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Swedish Artist - Painter - Illustrator.....☆ Alexander Jansson ....Creative imaginings
Alexander Jansson is a freelance artist born in Uppsala, Sweden, who lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has an offbeat and unique view of the world he creates. Sleeping House is his design studio. He specializes in cover art, illustration, character design, concept art and graphic design.







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Happy May....*Hope you and everyone you care for is in good health....Stay safe my friend.
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𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 ..........................𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝙄𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡......𝘽𝙮 𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩. 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙡
Last Night in Montreal is a story of love, amnesia, compulsive travel, the depths and the limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession. In this extraordinary debut, Emily St. John Mandel casts a powerful spell that captures the reader in a gritty, youthful world charged with an atmosphere of mystery, promise and foreboding where small revelations continuously change our understanding of the truth and lead to desperate consequences. Mandel's characters will resonate with you long after the final page is turned.
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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙖𝙙...............𝘽𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙘 𝙈𝙘𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙮
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

𝘼 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘿𝙖𝙮......................𝘽𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙝 𝙋𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙧
In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.

*Andrea Bocelli AMAZING GRACE vivo desde Milan.....# musicforhope
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCHJJ5E...

Our lives have changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it can feel a little overwhelming at times. But now, people around the world found a way to bring hope, through one simple phrase......#Everything Will Be Ok.....#Ca Va Bien Allez ....Stay Healthy my friend.
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✯𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨.......𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝘼 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚
We all have struggles and burdens that we deal with on a daily basis. For untold thousands of people, they can carry hardships, misery, and a sense of doom with them for years.

✯𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝘼 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 ......Once upon a time in a small mountain village, it was the custom for the villagers to strap on their knapsacks each morning. Then, during the day, each time they worried about something or felt depressed about a problem, they would pick up a small pebble and put it in their knapsack. The knapsacks were heavy and a burden to carry because the villagers never emptied them. They carried their burdens every day. It was all they knew.One day one of the village elders walked down to the river bank bent over from his knapsack full of burdens and noticed one of the small boys from the village skipping pebbles across the water. The boy’s knapsack was empty.What are you doing the old man asked. And why is your knapsack empty Why aren’t you carrying your burdens like the rest of us.I come down to the river bank at the end of each day, the boy said, and skip my pebbles across the water until my knapsack is empty. I see no reason to keep carrying them.The old man was stunned and so bent over from his knapsack full of burdens that he could hardly move. He had never seen anyone cast their burdens away like that. Would you like to try it the boy asked.The old man was hesitant, yet it seemed like such a good idea. Slowly he reached into his knapsack that was large and heavy from all the burdens he had accumulated over many years. He grabbed a pebble and studied it, recalling the burden of pain that he felt when he had placed it in his knapsack. He was so bent over that it was difficult to cast the burden away and watch it skip across the water and finally disappear, but he somehow did it..The boy smiled. The old man smiled also. It was easier than he thought to let go of the burden. Then he tossed another pebble, another burden, then another, and another. The boy stayed and watched. They built a fire and the old man kept throwing until his knapsack was at last empty. He felt so relieved.The next day the old man, standing straight and tall, told the other villagers what happened and how good he felt. They could see how happy he was, how he looked and acted like a different person. They were amazed.At the end of the day, all the villagers joined the old man and the small boy and went to the river bank and skipped their burdens across the water until their knapsacks were empty. They were amazed at how good and happy they felt. They never continued to hang onto their burdens again. A sign was erected at the entrance to the village that said.....
... 𝙄𝙏’𝙎 𝙃𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝙏𝙊 𝘽𝙀 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙊𝙋 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙇𝘿 𝙒𝙃𝙀𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐’𝙍𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙍𝙍𝙔𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙄𝙏 𝙊𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙎....
.....𝙇𝙀𝙏 𝙂𝙊 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀...

✯𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙙..............𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚
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ᑕᗩᖇᑎᕮᐯᗩᒪᕮ ᗪI ᐯᕮᑎᕮᘔIᗩ 2020..............2020 ᐯᕮᑎIᑕᕮ ᑕᗩᖇᑎIᐯᗩᒪ...*ITᗩᒪY
★In 1980, Venice renewed the tradition. Every year,on February 08th to February 25th three million visitors fill the bridges, canals and squares of Venice and turn the city into a giant theater stage.

