Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

Beginning: The first photo shot on the first day of 2014 …newyearphoto

… by Myra Lambino, produced, directed, and shot on Jan. 1, 2014 at the London section of Universal Studios,  a reprise of the iconic Beatles album cover “Abbey Road”, the last collective work of the Beatles (and therefore their last album) but, ironically, endings also became beginnings: 

     “At the end of the end …      

       It’s the start of a journey 

       to a much better place … “

      – included in “Abbey Road”, Paul McCartney, lyrics from “The End”, the last song in the “Medley”, a cut in the album

…  and this work led to the “Let it Be” collection, and a blossoming of their individual, glorious careers… (this photo shoot, with additional direction from Teng Lambino on the detail of the third “walker” being “out-of-step”, Teng emailed that J’s pose (third child) is patterned after Paul McCartney, who was out-of-step in the original photo, barefoot and holding a cigarette, sparking many interpretations worldwide). 

Happy new beginnings, everyone! 


(Updated) Happy New Year! Happy 2014!

May we have the strength to stand all tests,

the foresight to head off bleak probabilities,

 the  balance to change a life of wastage

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the wisdom to see the imbalance

underlying a system of patronage.

Poverty breeds the kind of ignorance

 that fails to read & heed

the changing signs of the climates.

  We will have the will

 to finish the unfinished tasks ahead

(burying the dead, reconstructing the destroyed)

And at the hour of reckoning

we will stand

 the system of dynasties

                                   on its head.

MAPAGPALAYANG BAGONG TAON SA LAHAT!

(A New Year of Awakening to All!)