought us together in 2014."

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[AriG]

https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kevin-carter-vulture.jpg?w=700&h=466


This famous, heart-wrenching photograph was taken in 1993 by South African journalist Kevin Carter.

Carter later said that he did not try to help the little girl, and afterwards, sat under a tree and "Talked to God". He committed suicide a little over a year later.

This might be the very reason that we are essentially alone in the Universe. How could he have not helped that little soul? This makes me scream from the most primal of places.

We are a prison planet for a reason. We deserve it. :(

[Limor Wolf]

https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kevin-carter-vulture.jpg?w=700&h=466


This famous, heart-wrenching photograph was taken in 1993 by South African journalist Kevin Carter.

Carter later said that he did not try to help the little girl, and afterwards, sat under a tree and "Talked to God". He committed suicide a little over a year later.

This might be the very reason that we are essentially alone in the Universe. How could he have not helped that little soul? This makes me scream from the most primal of places.

We are a prison planet for a reason. We deserve it. :(

Hi AriG, I symphatise with your heavy feelings, that thought crossed my mind as well. It is hard to know what stops a man from reaching his hand and do something, Even though we do not know what he has been through himself up till this moment, what he has seen, how much his heart had to stiffen, we think we understand it all, we know we would do differently. This is not the first time that a professional photographer chose to continue with documanting as an observer and not participate in the reality that happens befor him, take a courageous stand. Sometimes it is unberable to experience our most difficult human moments. I don't think that we deserve it, though, none at all. We are not so much alone in the universe and 'others' has a significant weight in the events that are happening here, and certain hindraces that were not helpful in our growth and development and our ability to properly react to things, this comes up more and more as our days goes by. There is a need to fix it, please do not give up on us or on yourself so quickly

Blessings ~

Limor

[AriG]

https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kevin-carter-vulture.jpg?w=700&h=466


This famous, heart-wrenching photograph was taken in 1993 by South African journalist Kevin Carter.

Carter later said that he did not try to help the little girl, and afterwards, sat under a tree and "Talked to God". He committed suicide a little over a year later.

This might be the very reason that we are essentially alone in the Universe. How could he have not helped that little soul? This makes me scream from the most primal of places.

We are a prison planet for a reason. We deserve it. :(

Hi AriG, I symphatise with your heavy feelings, that thought crossed my mind as well. It is hard to know what stops a man from reaching his hand and do something, Even though we do not know what he has been through himself up till this moment, what he has seen, how much his heart had to stiffen. This is not the first time that a professional photographer chose to continue with documanting as an observer and not participate in the reality that happens befor him, take a courageous stand. Sometimes it is unberable to experience our most difficult human being moments. I don't think that we deserve it, none at all. We are not so much alone in the universe and 'others' has a significant weight in the events that are happening here, and certain hindraces that were not helpful in our growth and development and our ability to properly react to things, this comes up more and more as the days goes by. There is a need to fix it, please do not give up on us or on yourself so quickly

Blessings ~

Limor

Oh Limor! I am so heartsick right now I can hardly bear it. Yes, we live on a beautiful, yet brutal planet. Nature takes its course, but what this man didn't do is the height of sociopathy. This child is of his kind and was facing death as the vultures waited for their meal. It doesn't matter what pain he had previously experienced. This baby was within his reach, within his power to affect, and he did nothing. What if that one simple act of saving that baby was the pivotal defining moment for the salvation of mankind? We can only hope and pray that the little soul has suffered no more abuse as it incarnates. One can only hope that the soul of the photographer can be retrained to care. He exploited that suffering, dying baby for the sake of his career. The height of evil. No better than the blood drinking lizards that rule the world. At least he had the good sense to kill himself, and forgive me for saying this if he was under the influence of external forces. That said, we always have free will. That's the primary directive of the game. Always free will...

[Limor Wolf]

I agree with you and concur, AriG

I looked at Kevin Carter's Wikipedia page to see what's written there -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter

It says -

"He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in a middle-class, whites-only neighborhood. In 1980, he witnessed a black mess-hall waiter being insulted. Carter defended the man, resulting in him being badly beaten by the other servicemen...

In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a hooded vulture landed nearby. Carter reported taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and leaving

But there is another version to this story

Joao Silva, a Portuguese photojournalist based in South Africa who accompanied Carter to Sudan, gave a different version of events -

Again according to Silva, Carter was quite shocked as it was the first time that he had seen a famine situation and so he took many shots of the suffering children. Silva also started to take photos of children on the ground as if crying, which were not published. The parents of the children were busy taking food from the plane, so they had left their children only briefly while they collected the food. This was the situation for the girl in the photo taken by Carter. A vulture landed behind the girl. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 meters. He took a few more photos before chasing the bird away.

Two Spanish photographers who were in the same area at that time, José María Luis Arenzana and Luis DaVilla, without knowing the photograph of Kevin Carter, took a picture in a similar situation. As recounted on several occasions, it was a feeding center, and the vultures came from a manure waste pit."



We can't know what is the correct version of the story, but we can assume from his suicide letter that he was not at all indifferent or evil.

"I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... "

And with this may all the suffering souls on this planet be rest in peace and immerse in harmony, all the more reason for us to stand strong (outworldly and inworldly), recognise the great amount of conditioning, heal ourselves and say no more, recognise the parasitic energies that control and drive everyone's life here on this beautiful earth and claim our rights and soverginity to manage ourselves with no interferences whatsoever. And so it shall be ~

[AriG]

, heal ourselves and say no more,~

Well said and thankfully qualified. But something you said stood out (above)... what does this mean?

[Iloveyou]

That issue has reached such a depth and intensity in no time. Bill, Limor and AriG, you have touched what matters for us here, in its innermost core. It shall be the leitmotif.

I've seen the image before and after a minute of staring, confusion and non understanding decided (half-consciously) that it should have no impact on me. But that was back then. As if there were no resonance, as if there weren't anything to not be felt immediately. Like running down the street and screaming without end. Some people do.

Time to breathe out. The next two images again speak for themselves.


http://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/afghn-10103.jpg?w=900&h=604



http://stevemccurry.com/sites/default/files/blog/AFGHN-12166a.jpg

[DeDukshyn]

.
Having posted the above, I have to balance it with this. Humans are always drawn to help others (and beat up on themselves when they do not)... one of the divine attributes that makes us what we all are.

http://www.smartearningmethods.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rescue1.jpg

This one is particularly good ... Both the pain and the beauty, almost equally.

[Citizen No2]

The height of evil. No better than the blood drinking lizards that rule the world. At least he had the good sense to kill himself,

Wow.

Just, wow.

[Isserley]

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/29486971/m=900_k=1_a=1/ce0407d232f60c7dd93cf77378b6f61c

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/32738251/m%3D2048/af0ff36a95074199900d4ce8c9a8dc95

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/48276972/m%3D2048/e651a877b92b6bdc0f09ffc0a9c96fd6

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f1MGSv2mbNQ/Ue6BsuVX7vI/AAAAAAAAC1Y/H_6bsqd5upk/s640/626bfff7c5b8f74836ee4ee4f997a130.jpg

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/57708522/m%3D2048/a70817445d080d22928cb322da2afe11

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/51/b5/b4/51b5b4ede4879ac06f22f35d27d6d747.jpg

Fantastic photos by Abe Less

[gripreaper]

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[kanishk]

I regret not helping really needy or a poor beggar because there are lots of fake ones who are on roads only to make money. But the real ones are not good at asking money.. and before you know they are gone or sometimes there are so many people that would watch you if you go approach them.

These real needy people out of fake are 10 to 5 percent.. Don't know why they are not good at asking for help, for money.. While others make it their profession. They are just actors. And their trick is to insult you to make you give the money and earn a lot of money.. While those few you can see just lying somewhere and with very poor health..

So the a person who respect everyone can not get anything in help, but if you insult people, you have no honor then people will give money..

[Iloveyou]

I understand you perfectly. Once you have started noticing people living on the streets who are no longer able to care for themselves, you can't look away anymore. And no one likes it to be cheated, taken advantage of or being taken for a fool. Sometimes it's easy to give.

But look, those beggars who are obviously so skilled in all the tricks how to make people give them money – they are often trained and forced into this 'job' from an early age by their 'owners'. They have to deliver all the money to their bosses in those criminal organizations and have miserable lives. So they do whatever they can to earn the daily minimum amount demanded.

At least I can only talk for European cities, it might be very different in other countries.

[Iloveyou]

https://journalytic.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/syriachildren3.jpg?w=620&h=413

8-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian child soldier, smokes as he carries his AK47.

Photo: Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini.

[Iloveyou]

.....................................

more conversations . .


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[Iloveyou]

http://img.welt.de/img/digitalaward/crop100862200/4289593045-ci3x2l-w540-aoriginal-h360-l0/nobel-Prag-1246.jpg

Fortress Europe

Photo: Rolf Nobel

[AriG]

The height of evil. No better than the blood drinking lizards that rule the world. At least he had the good sense to kill himself,

Wow.

Just, wow.

Sorry if I offended you. That was a primal reaction, not an intellectual one.

[Laura Elina]

There's been an influx of refugees coming into Finland lately from war zones and it has brought out a lot of good and some bad in people.

"Third world issues" are not decontextualized pieces of information or pictures anymore, real people embodying these issues (or experiencers) are pouring in. They have names and faces, hopes and dreams... Fears. It's not a matter of raising awareness anymore that has been made quite convenient with the rise of social media, now it's a matter of acting upon that information, a matter of interaction.

I'm amazed at people's willingness to volunteer at the refugee centers, and as alarmed at the aggressiveness harbored in certain extremist groups that have organized gatherings in public places, and things have escalated to violent outbursts towards the refugees, centers have been burned down.

Most of all I'm disappointed in how little I have done now that I have an opportunity to do so in the local refugee center, because of being scared to reach out (social anxieties that have gone from bad to worse). I'm so very proud of the young people of this town who seem to do it with ease. So very proud. (It's not like I don't help people in need, when they approach me, but it's not like I have sought them out either lately.)

So whatever the real story of Kevin Carter encountering a little girl in dire need of help is, I can sympathize with shutting down, when you are the final witness.

[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

The Road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began /
Now far ahead the Road has gone / And I must follow, if I can /
Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet / And whither then? I cannot say

J.R.R.Tolkien


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https://sixandfive.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/afghn-12348.jpg?w=895




Go far. Stay long. See deep. And may the sun rise twice before you sleep (Unknown)

[Iloveyou]

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https://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/afghn-12074nf.jpg?w=900&h=600

[Iloveyou]

https://stevemccurry.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/russia-10135.jpg?w=900&h=591





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Hold fast to dreams / for if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams / for when dreams go
Life is a barren field / frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

[Iloveyou]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-erZMlLsdI1o/VW7TgYsrxiI/AAAAAAABjY4/Lcfz4oXiBJg/s640/023%2B-%2B23.jpg


Lonnie Campbell, guitarplayer from Santa Cruz, two rabbits, a raven and a small blue boat – okay, if the rabbit is so happy performing all day, is another question.

(Photo: nerevarino)

[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

This thread seems to become a one-(wo)man-show (huge hug to the one-person-audience lately) :)

I'll keep posting pictures of human beings in all walks of life that speak to me.

In my work I've always been surrounded by the most different kind of People all day and very often been in close personal contact with them. Additionally I've never owned a car, so I'm out in public places - amongst the crowd in the streets every day. And I'm so drawn to the many small encounters, to faces, facial and body expression and the stories that are hidden behind it (though so obviously apparent). In the cities, looking through people's many layers of self-protection and self-isolation you'll find pure pain, but sometimes gentleness and tenderness shining through.

seven billion unique faces, seven billion unique stories.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yJF1FyuxIyo/VW7VyEbK9bI/AAAAAAABjkM/4KDLdbsPpGE/s640/115%2B-%2B115.jpg

(Photo: Andrew Hitaylenko)

[Iloveyou]

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https://middleeastrevised.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/lebanon.jpg?w=696

[Calz]

This thread seems to become a one-(wo)man-show (huge hug to the one-person-audience lately) :)




Sorry ... have not felt much like posting lately.

Song rather than image but this hits the spot on the pain ledger ... will be back with the beauty soon ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

[Calz]

Two most famous iconic images don't seem to have been posted yet (unless I missed them) ...


http://s.ngm.com/afghan-girl/images/afghan-girl-615.jpg


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ndrX3Z_FQk/TrEUyGoI6cI/AAAAAAAAANo/N-S9tsNnMhw/s1600/Napalm+attack.jpg


Can anyone truly imagine the horrors of war without experiencing it???

Really???

(of note ... the young girl in this horrible image has lately come out with her story)

[Calz]

Okay ... balance ... the beauty ... song again.

Most anyone with kids knows this feeling ....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k75YWKvimfI#t=23

[Iloveyou]

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[Calz]

What Iloveyou seems (to me) to be doing here is very special.

To progress we must integrate both the light and the dark ... focus exclusively on one or the other at your own peril.


I'll post another song (hey Music and Culture) this time to embrace the amazing capacity we as humanity have ...


Perhaps tomorrow I will post something otherwise ... such is life.