★The city itself becomes a living and breathing decoration. Visiting the city during the carnival dates is a marvelous opportunity to reveal the most closely guarded secrets of one of the most unique and magic cities in the world. The mask is an indispensable part of ancient tradition from the 11th century.
★ The original Carnival took place in 1162 to honor one of Venice's victorious battles when the city was known as the Repubblica della Serenissima. It took more than a hundred years before city leaders proclaimed Carnival an official event, and then it grew until its wild peak in the 18th century, when Venice was renowned as the pleasure capital of Europe, producing the likes of the famously hedonistic Casanova.The carnival of Venice is unlike any other carnival in Europe or the whole world.
... ★ To best understand Carnival of Venice, you need to understand the importance of the maschera or masks.The mascherari, or professional mask makers, have prestigious roles in society, with statues honoring them dating to 1436.Masks allow members from all classes of society to party together under the veil of anonymity.......★ Will make you wish you lived in a different time period ★
★ ᕼᗩᐯᕮ ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪᕮᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯᕮᕮK.......STᗩY Sᗩᖴᕮ
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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.

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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★ 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
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★ 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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Sting and Cheb Mami - *Desert Rose
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gzqsmx1...

*Have a great week.........Stay safe my friend.

*Have a safe and wonderful weekend......Be well.

................ May good health and happiness locate you as you start this new month. May it be filled with exciting experiences and great opportunities....*Happy Month of October........Have a great week.....Stay safe.

*Have a wonderful weekend.........Stay safe

?️ Multi-Award Winning 3D-CG Animated Short Film.....................★ Garden Party
*An abandoned mansion and its frog inhabitants...Garden Party, which has a more sinister human plot happening parallel to its animal tale, allowed the two worlds of animals and humans to come together, and in a humorous way.

Run-time: 7:16min...➤ vimeo.com/239295615

?️ 3D-CG Animated Short Film.............................★ Maestro
*Best known for their 2018 Oscar-nominated short *Garden Party, which features impressive amphibian animation, Illogic expands their animal exploration with Maestro to include birds, squirrels, hedgehogs, and deer. As in their previous work, the collective continues to explore the question of what animals do when humans aren’t watching, and the animations continue to be surprising.
... Run-time: 1:54min➤.... vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/35...

★ Have a wonderful week.........Be well.
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⭐*Life is a continuous learning experience. Throughout our lives we keep rising and falling, picking up important lessons along the way. Some of these lessons come from experience, yet there are others that we learn watching others or reading in books for example. No matter how much we learn from the books there is a significant difference between practical and theoretical experience. Furthermore, there are many life lessons that we simply cannot learn until we face certain situations in our life. Most people would say that there are some lessons that come too late, catching us off-guard.

◆ Your life is now.
We keeping waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness.But this is it. Your life is right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love your life right now, and you'll have an amazing life.
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◆ Kindness matters.
Small expressions of kindness have an enormous positive impact on other people and on your own happiness.It doesn't take much to be kind. Practice it every day, in every situation, until it's your natural way of being.

◆ Age is a number.
When you're twenty you think fifty is old. When you're fifty, you feel thirty. When you're seventy, fifty looks like adolescence.Our chronological age doesn't have to define us. Don't allow a number to hold you back or prevent you from being the person you are inside.

◆ Grudges cause pain.
Holding on to a grudge is like injecting poison into your body every day. Forgive and let go. There's no other way.If your ego is preventing you from forgiving and letting something go, then tell your ego to take a hike. It's getting in the way of your happiness and well-being.

◆ You can't control others.
We want people to think and behave as we do. We want them to accommodate us and live the way we think they should live. We want to change them.But with awareness, we realize we can't and shouldn't try to control others. Instead, embrace differences and honor the uniqueness of the people in your life.

◆ You can handle it.
Whatever you think you can't handle, you actually can.You have more strength, more resilience, and more inner wisdom than you give yourself credit for. You'll get through it and survive — and maybe even be better for it.

◆ Gratitude multiplies happiness.
Consciously focusing on all you have rather than thinking about what you don't have is a far better use of brain power. Gratitude fosters positivity and well-being.

