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Freedom

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:14:00 +0000

THRIVE

cycles repeating – the earth is speaking

saying time has come to wake up from

this nightmare of lies

so many shattered lives

reaching out… crying

crying out for freedom

crying out for love

carried by the current

‘til we stand side by side

on the brink of a brand new dawn

we come together while the waters rise

there’s a stirring…

what on earth does it take to thrive?

while we’ve been sleeping

our hearts were beating

so much closer than we ever knew

beneath the noise there’s an inner voice

whispering clear and true

the veils are finally lifting

a way’s becoming clear

there’s a dream without a limit

and a vision so strong

every person knows they belong

we come together while the waters rise

there’s a stirring… deep inside… deep inside

we come together to stand up for our lives

what on earth does it take to...

thrive

out in the open

thrive

healing what’s broken

every heart… every life

claiming our place in it now

we come together while the waters rise

there’s a stirring… deep inside… deep inside

we come together to stand up for our lives

we all have what it takes to thrive

we come together while the waters rise

there’s a stirring… deep inside… deep inside

we come together to stand up for our lives

we all have what it takes to thrive

we all have what it takes to thrive!

Words and Music by Austin Willacy and Ariel Thiermann

Sung by Ariel Thiermann and Austin Willacy

Produced by Gary Malkin and Ariel Thiermann

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Ohmix! [Flickr]

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Piazza San Marcos

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:19:00 +0000

Piazza San Marcos. Venice

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Venice [Flickr]

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Venice Feed back 2 [Flickr]

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Venice Feed back! [Flickr]

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Palace of Fine Arts [Flickr]

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Flying Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:15:00 +0000

"Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." -- Socrates

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The Old Typewriter

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:04:00 +0000

(Mobile Shots)

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Aoki

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:38:00 +0000

Inspired in my newest follower!
Takatugu Aoki
Thanks for sharing!

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The Moment of Creation

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:24:00 +0000

From Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan

People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such

and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to see the world

the way people have been telling us it is.

Seeing happens only when one sneaks between the worlds;

The world of ordinary people and the world of sorcerers.

The real thing is when the body realizes that it can see.

Only then is one capable of knowing that the world we look at every day

Is only a description.

My intent has been to show you that.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge,

Because the art of a warrior

Is to balance, the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

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NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:11:00 +0000

"It's one of the things I love best about New York: everyone came from somewhere else."
Isabelle (Julie Christie), New York, I Love You.

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Wild Red

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:55:00 +0000

-Bus Graffiti-

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein

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Games

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:28:00 +0000

↳ Christmas gifts ↵

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Fine Arts Palace

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:50:00 +0000

Art

I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
::: Mark Rothko :::

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
::: Jim Morrison :::

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
::: Henry Moore :::

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
::: John Lennon :::

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
::: Giorgio de Chirico :::

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
::: Diego Rivera :::

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
::: Eckhart Tolle :::

Happy Light Day!

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Winter Branches

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:03:00 +0000

“It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back”

~James George Frazer

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Rural Sky

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:37:00 +0000

(30 sec exposition)

Cloudy - Fri Jan 13, 2012

This week's challenge:
'Cloudy'.

Happy Weekend!

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Tribal Blues

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:16:00 +0000

“For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery.

For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.”

Background Music :

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

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Promenade

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:20:00 +0000

“I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff

about to fall down and break your neck.”

“I need, therefore I imagine.”

“chaos: it has no plural.”

“Memory is satisfied desire.”

“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.”

“What the United States does best is to understand itself.

What it does worst is understand others.”

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”

“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”

“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.”

~Carlos Fuentes

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Dogma

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:56:00 +0000

Happiness Is Dogma

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Impressions of Coyoacan

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

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Wheels

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:50:00 +0000

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

~Rudyard Kipling

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Photo of The Year 2011. Theme Day January 1st, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000

For its simplicity

(Revolcadero Beach. Acapulco, Mx)

For its softness

(Out of Cielo. New York City)

For its significance!

