Day: July 12, 2020

Astrology is rather like Marmite. You either believe in it fervently, enunciating the characteristics of every star sign from Aquarius to Virgo, or you consider it a load of fairy dust splattered wish-wash that you wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. As a student of the media and an avid reader of the printed variety especially, it is a well-known fact that I can assure you of, that newspapers and magazines love publishing horoscopes, at least from my experience in the United Kingdom. Astrologers such as Mystic Meg and Russell Grant have been shown on UK television for years as household names, and funfairs here seem incomplete without fortune tellers (inevitably Romany or pretending to be) with their tarot cards and crystal balls, glimpsing mysterious visions of a punter’s future for the price…

Today’s News Digest, on the occasion of Father’s Day in the UK, comes courtesy of Google News. Police in the English city of Reading have opened a murder probe after a mass stabbing in Forbury Gardens park left three dead and another three injured. Video was released of victims covered in blood, while an eyewitness reported seeing gruesome scenes of people with blood spurting from their necks and people dropping to the ground like heavy weights. A 25-year-old man was arrested pending charges. The attack occurred yesterday at 7.00 pm, it was reported across several news outlets – Reading stabbings murder probe: Police confirm three killed and three seriously hurt (Mirror)

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The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, expressed shock at the ‘appalling incident’ in Reading, which is near London. In response to the attack, Johnson tweeted: “My thoughts are with all of those affected…

Standing below a gloomy sky

Thinking about my bad mood,

Suddenly the cloud started to cry

But the tears made me feel good.

Rain has a therapeutic power

Bringing a charm to everyone’s life,

We sat in an arbour

It made me feel alive!

~ Vamika Mendiratta ♡

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Russian-French painter, lithographer, etcher and designer.

Marc Chagall

was born,

July 7, 1887,

in Vitebsk, Russia*

* He was born in a Lithuanian Jewish Hassidic family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk (Belarus, during that time was part of the Russian Empire)

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An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic tapestries and fine art prints.

Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. In Paris, he associated with Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and encountered Fauvism and Cubism.He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country’s most distinguished artists and…

Two friends

sit on a pole

deciding how to organize their day

One takes pleasure from the light sea breeze

The other looks around

checks his trophy:

“anyone watching?

No?

It’s mine then!

Off I go!“

Apollo seating on a lion-pawed diphros; he holds a lyre in his left hand and pours a libation with his right hand. Facing him, a black a crow, or a raven (a mantic bird). Attributed to Pistoxenos Painter. From a tomb in Delphi αππχ 480BC.

A great Sunday everyone!

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Lighthouse

Watchtower

Phare

Light tower

Beacon

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A Pharos

guiding the ships

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at sunset

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on & off

Hope it guides us to a beautiful week ahead.

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Happy Monday!

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