Free Spirits

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Being joyful and vital does not necessarily correlate with chronological age. I’ve met children who are bursting with creativity and happiness and people who are older than me who love to explore new concepts, try new activities, and bubble over with joie de vivre. On the other hand, I’ve encountered other people who are in their late adolescence who have become attached to dogmatic ways of thinking and seem much older than their ages.

Jonathan Winters

One of the young-minded older people who was quite a free spirit was my late great-uncle Norman. He served as the Postmaster in the tiny village of Concord, Nebraska. His appearance and much of his behavior were more than passing resemblances of the classic comedian Jonathan Winters. Both men had a clean sense of humor that was laced with innuendo. Even their laughs were very much alike. I believe that uncle Norman was Jonathan…

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Manastir Tresije, Srbija – Tresije Monastery, Serbia

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Osnivanje manastira Tresije na Kosmaju, nedaleko od Sopota, pripisuje se despotu Stefanu Lazareviću. Međutim, najvjerovatnije da je manastir nastao još krajem trinaestog ili početkom četrnaestog vijeka, u vrijeme kralja Dragutina, a da je obnovljen u vrijeme despota Stefana, početkom petnaestog vijeka. U turskim izvorima manastir se pominje 1560. godine, kao manastir Svetih Arhanđela pod imenom Tres, koji ima 12 kaluđera. Stradao je krajem sedamnaestog vijeka od Turaka. Kaluđeri su sa manastirskim dragocjenostima prešli u Srem i našli utočište u fruškogorskim manastirima. U manastir Hopovo donijet je 1641. godine jedan Psaltir iz manastira Tresija, koji je kasnije prenijet u Hilandar gdje se i sada nalazi. Razrušeni manastir obnovili su 1709. godine rakovački kaluđeri sa igumanom Visarionom. O toj obnovi svjedoči natpis uklesan u kamenu lijevo od ulaznih vrata današnjeg hrama. Međutim, manastir je ubrzo zapustio i ostao u ruševinama sve do 1936. godine, kada je počela dosta nestručna obnova, okončana 1950…

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ELFJE#3

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My First Poster color Art i did referring youtube and loved using this media to paint👩🏻‍🎨❤️❤️❤️

Scarlet
Sky gleams
at the twilight
it perplexes me often
mind-boggling

Heya my brilliant peeps, how are you all doing guys… I hope all are safe at your places and enjoying life in your ways… Well i am so sorry pals as i am unable to post consistently like daily basis due to over workload and also busy with my new art projects which i am drawing in little free time as i have 4 art pieces to complete by 12th july for upcoming project.., and side by side learning guitar, so far 5 classes completed😃😃 so unable to give time to write!!! Still as you know cant stay away from penning down my thoughts for long..As soon as i completed drawing the above landscape with poster colors referring youtube so since then thoughts…

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Brazil to redeploy troops to Amazon to fight deforestation? Brazil’s Bolsonaro signed a decree Monday to dispatch soldiers to the Amazon in a bid to curb surging deforestation, just two months after withdrawing troops from the region and days after his Environment Minister resigned…

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Decreto renova atuação das Forças Armadas na Amazônia — Ecoamazônia

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Militares voltarão a atuar na repressão de delitos ambientais O presidente Jair Bolsonaro editou nesta segunda-feira (28) o decreto de Garantia da Lei e da Ordem (GLO) que autoriza novamente o emprego das Forças Armadas na repressão a delitos ambientais na Amazônia. 24 morewords

Decreto renova atuação das Forças Armadas na Amazônia — Ecoamazônia

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« They want to find GOLD – Their avidity was what made most of our elders die long ago! *White men who have money, want more. They want to destroy more. That’s their tradition – they’ve got no limit! »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami shabono – communal house, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela
photo – Barbara Crane Navarro

« In the past, we were not forced to talk about the forest with anger because we did not know all these white people land and tree eaters. Our thoughts were calm. We only listened to our own words and the xapiri spirit’s songs. This is what we want to be able to do again.

If your minds were not so closed, you would chase the earth eaters out of our forest! … You do not know how to do anything with the forest. You only know how to cut down and burn its trees, to dig holes in its floor and soil its watercourses. Yet it does not belong to you and none of you created it!

All these words have accumulated in me since I have known the white people. … Maybe they will…

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 1, part III: The 3 Universals

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This post continues the rough draft of  Chapter 1 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.  This is all of outline section, chapter 1, section III.

This section is about 1000 words long, as I wanted each chapter section to be.

And once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter One, section III:

(section II parts C and D was last week…)

III.

 

III. A.

 

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Good People Doing Good Things — Dr. Ala Stanford

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Today I have only one ‘good people’ for you, but she is … WOW!  She is doing far more than her share to keep the Black community in Philly healthy and not for a fee!


Earlier this week, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that 70% of the city’s adults had received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine — reaching President Biden’s goal for the nation ahead of schedule.

Yet that doesn’t tell the whole story. Only one-quarter of those vaccinations have gone to Black residents even though they make up more than 40% of the city’s population.

Throughout the pandemic, people of color have been devastated by Covid-19 in the US — dying at a much greater rate than white Americans. Now, as deaths have fallen with increased vaccinations, those dying are younger and more disproportionately Black.

Enter Dr. Ala Stanford …

Since April 2020, Dr. Ala Stanford…

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Caribbean Tree Planting Week: A Cultural Celebration of Trees

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Next week (July 5 to 11, 2021) is the first Caribbean Tree Planting Week. So what, you may ask? This is certainly not a symbolic week, but the result of over a year of activities and networking (Zoom was working overtime!) among citizens of all ages and backgrounds (including a major youth contingent) – in no less than 22 countries across the Caribbean.

Please join the amazing tree planters and their friends and supporters, next week. Take a look at the program below – more events may be added. You can register for all events (free) at thisZoom linkand also watch on Facebook Live.

An 18-year-old youth ambassador in Haiti (screen shot from the launch of the CariPhil Alliance Tree Planting Ambassadors on Zoom, which visited every corner of the Caribbean!)

The Caribbean Tree Planting Project (CTPP) has resulted in the planting of 1.4 million trees across the…

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