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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸....𝗔 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁............ ...𝗕𝘆 𝗗𝗿.𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻
I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading....... You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours...............Every walk is a sort of crusade.

Why do I walk? I like the rhythm of it, my shadow always a little ahead of me on the pavement. I like being able to stop when I like, to lean against a building and make a note in my journal, or read an email, or send a text message, and for the world to stop while I do it. Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness. Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighbourhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. Walking helps me feel at home. There’s a small pleasure in seeing how well I’ve come to know the city through my wanderings on foot, crossing through different neighborhoods of the city, some I used to know quite well, others I may not have seen in a while, like getting reacquainted with someone I once met at a party. Sometimes I walk because I have things on my mind, and walking helps me sort them out. I walk because it confers or restores a feeling of placeness. I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours, but you can eavesdrop on them. Sometimes it’s overcrowded; sometimes the voices are too loud. But there is always companionship. You are not alone......*You walk in the city side by side with the living and the dead.
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ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪEᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯEEK.......ᔕTᗩY ᔕᗩᖴE.
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𝘼𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧, 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩. ..............𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙖𝙣
Mariam Petrosyan, is most well known as the author of the award-winning novel The Gray House.Mariam Petrosyan was born in 1969 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. After finishing an art college she became a cartoonist at the Studio of Armenfilm. Later she moved to Moscow to work at Soyuzmultfilm, but came back to Yerevan in 1995 and returned to Armenfilm.
🔹 The House, which sits overlooked on the outskirts of town, is a boarding school for disabled young adults. Isolated from the Outsides, the residents of the House are enmeshed in a carefully constructed world of unspoken rules and thorny histories. The meandering narrative moves back and forth in time, alternating narrators and tenses, to paint an intricate portrait of a social order that appears ultimately dictated by an unknown force, understood by its inhabitants to be the House itself. When student deaths begin to pile up over the course of the narrative, readers can identify with newcomer Smoker as he tries to understand the mysteries of the House and the source of its power over its inhabitants.....Mariam Petrosyan rips up the rule book, presenting a highly original and energetic novel that will give the reader an insight into a world that is seldom presented.
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🔹 I genuinely, enjoyed this book. This is absolutely my sort of novel. I loved the characters, I loved the structure, and I loved the surreal sense of mysticism and deep unease that permeated the whole of the House. I loved the whimsy, I loved the quirkiness, and I loved the constant uncertainty.

🔹 In terms of genre, this is an excellent example of weird, surreal, quirky, slice of life fantasy with a dose of magical realism...*The house, it emerges, has hidden dimensions

Have a wonderful weekend...........Stay safe
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ᗰᑌᒪTI-ᗩᗯᗩᖇᗪ ᗯIᑎᑎIᑎG SᕼOᖇT ᖴIᒪᗰ..............★ Tᕼᕮ ᑎᕮIGᕼᗷOᖇS ᗯIᑎᗪOᗯ
★ Inspired by a true story, the film was written and directed by three-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry. Starring Tony-nominated Maria Dizzia......
*Tᕼᕮ ᑎᕮIGᕼᗷOᖇS ᗯIᑎᗪOᗯ tells the story of Alli, a mother of young children who has grown frustrated with her daily routine. But her life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street and she discovers that she can see into their apartment.

..★★★★★ A delicate tale in which envy bleeds into empathy.... Unexpected and moving.★★★★★
ᖇᑌᑎTIᗰᕮ: 20ᗰIᑎ....» vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/37...
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ᕼᗩᑭᑭY SᑌᑎᗪᗩY…....ᕼᗩᐯᕮ ᗩ Sᗩᖴᕮ ᗩᑎᗪ ᗯOᑎᗪᕮᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯᕮᕮK ᗩᕼᕮᗩᗪ
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𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓........ .............☆ 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒚
« Her paintings are expressive and exhibit a brute force with fascinating vital energy. She uses oils and a knife combine to sculpt her images. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, she always means to take risks. Nielly lives and paints in Paris near Montmartre. Her work has been exhibited and sold in Europe,Canada and the US...............☆ 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔, 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆





... ☆ 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚.........*𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅.......𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆
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Happy New Year . . .



