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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

Una mejor gestión de los bosques aumentaría un 20% el caudal de los ríos, según un estudio – Stigmatis

Barcelona, Catalunya. Algunas de las medidas para gestionar mejor los bosques como la recuperación de pastos donde hay matorral o la introducción del cultivo de viña aumentarían hasta un 20% el caudal de los ríos, según un estudio del Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales (CREAF).

Source: Una mejor gestión de los bosques aumentaría un 20% el caudal de los ríos, según un estudio – Stigmatis

5 pics: Mural by Nigel Leirens in Lokeren, Belgium | STREET ART UTOPIA

Street Artist Nigel Leirens

By Nigel Leirens in Lokeren, Belgium.

Nigel Leirens: One of my artistic highlights of this year was the mural in Lokeren. What an adventure. We went in search of the solidarity that lives between people. And I must say I am positively surprised. we found stories that still live in between the people. Stories that connect the neighborhood with love and unity. A multicultural experience where I really had to pinch myself sometimes to see if I wasn’t dreaming.

Source: 5 pics: Mural by Nigel Leirens in Lokeren, Belgium | STREET ART UTOPIA

Creative spark…by Mágica Mistura – Mágica Mistura

I open my eyes…

Natural sounds fill my mind

A thousand reasons to be grateful

Eyes to see the lagoon, the sky, the pine trees

Ears to among the rustling leaves

And the eternal coming and going of the waves

Listen to Bem-te-vi, Canário, Quero- Quero

Natural world… the less cement, the better

Shoes?The soles of the feet

Molded in the warm white sand

Gift of life, of the universe…

Fruit of a desire whispered to the Whole

Which became a grateful and beautiful reality

Every morning a gift

That my most intimate spark formed

✨️Mágica Mistura

Source: Creative spark…by Mágica Mistura – Mágica Mistura