For now appreciate the joy in this one ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM#t=13

[Iloveyou]

To progress we must integrate both the light and the dark ...

You are getting to the heart of it.



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[Iloveyou]

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Chechenia, February 2000
Photo: Dmitri Beliakov

[Iloveyou]

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Photo: Wong Yu Liang

[Calz]

Everything is possible but nothing is real ... hmmm



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbF3EAt3ck#t=44

[Calz]

http://blackandbrownnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ChildAbusedCrying.jpg

https://vedha4ever.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/child_parent1.jpg

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[silverfish]

did someone mention the light and the dark ? :sun::heart:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiT8y8t1hYM&feature=related

[Iloveyou]

While listening to that amazing music, immediately Bill's intro to his interview with Kathy Collins came to my mind. :heart:

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[Iloveyou]

So many amazing and stunning images of this beautiful world and life, of nature, animals, all cute and funny situations . . here's the most complex and contradictory creature (in the universe?) . . . no, not the cat :)



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(Photo: Bernat Armangue)




http://vid.alarabiya.net/images/2015/06/01/bb51d2aa-1e3d-466a-8916-114391c36d85/bb51d2aa-1e3d-466a-8916-114391c36d85.jpg
(Photo: ?)






http://cdn2.img.de.sputniknews.com/images/30585/51/305855157.jpg
(Photo: Bernat Armangue)

War again. Its presence is too dominant wherever you look. But there's also a cat in it, yes.

[Iloveyou]

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(Photo: Myriam Meloni)




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Photo: Hamid Sardar-Afkhami)




https://photos.travellerspoint.com/57123/large_44805106-L.jpg

[Calz]

Great thread Iloveyou!!!

You have a real eye for images that tell a story.

Not sure where "everyone else" has gone but I certainly appreciate it.


This one tells the tale with images from both sides ... graphic warnings for those that don't want to take responsibility for what we have done ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-TEojEmnM#t=15

[heyokah]

Angelic images on haunting music

When darkness meets the light and stillness the dancing


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s274bWgG20M

[Calz]

Amazing song combined with graphic war images ... yes this is the human condition we must overcome (including all levels "above" ours).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk

[Iloveyou]

Being human – at times no comment required :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Stranger Than Paradise.

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Absurdist/deadpan comedy. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Minimalist plot.
John Lurie. Former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson. Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint.

Coffee And Cigarettes

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Coffee And Cigarettes - 'Somewhere in California' / Iggy Pop + Tom Waits

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Coffee And Cigarettes - full movie - eleven seperate vignettes

[Laura Elina]

I appreciate this thread and I don't have a picture to share tonight, but a song.

I wanted to share this song with you (a cover by Ray LaMontagne of "Crazy", a song by Gnarls Barkley). Sentiments I've been feeling lately and perhaps others relate to them as well. Humane feelings of the human condition.

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I remember when
I remember, when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that phase
Even your emotions had an echo
In so much space

And when you’re out there
Without care
I was out of touch
It wasn’t because I didn’t know enough
I just knew too much

Does that make me crazy
Does that make me crazy
Does that make me crazy
Probably

An I hope that you are having the time of your life
Oh but think twice
That’s my only advice

Come on now
Who do you
Who do you think you are
Woah Woah
Bless your soul
Do you really think that you’re in control

Well I think you’re crazy
I think you’re crazy
I think you’re crazy
Just like me, yeah

My heroes had the heart
To lose their lives out on a limb
An all I remember
Is thinking I wanna be like them

Ever since I was little it looked like fun
It was no coincidence that I’ve come
I can die when I’m done

Maybe I’m crazy
Maybe you’re crazy
Maybe we’re crazy
Probably

A la la la la la la
a la la, a la la, a la la, a la la
yeah, yeah, yeah
wo-ah, woah, woah, woah, woah
lay lay lay lay
a la la, a la la, a la la, a la la

[Iloveyou]

K i i t o s !

Here's a picture for you, Laura Elina.

http://davidlazarphoto.com/amp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/05-David-Lazar-Monk-Eyes.jpg

[edina]

I just discovered this little gem, and it seems to fit here.

OmLNs6zQIHo

[Iloveyou]

I wonder what their dreams were ?

http://www.photographyblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/26.jpg




http://k35.kn3.net/taringa/4/0/2/6/0/3/2/alberto1314/C3D.jpg?8712




http://www.lamauvaiseherbe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1939_-_1943_-_Les_USA_en_couleur_18.jpg

[Calz]

What I wonder is how we can continue to let the "monsters that be" get away with this???

Is everyone worldwide in power bought and paid for ... or is that a silly question???


http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Hungry-Children.jpg

http://momsagainsthunger.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a7cb9b0e970b016764ff5fa9970b-800wi

https://soulverses.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/hungry-children.jpg


Plenty of food on the planet ... enough to feed everyone many times over.

Why do we let the elite do this???

[Iloveyou]

post edited.
cartoons and quote were taken
out of their proper context -

have that one instead.

http://www.quote-coyote.com/album/small/William-Seward-Burroughs-fun-quotes.jpg

[Iloveyou]

Why do we let the elite do this???

DeIgAlIxI0I

Listen, Little (Wo)Man. WR Reading. Audio. 0.00 Preface 6.45 Listen, Little Man

(read, recorded and uploaded by D.T. Smith)

1946 essay from Wilhelm Reich. Sharp, needfully brutal stuff. This man's life was ruined (and works suppressed) by the powers that be, whom he casually and shamelessly embarrassed. He deserves to be heard today!

[Iloveyou]

http://inagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Elizabeth-Gadd-2.jpg

[Iloveyou]

https://derandre.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/stopthewar.jpg?w=500

[Calz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn91L9goKfQ

[Iloveyou]

I hesitated to post that picture. But I have to.

This is beyond voyeurism. It makes one's blood run cold. I'm sorry.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1087977/thumbs/o-MANU-BRAVO-570.jpg?7

Please let it be flooded with a wave of compassion.

(I'm not sure what to think about taking a picture in such a situation and publishing it worldwide - apart from personality right- and copyright issues.)

[Iloveyou]

GRACIAS A LA VIDA


http://i0.wp.com/lh6.ggpht.com/-8Y2r-akcOmY/UzZaDNIjtWI/AAAAAAAAxCU/s5ULHWlvUBQ/what-i-eat-25%25255B3%25255D.jpg?resize=700%2C466





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[Iloveyou]

I only ask of god / do not let the pain / be indifferent to me . .

I only ask of god / do not let the future / be indifferent to me . .


5Mp8W_-gtcg

. . y la Alegría de la Vida de Argentina

sI6XQm1OWqI

[Iloveyou]

Two last war pictures for a while. I'll stick with the beauty now, I promise.


http://uapress.info/content/news/2015/12/110406/big2/a4a25210278fbfe90dccd83b6fefcf8e1450517905.jpg





https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/46/7b/01/467b01488ef20cd6a614daf579f846ca.jpg

[Iloveyou]

. . and yet this last one.


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/wakhan-corridor/img/13-kyrgyz-opium-addiction-670.jpg



Abdul Metalib and his wife, Halcha Khan, started smoking opium after losing a son; each of their 11 children died
before age six. Many Kyrgyz say they use the drug as an escape from pain, since they have no doctors or medicine.




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[syrwong]

I question the philosophy of not exhibiting anything graphic, especially those showing blood and bodily damage. Does it make us feel better by turning our eyes away from cruelty and the evil, and just staring at the pleasant sights? It is exactly by not seeing the cruel deaths and destructions that the drone controllers feel fun to pull the triggers and no remorse whatsoever. It is also the ever present views of sexy commercials and sports heroes that tranquilizes our senses and make us blind to the real world. In the 60s the horrendous scenes of real war and the footages of Buddhist monks incinerating themselves on the streets of Saigon were presented on the evening news while the family was dining. These led to violent anti-war movements and I think some university students were shot. The US government was forced to pull out of the war partly because of this. Now I don’t see any big opposition to the war machine when the need for it is very urgent (or that I don’t know). People have become rather submissive while some may think they know a higher philosophy that will bring peace without anger and confrontation. I believe therefore graphic contents are necessary as a means to awaken people. This may seem paradoxical but the brutal reality is just thousand folds worse than some mere images to be ignored.

[Iloveyou]

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http://www.kulturologia.ru/files/u18476/NationalGeographi-7.jpg





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[Iloveyou]

http://www.pandorafilm.de/assets/image-cache/content/films/das-leben-der-boheme/stills/das-leben-der-boheme.b66240cb.jpg

troubled souls? :)



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[Iloveyou]

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http://121clicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/doors_and_windows_street_photography_alankrita_singh_05.jpg

[Iloveyou]

Something seemed strange to me when I drove to work this morning

https://im-possible.info/images/art/montage/erik-johansson/crossroad.jpg
(Eric Johansson)

but nevertheless I felt relaxed . .

http://assets.lookbookspro.com/brian-doben/lg_53848278-1c14-409c-972e-459d0a627753.jpg
(Brian Doben)

. . and then, returning home I found this:

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(Eric Johansson)

:bigsmile:

[Calz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBj-ASOHGA

[sdv]

From the Black Coca-Cola Series by Tony Gum (isn't she awesomely beautiful?!)

http://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/3170/078448fa56334b30a0add767a72f2893.jpg

Here is an article about here and a view of 8 of her pieces:

http://city-press.news24.com/Trending/queen-of-selfies-20160220

[Calz]

Wow ...

http://9buz.com/content/uploads/images/February2016/Palestinian_father_bathing_his_daughter.jpg


Palestinian father bathing his daughter and niece in their destroyed home.

[Iloveyou]

Awesomely beautiful, sdv, more pictures of selfconfident, strong, young women are needed 👠 🕶

. . and hey, look at the joy in the girls' faces, and the father's smile (in the midst of war) . . at this very moment I'm watching a young Peruvian father with his one year old chatting and joking in the most tenderly way . . can't stop watching and smiling 🎈

[Iloveyou]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gbVKnm7LnmU/T-k49dOax8I/AAAAAAAAaR0/EW-rfGemUwo/s640/%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%9F+%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93+%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%96%D7%99%D7%94.jpg





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[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

MOSUO WOMAN


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[Iloveyou]

MOSUO PEOPLE / WALKING MARRIAGES

The Mosuo (one of the best known examples of matrilinear society) are a Chinese ethnic minority group of about 40,000 people who live high in the Himalayas, close to the Tibetan border. Officially classified as part of the Naxi minority, they are actually quite a different group, with different language, culture and religion.

They generally live in large extended families, with many generations. Everyone lives within communal quarters, without private bedrooms or living areas (but women over 13 years old get the privacy of their own room.)

Mosuo practice 'walking marriage', which basically means a woman may choose to take lovers from men within the tribe, having as many or as few as they please over their lifetime and couples do not live together or get married. Having multiple lovers and children by different men, does not carry a negative stigma. Romantic and family life are separated into different spheres by design.

Traditionally, a Mosuo woman who is interested in a particular man will invite him to come and spend the night with her.

"Their living quarters have a main entrance but every adult woman lives in her own small hut. The men live together in a large house. The door of every hut is fitted with a hook and all the men wear hats. When a man visits a woman, he hangs his hat on the hook. That way, everybody knows that this woman has a male visitor. And nobody else knocks on the door." (Interview with Ricardo Coler: nice and probably true story :) but the rest of what he's saying is rather stereotypical.

While it is possible for a Mosuo woman to change partners as often as she likes – and in fact, having only one sexual partner would be neither expected nor common – the majority of such couplings will actually be more long term. She may maintain a longterm, monogamous romantic relationship with the father of her children but, unlike in the West, this is considered seperate from her role as mother.

Even in long term pairings they will never go to live with the other's family, but continue to live with and be responsible to their own family. There will be no sharing of property.

A father may have little or no responsibility for his (biological) offspring, his role is discretionary. If he does want to be involved with the upbringing of his children, he will bring gifts to the mother's family, and state his intention to do so. This gives him a kind of official status within that family, but does not actually make him part of the family. A father is not kept from developing a deep emotional relationship with his natural children. Though every man will share responsibilities in caring for all children born to women within their own family (sister, niece, aunt, etc.).

So biological or natural paternity doesn't have great importance, but there are strong, lifelong bonds between the 'fathers' and the children within the own extended family (social paternity) - as all members of the family share in the duties of supporting and raising the children.

There's a saying that "the biggest flying thing in the sky is eagle, the biggest walking thing on the earth is uncle." :)

The result is a family structure which is, in fact, extremely stable. Think about it. Divorce is a non-issue, there are no questions over child custody (the child belongs to the mother's family) or splitting of property (property is never shared), etc. It is not uncommon for families to “adopt” outsiders into their family - to maintain gender balances, because another family has gotten too small to maintain its numbers, or due to orphaning of a child.

One particularly important result is the lack of preference for a particular gender. In many other cultures, the female will join the male's family when she gets married - with the result that a couple with more daughters will lose them after marriage and have no one to care for them in old age. So there will be a strong preference for male children.