The Story Behind Dan Fogelberg's Same Auld Lang Syne

Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck and 31536000 seconds of happiness....Stay Healthy-Stay Safe....*Happy 2020.

Love, joy and happiness is all I wish for you. May you wake up on Christmas morning and find them all in your shoe.....Have a Blessed Christmas week......Happy Holidays....Stay Safe.

..SᕼOᖇT ᖴIᒪᗰ.............................................. ......✰ Sᕮᗯ TOᖇᑎ
Sew Torn is a tale of a seamstress, her thread, an unusual encounter on a lonely mountain road, and a deal gone really bad...................*Very well done and clever film......
... ᖇᑌᑎTIᗰᕮ: 6min............» vimeo.com/379888159
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True Story.............*A Family Tradition....................By Author-Joseph M. Mazzella

✯ It was mid-October when I first spotted them.They were the first Christmas decorations of the year. It was the beginning of the 10 week period when the stores do all they can to get us to buy all we can. It was the great Christmas shopping rush and the bigger the gifts the better. I shook my head sadly and walked on, but then a wonderful memory came back into my mind. It was late-December from several years earlier. I was shopping alone trying to pick up some thick Winter socks to warm my frozen feet. As I rounded the corner in the store I saw a Christmas tree full of paper angels. On each angel was the name of a needy child whose family couldn’t afford to buy them a gift that year. Shoppers who picked an angel could buy a simple toy or gift and the store would wrap it and send it to the child that Christmas. Around the tree I saw a teenage boy and girl picking out several angels apiece. Their mother was smiling while she watched them. I walked up next to her and started talking with her. She told me that her children started this several years ago when she first explained to them what the Charity Angel tree was for. Each offered to give up one of their toys that year so that a needy child could have one. It didn’t stop then, though. Each year since the kids had saved money they earned throughout the year and bought more and more children the gifts they wouldn’t have otherwise. It had become a family tradition. I smiled when she finished, walked over to the tree, and picked out a few angels too. I left the store feeling in touch with the true meaning of Christmas.
... ✯ May we always remember that life is not about the money you have or the things you own. Life is about the love you share and the people you help. And may we also see that it is never too late to start a family tradition

Lonely Grandma Posts Touching Craigslist Ad Searching For Christmas Family
✯ The listing comes from a woman who lives in Tulsa. She claims she has no family and would really like to be a part of one this Christmas...Sadly, the woman removed the post after receiving hateful messages. However, that hate is fueling a love-filled search to find the woman and make her Christmas one to remember. An Oklahoma man named Carson Carlock decided to try and find the woman by posting her ad on Facebook. His post has been shared more than 6,000 times and eventually reached the local news. Carson said he did get in touch with her before she deleted the post but all he knows is her name is Carrie. Hopefully Grandma Carrie will see the news because dozens of people have offered to open their homes to her this Christmas while hundreds of others are hoping for an address to send her a Christmas card.

Have a wonderful weekend.........Be well.
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New York City.........................Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular
The premiere precision dance troupe The Rockettes bring the most festive show in town to Radio City Music Hall to celebrate the holiday season in the heart of Manhattan.Christmas Spectacular first debuted at the iconic venue in 1933 and became a beloved,annual New York tradition.

Christmas Spectacular gives the young and the old festive memories to last them a lifetime and offers the perfect opportunity for every generation of the family to come together at the most wonderful time of the year.......*Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
RunTime:1hr20min... www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPwIuolj...

Canadian Airline *WestJet................Christmas Miracles Campaign

Each year, we challenge ourselves to come up with a new and unique way to spread Christmas cheer and to celebrate the season with our guests. What started as a relatively simple Christmas flash mob evolved into a more elaborate Christmas Miracle surprise that still captures the imaginations of people 7 years later. Our blue hat-wearing WestJetters helped Blue Santa give gifts to a community in Dominican Replublic who need them most. We then asked our 14,000 WestJetters to help us spread the Christmas spirit from London to Hawaii and from Costa Rica to Yellowknife Canada..
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WestJet Christmas Miracle: To Give or Receive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luP81w2i...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: Real-time Giving
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2M...
WestJet Christmas Flash Mob
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9EJaDne...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: 12 Flights of Christmas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WClHblm...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: 12,000 mini miracles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9PmSZe...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: Uniting Through Traditions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0OrlSyq...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: Uniting Through Traditions – Haiti
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgn27J_5...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: Uniting Through Traditions - Philippines
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08CjUQP6...
WestJet Christmas Miracle: Uniting Through Traditions - Australia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmvq9xtf...

