El plástico se recicla pero no en Europa: los países que comercian con los residuos – Stigmatis News

Source: El plástico se recicla pero no en Europa: los países que comercian con los residuos – Stigmatis News

On Oppression | bluejayblog

…Night is one of the books I re-read from time to time. Wiesel’s account of experiences while surviving his ordeals during the Holocaust are haunting and moving. There is no sugar-coating of the horrors and inhumanity that took place in the labor and death camps like Auschwitz. This classic book is a must-read for anyone who wishes for and works toward the ending of oppression around the world…

Source: On Oppression | bluejayblog

old and new works – Zettl Fine Arts

…Calligraphy as a basis for art

Not only is calligraphy the basis of all traditional Chinese painting as you not only train your brushwork skills, which is difficult enough, but you also sharpen your compositional skills. If a character is to be good, it has to meet a whole series of criteria that we as Western observers are not even aware of and that go beyond our horizon.

In the extra part, I will try to use a single character to indicate the dimension of the whole thing.

Below are 3 examples of simpler characters with approaches to good composition.

construction of chinese characters

Source: old and new works – Zettl Fine Arts

Remember … | Filosofa’s Word

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  It is a day we should all remember … a day we should hope never EVER happens again.  The lessons of this history have never been more relevant than they are today as we see many nations leaning away from democratic principles and toward authoritarianism, and as we see a rise in hate crimes, rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.  Those lessons of history should be the focus of this solemn International Holocaust Remembrance Day—designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005, on January 27th, marking the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, in 1945.

The victims of the Holocaust were an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 200,000 Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and 9,000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.  We must … MUST take time to remember these victims and take note of how it all came about, else we risk repeating the mistakes, the horrors, of the past.

From the moment he was born, Arye Ephrath was in danger. His mother gave birth to him with the help of a housemaid in spring 1942 while hiding from the first wave of deportations of Jews from their hometown in Slovakia. Later, a shepherd and his wife took in Arye on the condition they could disguise him as a girl so that he would blend in with their daughters…

Pictured above are the Margules children wearing Jewish Star of David badges. Originally from Warsaw, the Margules family settled in Paris in the 1930s. Three of the children were deported and killed in 1942. Only one daughter (pictured at the bottom right) survived the war. Paris, France, 1941. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mirka MargulesSource: Remember … | Filosofa’s Word

Dawn Without You – Kaushal Kishore

 

In dawn’s tender embrace, a silence as vast as the cosmos,

Your memory, elusive, a phantom in the shadows…

Morning’s vibrant hues, once a dazzling array,

Now shrouded in obscurity, a subdued display…

*

A void unfurls its melancholic tendrils with each passing hour,

Love’s petals wither, a delicate bloom losing its power…

Since morning’s birth, time wears a sombre masquerade,

As echoes of you linger in stillness, a silent serenade…

*

The sun ascends, but its warmth timidly fades away,

A dawn without you, a desolate landscape in dismay…

Whispers of shared moments echo in the empty air,

Lost in vast stillness, like dreams ensnared in a snare…

*

Through the hours, a yearning profound as the ocean’s depth,

In the heart’s chamber, your absence, an unwelcome guest…

The morning mourns in a symphony of muted song,

A solitude-filled tune of longing, played like a gong…

–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: Dawn Without You – Kaushal Kishore

Retro Music 105 | beetleypete

Back in the 1970s, a new and different British band appeared. Elvis Costello and The Attractions had a unique sound, and a lead singer with a very different look who wrote some amazingly original songs. His real name is Declan MacManus, and he is still recording and perfoming now.

This year he will be 70 years old, and the record I have chosen from his early work was released in 1977, 47 years ago. I bought the album it was on when I was just 25.

It contains one of my favourite lines in song lyrics.
“She’s filing her nails while they’re dragging the lake”.

Source: Retro Music 105 | beetleypete