I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.
~ Nina LaCour, Hold Still Category: Urban Tales If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
~ Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country Category: People Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Category: Urban Tales When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones Category: Landscape Saturnalia is a festival of light leading to the winter solstice, with the abundant presence of candles symbolizing the quest for knowledge and truth. The renewal of light and the coming of the new year was celebrated in the later Roman Empire as "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun," on December 25.
Saturnalia is the best-known of several festivals in the Greco-Roman world characterized by role reversals and behavioural license. Slaves were treated to a banquet of the kind usually enjoyed by their masters. Ancient sources suggest that master and slave dined together. Saturnalian license also permitted slaves to enjoy pretence of disrespect for their masters, and exempted them from punishment. It was a time for free speech. The Augustan poet Horace calls it "December liberty”. The Sigillaria on December 19 was a day of gift-giving. Because gifts of value would mark social status contrary to the spirit of the season, these were often the pottery or wax figurines called sigillaria made specially for the day, candles, or “gag gifts". Children received toys as gifts. Gift-giving was not confined to the day of the Sigillaria. In some households, guests and family members received gifts after the feast in which slaves had shared. Category: Diary Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
~ Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War Category: Urban Landscape The December solstice is on either December 20, 21, 22 or 23. It is called Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year. Meanwhile, on the day of the December solstice, the Southern Hemisphere has its longest day and shortest night. This year’s winter solstice falls on 22 December, at 04:48 UTC.
The December solstice has played an important role in cultures worldwide from ancient times until our day. Christmas is the most popular holiday to have arisen. In addition can be mentioned other celebrations, as Yalda (the Iranian festival celebrating the longest and darkest night of the year), Saturnalia (an ancient Roman festival, celebrating on December 25, as the Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun), Karachun (the Slavic pagan holiday), Hanukkah (the Yiddish festival of light), Kwanzaa (the celebration that honours African heritage and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving) and Yule (the winter religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples). Category: Diary Selfies And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. ~ Anne Sexton, Love Poems Category: Necropolis In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood - A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. ~ Theodore Roethke Category: Urban Tales Me, Myself and I.
I like that. Metal is hard on the teeth. Pork and beans popsicle. Yummy! My favorite! ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil Category: Selfies A snapshot from today’s streets. Political parties just started election campaigns for 2016 parliament election.
This election is about the past vs. the future. It's about whether we settle for the same divisions and distractions and drama that passes for politics today or whether we reach for a politics of common sense and innovation, a politics of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity. ~ Barack Obama Category: Urban Tales A parody poster on a legendary movie, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... To get lost... To forget where you came in. ~ Hattori Hanzo, Kill Bill: Vol.1 Category: Creativity Ivana is a teacher. She teaches drawing and painting at Art School. I have known here for a couple of decades. When I met her for the first time, she was just a small kid. The day before yesterday we accidentally bump into each other in the Caraffa Gallery. There were an opening and exhibition of illuminating art, named Infiniti. So I asked her, to be a photo model for a few shots.
Category: People I recently self-published a photography book, simply named “black and white”. The edition contains the exclusive selection of black and white photographs from 2005 to 2015. For printing, I used online publishing house Blurb.
The entire preview of the book is available here. The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Category: Urban Landscape There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.
~ Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain Category: Speed Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
~ Patricia McKillip Category: Selfies This is a snapshot of my former workplace and in the picture is one of my former colleagues. It is a control room for TV broadcasting throughout a night shift.
Category: Classic Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
~ Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other Category: Necropolis |
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