A fake and perverted image of the 'sexual freedom' of Mosuo women has been portrayed by tourism operators and a thriving prostitution industry been established at Lugu Lake (though most of the 'Mosuo girls' who work in the brothels are actually girls from other areas, dressed like Mosuo women - and are a source of shame to real Mosuo.

Tourism is booming, and the Chinese government is keen to market and monetise the Mosuo to Chinese tourists, even installing a toll booth charging $5 to enter the area from the newly laid main road. Curious and frisky visitors are lured in by the suggestion that the Mosuo women offer free sex – hotels, restaurants, casinos and karaoke bars have been built, and sex workers shipped over from Thailand dress in Mosuo traditional dress in the "capital village", Luoshu.
"Arriving in Luoshu was a shock – it was tacky and not how I expected," says Locatelli. "
"There were a lot of people asking for money: bar owners and prostitutes that are obviously not Mosuo – it's all geared towards male Chinese tourists."
After talking to locals, Locatelli decided to move on to another village, Lige, in search of "real Mosuo". "I crossed the lake to another village and found them living in the same traditions they have done for 2,000 years – the people there were lovely, kind and living simple, happy lives. (Luca Locatelli)

Interestingly enough, 'historically' the Mosuo had a feudal system in which a small nobility who practiced a patriarchal system - which encouraged marriage and in which men were the head of the house - controlled a larger peasant population.

Would be more than interesting at what time / and by whom that patriarchal 'nobility-system' had started / had been imposed.

http://insideoutchina.blogspot.co.at/2008/12/mosuo-walking-marriage-on-lugu-lake.html

http://insideoutchina.blogspot.co.at/2009/01/mosuo-walking-marriage-on-lugu-lake-2.html

http://www.second-congress-matriarchal-studies.com/gatusa.html

http://www.mosuoproject.org/myths.htm

Books

“ Leaving Mother Lake : A Girlhood at the Edge of the World ”   by Christine Mathieu and Yang Erche Namu   -- this is a very well-written biography of a Mosuo woman, Yang Erche Namu, who left her home to try to make it in the “big city”.   The book focuses a lot on her childhood, and reveals a lot of detail about daily Mosuo life and culture.

“ A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland - Naxi and Mosuo ” by Christine Mathieu – written by the same author as “Leaving Mother Lake”, this is a scholarly anthropological work based on years of study of the Mosuo and Naxi cultures.   Not light reading, but tons of information for those who are seriously interested in the Mosuo culture.

(please keep in mind that there's a lot of sweetish, ironical or stereotypical rubbish about them on the net)


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http://www.absolutechinatours.com/UploadFiles/ImageBase/mosuo-people-zhuanshan-festival%20(2).jpg

[Calz]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1299698/thumbs/o-IPPA-900.jpg?6

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p6RoVuNhass/TlqXWp8EHRI/AAAAAAAAMwI/X0loySyIbzQ/s1600/Black+and+White+Portraits+of+the+Homeless+by+Lee+Jeffries+%25281%2529.jpg

http://slickzine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mental-illness.jpg

[Iloveyou]

I'm willing to give up a lot of things, but I never would like to miss the smile of a stranger in the streets, a keenly interested gaze, curious, sympathetic, a helpful gesture towards a foreigner. Travelling without one's own car, without credit card and without language skills helps a lot.

And I never want to miss an open, honest talk with a friend, feeling nothing else than interest, care, support and the desire to comprehend, to immerse in his/her world, as far as possible, to have a look behind the facade, allowing the other to see . .

I've met an indigenous shaman whose accepting and loving way, whose singing and drumming led me securely through some darkness and I've met a Western 'shaman' (though I've no idea whether he would consent to this term or reject it . . )

In other words: when it became clear that I would have an appointment with Grandmother Aya in Southern Ecuador, Bill invited us to stop by and say hello. He took us to the Quinua Forest in El Cajas National Park - altitude up to 4450m / 14600ft, 270 lakes and lagoons, 152 different species of birds, an enchanted forest of Quinua trees (Polylepis) which grow above 3300 m, the worlds highest forest, also known as paper tree because it constantly sheds its bark in thin layers to prevent parasites to grown on its trunk. One day I'll have to return, bring my sleeping bag and go on a hiking tour for days. That's a promise to myself.

I thought photos will not do it justice, all one is left with is one's brain to process the beauty - and one's heart to keep it. So I didn't take any. Here are some findings from the net.

http://www.elcomercio.com/files/image_gallery/uploads/2014/07/15/53c593a82c685.jpg



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[Iloveyou]

r4-uq8cTF7o


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[Iloveyou]

http://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/207097-How-Are-You-Fine.jpghttps://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/12/1392205068157/Commuters-on-an-overcrowd-012.jpg


The human heart cries out for help / the human soul implores us for deliverance /
but we do not heed their cries / for we neither hear nor understand (Khalil Gibran)

[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

A seven year journey from Ethiopia to Tierra del Fuego started in 2013. I'll join in here in Azerbaijan.
__________________________________________________________________________________

Trapped in the Loneliest Cafés in the World

by Paul Salopek

Sipping tea in Azerbaijan with victims of a 'frozen war' (near Oghuz, Azerbaijan)

The tables stand by the roadside. All are empty. They are manufactured of plastic, made of tin. Bright oilcloth covers them. They hold: cheap saltshakers, sugar bowls, a dusting of black car exhaust. Their legs sink into mud. These are sidewalk cafés without sidewalks in eastern Azerbaijan. They are run by the homeless for travelers.


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Gyoychakh Huseynov fires up her bread oven, in Jalut, Azerbaijan. In a country rich in gas and oil, she uses scavenged sticks.

"This was forest when we arrived," says Nemat Huseynov, 55, a café owner and the patriarch of a family of refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh war. "We came here in buses. It was 1993. We had nothing. We chopped down trees. We lived in tents. Then we built shacks. Now we have a few sheep. We sell bread and tea by the road. This land isn’t ours. It’s borrowed."

"I tell my children about home. It is high in the mountains of western Azerbaijan. It is beautiful. It has hot springs where we used to boil eggs. The air was clean. It was a rich place. There are gold mines. But my children don’t know it. For them it is like someone else’s dream. They only know this place, this road, this camp."

"The day we ran away, I locked the front door of our house and hid the key under a stone in the garden,” Huseynov tells us. “That was 22 years ago. Maybe it is still there. "

[Iloveyou]

sadness . .


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[Iloveyou]

. . and this:






http://www.la-razon.com/sociedad/asi_va_la_vida/Arief-Siswandhono-Indonesia-categoria-Gente_LRZIMA20141218_0057_7.jpg





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now . . . did you ?

[Calz]

I did now ... thank you :)


https://attentiontoliving.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/4_1292860533_a-big-smile-on-an-old-man.jpg

[Calz]

Eye candy ...


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8489/8252541242_36f05c3d35_z.jpg

http://cdn.viralscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/stunning-portrait-23.jpg

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[Calz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex3eZw37YXo

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-F1D_X6hfmc/hqdefault.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zOCGU1FtPnw/TcI0T-mhl3I/AAAAAAAAAFU/62JHLu0lG8o/s1600/All+alone.jpg

http://favim.com/orig/201105/11/alone-art-beautiful-black-and-white-calm-figure-Favim.com-40265.jpg

[Iloveyou]

We can choose to look into the sky, into the universe, the multiverse, the macrocosm, at the extended picture of what might be the purpose of humans, the influence, the impact that (wo)mankind might have on a large scale, throughout the cosmos - or we can look at one specific being expressing him-/herself at this very moment, despite of being locked in prison and being cut off from their full awareness of their own divinity.

I find it such a meditative, healing experience to look in people's faces . . people who allow themselves to be seen. In real life too often we shy away, shut down (even among friends).


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[Iloveyou]

. . or look at us from outer space :bigsmile: :idea:

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https://storage.googleapis.com/thehundreds/media/2015/06/Marth-Cooper-Police.jpg

[Iloveyou]

I come from afar and I'll bring to the table what I have . .

VoPPMktXCEI

Iswegh Attay - I drank some tea

Tuareg, Dogon, Fon . . what's in a name. It can mean everything and nothing.


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[Basho]

My favorite thread! Always either; brings a smile to my face, tears of joy or sadness in my eyes or a good belly laugh.

Thank you :)

[Basho]

We can choose to look into the sky, into the universe, the multiverse, the macrocosm, at the extended picture of what might be the purpose of humans, the influence, the impact that (wo)mankind might have on a large scale, throughout the cosmos - or we can look at one specific being expressing him-/herself at this very moment, despite of being locked in prison and being cut off from their full awareness of their own divinity.

I find it such a meditative, healing experience to look in people's faces . . people who allow themselves to be seen. In real life too often we shy away, shut down (even among friends).


I really love this :heart::heart::heart: I concur

[Iloveyou]

Basho, now YOU brought a smile to my face, tears of joy in my eyes and a good belly laugh, all simultaneously :)

Pictures are just flowing in all by themselves - it's the photographer's compassionate, though respectful gaze which I admire deeply.


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[Basho]

Iloveyou :sun:

That photo reminds me to wear my maroon robe again in public soon! Need to chip away at the tough guy mask I tend to accumulate living in a big city like L.A. :heart:

[Iloveyou]

A STORY OF WAR

A real challenge to look at something from different angles. Learned a bit more about AMERICAN history today. Story of Chiricahua (Apache) warrior 'Geronimo'. It's the best documentary out there, I've been told.

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Long ago Coyote opened a bag of darkness and it spread over the world. Creatures of the night loved it. But birds and little animals longed for day. The little animals played a game to win back the light. They won, but one night monster remained. After the game, the first human, White Painted Woman, gave birth to a son. She hid him from the monster. When the boy was grown, he faced the monster and killed it. He was then called Apache—all Chiricahuas are named after him. Coyote threw a stone into water. He said, “If this sinks, all that live, will die!” Coyote knew all along that the stone would sink. For he is the trickster! Because of his stone, man must die. All that men do, Coyote did first.

The greatest thing a person can have is the power. Benegotsi. It’s scary. This is the truth. To live with Power is very challenging. It’s so potent you must be wary. To have Power is a great responsibility. You can choose to leave it alone or accept it. It’s up to you (Apache elder Ellyn Bigrope)

[Iloveyou]

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A STORY OF RESILIENCE


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The Power of Motherland

„ . . about the relative nature of risk, about transformative connections to home, and about the magnificent tonic of personal agency and self-determination.“

“Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 people live there — almost all of them elderly women. These proud grandmas defied orders to relocate because their connection to their homeland and to their community are "forces that rival even radiation."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/9646437/The-women-living-in-Chernobyls-toxic-wasteland.html

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The Babushkas of Chernobyl. Documentary 2015. Trailer. ApouaPlbs6k

[Iloveyou]

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[Calz]

Oooops :)

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[Iloveyou]

Now, finally I made it LOLhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415U3Tc%2BVyL._SS36_.jpg

(where's the heavy worker gone?)

. . still some more portraits of beautiful people


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[Iloveyou]

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[Eram]

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[Calz]

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[Iloveyou]

xxxxxx

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[Iloveyou]

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. . but lying on the sidewalk outside were a woman and a child. I had seen them before going in, the mother sleepy, the child playing. Now the child has her tiny arm across her mother’s head and both were asleep. A tiny movement of that arm threw me into tears and I can not stop crying until well after I got back to my room and they are with me still.

I took this picture of me above, them below, and it feel exploitive or a crime scene but getting closer might be worse and this is what I saw. I’m carrying health bars bought in bulk at the Boise Costco and leave some at their feet. I tuck some paper money under the child’s arm where I hope it will be found and not stolen.

The route from my hotel to Jyoti’s house earlier that day went by Dharyi, a slum that I know by name from what I’ve read, the largest slum in Asia by someone’s reckoning. I’ve been in the slums of Caracas long years ago, seen Brazil’s favelas and a lot of poor places in Africa. But just driving by Dharvi was so transfixing that I sat at attention and Oh My God came out under my breath. Maybe I’ll be there tomorrow, I don’t know.

(Jerry Brady)

[Iloveyou]

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. . from an interview with Photographer Nicolas Marino who is travelling the world on his bicycle over 80 countries and counting.


Kim: Here is the "civilised" West, we seem to live in a world of fear and suspicion. Every day we are bombarded with news images of wars, terrorists, paedophiles, corruption and global destruction, while politicians and newspapers captilise on this to create a sense of us-and-them: refugees are just terrorists in disguise or here to claim social benefits that takes resources away from our own poor and elderly, while anyone who is not Christian and White is barbaric or backwards. And yet, you travel the world almost entirely reliant on the kindness of strangers - just you on a bicycle - in a way that would seem to be very vulnerable. What is your general view of humanity?

Nico: Let me start by saying that I could write a book alone answering this question but I'll try to be brief. What is going on in the so-called "developed" world is terrifying and with this, I don't mean the bomb-attacks or the economic crisis, those are just consequences, not causes. What I find terrifying is the increasing sense of what you just have rightly said: the sense of us and them, the sense of fearing that other, the one that comes to take from me, to take what is mine, not his and because of this, they are threatening, they are dangerous.

