A young couple prays for the victims of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake on a tsunami barrier at Arahama Beach in Sendaii, Miyagi Prefecture. The 9.0-magnitude quake triggered a tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, killing nearly 16,000 people and causing a nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant (Kimimasa Mayama, EPA, Shutterstock, wsj.com March 11, 2018)
Miracle. All of it.
December 31, 2017 by 34 Comments
Behind me the sun settles
into the sea but I’m facing
a fire flickering in a great stone
hearth not big enough to roast
an ox, but big enough.
It’s taken the universe fifteen
billion years to get me here
and I find I’m grateful.
~ Nils Peterson, “Christmas Eve By the Sea” in A Walk to the Center of Things
Notes:
- Poem: via 3quarksdaily. Photo by Milamai
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Miracle. All of it.
October 26, 2017 by 34 Comments
It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun,
but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines
and one can warm oneself a little.
~ Franz Kafka, from Letter to His Father
Notes:
- Photograph: Rob Miller Photography in Dundas, Ontario, Canada (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
- Kafka Quote source: kafkaesque-world
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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
May 17, 2017 by 14 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Tony’s Backpacker Trip with Camel and Sunset in Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
January 18, 2017 by 29 Comments
Notes:
- Photo from Nationalgeographic.com. “Arabian Light.” In the United Arab Emirates, Rogel Tura (Dubai, UAE) captured this iconic silhouette while traveling in the desert at sunset. Tura was heading to his camp when he came upon the man and his camels at the top of the dunes. (Thank you Horty!)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
September 7, 2016 by 21 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Butterfly
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
June 22, 2016 by 19 Comments
Notes:
- Source: Thank you Bill for sharing this shot and for following my blog @ Start…
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
June 15, 2016 by 10 Comments
Notes:
- Source: The Travel Network
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
April 20, 2016 by 17 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Scoopers.com. Thank you Horty @ It Is What It is
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Hot Tea @ – 40°F
December 23, 2015 by 24 Comments
“Michael H. Davies took this photo on the tundra outside Pangnirtung, Nunavut, a community of about 1,400 just a few kilometres south of the Arctic circle. The photo shows local resident Markus Siivola throwing hot tea into the air as he bends backwards. In the –40 C weather, the tea freezes as soon as it’s tossed. Davies, originally from Pontypool, Ont., is a trained painter, photographer and glass blower. He has lived in Pangnirtung for about 10 years with his wife and, now, two young children.”
Source: CBC News – Nunavut tea toss photo at – 40 C proves internet gold