The authentic reactions and emotions made possible through these acts makes these WestJets Christmas Miracles truly heartwarming....*WestJet is committed to keeping families close when a child is sick by providing the gift of flight to its WestJet Cares for Kids partner Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada.

Happy Friday.....Have a wonderful weekend ahead.....Stay safe my friend.
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.....Christmas In Quebec City Canada
Quebec City Was Ranked One Of The Top 10 Best Christmas Destinations In The World..Starting at the end of November, Old Québec is transformed into a real Christmas village, just like out of Charles Dickens's novel - A Chrismas Carol -



The ranking, put together by Travelandleisure, SmarterTravel and CNN Travel, put Quebec City at No. 8, just ahead of Reykjavik, Iceland, and just behind Honolulu, Hawaii.

This isn't the first time Quebec City has been recognized for rocking the holidays. In 2016, it was voted North America's best winter wonderland by USA Today.
... 🎈Merry December......Have a wonderful week .......Stay safe
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Modern Impressionistic Artist................................❦ Leonid Afremov
❦ Born July 12th 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus - Died August 19th 2019 in Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries.

❦ On 17 May 1990 the Afremov family entered Israel in Ben Gurion International Airport. They had to give up their Soviet citizenship in favor of Israeli. To this day, Leonid Afremov and his family are citizens of Israel only.

... ❦ Because he was a recent Russian immigrant, the locals considered his work as having little value. Galleries took paintings for 50 shekels - 15$ and were reselling them for 500 to 5000 shekels. When Leonid confronted galleries about the extremely low prices, he always received the same answer, you a Russian immigrant,
❦ During the early 1990s, Leonid Afremov was mainly working with watercolors and acrylic. He was experimenting very little with usage of the palette knife. He was painting what people were buying, with very little artistic freedom.
❦ In 2005 Leonid Afremov vacationed in Playa del Carmen and Cancun for the first time. Since then he was visiting the Mexican Caribbean 2 to 3 times a year and completely fell in love with the area. Eventually in March 2010 Leonid decided to take on early retirement recommended by his doctors and moved to Playa del Carmen, a popular resort town near Cancun. Where he recently passed away with his whole family around him.

❦ Hope your weekend was pleasant..........*Have a great week ahead.........Stay safe.
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★ Just when it seems that the high-speed connective power of social media has been harnessed mainly to bully and harass and to coalesce hate, there comes the evolved flash mob.

★ Flash Mob Shocks Tradeshow Visitors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=376uYzj2...
★ Flash Mob-Hamburg Singt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WILvbFx...
★ Flash Mob Ottawa Greek Festival
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDgpXWk...
★ Flash Mob at St Pancras International
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnYpCiw...
★ Flashmob-Grease - Central Station
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hlvRNg...
★ Flashmob-It's raining men
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVayaDM4...
★ Flashmob-KLM Airline Portugal
... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9A-WiHr...
★ Students flashmob a Wedding Ceremony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OdHY7it...
★ Flashmob-I Will Survive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jil-SbVS...
★ Flashmob in Manchester - Greek Zempekiko
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJM5qjbj...

-Extra little treat-
★ Watch this 92 year old dancer shocking everyone!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGPDu575...

★ The musical performances are such shining gifts to the unsuspecting audience, and the pleasure they inspire, seen in the faces of the young and old, is their gift to those of us who weren't lucky enough to be there............★ Have a wonderful weekend........Stay safe my friend.