What is terrifying is the growing lack of humanity in the general public in rich but also in all countries alike, this never ending growth of selfishness. All this, fed by governments to fulfil their own agendas, monstrous corporations that have no limits of any kind in order to profit without end, Media that is anything but independent pushing for one or the other and in the middle, there's all of us, being manipulated. Not as much as cattle, but in much more subtle ways, more dangerous and destructive ways.

Kim: There is always a reality and a dignity - you never look down on, or adopt a superiority towards the people you photograph. How important is this to you - to convey the other as not-other?

Nico: You hit the nail with one word: dignity. Dignity, is exactly what I strive to convey above everything. I want viewers to be able to transcend the superficial differences, I also want them to transcend all the visible lack of material possessions of most of the people I photograph, I want them to connect directly with another human being that has the exact same feelings as them and not in hierarchical way so to speak, but in a more equal way.

. . could I say that in the end I'm chasing some kind of ultimate wisdom? I don't know but ultimately, I think that learning through an experience like this, enriches me as a person, it brings down my prejudices, it teaches me to see the world in as many ways as the people that I find in my way, it humanises me. It connects me on a deeper level with the world, with myself, with those around me. It is a beautiful thing.

http://kimayres.blogspot.co.at/2016/03/chasing-shadows-photographer-interviews.html

[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

South Sudan is dying, and nobody is counting.

- South sudan, the world's youngest country, independent since 2011, after two civil wars
from 1955-1972 and 1983-2005 (http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/sudan-brief-history-1956)

- continuing fights, brute force and systematic violence against the civil population

- massive displacement (2,5 million people - out of a population of 11,8 million - fleeing
(most of them are trapped inside the warring nation)

- 6 million facing severe hunger.

- under-five infant mortality rate is 135.3 per 1,000

- maternal mortality 2,053.9 per 100,000 live births (highest in the world)

- more than 90% of the population live on less than $1 a day

- still 300.000 people from neighbouring regions (Darfour) seeking 'shelter' in the war-torn and raped land.



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[Iloveyou]

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Gnawa music has its roots in the slave trade, which displaced many Central and West Africans (mostly the Fulani people) to North Africa. Over the years it has mixed pre-Islamic African traditions with classical Islamic Sufism, and today can be found mostly in Morocco and some parts of Algeria. "Mawama" is both a song of displacement, and one of spiritual transcendence.

[Iloveyou]

A STORY OF RECONCILIATION

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In 1994, more than 800,000 people were killed in the Rwandan Genocide,
a period of massive violence between the Hutus and the Tutsis that lasted 100 days.

Two photographers (Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesic) undertook the project in search
of the boundaries between reality and illusion and their contemplative pictures tell the story
of forgiveness as a process through time. In their photographs they capture what they describe
as the “raw and complex nature of forgiveness.”

"If forgiveness is possible after the genocide in Rwanda,
forgiveness can be possible anywhere, in any case despite the context."

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[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

. . throwing in my last pictures here for a while. May the female power, the gentle power which actually is
'no power' - prevail. May hubris, pretension and self- righteousness, dominance, competition, prejudice and
condemnation, may fear come to an end among human fellows.


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[Iloveyou]

RIDING A MOTORCYCLE AROUND THE WORLD IN THE 70’s

and the melting together of the internal and external journey

Ted Simon's story from the 70's accompagnied me for many years and I still love it . .


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Be available to the world rather than trying to shield yourself from it.

In 1973, Ted Simon set of on a four-year 64,000 mile journey around the world on his trusty Triumph motorcycle. In all of those four years that he was traveling he only met two or three other people on bikes. It was a very rare thing.

"The main thing I was always really careful about, though, was to make it obvious that I was a real human being on this bike. There were no fancy motorcycle clothes in those days. The motorcycle itself, I really dumbed it down so it wouldn’t look like some extraterrestrial vehicle. I had an open-face helmet, and I had no windshield or fairing at all on the motorcycle, which amazes me now."

"People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage… missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis."

"The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world."

. . It seems that when you raise yourself up to achieve something beyond what is needed just to live day by day, the energy you generate has an effect on those around you.”

http://www.advpulse.com/adv-prepping/adv-spotlight-on-ted-simon/

[Iloveyou]

Strangers? Stranded here? Sleeping? Lost? Awake?


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[Iloveyou]

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Listening to Neil Young. It tears one's heart apart.

Getting older, after a lifelong tender, desperate love affair with that marble spinning through space I look around me and realise: No way that I'm indigenous here. Came here to . . Terra for what reason ever, willingly or not, still not clear about it. What I KNOW is only that I came from elsewhere, everything else would be fanciful chatter.

At times the pain is so severe one can't breathe anymore. Pain of being thrown amongst predators, of being deceived, betrayed and lied to. Attacked and ripped to pieces. Time and again one has to go down that road, at times it seems like it will never end.

Though always, always Mother Nature will catch you when you're falling.

[Iloveyou]

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[Iloveyou]

Music and culture: Places I'd like to visit, people I'd like to meet . .



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Tiebele, Burkina Faso


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And I always loved goats:)

[Enola]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeDgdivNlMc

[Bluegreen]

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[Iloveyou]

Great sense for analogies, bluegreen.

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Quote from Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan, 2016:

"Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself. Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past."

"Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood used these tools not just for hunting but against their own kind."




The same picture was propagated in all wars. The falseness, the deceit, the cold-blooded, calculated big lie, that war is a kind of terrible fate that strikes countries and people. War has always been depicted as an impersonal and anonymous force, that hits unexpectedly and unpredictably. The lie, that violence and war are an integral part of the human condition and unfortunately nothing can be done about it (except to wipe out the whole species).

Especially the Germans during the Third Reich were masters in that field. In the US it might be different: There, officially, it's about being the good guy, fighting the good war to liberate the world and to show who's boss (to put it simply). Though the combination of both narratives, depending on which situation is referred to, seems to work best.

. . and they all lived happily ever after. :facepalm:

[Iloveyou]

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Greetings to beautiful, winterly Trondheim.

[Bluegreen]

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[Iloveyou]

Dance! :)


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[Bluegreen]

Dance! :)

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Parov Stelar
Thx to DeDukshyn

[Bluegreen]

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[Iloveyou]

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Would aliens ever ride bicycles? Would they laugh, dance, cry?
Would they look at their nightskies and wonder why :) ?


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[Iloveyou]

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"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . .
because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" (R. Heinlein)

[Iloveyou]

Boarding the iron ore train from Nouadhibou to Choum, Mauritania, West Africa

-one of the world's longest, heaviest trains, a 220-car colossus that ferries iron ore 675 kilometers through the Sahara

-although not meant for passengers, it pulls one or two token, ramshackle passenger cars at the end - but the ride in the iron wagons is free and the railway is the only way to get across the desert, to visit family and friends in distant places or to find work. For others it is a good business proposition to transport their goods for free, or to provide supplies along the route.


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- Mauritania is a strange country, one of the world's poorest
- bridging the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa
- sovereign, independant from France in 1960
- population density is 4 people per km2 (10 per mi2)
- nearly twice the size of France (or 1.5 times as big as Texas) and 90% desert
- nearly 100% Muslim country, member state of the League of Arab States
- influenced by its pagan past, it is the men who cover their faces, not the women
- one of thirteen countries in the world which punishes atheism by death
- an estimated 4% of the country's (black) population are enslaved
- although slavery was abolished in 1981, it was not illegal to own slaves until 2007
- heavy ethnic tensions between the black minority and the dominant Arab-Berber populace

[Iloveyou]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/adventure/photos/000/918/91850.adapt.1900.1.jpg



Let your eyes rest for a minute on this peaceful scene.



http://ukrainianphotographers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/people_001.jpg

[Iloveyou]

Good news:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/12/23FAE90E00000578-2870468-This_elegant_image_of_two_elderly_women_at_a_rock_church_in_Lali-a-21_1418384617412.jpg







http://view.stern.de/de/picture/3438393/streetfotografie-reisefotografie-travelphotography-menschen-aus-aller-welt-940.jpg








https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/amy-vitale/pictures/large/quotes-of-amy-vitale.jpeg








https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6776142469_2233bb2715_b.jpg

Two is better than one . .







https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2017/03/Two-Chefs.jpg

. . and a large pot of soup is better than none :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

[Bluegreen]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nPAGN_7TPNs/S7eV9IrYWVI/AAAAAAAABKU/N0I7puM4Jn0/s320/surprised-baby.jpg

Good news:

http://www.200churches.com/uploads/1/2/8/3/12838904/1407433414.jpg?707

http://cdn2.thebridalbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Be-Romantic-Surprise-Her-How-To-Be-A-Good-Husband.jpg

http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1328664528/459/6384459.jpg

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/9a/c4/15/9ac4152bb00755ad6639eb1a72bd3353.jpg

[AutumnW]

I woke up feeling kind of blah, then looked at these amazing pics! Thanks!

[boolacalaca]

BIRDIE
https://fieldofvision.org/birdie

KAROLLYNE
https://fieldofvision.org/karollyne

THE GATEKEEPER
https://fieldofvision.org/gatekeeper

[Iloveyou]

BIRDIE
https://fieldofvision.org/birdie

KAROLLYNE
https://fieldofvision.org/karollyne

THE GATEKEEPER
https://fieldofvision.org/gatekeeper

I have hope, man. Birdie lived in the tree, they broke my nest,
now I'm in the street. But I'll take off and make another nest.


n3As-rNBidI

That one impressed me most. Though it doesn't take away from Karollyne who lives in the Tijuca Forest in Rio de Janeiro, together with 12 dogs in an abandoned mansion occupied by other formerly homeless people . .

. . or from Mister Yukio Shige: a retired police detective who dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan’s suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.

[Iloveyou]

Desert towns Atar and Chinguetti, Mauritania

[Iloveyou]

-fresh water supply for the town

-my favorite hotel in Nouadhibou

-kids in Choum

[Iloveyou]

Aymara Cholita Climbers, Bolivia


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“What do you do up there, how does it feel?” Huayllas said she asked her husband, mountain guide Eulalio Gonzales. He replied "Why don't you find out for yourself?"

For the past few years, a number of Aymara indigenous women in Bolivia have been climbing high peaks above 6,000 metres, including Parinacota, Pomarapi, Acotango, Potosi and the one the most recently climbing, Illimani (6,438 metres).

Aged 42 to 50, the 11 women gained experience working for mountaineers around Huayna Potosi, a 6,088-metre mountain in the Andes. Their ultimate goal is to climb to the summit of Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside of Asia at 6,961 metres, and plant a Bolivian flag.




https://blog.bazonline.ch/zoom/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2016/04/04739534-978x668.jpg



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[norman]

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_ayyamgallery_com/AO13_1.jpg

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_ayyamgallery_com/AO211.jpg

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_ayyamgallery_com/AO15_1.jpg

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_ayyamgallery_com/AO12_1.jpg

[Iloveyou]

https://seenthis.net/local/cache-vignettes/L121xH180/Barack2CAbda09f6-6a94c.jpg

Interesting art project. Though I'd rather see them in jail. Hmm.

http://www.abdallaomari.com/biograph/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1424819.1377312430!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg

Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers)
northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 (AP/Hadi Mizban)

[Iloveyou]

xxxxx



"To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one . . "

(Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz)


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-74237-004%2C_KZ_Auschwitz-Birkenau%2C_alte_Frau_und_Kinder.jpg
Arrival in Birkenau, Germany 1942



https://jrbenjamin.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/holocaust-tattoos.jpg
Survivors in Thessaloniki, Greece 1991

[Iloveyou]

http://121clicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/thorge_berger_travel_photography_29.jpg

long and winding road ahead . .






http://veobook.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Dobri-el-mendigo-solidario-5.jpg




characters, personalities . .

http://www.vergemagazine.com/media/k2/items/cache/181bbfa794e218f5cd90439ff3dd1578_L.jpg

[Iloveyou]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/aa/36/ceaa3661164fa55331c5d7d4a77c6497.jpg

[Iloveyou]

Pakistan, India and Africa once again, because of the colors . .

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/cb/63/af/cb63af2d654a3dde4c221b8159067158.jpg




http://121clicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/rajagopalan_sarangapani_photography_03.jpg





https://everydayadvocateblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/img_0092.jpg

[Iloveyou]

. . and a gentleman in Havana, Cuba

http://www.wildguanabana.com/uploads/59107833bbc5a.jpg

[syrwong]

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[ATTACH]35747

[Iloveyou]

lp2IHaeflYo

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[Iloveyou]

..........

What is time! Nothing. Worlds are merging.


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INTERMEZZO


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[Basho]

Still, my most favorite thread here on Avalon. Photos continue to bring tears to my eyes & a smile on my face. A refreshing change from the daily desire to accumulate knowledge.

