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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Firefly Gumball

yaskhan

Fireflies wing on a starlight dreamUnwrapping darkness' chemisePirouetting amber to gleamFireflies wing on a starlight dreamThe Ursa swathed in aurum streamWaking the fire, stirring the moonAureus of a glowing rune.Tracing color in night's darknessFlaring the space between the treesConstellations light up the starknessTracing color in night's darknessBraille that makes up the eyes brightnessLike nymphs on a dappled trapezeTracing color in night's darknessA sky glazed with a velvet breeze....# Triolet

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Pečeni mladi krompir s ruzmarinom – Baked new potatoes with rosemary

Baked new potatoes with rosemary

Myrela

VRIJEME: 30 minuta / PORCIJA: 4

  • 600 g mladih krompira slične veličine
  • 2 kašike maslinovog ulja
  • 1 limun
  • 2-3 velike grančice svježeg ruzmarina
  • so i crni biber

Zagrijte rernu do 230°C (oznaka za gas 8) i zagrijte vodu u električnom bokalu do ključanja. Očistite kožu s krompira trljanjem i stavite ih u veliku šerpu. Prelijte ih ključalom vodom, zagrijte ponovo da proključa i kuvajte polako 5 minuta. U međuvremenu, sipajte maslinovo ulje u veliki, plitak pleh i stavite ga u rernu da se zagrije. Operite sav vosak s limuna i sitno narendajte njegovu koru. Operite ruzmarin i otkinite njegove listove sa stabljika. Dobro ocijedite krompire, stavite ih u vruće ulje i dobro izmiješajte, da bi ih ulje ravnomjerno prekrilo. Pospite preko njih limunovu koru, listove ruzmarina i malo soli i bibera. Vodite računa da ulje bude zaista vruće prije nego započnete pečenje – krompiri bi trebalo da počnu da cvrče…

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Life is empty without love

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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – KHALIL GIBRAN

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – DALAI LAMA

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – MAX MULLER

“Where there is love there is life.” – MAHATMA GANDHI

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – OSCAR WILDE

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Everett (Smitty) Smith

Pacific Paratrooper

young Everett and Mother, Anna

Everett Smith was born Dec. 12, 1914 and grew up with the gentle waves of Jamaica Bay on an island one mile long and barely four blocks wide. This was the tight-knit community of Broad Channel, New York. He resided with his mother, Anna at peaceful 207 East 9th Road and spent his days between school, working and helping to care for his grandmother.

Aerial view of Broad Channel

Smitty’s, Broad Channel, NY

Everett’s nickname had always been “Smitty” and so, the name of his fishing station came to be. In 1939, at 24 years of age, he married a woman named Catherine and she joined the Smith household.

News of Hitler and his rise to power filtered into the newspapers and radio, but Anna still had the memories of WWI and their financial struggles in what would be become known as the Great Depression…

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A photo which attracted me to draw!!

Soni's thoughts

Hola my amazing buddies, how are you doing today guys… Today i want to share with you all one of my art piece which i got inspired and attracted to draw by seeing one of Amber‘s blog post photo days ago… I got the will to draw it anyhow and with Ambers permission i indeed gave it a try!! And you wont believe guys i did not have to erase the art, i just started it and ended it without any break and erasing or any such… Dont know how so much zeal came, and i was quite happy with my final art piece after drawing for around 1+hrs!!! So thank you so much diosraw0.wordpress.comAmber for allowing me to draw one of photo you used in your blog post, indeed it boosted my mood alot and felt satisfaction💖💖💖💖💖 so pals i would share both reference and my art…

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Maratha Ditch

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Savitri hummed the ancient Bengali lullaby – “Khoka ghumalo, para juralo, Bargi elo deshe. Bulbulite dhan kheyechhe, khazna debo kishe?(My boy has fallen asleep, silence has set in the locality, the Bargis have come to our state. Passerine songbirds have eaten the rice grains, how shall I pay my taxes?)

She was trying to make her two-year-old son fall asleep at the backseat of their 1950 Ambassador Landmaster, a family heirloom of a car that her husband Umesh would not ditch for anything in the world.

From the mid-1700s, nearly every Bengali mother has sung this cradlesong to make her child asleep, and Savitri had a habit of doing the same wherever it may be, at home, in a hotel, or even in the back seat of the family car.

It was 3:00 AM on a cold winter December night in 1990, a few days before Christmas. A…

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« A falta de lo sagrado, todo está a la venta. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Selva tropical a lo largo del río Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela foto: Barbara Crane Navarro

« El medio ambiente no está aquí. El medio ambiente no está ahí. Eres el medio ambiente. »

« Lo que ustedes llaman sus recursos naturales, nuestra gente llama a nuestros padres. »

– Oren Lyons, nación Séneca

Debemos adorar la selva, ríos, cielo – Naturaleza –

de nuevo …

Mire esta película de 2 minutos y 27 segundos que muestra momentos de la vida Yanomami en el Amazonas, Venezuela y la obra de arte “La escultura de fuego” ardiendo a orillas del río Orinoco para protestar por la continua destrucción de la selva tropical y la degradación de las vidas de los indígenas:

¡NO a la destrucción por el Arco Minero del Orinoco por Maduro de las tierras indígenas de Venezuela!

¡NO a la abolición por Bolsonaro de las protecciones de los territorios indígenas en…

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Freedom from Discrimination – Connect by Patty Wolters

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Article 2 ~ Freedom from Discrimination

“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty…” 

Source: Freedom from Discrimination – Connect by Patty Wolters