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Award Winning FX Short Film............................................. ABE
★Abe was programmed to love. Until recently, he had a family: he was living with them, cooking, helping them in every aspect of their lives – it was a servile situation, but he didn’t care, because he felt loved. Then, suddenly, everything changed and his “family” stopped loving him. The lack of affection shook the robot, undermined its mechanisms. They tell him that he’s only a machine, a mere application, but he feels otherwise: he’s aware of himself and his emotions, and this situation leads him to perform horrific acts. The lack of love from the people around him is unacceptable for Abe, who begins to ‘fix’ all humans he would like to receive attention from.

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★While human beings endowed with reason and conscience are able to maintain a balance in front of the rejection from others, no one taught Abe what is right and wrong, he doesn’t have a sense of morality. If this lack of common sense would seem to be the discriminant that separates the artificial intelligence from the human, but it’s actually quite untrue. Like any serial killer, Abe doesn’t have control over his impulses, and does everything to satisfy them. This is the idea behind the short: it is not his artificial side, but his deeply human instincts that make him dangerous. This is how science fiction and horror combine in a perfect way............RunTime 8min..➤ vimeo.com/64114843

Enjoy....Have a wonderful week.....Stay safe
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Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children........*Stories to fuel your mind.
The TV legend possessed an extraordinary understanding of how kids make sense of language.
For the millions of adults who grew up watching him on public television, Fred Rogers represents the most important human values: respect, compassion, kindness, integrity and humility.

The Life And Work Of Fred Rogers.... getpocket.com/explore/item/mr-ro...
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The trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood dropped.....Starring Tom Hanks..It ends with a New York subway car full of people, all different ages, races, genders and professions, singing the theme song from Mister Rogers Neighborhood as Mr Rogers (Tom Hanks) watches. Anyone who grew up in the United States and Canada between 1968 and 2000 will recognize the tune. And anyone who grew up watching Mister Roger's Neighborhood likely can't help but well up as Mr Rogers smiles, claps and says, *That was wonderful

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood tells the story of Fred Rogers
Official Trailer... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLEPhfE...

Inspire Kindness.....Have a wonderful weekend........*Hope your well.....Stay safe
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🔸 May your new month be filled with no regrets or letdowns but breathtaking moments and immeasurable happiness.....*Have a great weekend and a wonderful month ahead....Be well.

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Hauntingly Beautiful Abandoned Planet.........◆ Photographer Cinematographer Andre Govia
◆ Andre Govia describes himself as addicted to decay. The U.K.based..Worldwide urban explorer Govia brings you the definitive document of cinematic abandoned photography. Andre takes us on a journey behind the facade of abandoned buildings to discover the hauntingly beautiful discoveries within.................*Welcome to Never Never Land.
◆ Abandoned buildings have been always forbidden places for us, full of mystery and intrigue. Govia, takes us to the magical world of the abandoned hospitals, asylums, schools, houses, hotels and about anything else you can imagine that might be abandoned across Europe, with the astonishing collection of photos he is taking about 17 years. He visited over 22 countries, explored more than 800 locations and published a breathtaking collection of his photos, called Abandoned Planet. Andre Govia is not only a passionate adventurous photographer but also a successful cinematographer. He is known for his work on............... Who Needs Enemies (2013), The Search for Simon (2013) and Essex Vendetta (2016).
... ◆Govia’s approach to photography is very cinematic–he aims to create an ambiance that will really put the viewer in the scene. The curiosity of an abandoned building has a certain allure.
◆ He and his adrenaline junkie buddies have Fright Night down to a fine art, exploring places caught in a time-warp, locations where history is frozen in time, and capturing ghosts of the past. It’s downright spooky to view his artistic photos around Halloween. Be ready to take a trip through some of the creepy, haunted locations. If you like abandoned, creepy, spooky, scary or haunted, then you could disappear for hours into Andre’s photo-stream....
◆Andre Govia Photo-stream...... www.flickr.com/photos/andregovia...
◆Andre Govia Abandoned Planet.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuQhip5...
◆ Have a wonderful weekend...........Stay safe
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Peter Bence..Thunderstruck - AC/DC Meets Beethoven -
➤ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxneFyWE...
Peter Bence - Africa -
➤ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SywaUbg...
Peter Bence - Despacito -
➤ www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmtTDvNc...

Have a safe week ahead.........Stay well my friend.