Iloveyou! Thank you 😊

[Iloveyou]

Hi Basho :waving:

https://s8.favim.com/orig/150523/cute-kid-love-photography-Favim.com-2756989.jpg

[Iloveyou]

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/01/blogs/01-lens-kohut-slide-A6OS/01-lens-kohut-slide-A6OS-superJumbo.jpg





https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k-z34FopYa0/maxresdefault.jpg




http://www.amivitale.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/conservation.international.a.vitale.00034108.jpg

[Iloveyou]

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One of Canada's best kept historical secrets, the mass immigration of tens of thousands of
children to be used as a source of cheap labor. Between 1863 and 1949, over 110,000 children
were forcibly removed from the UK and brought to Canada. Known as the British Home Children,
their descendants alone are estimated to make up over 10% of Canada's Population and yet,
even their very own descendants are unaware, not only that their ancestors may
have been BHC, but also what this truly means.

[Iloveyou]

"Getting even has never healed a single person."

"At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job."

"Forgiveness is the ability to no longer be a victim. It is the path towards becoming a survivor.
On that path there will be hardships and times where it is okay to fall, but the pinnacle of truly
forgiving someone for harming you can lead to remarkable and unexpected places."

gdgPAetNY5U

Eva Kor is a survivor of the Holocaust, a forgiveness advocate, and a public speaker. Her life
lesson is never, ever give up. She believes anyone is capable of overcoming anything, and that
forgiveness is a powerful way of self-healing.

Eva Kor and her twin sister became part of a group of children used as human guinea pigs in genetic
experiments, under the direction of the now infamous Dr.Josef Mengele. Approximately 3,000 individual
twins were used in experiments. Eva became gravely ill, but through sheer determination, she stayed alive
and helped Miriam survive. About 150 twins were found alive when the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz
on January 27, 1945.

[Iloveyou]

................................

Absence. Abandoned places. Human traces.


http://www.klatmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Klat_Stephen_Shore_02.jpg



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I feel like someone who has been captured after his 17th prison escape and is not sure if he has enough motivation
and strength for another try. Walks in the beautifully landscaped prison garden help only temporarily. On the way out
the doors open only inwards and the path leads through fears, doubts, insecurities, layer over layer - and the resistance
against surrender.

Surrender and trust is key. We create and sustain the matrix ourselves. We press against the closed door in the effort to
open it. A friend tells me: No, we haven't created it entirely ourselves. Not sure. Everything inside the matrix is irrational.
He tells me: No, it is not. It can be seen as the attempt to force man into an exclusively rational system, turning them
into the machine.

[Iloveyou]

https://assets.change.org/photos/6/ih/yy/BPIHYyFcXyDWfEE-800x450-noPad.jpg


Beyond this place, the pains and sorrows will subside, I hope. Not because there are any kind of heavens awaiting us - but restrictions will be removed, limitations dropped. Any tiny move makes you bounce against a wall. Every move hurts. Under constant pressure as if you'd dived too deep with no chance to surface ever again. Beyond this tiny world space is vast, endless maybe - to roam freely, I hope. Caged bird, wings tied up.

[Iloveyou]

down-to-earth, again


https://i.pinimg.com/736x/92/57/4d/92574d34f53a92fe87a9965b1a091942--beauty-portrait-portrait-photo.jpg



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLHfWC8XkAY5Cz4.jpg




https://www.slow-journalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/PA-20046753-1194x796.jpg



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https://static2.tripoto.com/media/filter/nl/img/15546/TripDocument/img_3460.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_main_image/public/archive/2015/singles/NA/4/lxkrvuhdilnunoyu3ewh.jpg?itok=8EGahXmr


I have to say, this is one of the most poignant and heartbreaking images I've seen for a very long while.

May we somehow, sometime, be forgiven for our collective, millennia-old barbarism and ignorance.

:heart:

[sunwings]

36358

36356

36357

[Iloveyou]

May we somehow, sometime, be forgiven for our collective, millennia-old barbarism and ignorance.
:heart:
Yes, the longer I look at the picture (#161) the more I’m lost for words.

@ Sunwings: beautiful !!! :sun:


https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Steve-McCurry-afghn-13995nf.jpg
photo: Steve McCurry



https://i.pinimg.com/736x/01/f4/f2/01f4f2f36bcdbbbc632a3c865f257328--lovely-smile.jpg
photo: Nirazan Shrestha



https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mattia-Passarini-Photography-23-8.jpg
photo: Mattia Passarini



http://www.razaqvance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/a-winter-morning002.jpg
photo: Razaq Vance



https://photos.travellerspoint.com/263580/large__MG_7120.jpg



http://www.bjp-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cesar-Dezfuli-Passenger.jpg
photo: Cesar Dezfuli


http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/AFGHN-12156m.jpg
photo: Steve McCurry

[Iloveyou]

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http://static.projectbly.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blog_posts/post-eight-qualities-of-a-great-photojournalist/2.jpg
photo: Nyani Quarmyne






https://elamanecerdelalavanda.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/viejasriendo.jpg?w=1024
© Xacobe Casal

[Iloveyou]

..........

Beauty and pain continued . .



https://i.pinimg.com/736x/42/95/62/429562150da7b3ee4b2d10244f4318a1.jpg




https://www.thenational.ae/image/policy:1.4192:1498902687/image/jpeg.jpg?f=16x9&w=1024&$p$f$w=2589da4
photo: Sohail Karmani




https://www.thenational.ae/image/policy:1.26891:1498914155/image/jpeg.jpg?$p=79ddad7&w=1136&$w=ec52ab9
photo: Sohail Karmani




https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cz-r8dLW8AEjOzE.jpg
photo: Ahmed Sameer


At times I’m thinking: just having survived until now
(and I mean not only physically) is no small thing.




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[Iloveyou]

xxxx

THE MOUNTAIN YOGI

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“This is an inspiring film from Kinnaur in northern India, looking at the life and meditation of a modern-day Milarepa, Lama Govinda, who like his predecessor is following the way of Ngak.

The film begins while lama is still on a long retreat, and we hear first from his helper Ram Kedar Negi, who takes him food everyday, and sees to his minimal needs, while living in what looks like a temporary shelter high in the mountains.

We then get some background of who Lama Govinda is, and how he came to this way of life, though his extraordinary birth, his initial contacts with Dharma, and his eventually leaving study for practice.

Later we see Lama on the roads of northern India, going on a kind of blessing yatra, before we finally have some interviews with Lama himself, who turns out to be completely simple, humble and sincere.

It is really good to see people practising so sincerely and then sharing their blessings with others in this way, and good to see that the path is still being maintained, though Lama warns, presciently: “Now, children are going to school. That is why they don’t don’t know much.” Indeed.“

[Bluegreen]

http://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/13/77/997278285-beauty-is-pain-tattoo.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BzAFE4gmg8c/Um1sTUfNW-I/AAAAAAAABFs/p6sf_toy4hU/s1600/0057.jpg
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[Foxie Loxie]

Who wants to be beautiful anyways?! :eyebrows:

[Iloveyou]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b7/dd/3d/b7dd3df40dd3b913beb986ce9bad0706--african-diaspora-zanzibar.jpg



http://phictures.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/india_2.jpg

What is beauty ? . . the latent and actual form of a man or a woman, a wild animal, a child . . the movement of a living organism which is not stopped, suppressed, repressed.

They’re gentle but not weak, vigorous but not dominant, firm but not hard, clear but not cold. Their characteristics are tension without cramping, stance without rigidity, beauty without vanity, adjustment without self-abandonment, empathy without sentimentality, charisma without manipulation.

(cited and roughly translated from Dieter Duhm)

[Iloveyou]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/de/c4/40/dec440f254b3008c3e02dcaa05fd53b0--people-photography-creative-photography.jpg

[Valerie Villars]

This is one of the most beautiful threads I have ever seen. And yes, the photo of the chained monkey and the sheer terror in it's face is one of the most heartrending I have ever seen.

I am speechless.

[Cidersomerset]

This just shows the diversity for whatever reason in humans today and
it was also the setting that made it special imo ....
https://www.maxim.com/.image/t_share/MTUzMTU2OTA3NTkzMzc3NDAw/worlds-tallest-man-shortest-woman.jpg

The pain and the ecstasy .....
https://cdn1.lockerdomecdn.com/uploads/06934a598910adb3b22d25deba5626c21ed1307374c493a5f7b1b43d670edf02_large

Hard to be a vegan out here....
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0xIfFRfjKsE/VJnAiXYpu7I/AAAAAAAEm0g/bWqla_whohk/s1600/breathtaking_photographs_09.jpg

[Valerie Villars]

About 8 feet difference.

[Bill Ryan]

Beauty and pain continued . .

Indeed.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5236cba9e4b041a11870daa3/523a9e43e4b00be6bfa6d057/523a9e6de4b00be6bfa6d099/1379580562543/308.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8w8PEInZgW0/Vaxbu2rlH8I/AAAAAAAAJk8/-PscXueU4MA/w530-h526-n/15%2B-%2B1

https://media.indiatimes.in/media/content/2015/Oct/memories_1444394321.jpg

http://desitraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/portrait-of-old-lady-from-Uttaranchal-in-Himalayas-750x497.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/08/23/5d/08235d57dfd6f26f5dd5b407c70badc1--smiling-people-documentaries.jpg


~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~


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http://andymcsweeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/people-in-india-16-1.jpg

[Ewan]

Strange thing about this thread, or strange thing about me? Seriously, is there something wrong with me?

It doesn't matter if its the pain or the beauty, they both want to make me weep.

The first time I visited Thailand, 1988, walking through a very touristed market I spotted a child with deformed limbs crawling along the street. Almost nobody paid any attention, certainly not the locals whom, if they did look, seemed to regard it more as a distasteful inconvenience. The boy had a string around his neck and a cup attached, there were a few coins in it, and a note, I don't recall what it said. I put paper money in, which I found out later was more than the average daily wage. It didn't make me feel any better, I was still distraught about it the next day; (and even now as I type).

Many, many years later I watched Slumdog Millionaire, in which you see a gang who literally disfigure children, orphans and runaways, in order to profit from their begging. It occured to me immediately that around the corner there was most likely some parasite waiting for the child, emptying his cup and sending him back for another trip through the market. You see when that child raised its head as I squatted down to give some money, and it obviously took some effort to even look up, the gaze that met mine was so full of pain and sorrow that I felt it deep inside myself. I often wondered if that gaze was a plea for release, I'd never seen anything like it to this day. In another place, another time, could that child have had a happier more fulfilled existence, caring parents, experience joy?

Life man, it sucks any which way you look at it.

(Sorry, Iloveyou, if the post interrupts the theme).

[Iloveyou]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uKijTVtJ02s/ThpPKGxIosI/AAAAAAAAGQc/RBmhRu4LLGI/s640/4915032389_15e56a21a7_o.jpg



(Sorry, Iloveyou, if the post interrupts the theme).

Not at all, Ewan, on the contrary.

Oh, Cidersomerset, this picture of the Siberian family meal is extremely hard to look at,
could trigger reminiscences of a very sinister and ancient (or not so ancient) past.
But of course, in the healing process that too, must have its place.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/b9/8c/1eb98cfc09a1b2fa84a4b4a84ffb28e5.jpg

I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out,
experience etched on a person's face. (Steve McCurry)

[Cidersomerset]

Oh, Cidersomerset, this picture of the Siberian family meal is extremely hard to look at,
could trigger reminiscences of a very sinister and ancient (or not so ancient) past.
But of course, in the healing process that too, must have its place.

Yeah my original post was just about the tallest and smallest human beings alive
today which I put on another thread. Then I noticed this one and expanded it here,
after looking at some of the other images I realised it might be to fluffy and looked
for an image for contrast and saw the refugee family and the horrors they went
through to find safety and support.

The Siberian family has that raw power behind it imo, notice the blood smeared
on the mothers forehead as a thanks to the animal for its sacrifice. There is an
ancient and modern aspect to it from hunters gathers to factory farming . It
is hard to look at for many as well.....

http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/OTHERS/Shamans/inside%20initiation.jpg
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/shamans-rouse-the-ancient-siberian-spirits/

[Bill Ryan]

[a very well-intended mod note from Bill]

Kudos to all, but please let the images do the talking.

This is the entire theme here. It's not really a discussion thread. THX. :sun:

:focus:

[Ewan]

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http://cdn.mutually.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/holding-hands-slums-accra-ghana-600x400.jpg

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2271257.main_image.jpg

http://5thharvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/famine.jpg

[Ewan]

http://cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201511/03/1722099/0_16e2f7_37fd642_orig.jpg

https://www.flashuser.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/human-emotion-happiness-12.jpg

http://images.photoliga.com/photo/2011-01-24/2520602.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

http://projectavalon.net/vulture_child.jpg

[Valerie Villars]

Some things are too heavy for words.

[Iloveyou]

http://projectavalon.net/vulture_child.jpg

please see Limor’s comment here, too:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?86195-The-beauty-and-the-pain-of-being-human.-Images.&p=1012357&viewfull=1#post1012357


WE NEED WATER !

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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/70/8f/29708f441d33e67c4286b186ed267c9e.jpg

[Iloveyou]

https://gmbakash.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/cb7a8390.jpg?w=774

During my birth, my mother died. My parents were from a remote village. So my father could not do anything for saving her life. I grew up with my grandparents and then with my uncle’s family. I was a very brave lady from my childhood. My environment had pushed me to be a brave woman. I did every kind of work that a man does. I took care of our 7 cows. Along with our maid I dried thousands of sacks of rice. I was strong and brave like a man. Our villagers used to say, “You will never get married. Who will marry a girl that is like a man? Who will be her family? No man will live with her!” I was never concerned about those words because at that time my only thoughts were to work for a living and to feed myself as well as and to make my family members happy. I understood at that age, that nothing but work can make people happy.

