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“…and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.” ~ John Hatzfeld

“…and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.” ~ John Hatzfeld

Overheard from the tree at the zoo… “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”

Overheard from the tree at the zoo…

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”


Macro Monday inspired by The Who. “No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes.”      ~ The Who

Macro Monday inspired by The Who.

“No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man, to be the sad man,

Behind Blue Eyes.”      ~ The Who

njwight: “Pooh looked at his paws. He knew that one of them was right and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, the the other was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.”  Winnie The Pooh

njwight:

“Pooh looked at his paws. He knew that one of them was right and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, the the other was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.”  Winnie The Pooh

Overheard from a tree at the zoo… “Yes. A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.”

Overheard from a tree at the zoo…

“Yes. A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.”

“If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn’t I? I will not die, I will not die.” ~Friedl and the Children of Terezin Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was an extraordinary artist and teacher who lived and died in the Nazi concentration camps. She taught art to more than 10,000 children in the Terrezin camp to help bring some beauty and joy to their terror-filled lives. In 1944 she died in  Auschwitz, but not before hiding away more than 5000 pieces of the children’s art work in two suitcases. They were discovered 10 years after her death. Friedl and the Children of Terezin was an art exhibit of their collective work. When I saw this leaf in the woods, with the shadow of the barbed-wire knot behind it, I was deeply affected and I had no idea why. It was so profound for me and and I spent 15 or 20 minutes shooting it. Here was this thing of beauty-a gently blowing leaf highlighted by the breaking sunlight splashing through the trees, juxtaposed against the shadow of the knot, a symbol of imprisonment. I wanted to post it with a quote and while researching I discovered the story of The Children of Terezin. How magical that such a simple moment which could so easily have been over-looked could lead me to such a moving story of human compassion.

“If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn’t I? I will not die, I will not die.”

~Friedl and the Children of Terezin

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was an extraordinary artist and teacher who lived and died in the Nazi concentration camps. She taught art to more than 10,000 children in the Terrezin camp to help bring some beauty and joy to their terror-filled lives. In 1944 she died in  Auschwitz, but not before hiding away more than 5000 pieces of the children’s art work in two suitcases. They were discovered 10 years after her death. Friedl and the Children of Terezin was an art exhibit of their collective work.

When I saw this leaf in the woods, with the shadow of the barbed-wire knot behind it, I was deeply affected and I had no idea why. It was so profound for me and and I spent 15 or 20 minutes shooting it. Here was this thing of beauty-a gently blowing leaf highlighted by the breaking sunlight splashing through the trees, juxtaposed against the shadow of the knot, a symbol of imprisonment. I wanted to post it with a quote and while researching I discovered the story of The Children of Terezin. How magical that such a simple moment which could so easily have been over-looked could lead me to such a moving story of human compassion.

“Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon, like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon, like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape.”

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” ~ Walt Whitman

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” ~ Walt Whitman

“Often when we make an effort to find the bigger, grander things in life, we are wonderfully surprised by the discovery of equally significant things along the way.” ~Richard Stine

“Often when we make an effort to find the bigger, grander things in life, we are wonderfully surprised by the discovery of equally significant things along the way.” ~Richard Stine

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anais Nin

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anais Nin

“The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizarding world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you, in one night, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons.” Minerva McGonagall Baboons get a bad rap…victims of alliteration.

“The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizarding world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you, in one night, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons.” Minerva McGonagall

Baboons get a bad rap…victims of alliteration.

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ” ~ Buddah

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ” ~ Buddah