There’s a lot to be fascinated by out there. All kinds of pleasures to be had .Some recurring themes here, at least in connection with some particular pleasures of mine:
The fun and ease of learning through pictures. The gift that never stops giving I’ve found in
To Kill A Mockingbird . The infinite magic and springboard to learning of the Internet.
Peace .
This morning, I fell down the rabbit hole and got totally and happily ensnared in some of the photo collections at the website for the English newspaper,
the Guardian . I’m going to give you a bunch of links and will post a representative picture from most of them to give you the flavor. I got tremendous enjoyment out of a lot of these. You might find some of that same stuff for yourselves.
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1- The first picture below is the one that got me started. I thought it was incredible. It was from a collection of images of what a “real” winter looks like and makes what most of us have experienced here in the United States this year look like a non-event..
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People slide along the promenade past ice-covered cars and trees on the shores of Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland. ”
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Indian Boys Dress Up As Gandhi .
What turns out to be an annual festival has been featured here, before. I selected the photo I did from this year's lookalike contest because I thought that this particular kid carried himself with the perfect Gandhian bearing.
“On the eve of the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's death, 485 (under-privileged) boys dressed up as Gandhi at a peace rally in Calcutta, in a bid to create a new Guinness World Record and promote non-violent protest. ” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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To Kill A Mockingbird original artwork - in pictures ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign - in pictures Maybe you have to be of a particular political persuasion to enjoy these pictures, I’m not sure. I kind of hope not but wouldn’t be totally shocked if that turned out to be the case.
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Lunchboxes made of awesome – in pictures “ In what has to be the most time-consuming way of making sure your children eat properly, parents in Japan have been turning their lunchboxes into works of art known as Kyaraben or cartoon bento. Now the trend has spread to the US where graphic designer Heather Sitarzewski has been making her son his own pasta Miss Piggys and grape-nosed Mickey Mouses every day, and posting the results at lunchboxawesome.tumblr.com. Suddenly, cutting off the sandwich crusts seems like less of a chore… ” I love food art. I thought that these were particularly delectable.
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Belfast peace walls - in pictures This last picture I’m including not so much because I was so enamoured of the photo collection where I found it. No, it was just that I really really liked the sentiment that someone painted on one of the Irish peace walls, and I fantasize about the day when it might be something more than a dream painted in someone's imagination.
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AFTERTHOUGHT : Wanted to tell any of you app-people out there that
Fotopedia just came out with a new and exquisite one,
Women of the World . Like my all-time favorite,
Memory of Colors , it's a treasure trove of riches (
she says, redundantly ).
EDIT ON AN AFTERTHOUGHT : Still caught up in the exhilaration of the (Internet magic carpet) ride I just took, on another whim, I decided to google the photographer,
Olivier Martel , whose work was featured in that new
Fotopedia app that I just told you about. How grateful I feel for a curiosity that doesn’t want to quit and for all those whims I seem to keep having
because, look at what I just found :
http://www.olivier-martel.com/lang-en/biographie.html I’m especially intrigued by the contents of the subcategory, “
Health ,” that he has listed here under “
Coverages .” Sometime, I’ll have to see what I can find on that. For now, I’m more than contented that I happened on
this .
EDIT #2 , and then, I
think I’m done.
Just learned about an American secretary who became a *king* of a 7,000 peopled-Ghanaian town. Fun story. A
book is about to be released.
In Ghanaian Village, American Woman Reigns As King Some fun pics of
King Peggy can be found
here .
And then there's the video:
