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(Reformatted) Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Weekly Photo Challenge:

My 2012 in Pictures:

Wisdom

As part of the challenge, WordPress said to use a tiled gallery format: in this manner

So here it is. Some of the photos are “new” or have not been published before.

Reformatted: from mosaic to square tiles (long story)

vowed to lose fat

Myra’s homecoming & medical mission

Interviews, new media issues & cyberbullying

M.A. in Journalism w new media track ok’d by University

U.P. journ dept paid tribute to Inquirer publisher Gani Yambot

decisions & miracles

i remembered summers w Auntie Francing like it was yesterday

ran 10 k everyday a couple of months

changed sumthin’ & got healthier

practice

normal body mass index

free

i saw Romy for the last time

immortality

wisdom

reunions

learned new skills

lost a little fat, silhouette changed, wore different kinds of skinny jeans everyday

remembrances

thank you for a good year

Christmas 2012

Thank you — to WordPress users and “likers” (pls click their avatars and public profiles below the gallery of photos) Leanne Cole, skinnywench, lifeoutofthebox, clotildajamcracker, Vladimir Brezina, Esenga’s Voice, fgassette, Michael Lai, efratadenny, Jo Bryant, Cee Neuner, eof737, kz, frizztext, de Wets Wild, Mariane, Nicole, Max510, Hardik Gohil, and Manong Boy (Rudy Lambino)…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

The world did not end today as scheduled by doomsday interpreters of the Mayan calendar. And so, WordPress says:

“Surprise. There was talk of some sort of apocalypse today, but so far, so good. Big surprise! In honor of the world continuing, show me some surprises! xxx.”

– From Sara Rosso of WordPress at Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

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The major religions speak of an end of days, or hold that there is an end to everything [the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas (Vedic scriptures)], except that the Buddhist texts put it this way: there is no beginning or end but infinite repeated births, changing from one form to another.

Here is my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge: End of the World, este, er, Surprise.

A sunny day of apple-picking. J, L, Z, and Ztwo in an apple orchard, with more than a hundred trees heavily laden with luscious fruits all for the picking.

Surprise. They pick only a bagful, only what will sustain them for a week.

The world will continue.

But if we consume and burn the planet the way we do, Z’s granddaughter — and your great grandchildren — might face long-drawn floods, then long-drawn droughts.

They will reap what we sow, and it might not be apples.

Hopefully, we keep learning everyday, and finding better ways to live without destroying what gives us life. Surprise.

And that’s my post for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise.

(Photo by Myra Lambino, apple-picking on a Saturday just a couple of months ago, Oak Glen, Yucaipa, San Bernardino Country about 80 miles from Los Angeles.)

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Thanks: WordPress users and “likers” (pls click their avatars and public profiles below): PhotoBotos.com, Dr. Anto Youssef, Esenga’s Voice, Judy, Leanne Cole, shammee, Pat, taethne, Jo Bryant, Vladimir Brezina, Maurizio Riccio, lifeoutofthebox, Brad Stanton, Hamburg und Mee(h)r, BeWithUs, efratadenny, 4rozebds, eof737…