Proving everyone wrong; I got married when I was 15 years old. I got the most loving husband. I found a dream come true. I have never imagined a life that could be so colorful. My husband was a very loving man. I had never found that much love ever like that which I got from him. But that happiness was really for a short period of time. I got a divorce after 3 years of my marriage. They wanted a child from me, but I could not give them a child. God have not given me that power to conceive. Doctors said I am unable to become a mother. For 3 years I had done everything and eaten everything people told me about to facilitate a pregnancy.Nothing happened. Finally, making everyone right again, my husband of 3 years left me because I can’t be a mother. When I found my marriage was over I thought my life was over too. It is impossible for me to describe the depth of the pain when you get the most beautiful thing in your life and then lose it again in front of your eyes.

I have never married again, but became a midwife instead. I had been interested in it since my childhood. No one could save my mother. So I wanted to save mothers’ lives. For that, I took training from the midwife of our village. I have been brave since my childhood. From my acts people started to believe in me. They started wanting me in their labor room. They started to feel confident when I am there in their labor room. I saved hundreds of women’s lives. But I am badly defeated again by my fate. I could not save my mother’s life. My adopted daughter whom I was calling ‘Maa’ for the last 25 years left me last month in her labor room. I could not save my mother’s life again

Roksana 60

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The day I was born, no one even touched their food, as I was the fourth daughter of my parents. My black skin color made the situation more miserable for them. My three elder sisters were fair, tall and slim. I was clearly a burden for my poor parents, everyone told me that throughout my childhood. Sometimes I heard my mother telling my father that bringing me into their life was a curse. So I started praying to God, almost every day I prayed to make me a little bit fairer, taller and slimmer. My father managed to fix my marriage by giving false promises to the groom. The kind hearted guy married the ugliest girl of our village. Overnight he became the kindest guy of his generation. I was told never to return to home ever again. So my only option was to listen to my kind hearted husband’s every order. I was fearful all the time. A kind of fear every black girl feels about losing her husband. Every day he used to beat me miserably, because of the false promises my father made to him. I always kept quiet as I thought the fault was all mine. One day he threw hot water onto my feet, I remained silent. I couldn’t sleep for countless nights in fear of losing everything that was never mine. One day when I sat to eat, without any warning signs he kicked me from the back. When I fell to the ground, I was awake; I took the stick nearest to me and started beating him, without giving him any chance to attack me. I was beating every single person of my life who humiliated me. Everyone who ripped my soul. No one came to stop me and I saw fear on their faces. I took my son and left that house forever. I never cried for a single time after that. Never prayed to God to make me beautiful, never begged anyone to love me. I work as a labourer. Whenever I see little black girls working in the site, I always smile to them and tell them how beautiful they are. They asked me with surprise ‘how can a black girl be beautiful?’. I tell them, ‘Only beautiful is the person who has a beautiful heart.’

Monowara


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Billu was injured when I found him beside the train track. He was walking with pain and looking at me for help. I am from a very poor family. Even sometimes, my housemaid mother has to beg for rice so that she can equally feed her three daughters. Taking a cat as a pet does not suit beggars. I looked away and tried to cross the road by ignoring him. When I looked back I saw him looking at me with despair. Then helplessly I went back and embraced him.

We, three sisters hid him from my mother’s eyes for three days. Then one morning, we woke up when amma was screaming in anger. Billu tried to sleep in her cozy blanket and when she screamed in surprise he peed on it. My mother briskly took him and headed for the rail line; three of us begged her not to throw Billu away but she listened to no one. The whole day none of us ate anything….with great surprise Billu returned to us secretly at night by himself. The next morning, my mother took him to a far away place. And informed us the cat could never be able to find us again. But the genius came back again. And again my mother furiously took him with her and left him in a place that we never heard of before. That night we were wide awake to welcome him at home but he did not come back.

The next day, we did not take any food or water, including my mother. During the evening she rushed to search for Billu, by skipping her work. My mother found Billu injured in the same place she had left him. Local people informed her some boys had beaten up him for fun. My mother spent her one month salary on Billu and because of our care he is now fat and naughty. I asked amma, why she allowed him to be with us. She said, our father left us in an abandoned place and fled because he never wanted daughters. She could never do the same even with an animal. Billu is now our naughty brother, who eats most of our food and sleeps only with my mother.

Rojina


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I see thousands of people every day. Waves of people come and go. So many kinds of people I see and I think that I am the only one who has no one. I am the only person who has been suffering loneliness from the very beginning;I am an orphan. I never saw my parents. I think I am the unluckiest person alive who has no one. Every day I pray to God to take me to him. He already took everyone from me; why is he not taking me to them? This life is unbearable now. Without having anyone no one can survive. I have no one to talk to. I don’t know how many days have passed before talking with you. I don’t go outside in the day light. People don’t like to see me. They think I am the cursed one; for me all my family members have died and I am the only one who is alive.

My wife died giving birth to our second child. My daughter and I raised him with a lot of struggle. My daughter was also a little kid;she was only 8 years old. But what happened after enduring this much hardship for my son? He died in his 22nd year. I could not even marry my son with someone. He died in a bus accident. My daughter died the year after my son had died and left her 6-year-old daughter with me. I was only surviving for Sonia; Sonia my granddaughter. She was my everything. For the last 18 years she was my night and day. She was a beautiful and happy girl. I never knew she was in so much pain that she needed to commit suicide in our room with her scarf. I never knew! She never said anything to me! I never could feel her pain. People say I am cursed.Sometimes I think they are right; if not, then why would I not be able to understand my Sonia’s pain? How could I let her do that? She died because of her love. That man used to come sometimes but I never talked to him. He used to come and sit beside me and cry like a child.

I have been living alone for the last 4 years and waiting to see my last day. I don’t know what God wants from me. Why in this crowded world have I no one? For me being alive is a curse now.

Faiz Uddin Molla 80

https://gmbakash.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/img_5619tiff.jpg?w=774

Every day it was my task to wait for my father in the evening. I waited, and waited for him to arrive home from our village market. When he returned with his happy face, my first question was “what did you bring for me today?” As always the reply was with another question, “who will bring you sweets every day when I won’t be here anymore?” I used to always laugh at his questions and replied “who? You don’t know who my husband will be!” I don’t remember my mother; I lost her when I was only two years old. My father is the only one who took care of me the last six years of his life. After that my aunty took me with her as a servant.

How time flies! We have been together for the last ten years. People say we are a very happy couple. We were actually very young when we first met. This is our love marriage. I met him first at my aunt’s house when he was there for a job. I first saw him when I opened the door. He was looking at me and unintentionally I smiled at him and fortunately he smiled back. I can’t explain that heavenly moment when I fell in love. From that day on he started coming in front of our house every single day. I could see him waiting at the grocery shop in front of our house from our veranda. After a month I managed to talk to him with my cousin. I could not stop myself from asking him why he came every day in front of our house and waited looking at our veranda? He didn’t answer my question but rather asked me another question, “will you marry me?”

I have no regrets even though we are very poor. We have almost nothing except a bed. Together we earn a very little amount of money but we are never hopeless about our earning and our life. We understand each other completely. The most valued part is that we love each other unconditionally. We help each other in our tasks. He helps me even with my household work. He takes cares for our daughter when I work. When I go to take bath in our nearby river he always comes with me for my safekeeping. He always pays attention for us even if I do something silly. He helps me in every possible way. Our slum’s women are surely jealous of me. I am certainly blessed with him.

My only regret in my whole life is that my father could not see how happy I am with my husband. I cry almost every night going to sleep that my father could not see my happiness. How lucky I am finding a husband who cares for me like parents care for their child. Our God is so kind that he gave me my husband. You know what? He always brings sweets for me and puts them under my pillow. When I cry for my father in the night, he gives me one in my hand like I am a child crying for sweets. This makes me cry even more. I love this man more than my life.

Sonia and Arif

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I used to think with every passing year I might forget every scar I have. But that did not happen. Even by passing time I tend to remember all tiny memories deeply. I had a past that shattered my present and future. My parents married me off when I was nine years old. Before I knew what is the rule of a husband I was married. My first daughter was born when I was ten. By the time, my husband and in-laws had sent back me and my daughter to my home as my parents were unable to pay them dowry. To me, my daughter was nothing just a lively doll to play. And again before I could play with my doll enough they snatched her and married me off with my current husband. My mother sent off my daughter to a far flung location that still now I have no idea who have adopted her and where she might be. My bitter life started and my current husband continued to question me about my past for the rest of my life. I gave birth to three sons and by the time they know about my past all were adult and educated. They rejected me and continued to insult me with their father. At the age of eighty five I urge to be with my lost daughter. She is just ten years younger than me but when I recall her I can only remember some tiny fingers holding me tight, I get a smell something like cinnamon, I see those big eyes wondering at me. I keep living in my past; I am still a ten years old mother.

Tahora Khattun (85)


A drop of your love got mixed in my cup
I could drink the bitters of life.

GMB AKASH, photojournalist from Bangladesh, more here:


https://gmbakash.wordpress.com/

[Iloveyou]

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My parents are very poor. I was the main reason for their stress. When I grew up everyone around me wanted to settle me soon. They said otherwise it would be too late to get any groom for a short, black girl. My main tasks were putting a lot of powder on my face and wearing shoes that were too difficult to walk in. Those potential grooms and their families never liked me. It was difficult to express myself when they questioned me about things like how well I could cook or how much I was earning. More awkwardly was when they asked me to walk in order to check if my legs were okay, or touched my hair to check if it was fake or real. When I met my husband we met outside in a nearby field. I felt disgusted when I was going to meet him for the first time. I wanted to go back and never meet him; my relative forced me to go and asked me to talk to him alone.
We were sitting silently; I was looking at my shoes and expecting to hear the same questions. He pointed at my shoes and asked me how I could manage to walk in those. His face was so genuine that I started laughing. Then he told me I can ask him anything that I wanted to know. I paused for a while because that had never happened to me before. No one ever asked me if I had any questions for the groom. I asked him what kind of girl he wants to marry. He told me, ‘I want a wife who can laugh just like you. I earn very little and have no great qualities to share. Only sometimes I can cook very well and sing old songs. If you think I am worthy of you, I will bring my mother.’
It’s been six months that we have been married. I did not wear those shoes again; he only buys slippers for me. After work we return home together. At that time, we buy vegetables and laugh at silly things. But we never talk about love. We feel very shy to talk about it and have never said ‘I love you’ to each other. On this path it takes more time to reach home, but we love to walk the extra miles together.

Textile worker Saheena Begum (19) with husband Mominul Islam (21)

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[Valerie Villars]

Iloveyou, the stories are heartbreakingly visceral. What beautiful journalism.

[Iloveyou]

IAM

I am not body
I am not soul
I am the space that forms the bowl

I am not name
I am not eyes
I am the pause between the sighs

I am not emotions
I am not thoughts
I am the other way across

I am not passion
I am not role
I am the peace in place of the goal

I am not future
I am not past
I am the quickening and the vast

I am not beginning
I am not end
I am everything that nothing intends

I am not probability
I am not potential
I am what appears when everything's essential

I am not question
I am not answer
I am the trance in everyone's dancer

I am not pattern
I am not force
I am the reason there can never be a Source

I am everything I am
I am everything I'm not
I am the how in the why of all whatnot

I didn't write this
You didn't read it
I didn't expect it
You won't remember it
It's the abyss of bliss
The way everything fits


This is a very intimate account of two and a half years in the life of a reluctant psychonaut.

The hope is that something in the telling of his ordeal and ultimate triumph may help someone else.


RAVINGS OF A RELUCTANT PSYCHONAUT:
Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Kambo Medicinas
by M. C. Miller
(boolacalaca (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?31225-boolacalaca))


From trauma to transformation. This is a very intimate account of two and a half years in the life of a reluctant psychonaut. What started with a South American vacation for one IT consultant and his wife from the States ended with lives changed and doors of potential opened. Their vacation side trip plan was simple enough. He would go along to Ayahuasca and San Pedro plant medicine ceremonies to support his wife, who was drawn to the experience. Unlike her, he had no burning intention, no mystical calling, at most only a healthy curiosity and lingering interest in the possibilities of expanded consciousness.

What happened next thrust him on an arduous path. Along the way he couldn't shake alarming fear and doubt, growing paradoxes and dilemmas, and yet ultimately passages of self-discovery and tremendous healing were realized. All along he took personal notes, furious notes of his evolving post-ceremony ravings. Residual terror and unanswered questions from the first Ayahuasca ceremony haunted him for over a year. Frustrated to explain what had happened, he grew desperate to find peace within. To that end, synchronicities and life changes mixed with chance meetings with people in South America. He was led to a remarkable shaman, a man who listened and responded with techniques and medicines that triggered a most unlikely breakthrough.

