An amazing idea and some amazing pictures.
“Taking old World War II photos, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov carefully photoshops them over more recent shots to make the past come alive. Not only do we get to experience places like Berlin, Prague, and Vienna in ways we could have never imagined, more importantly, we are able to appreciate our shared history in a whole new and unbelievably meaningful way.”
We weren’t heading for this place but we stumbled on it, and the blacksmith, and ended up buying a set of handmade candlesticks.
I love county fairs.
There’s something going wrong with the local festival scene.
The kite festival a few months back suffered from no wind and the balloon festival this weekend can’t get anything off he ground due to the weather.
Whatever happened to the summers when August was hot and the carnival was always on a sunny day ?
10 Things You Could Do Better Today
10 Things You Could Do Better Today
1. Improve your response time to requests.
2. Improve the brevity and simplicity of your email correspondence.
3. Connect with five new people and seven existing colleagues or friends each day.
4. Inspect your business process cycle from start to finish for improvements.
5. Rethink your approach to helping others succeed.
6. Increase the amount of times you connect others together to build new relationships.
7. Resolve three pieces of unfinished business, no matter how painful.
8. Live closer to your goals and your main points of focus, and less by reaction.
9. Take time to thank the people who make your life possible.
10. Rest and unplug.
Doesn’t seem to be a day that passes that I’m not considering number 4 – everyday it seems harder and harder to do …
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” ~Charles Swindol
Is true friendship dying away? – USATODAY.com
To anyone paying attention these days, it’s clear that social media — whether Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the countless other modern-day water coolers — are changing the way we live.
Indeed, we might feel as if we are suddenly awash in friends. Yet right before our eyes, we’re also changing the way we conduct relationships. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone.Smaller circles of friends are being partially eclipsed by Facebook acquaintances routinely numbered in the hundreds. Amid these smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship. Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact.
A very interesting read about the changes we are seeing in society …
Brr
Cold and tired
Seems an age ago it was bbqs and eating out…
