Sunday, July 28, 2019

Art of the Gimmick Khee / Lee

Khee Lo - using a windshield wiper to produce circular "radials

Similar to Chinese brush painting where the wrist pulls paint across

Same with

Hyeran Lee's Eleventh Correlation "with it's generous sweeping brushstrokes"

Monday, July 1, 2019

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Sunset

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Beautiful Logo



The beautifully designed "tail wing" logo of the Ethiopian Airlines

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Spring's Around the Corner


Spring's around the corner
Magnolias blooming in Mississauga's Jubilee Garden -
[Photo By: KPA]

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Easter Sunday 2019

Post from GalliaWatch (I've omitted her photos and posted mine of Notre Dame):

Easter Sunday 2019



Many Catholics believe this is a sign. A representation of Christ’s suffering on the Cross. And with that, inevitably, a resurrection of life, and of faith in life. In an age where programmed death of unwanted persons such as the unborn, the newly born, the aged, those who still adhere to the moral codes, religious and secular, of the past two thousand years, has become the essential principle of progressive anti-white, anti-Christian politics, this image of the transept engulfed in blood-red flames comes as a riveting reminder that there is meaning everywhere, even where death, destruction and annihilation appear to have the upper hand.

Fire both destroys and cleanses.

Most people have now forgotten the sight of an iron cross emerging from the rubble of Ground Zero. We took it then to be a “sign” of something. But we had to endure sixteen years of blunders and willful cultural ethnocide from the stubbornly incompetent Bush and the gleefully revengeful Obama. What then did that cross mean? We can only hope that eventually, long after we’re gone, a righteous desire to rebuild and restore will inflame the hearts of Americans and that the country will once again thrive - not just economically, but spiritually, aesthetically, and culturally.

France had one of the most seductive, addictive, and stimulating cultures in Europe. An agricultural and culinary heaven, a center of art, music, opera, poetry, literature, and ideas (good ones and bad ones!), it seemed eternal. The eldest daughter of the Church had to be eternal.

But we learn nothing on earth is eternal. At first the changes were “cosmetic”, imported from America: neon lights, expressways, crap-music piped in everywhere, infiltration of the French language by English words having no clear reason for being there since French has the means to express everything worth expressing. Then it became patently clear that something else was going on. The population was changing. Newcomers from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, made life miserable for everyone. In so many ways. Educational standards plummeted; dress codes encouraged slovenliness, tattoos, pierced noses, black nail polish for girls who want to be vampires; crime became endemic: gang rapes, beatings of the elderly, and eventually beheadings, and bodily tortures of indescribable barbarity, became regular occurrences. The successive governments did nothing except appease the killers, mostly Muslims, because the governments were terrified and at the same time beholden to the European Union, a latter-day KGB writ large, that dictated the opening of all borders to allow in the barbarians, and simultaneously, the agenda to turn Europe into an Islamic empire. In this way, they would annihilate Christianity, confront the United States, and make billions on the backs of the former Europeans, now slaves, who would do the work.

The most beautiful of civilizations became the ugliest. The most seductive of life-styles turned into the most repugnant. The new god was political correctness, a term imported from America, where the taboo on freedom of speech began. It began HERE, in the classrooms, on the campuses and in the media, in the land of freedom of speech, the land of the First Amendment. All the while claiming to be individualistic and superior to Americans, the French have slavishly imitated the worst - the absolute worst - of American culture.

Let’s hope and pray that the better side of the French nature, the robust, Gallic, self-confident, human side of French culture, the rational, Catholic side of the French mentality will somehow rise from these embers and turn against the adversaries of France, in an apocalyptic battle that must not be dubious, but clearly oriented toward redemption and salvation of what was once so obviously eternal. An uneven battle of David and Goliath, for the good are few in number and the corrupt pullulate.

Happy Easter




Notre Dame
[Photo By: KPA]

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Time

2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.


[Photo By: KPA]

2 Peter 3 King

1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Sunday Dawn


[Photo By: KPA]

Psalm 130:6
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Psalm 130
1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
3 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Red Bird


Red Bird
(Cardinal)
[Photo By: KPA]

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Lake Ontario Sparkles


Lake Ontario Sparkles
[Photo By: KPA]

Monday, March 25, 2019

"The time of the singing of birds is come"


"The time of the singing of birds is come"
Song of Solomon 2:12
[Photo By: KPA]

Friday, March 22, 2019

Let's Talk







Sunday, March 17, 2019

"Blessed Are The Meek"


Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
[Photo of Niagara Falls: By KPA]




Matthew 5

1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.