◆ Please yourself first.
Pleasing others for approval and acceptance might feel good in the short term, but eventually, you will lose yourself and feel resentful.Please yourself first and give to others based on conscious choice, not the desire for approval or feelings of guilt.

⭐ Have a great weekend.......Stay safe.
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Have a great week ahead..........Stay safe

Jaclyn Moriarty is a award winning Australian and the best-selling author of novels for young adults including Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Year of Secret Assignments, and the Colors of Madeleine trilogy. Jaclyn grew up in Sydney, lived in England, Canada and the US, and now lives in Sydney again. She studied English at the University of Sydney, and law at Yale University and Cambridge University, where she was awarded a PhD....* I would like to recommend the adult debut novel from Jaclyn...*Gravity Is The Thing.

If you love the feel of the paper between your fingers as you read a great book, this is a true page turner, I always travel with a novel mostly for the plane going and returning home, this book did not make it to the trip home, had to finish it.
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Gravity Is the Thing is a smart, unusual, wickedly funny novel about the search for happiness that will break your heart into a million pieces and put it back together, bigger and better than before.

Astonishingly wonderful and magical and moving and uplifting - Marian Keyes

Hope you had a wonderful summer.....Have a great week......Stay safe
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Inspirational True Stories.....

A Little Hurt...............By Joseph J.Mazzella
I was laying on my bed relaxing after a long day. Music was playing in the background and I was taking the time to read a good book. Just as I turned the page an old song started playing that always reminded me of my Mom. I put the book down and listened. Even though it had been 23 years since cancer had taken her from us, sometimes it still felt like it was only yesterday. I closed my eyes and allowed the flood of memories to wash over me. I thought of Mom’s sparkling eyes and shining smile which lived on in the faces of my own children. I thought of her sweet voice and gentle laugh that never failed to lift my spirits. I thought of how she brightened up every room she walked into. I thought of how she was a friend to everyone she met and how her kindness touched the hearts of so many. I thought of how she made this world a better place just by being in it. And my heart ached as I thought of how I still missed her so much. I wiped the tears from my cheeks as the song finished, looked out my window at the night sky, and sent an "I love you, Mom" from my lips to Heaven’s ear. Now some people would ask why I didn't shut the music off the second that song came on. Why did I subject myself to the pain it brought? I think the answer is that sometimes you have to let in a little hurt in order to let in a lot of love. Sometimes you have to open your heart in order to truly live. Life here will always be a mix of the bitter and the sweet, but you can’t shut down your soul. At times you have to embrace the pain and then let it go. When you do you will find that what is left is love. May you always keep your heart open to love. May you always keep your heart open to messages from Heaven. They can come at the strangest times on the winds of a memory or the wings of a song.
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Experience The Beauty Of Life And Of You...............By Patti Hatzistavrakis
Life is busy – we hustle from one place to another, engrossed in our electronic devices, books or simply looking away to avoid making eye contact with the human race, including ourselves. Never stopping to take in the tranquility of the ocean, the art spray painted on a building or the beauty of the sunset. Most of us aren’t awake for the sunrise and are not truly present at important (or even ordinary) daily happenings. We miss life as it passes us by and wonder what we did with the daylight...We continue on this treadmill, this sprint, this exercise in getting it all done – but seem to have little to show for it. Time is all we have on this earth. Friends, lovers, money, and experiences all come and go, leaving only memories – if you are lucky enough to remember. The good, the bad, the remembered, the forgotten, the happy, the sad, the ordinary, the extraordinary; makes you YOU...Live, dream, make it come true. Anything less is not living, it’s merely existing. Existing is just going through the motions, without thought or emotion. Cry, laugh, scream, love; do whatever you have to live life. Honor yourself by not taking life, or a day, or an experience for granted. Fulfill your dreams, make things happen, see the beauty that is around you and create more...Make the most of the time you have on this earth. Be positive, helpful and understanding. Share peace and happiness. Give love. Give yourself. For those are the things that live on and make a difference, beyond your time, beyond your life.

“Love is the absence of judgment.” ― Dalai Lama

Happy Friday.....I will be leaving this Sunday for Greece will be back in four weeks...Have a great weekend and a wonderful and safe month of August, see you when I get back.....*Be well my friend
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✴A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.

✴Hope all is well.......Have a wonderful weekend........Stay safe