This is that journey, recorded as it happened with wider perspectives of hindsight added. It's a journey the author couldn't have foreseen and never guessed would become his future. It exists as another testament to the power of sacred plant medicines. That testament reinforces the power to reconnect with the strength within all of us to transform our lives.

Integration of profound entheogenic experiences is so important and yet for many this critical step remains elusive. In a heartfelt afterword, his wife describes coming to grips with having the tables turned on who was supporting whom. While she worked through her own process with the medicines, she also discovered what it means to live with someone deeply troubled by what's possible in Ayahuasca space. Her perspective on that two year odyssey, how both of them not only got through it but blossomed as a result, is an invaluable example for anyone who has a friend or loved one in the midst of facing their personal demons as the result of plant medicine ceremonies.

The hope is that something in the telling of his ordeal and ultimate triumph may help someone else. It could be someone who hears the call to the sacred plant medicines or someone, having already heeded that call, struggles to integrate all it means to them.

for simple access:
USA:http://amzn.to/2BPAWWU
UK:http://amzn.to/2HRczJh
AU:http://amzn.to/2HRwhUW
CAN:http://amzn.to/2sZhzYP

[Iloveyou]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Winter_baby_10-months-old.jpg/1920px-Winter_baby_10-months-old.jpg


BEAUTY lies in the supple movements of an animal, in the erotic movements of a body that is free of fear, in the grace of a loved child and in the face of a loving woman. All ways in which life expresses itself are beautiful when the inner movement and outer expression are identical. (Dieter Duhm)

[uzn]

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[Basho]

Thanks again to all those that have contributed images & words to this beautiful thread :heart: still one of my most favorite here on Avalon

[Ewan]

I literally started crying at this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?86195-The-beauty-and-the-pain-of-being-human.-Images.&p=1209741&viewfull=1#post1209741) post. Just the images could never have had that impact, thank you Iloveyou.

[uzn]

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https://www.worldphoto.org/sites/default/files/%20Yilan%20Song%2C%20China%2C%20Commended%2C%20Open%20competition%2C%20Travel%20%2C%202018%20Sony%20 World%20Photography%20Awards.jpg

[norman]

These are colorised old black and white photographs.

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Wow, thanks Norman, those were amazing.

I could've taken this one on my phone.




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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

To jump on board with what Norman posted, a few more old colourized photos.

http://dimplify.com/thumbnails/201504/14287139763.jpg

http://dimplify.com/thumbnails/201504/14287138564.jpg

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http://dimplify.com/thumbnails/201504/14287136298_tiles_fb.jpg

from: http://dimplify.com/post/7989

[norman]

Austrian artist Gerhard Haderer



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[Valerie Villars]

Strange but thought provoking art. Does anyone use a camera any more?

[Iloveyou]

........

Thank you for bringing an American perspective to the table.


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http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8371992-3x2-940x627.jpg

http://www.musemagazine.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/x123-1400x913.jpg.pagespeed.ic.3meti3NCMo.jpg

[Iloveyou]

...

There are some things that bombs and fighting just can’t kill.

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https://correspondent.afp.com/sites/default/files/styles/list_xl/public/medias/aa_new_posts/countries/syria/aleppo-cars-2017/aleppo-conflict-cars-header-003.jpg

Mohammed Anis puts a record on his trusty gramophone at his home in Aleppo. His family gone, his home bombed out, the record player is one of the few things still working - and a main source of joy for him.

Anis puffed on his pipe. He looked out the window and he had a look on his face of a person watching a beautiful sunset. He sat there, puffing on his broken pipe and staring out the window as the music floated over the ruins of his house and the city outside.

https://correspondent.afp.com/music-over-ruins-aleppo

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Historical Selfies.

The selfie is not a latter day invention by any means. Especially when it comes to celebs (many from the Beatles - some below). And Buzz Aldrin famously took a selfie in orbit. In the past, focal length limited the effectiveness of the selfie, and to capture yourself you needed a wide-angle lens - or made do with a mirror. Here are some selfies through time.


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http://cdn.worldofwonder.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/kennedyselfie.jpg

http://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vintage-selfie1.jpg?2a6b60

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/84/2c/74/842c74c23ff1d08888dca9992c05bb2e--google-search-artists.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3ATs1.jpg

selfie from 1913
https://theeyeoffaith.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/james-byron-clayton-and-friends-1913-eof-selfie-centered-vintage-blog.jpg

Buzz Aldrin space walk, Gemini 12, 1966
http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-110216b-lg.jpg

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[uzn]

A little photopuzzle for you.
Who is who ?
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

https://i.imgur.com/dQHUCth.jpg

[norman]

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/satirical-illustrations-polish-pawel-kuczynski-13-5abb45db8d50b__605.jpg



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[Iloveyou]

^^^ Heavy! And most excellent.

@ uzn: Nicholas left / George right ? :)

Interchangeable like all of their ilk. They look terrified, do they?

More interesting (bloodline-)details:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/king-george-tsar-nicholas-1913/


https://operaplus.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Fridrich.jpg

Childhood of a king - Frederick II King of Prussia

His father, Frederick William I of Prussia, is described as irascible, unpredictable, tyrannical and obsessed with the military, his childhood and youth was coined by a military education with drill, corporal punishment and mental injuries. Young Frederick was a soft hearted child, interested in music, poetry, the arts, philosophy, French culture, literature and languages. Secretly he played flute and learned Latin. When the father found out, he was beaten and abused in front of the assembled servants. Fritz was clearly unloved and any childlike spontaneity, enthusiasm or trust had been destroyed in his struggle with his bullying father.

At dinner one day with his minister, the father suddenly started lecturing 12-year-old Fritz. There had been nothing in the boy's attitude to provoke his father - Fritz listened and answered dutifully - but for the very reason, perhaps, that he lacked all pretexts, F. W. grew more and more angry. He started by tapping and pinching his son's cheek; soon he was boxing his ears, hitting him, pulling his hair until he was suddenly seized with a kind of fit and jumped up and started throwing plates at the wall. Feigning drunk, his minister tactfully did the same, while the child stood by, trembling, and pale.

Whenever they happened to meet, in private or in public, the father would suddenly seize him by the throat and throw him to the ground, force him to kiss his boots and beg forgiveness. He would say: "If my father had treated me like this, I would have put an end to my life long ago. But you have no courage.“

He seized his 18-year-old son in public. He was kicked, beaten, dragged along the ground by his hair and sent off, bleeding and dishevelled, to make an official appearance.

Then Fritz decided to prepare for the only possible alternative: flight. The scheme failed and Fritz was imprisoned in Küstrin on charge of 'desertion'. He was forced to watch the execution of his 25-year-old lieutenant, best friend and accomplice.

As a later king he frequently, even almost continuously, waged war. It seems that in the end he has completely met, if not exceeded, the will of the father. Frederick II has identified himself fully with the aggressor and has himself become a relentless aggressor and warlord.

“Obedience is so important that all education is actually nothing other than learning how to obey.” (Johann Georg Sulzer, German educator, 1748)

“It is not very easy, however, to implant obedience in children. It is quite natural for the child’s soul to want to have a will of its own, and things that are not done correctly in the first two years will be difficult to rectify thereafter. One of the advantages of these early years is that then force and compulsion can be used. Over the years, children forget everything that happened to them in early childhood. If their wills can be broken at this time, they will never remember afterwards that they had a will, and for this very reason the severity that is required will not have any serious consequences.”

[Iloveyou]

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[uzn]

^^^ Heavy! And most excellent.

@ uzn: Nicholas left / George right ? :)



You figured it out. Well done ;) Iloveyou

You won some human horn Pictures ;)

https://image.stirileprotv.ro/media/images/680xX/Apr2010/60417554.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/S5e0bbqfprI/AAAAAAABFL0/3I1nNcgnrls/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/woman_with_horn_01.jpg

http://s3.postimg.org/3rz0cqd0j/horn_chinese_man.jpg

http://image.hnol.net/c/2011-11/28/13/201111281346507872-167450.jpg

[Elpis]

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/29486971/m=900_k=1_a=1/ce0407d232f60c7dd93cf77378b6f61c

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/32738251/m%3D2048/af0ff36a95074199900d4ce8c9a8dc95

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/48276972/m%3D2048/e651a877b92b6bdc0f09ffc0a9c96fd6

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f1MGSv2mbNQ/Ue6BsuVX7vI/AAAAAAAAC1Y/H_6bsqd5upk/s640/626bfff7c5b8f74836ee4ee4f997a130.jpg

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/57708522/m%3D2048/a70817445d080d22928cb322da2afe11

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/51/b5/b4/51b5b4ede4879ac06f22f35d27d6d747.jpg

Fantastic photos by Abe Less

These photos struck my heart in so many ways. Thank you so much. I hope you continue to post.

[Valerie Villars]

There is something chillingly accurate about the efficacy of breaking will to control. Will is all.

And I found it interesting that all the horn photos were of Asian people.

[Leonard]

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[Leonard]

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PS: Adding some interesting stories here.
Bound-feet women (Long ago in the Chinese culture, where small feet stands for beauty)
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1854927/all-about-sex-real-reason-why-chinese-women-bound-their-feet
People with beautiful eyes
https://trendcrown.co/these-people-with-the-most-beautiful-eyes-in-the-world-will-totally/
Dirtiest man in the world
http://www.newsiosity.com/articles/lifestyle/man-breaks-record-longest-time-without-taking-bath
School in a cave
https://www.boredpanda.com/cave-village-miao-zhongdong-guizhou-china/
A City where People Live Without Politics, Religion And Without Money
https://ancient-code.com/city-people-live-without-politics-religion-without-money/

[Valerie Villars]

PS: Adding some interesting stories here.
Bound-feet women (Long ago in the Chinese culture, where small feet stands for beauty)

Well, I sure must have tipped the tide with my big, flat, feet. Hell I can actually walk with mine.

Or is it flipped with my flappers?

[Iloveyou]

The break up of Yugoslavia (1991- 2001)

http://balkans.aljazeera.net/sites/default/files/styles/d8/public/ron_haviv_bijeljina_1.jpg?itok=JRCcz1hE




http://www.warphotoltd.com/files/image/large/photos-bwcm011-1443532559.jpg





http://www.warphotoltd.com/files/image/large/photos-bwjj004-1443267978.jpg





https://i1.wp.com/www.lostindubrovnik.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/war-photo-dubrovnik.jpg?ssl=1

"Your planet is forbidden for an open visit - extremely aggressive social environment, despite almost perfect climatic conditions. Almost 4 billion violent deaths for the last 5000 years and about 15000 major military conflicts in the same period."

(Thank you EFO for the quote)

[Iloveyou]

https://elsol-compress.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/imagenes/000/693/750/000693750-guerra-de-bosnia.jpg



http://www.warphotoltd.com/files/image/large/photos-hl18-1441543586.jpg



http://www.warphotoltd.com/files/image/large/photos-zg-ti004-1438265655.jpg



http://www.warphotoltd.com/files/image/large/photos-pb09-1441548637.jpg

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Dating in the 1950s.

https://imgoat.com/uploads/974ce5ac66/102927.jpg

[A Voice from the Mountains]

A trip through New York City in 1911. Amazing video! Even has sound.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohXOpKtns0

[Foxie Loxie]

:bump: Amazing 1911 in NYC!!

Somehow the city looks "too clean"? :confused:

[Bill Ryan]

https://www.thenewsminute.com/sites/default/files/styles/news_detail/public/sreejith%202-compressed.jpg

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/508F/production/_99732602_94193488-1688-4d6d-a443-71edfd684d47.jpg

This is Sreejith, who sat quietly and peacefully, initially alone, in front of an Indian government office for nearly 800 days, in protest against the death of his brother in police custody. People gradually joined him, including a number of Indian celebrities. He was once a professional footballer, but in his vigil he wasted away and became very weak. But he earned the respect and support of the whole nation of a billion people. He finally obtained justice, when a number of police were arrested for the murder.

[Valerie Villars]

That bought tears to my eyes. What a powerful story. Thank you.

[Bill Ryan]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/88/a2/7e88a200413a54acd036017a91f8681d.jpg

Another solitary protest, that did not end so happily. In June 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc, also alone, silent and unmoving, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs.

[norman]

Some pictures of America in the 1950s

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-1-5a82dba6da8e5__700.jpg


https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-13-5a82ff13ede4e__700.jpg


https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-82-5a8303134477f__700.jpg


https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-16-5a82ff4d59465__700.jpg


https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-79-5a82f319af61c__700.jpg


https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-357-5a82fb9bd5961__700.jpg

[Valerie Villars]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/88/a2/7e88a200413a54acd036017a91f8681d.jpg

Another solitary protest, that did not end so happily. In June 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc, also alone, silent and unmoving, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs.

I remember that photo well. I believe it was in the "Best of Life". I used to pore over that book for hours and hours when I went to my grandparents. What photo journalism. Just incredible stuff. Thanks.

I also remember thinking, as a child, that it was a silly thing to do; annihilate yourself for principle. Now I kind of understand it.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

The guy with the gun in the picture above makes me want to yell "watch where you point that thing!" That's a violation of the cardinal rule, whether it's loaded or not.

