From WordPress: “For this special mid-week photo challenge, we want to see portraits of you doing something that inspires you to blog…” (underscoring supplied)
In other words, this WordPress photo challenge is asking for a picture of the Wordpress-user, preferably an action shot that answers what WordPress wants to know: What (i.e., what activity) is your Muse? i was originally going to use photos from files, i have hundreds… That took a long time, choosing and deciding and second-guessing. Then i finally decided — Here it is, this was shot two days ago, i had intended to use it for November 30, Philippine National Heroes Day and birth anniversary of Philippine hero Andres Bonifacio. It’s a 21st century variation of an ancient yoga pose called vira, which is Sanskrit for “hero”. But i saw the WordPress prompt. And i was inspired. i produced this while watching how the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was successfully brokered by Egypt (see post below a couple of hours ago). And i am inspired.
Blogging is like a yoga pose.
You inhale to live
You exhale to surge.
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breaking news: Egypt brokers Israel-Hamas ceasefire, to start in one hour
northern Gaza Strip November 15, 2012 …item 2.. Iran-made Fajr-5 missile may have targeted Tel Aviv (DUBAI, November 16, 2012) … (Photo credit: marsmet543)
— that’s my head, and that would be part of my lead if i were to write a news report: i’ll lead off with Egypt: it is successfully exercising leadership in the region and enjoys the respect and recognition of the warring parties.
(reports from CNN, which aired the press con live from Egypt, their headline is “Israel-Hamas ceasefire to begin at the top of the hour”)
Photo under License- Creative- Commons non-commercial
An aspiring writer ignored largely by publishers, found a manuscript and published it as his own:
The Old Man (played by Jeremy Irons): “I have a story, a very good story. Do you want to hear it? There he is, a dumb kid wondering what the future held. He wanted to be a writer but the words just wouldn’t come… Then all of a sudden there she was. He saw a world that was bigger than the one he’d been born into… What once was his whole world suddenly seemed small. He knew the life he wanted. He knew what he had to go to get it.”
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Rory (played by Bradley Cooper): “I’m not who I thought I was and I’m terrified that I never will be. I look at my life. I look at everybody’s life. It’s not right!”
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Rory: “I simply tried to set down the truth as I imagined it, the story of one man. I never thought a little book like this would affect so many people.”
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Dora (played by Zoe Saldana): “It’s so different than anything you’ve ever done before.”
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The Old Man: “You think you can just steal a man’s life and expect there to be no price to pay? … We all make difficult choices in life. The hard thing is to live with them.”
