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Uploaded: 09/27/21 3:42 PM GMT
Banquet
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway

He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want ‐ not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable…very few things matter and nothing matters very much.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

Maybe there is a beast…maybe it's only us.
William Golding , Lord of the Flies

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
Aldous Huxley, 1962 speech at Berkeley

The Godfather ‐ Orchestral Suite, The Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Forrest Gump: Feather Theme, Tina Guo

Unchained Melody, Army Europe Band and Chorus

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::Nikoneer
09/27/21 8:15 PM GMT
The image is like traveling from a jungle trail into a jewel-encrusted cave under a glacier. How a jungle and a glacier can co-exist in close proximity is something I will not pretend to understand, but, as I have said before, your images, John, never fail to take me on a journey of pure fantasy, which I have always enjoyed. It is probably the reason I usually interpret your work in other ways. But for the lack of animals, it also reminds me of a Henri Rousseau painting, due to that foliage (?) on the left and the overall busy nature of the piece. I chased a degree in fine art many years ago, so when I favorably compare a Caedes piece to that of a classical artist work, you can consider it high praise.

The various quotes tells me that you are well-read, another gold star in my book. The Stevenson quote, however much I wish it was better understood and accepted, I do not believe that it is by a substantial number of Americans today.

Happy Trails, John.

-nik
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::Pjsee16
09/27/21 10:21 PM GMT
Another feast for the eyes and a feast of quotes....Maybe too much to digest, and yet...nevertheless great to behold!
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Gratitude to the Ancient Instructors "What they undertook came to pass. All things hang like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass." W.B. Yeats
::corngrowth
09/28/21 7:53 AM GMT
John, Paul is right with his above comment. To my humble opinion, I think he has forget to mention that your splendid post is a feast for the ears as well. As always an unique combination of render, quotes and music links!
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If you think you can't accept something, try to change it. But if this doesn't work, don't be frustrated, but give it later another try. The one who perseveres wins! Please CLICK HERE to see my journal! Feel free to save my images or to add them to your favorites.
::tigger3
09/29/21 1:50 PM GMT
Mr. C. has said it perfectly for me! Faved this amazing work of art of yours. tigs=^..^=
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫

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