Also made me realize how little (public) aviation technology has changed since the 1950's. Imagine how long we have had more advanced tech hoarded away from us. And that old TV looks space-age.

[KiwiElf]

Also made me realize how little (public) aviation technology has changed since the 1950's. Imagine how long we have had more advanced tech hoarded away from us.

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So true, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser in the photo was hailed as the most advanced, luxurious and fastest (604 km/h - 375 mph max speed) commercial airliner of the day (1947 - retired in 1963).

It was so "futuristic" for the period, people would stop just to take photos of it.

(It wasn't however, very reliable: it was an event if it didn't experience one or two engine failures on its regular transatlantic route.

By the time it was retired, the (then secret) Lockheed Blackbird SR-71 and commercial SST Concorde were well into development - aviation speed-wise, we kinda went backwards.)

Love the "Americana" pics! :)

:focus:

Now I'd better post something ON Topic - click to enlarge ;)

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... more here ...

http://www.instantshift.com/2014/10/31/human-emotion-photos/

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/348395721149784251/

[Valerie Villars]

Love the one with the boy and the cat.

[Bill Ryan]

More photos, please! They alone can sometimes do the talking. That's the entire point. :)

:focus:

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

http://blogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/post_0032_5.jpg


http://www.protecfireequipamentos.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/slider41.jpg


http://webneel.com/daily/sites/default/files/images/daily/11-2017/2-tribal-by-famous-photographer-jimmy-nelson.jpg


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fCCJtWz3Zko/Uk4cyVH1g8I/AAAAAAAACeQ/taGIBaR3-ok/s1600/Normandy.jpg


https://www.skymigration.com/uploads/allimg/170213/12-1F213111950C2.jpg


http://www.fjr.org.pl/images/podstrony/jozef-rotblat-3.jpg


http://webneel.com/daily/sites/default/files/images/daily/01-2018/4-amazing-photography-bird-flight-by-peterdam.jpg


http://www.palabaristas.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Tracy_Caldwell_Dyson_in_Cupola_ISS.jpg

[Iloveyou]

[a very well-intended mod note from Bill]

Kudos to all, but please let the images do the talking.

This is the entire theme here. It's not really a discussion thread. THX. :sun:

:focus:


More photos, please! They alone can sometimes do the talking. That's the entire point. :)

:focus:

Thanx all for the contributions, especially from various angles I had never thought of.
There are great pictures, interesting and touching. And thank you, Bill, for caring.

My personal guideline was: Less is more. Try to catch the core message. Drop anything you don’t consider essential. A bit of text every now and then is okay. Some personal remarks, too. If you come across an image that catches your eye, that means something to you or doesn’t let you go anymore, give it enough space ... to talk, to make an impact. Let it stand alone - or just together with one or two others which are complementary or mutually reinforce each other. The impression will be more intense.

I’m not following my own guidelines so strictly and I’m thinking: let the kids play :) Though I find your reminder important and helpful in creating and maintaining a beautiful place. It is a good idea to keep it in mind. Be blessed all.



https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4c/e9/01/4ce9014da6cbc3ba7026eafb12dc032d.jpg






https://i.pinimg.com/736x/01/19/a7/0119a74d3fe19b555a8c5e0d6665d43a.jpg





https://69a36c06cbe69e27b9f8-f9b4c4acf743b3601f21d2ea132e0653.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/ANC2017001G08_7162.jpg

[Bluegreen]

http://cdn4.littlethings.com/app/uploads/2015/12/date1-600x605.jpg

http://cdn8.littlethings.com/app/uploads/2015/12/date11.jpg


BJ_YSy0s67w

http://cdn8.littlethings.com/app/uploads/2015/12/date51-600x420.jpg

http://cdn8.littlethings.com/app/uploads/2015/12/date6-600x658.jpg

http://i.pinimg.com/736x/02/99/17/02991708fdf50a3271c0977fde18a0d0--teenage-couples-young-couples.jpg

http://i.pinimg.com/736x/38/70/87/387087126d6c474b3223a99598b82037--punk-rock-pandas.jpg

[Ewan]

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/usa-vintage-50s-color-photography-16-5a82ff4d59465__700.jpg

One of the cruelest things I've ever seen. (posted earlier by norman)

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The Pain...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Colonel_William_Willoughby_Hooper_%28British_-_Deserving_objects_of_gratuitous_relief_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/764px-Colonel_William_Willoughby_Hooper_%28British_-_Deserving_objects_of_gratuitous_relief_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/embed-lg/public/2017/06/30/0714southsudan02.jpg

https://static.gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2071925%21/image/503283631.jpg

https://i0.wp.com/www.janesoceania.com/australia_europeans/aboriginals_1906.jpg

https://novi.ba/storage/2017/10/05/thumbs/59d683f7-2664-4bf4-88be-5dd00a0a0a67-slika5-previewOrg.jpg

[Ewan]

The Beauty.........

http://www.isabelsbeautyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/African-beauty.jpg

http://images.all-free-download.com/images/graphicthumb/zywn6n41juc_608099.jpg

https://artlover96.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/20130425-210536.jpg

https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5266/5569644067_bf2559a946_b.jpg

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Macao:

http://imgvoat.com/upload/images/W05R.png

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Then and now, 9/11

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/GDgxsPi1MCwMtoIV_a8-ZQ-aObJHdt7RCZkSpNsuyfEI2kP8F9wTfCs-HIfXGoQg_DddvjGwxyf58QTDb-_b4g_0AP4rgpPqgei6eALZDfCDK3JCpkZhdZC0HdHtdaddCkLOXdEHV5Mn6dGUjOBJWlqjqe0mhT2NmYiC2kiXxCl1pVuEVJxfLH tBVrg15kJku9eJeSY2QaCp1a2j6gZUew=w5000-h5000

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

https://images.jacobinmag.com/2014/04/16234932/vietnam-war-rare-incredible-pictures-history-1.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YbEFXr_AGfo/hqdefault.jpg

http://germansoldiersduringworldwar2.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/7/9/17794259/8086824.jpg?678

http://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Excited-French-Girl-With-her-Cat.jpg

https://progrss.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/kolkata1.jpg

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/730195/84666264.jpg

[Iloveyou]

http://lamcdn.net/lookatme.ru/post_image-image/3xDNW8e15zoAyraBAmU89A-article.jpg



http://www.nationalgeographic.it/images/2011/11/30/143509984-dc5b8ff5-6420-4df9-9026-9d72e41afdf4.jpg



http://photography-now.com/images/Bilder/gross/25923.jpg


"Tim took this photograph in 2008 at a remote American outpost in Afghanistan called Restrepo.
The first time I saw him taking photos of sleeping soldiers, I asked him what he was doing, and
he said, 'Don't you get it? This is how their mothers see them.' War is fought by vulnerable boys
who are desperately trying to be tough, grown men. This image shows that truth much more
powerfully than any combat photo ever could." (Sebastian Junger)

Photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in 2011 while on assignment in Libya. He was 40.

https://sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wardog-1024x666.jpg

[Iloveyou]

.......

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c6/59/fa/c659fa614fbaad92178d34c90e5f7597.jpg

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https://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimedotcom.files.wordpress.com%2F2017%2F02%2Fnichole-sobecki.jpg%3Fquality%3D85&w=1600&q=70

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http://www.lifo.gr/uploads/image/933473/national-geographic_5.jpg

[Ewan]

http://58798683.weebly.com/uploads/4/1/1/0/41104865/9488905_orig.jpg

http://sustinable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/these-children-stand-waist-deep-in-a-garbage-heap-outside-new-delhi-india-930x648.jpg

https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/445845/original_eafd635a094de191b7b6eb662c3a467f.jpg

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/burma061112/s_b19_RTR3259Q.jpg

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

1963 / 2014
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/then-and-now-couples-recreate-old-photos-love-5-5739d33d1d7e0__700.jpg

1945 / 2015
https://nextshark-vxdsockgvw3ki.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/then-and-now-couples-recreate-old-photos-love-15-5739d36abd0b3__700.jpg

1975 / 2015
https://www.lagranepoca.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Couples-7.jpg

1982 / 2014
https://nextshark-vxdsockgvw3ki.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/then-and-now-couples-recreate-old-photos-love-49-573c19864cc5e__700.jpg

1970 / 2010
https://cdn1.binokl.cc/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14-15.jpg

1926 / 1946 / 2016
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/then-and-now-couples-recreate-old-photos-love-27-573ad2caea40b__700.jpg

[Iloveyou]

Inspired by your post, Star Mariner

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/10/05/magazine/05thebrownsisters_ss-slide-ZKLJ/05thebrownsisters_ss-slide-ZKLJ-jumbo.jpg

Forty Portraits in Forty Years.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975.
(photographs by Nicholas Nixon)

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sliptalk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/09174640/sister33.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/magazine/01-brown-sisters-forty-years.html

[Iloveyou]

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The monkey trainer’s daughter

https://deerphotojournalistfri.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/5276097026_a5d46ec0c1_o.jpg?w=548&h=&zoom=2

(Photo: Mary Ellen Mark)

[Iloveyou]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8e/39/7f/8e397f4f4d2ba44dceafed502f20b99e.jpg



https://www.razaqvance.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_1547-copy-2.jpg



https://www.razaqvance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IMG_2925-copy.jpg



https://www.razaqvance.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Farmer-son-guava.jpg


Morning light ... images like that help me to stay calm and grounded when the feeling occurs that my thoughts and emotions are tampered with, or possibly not entirely my own ... although village life is hard ...

[Iloveyou]

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Fathers and Daughters




https://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/7243/ed8e1ab018354b6d9b6a66a0c948a742.png


http://blissfullydomestic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/upclose.jpg


https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55ca0e9fe4b0e3531a269135/t/55e0dbbfe4b0fbd5342b1379/1440799700038/Father+and+daughter?format=1500w

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-quaPz9J0leI/WAwlweLCM-I/AAAAAAAALm4/kFE21m2nHU80d7Te0q9y5AxHGEYIm3O5ACLcB/s1600/cabinet-ministers-lined-up-for-execution-after-a-coup-in-liberia-1980_1.jpg

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/fascinating-historical-photos-201.jpg?quality=85&strip=info

http://riotimesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Carnaval-photo-by-Fernando-Frazao-AgBr.jpg

http://www.clique.tv/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Arab-Spring-1200x800.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d6/3c/25/d63c25e3ca7ed5a9218a96a0e90a6e58--old-time-photos-retro-photography.jpg

https://robertreport.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/00xp-photo_xp-master768.jpg

Iran in 1970s
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/01/27/15/3C903F5B00000578-4148684-image-a-113_1485529374518.jpg

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VscDCEf_uO4/VJV5_ZAmfFI/AAAAAAAAGWU/EHKk7BbL0M4/s1600/big%2Bjay%2Bmcneely.jpg

https://sweetwithfallandfish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/laughing-totas.jpg?w=700&h=474

[Bill Ryan]

From this 2010 thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?4205-CURSE-OF-THE-BLACK-GOLD-what-s-really-happening-in-the-Niger-Delta).

http://projectavalon.net/Niger_3.jpg

http://projectavalon.net/Niger_5.jpg

http://projectavalon.net/Niger_7.jpg

http://projectavalon.net/Niger_13.jpg

http://projectavalon.net/Niger_4.jpg

http://projectavalon.net/Niger_2.jpg

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Summing up this world...

Tide of wretched Humanity

....no other words.

https://muftah.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/12808542535_0014a7cc97_b.jpg

[Bluegreen]

http://www.homefrontheroines.com/wp-content/gallery/wars-end/281491a.gif

http://www.homefrontheroines.com/wp-content/gallery/wars-end/ww2c.jpg

http://i.pinimg.com/736x/e7/90/a8/e790a83e178021226b1d95a6ba9c501a--liberation-of-paris-august-.jpg

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[Nasu]

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The sixth one down has been doctored. It has the original on the left but the man being shot has been changed. Not sure who the new victim so called is, but it's not the original victim in the original picture.. Lovely pics though, just wanted to point it out...x... N

Note from Bill. Yes, it has. This is the original. May God forgive the human race.

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[Valerie Villars]

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The sixth one down has been doctored. It has the original on the left but the man being shot has been changed. Not sure who the new victim so called is, but it's not the original victim in the original picture.. Lovely pics though, just wanted to point it out...x... N

Note from Bill. Yes, it has. This is the original. May God forgive the human race.

https://robertreport.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/00xp-photo_xp-master768.jpg

Sharp eye. Same shirt but different face. The original is in "The Best of Life" published 1973, page 45 and was taken by Eddie Adams.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Sharp eye indeed, thanks for that Nasu. I was familiar with that famous (and disturbing) picture before posting it, but the difference just didn't register. Thanks for pointing it out, and for Bill for correcting it!


Note from Bill. Yes, it has. This is the original. May God forgive the human race.


I hope so too. I'm sure He (the Universe, the All-That-Is) will. I feel we must learn to forgive ourselves first.

now, :focus: :heart:

[Iloveyou]

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Is this the insane asylum of the galaxy ? Do I need a break ? Oh yeah.




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[uzn]

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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