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NIKON D7100 – ƒ/8 1/250 52mm ISO100 – Spring Lake Park, MN

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APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) notes the judgment of the Constitutional Court of Uganda which has struck down certain parts of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) notes the judgment of the Constitutional Court of Uganda which has struck down certain parts of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023

Transversalidades 2024 Photo Contest (Portugal)- Free Entry – magicandbeauty

Deadline
12 May 2024

Who may enter
The competition is open to anyone.

Short description

The competition is organized by Centro de Estudos IbĂŠricos (CEI) in Guarda, Portugal.

The pictures collected under this contest should portray the diversity of territories, societies and cultures of different continents.

There are four categories:

1. Landscapes, biodiversity and natural heritage.
2. Rural areas, agriculture and settlement.
3. The city and the urbanization process.
4. Culture and society: cultural diversity and social inclusion…

Source: Transversalidades 2024 Photo Contest (Portugal)- Free Entry – magicandbeauty

Más de 43.000 madres con protección policial por violencia de género, un 15 % más – Stigmatis

Madrid (EFE).- Más de la mitad de los casos de violencia de género con protección policial en España corresponden a víctimas con hijos e hijas menores de edad a su cargo, 43.899, que son 5.810 más que hace un año, un crecimiento del 15,2 %.
Vecinas de Abla (Almería) colocan flores en la puerta del colegio donde estudiaba una de las niñas presuntamente asesinadas por envenenamiento por su padre. EFE / Carlos Barba

Source: Más de 43.000 madres con protección policial por violencia de género, un 15 % más – Stigmatis

The Poetry of Civility and Compassion | From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: AndPan614

 

What inspires me to write the things I write and share the things that I share? There isn’t one particular thing, but a culmination of many facets occurring each day throughout life. For one, outside of other social media platforms, this WP community I am happy to be a part of showcases how we can communicate effectively as adults even if we are different racially, by gender, politically, economically, demographically, or scholastically.

Civility, empathy, understanding, love, peace, patience, and compassion are components we see heavily compromised and gradually deteriorating these days and times in society. We see evidence of polarization, complicity, and complacency that seem to overshadow the heart of humanity. And it does to an extent.

I Lose if I Don’t Use

If I lose my ability to see, I become blind
If I lose my ability to hear, I become deaf
If I lose my ability to touch, I become numb
If I lose my ability to be peaceful, I self-destruct in chaos
If I lose my ability to understand, I become knotted in confusion
If I lose my ability to love, I am lost in the ethos of hate.

©Kym Gordon Moore

Today my friends, as I ruminate about this awesome gift of life we have been given this very moment, why waste it on frivolous and trivial things that don’t add value to your life, to the lives of others, and living? Sometimes the very things we are looking for we already possess. We just need to mobilize them in ways that have laid dormant for a while. Yes, the world seems like it’s crazy, but it’s not the world that’s crazy, it’s the people who live in it who are.

We are not accountable for the crazy things that other people do, but it’s what we do that will make a difference. Crazy is just making more noise, we have to counteract that noise with more good and productive noise of our own. It is refreshing and comforting to see the type of camaraderie we share, where civility and compassion are poetic ingredients in our human connection. Thank you! 🙏🏼

Free Friends Hugging in Group Stock Photo

Image Credit: PNW Production 

Source: The Poetry of Civility and Compassion | From Behind the Pen