Time - Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments

that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours

In an offhand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground

In your home town
Waiting for someone or something

To show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine

Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long

And there is time to kill today

And then one day you find

Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

And you run and you run

To catch up with the sun

But it's sinking

Racing around

To come up behind you again

The sun is the same

In a relative way

But you're older

Shorter of breath

And one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter

Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught

Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation

Is the English way

The time is gone

The song is over

Thought I'd something more to say

Home

Home again
I like to be here

When I can

When I come home

Cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones

Beside the fire

Far away

Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell...

_____________

Caressing Time,

Enjoy with gratitude every new year!

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Christmas Mood in Cuernavaca

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:48:00 +0000

Merry Christmas
and
Happy Holidays,
Everyone!

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I Just Don’t Get It…

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:47:00 +0000

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Not occupied

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:55:00 +0000

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Occupy Your Heart!

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:06:00 +0000

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Murano

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:52:00 +0000

Murano 2010

Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 km north of Venice and measures about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) across with a population of just over 5,000 (2004 figures). It is famous for its glass making, particularly lampworking. It was once an independent comune, but is now a frazione of the comune of Venice.

Murano was settled by the Romans, then from the sixth century by people from Altinum and Oderzo. At first, the island prospered as a fishing port and through production of salt. It was also a centre for trade, through the port it controlled on Sant'Erasmo. From the eleventh century, it began to decline as islanders moved to Dorsoduro. It had a Grand Council, like that of Venice, but from the thirteenth century Murano was ultimately governed by a podestà from Venice. Unlike the other islands in the Lagoon, Murano minted its own coins.

Early in the second millenium, hermits of the Camaldolese Order occupied one of the islands, seeking a place of solitude for their way of life. There they founded the Monastery of St. Michael (Italian: S. Michele di Murano). This monastery became a great center of learning and printing. The famous cartographer, Fra Mauro, whose maps were so crucial to European exploration of the world was a monk of this community. The monastery was suppressed in 1810 by French forces under Napoleon in the course of their conquest of the Italian peninsula, and the monks finally expelled in 1814. The grounds then became Venice's major cemetery.

In 1291, all the glassmakers in Venice were forced to move to Murano due to the risk of fires. In the following century, exports began, and the island became famous, initially for glass beads and mirrors. Aventurine glass was invented on the island, and for a while Murano was the main producer of glass in Europe. The island later became known forchandeliers. Although decline set in during the eighteenth century, glassmaking is still the island's main industry. [Wiki]

Fri Dec 16, 2011

This week's challenge:
'Meditative'.

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The Protester

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:07:00 +0000

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Irish orator, philosopher & politician (1729 - 1797)

No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn’t just voice their complaints; they changed the world.
Read more: Time.com

For “once again becoming a maker of history” two sleepy decades after political soothsayer Francis Fukuyama declared Western liberalism the end point in the evolution of human society, Time magazine named “The Protester” 2011’s Person of the Year.

Nathan Schneider, author and editor with a number of publishing outfits—including ‘Waging Nonviolence,’ a blog devoted to analysis of nonviolent movements around the world—was pleased with Time’s decision. He pointed out, however, that the mainstream American press was slow to get to the uprisings at home and beyond: “As I first saw this announcement percolating on Twitter, being spread around proudly every which way by Occupy Wall Street-allied accounts, all I could think was: What took you so long? Where were you?” he asked.

“Where, I mean to say, was the American press when Tunisia—or Egypt—first started lighting up,” he continued, “when we at Waging Nonviolence were glued to Al-Jazeera and our Twitter feeds, wishing we had the means to be there ourselves? In the American news, the start of those revolutions was hardly a blip—that is, until Anderson Cooper got beaten up in Cairo.” —ARK [ Truthdig.com ]

Occupy The Future

Noam Chomsky

In These Times, November 1, 2011

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The Bridge

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:46:00 +0000

Venetian Bridge

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton

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