Temporary shelters

 

The people who live on the road.

Gypsy Camp 28th July 1951. Gypsy children play happily in overcrowded encampment at Corke's Meadow, Kent. Photo by Bert Hardy.

Fun with old photos for a new month...Sepia Saturday collections start with three guys in a pup-tent. They don't really look at all happy.

Browning, Montana. ca 1910

 Migrant Camp 1935 by Dorothea Lange

From "Time Travelers"

Four families ---- three of them related ---- with fifteen children. They told Dorothea Lange they were fleeing from the Dust Bowl in Texas. She photographed them at their overnight camp on a roadside near Calipatria, California in 1937.

Hershey Region AACA antique auto club of America

Ojibway family

Sharing with Sepia Saturday

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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

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From Peter Turnley on FB:

The last time the US encouraged the Kurds to overthrow a government.

In February and March of 1991, President Bush encouraged the Iraqi Kurds to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

 In March 1991, following a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War, over 1 million Iraqi Kurds fled to the borders of Turkey and Iran to escape brutal retaliation.

Roughly 500,000 refugees became stranded in the mountains on the Turkish border, suffering from exposure, hunger, and disease.

All photos here by Peter Turnley

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By Helena Nelson Reid

It's Saturday again!

 

The iPhone says this is a Brown Thrasher. The house behind it was across the street quite a way away, but dear old phone focused more on it.

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One local luncheon restaurant now has glass glasses for our water with lemon (lemon is a habit I started over 10 years ago...whenever we no longer received a glass of water without having to order it.)

My sistahs, Helen (in red) and Teresa took me for a birthday lunch as one of our favorite restaurants, the Veranda.

Though their soup and sandwiches are sooo good, I always want to take home a piece of carrot cake (whatever I don't eat while sitting there!)

And another favorite restaurant here in Black Mountain, is Ole's Guacamole...where they use plastic glasses for water. But they also have a salsa bar with everything imaginable.

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For about 10 years (give or take) I was a member of 2 choirs, and here's a great article about Annelinde Metzner, the leader of those choirs, and her composition of so many wonderful songs.

https://mountainx.com/arts/music/golden-agers-linda-metzners-musical-journey-through-western-north-carolina/

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Sharing with Eileen's Saturday's critters

Today's quote:

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others – what and whom we can work with, and how – becomes wider.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

A beautiful mansion in Galveston

 This home was for sale a month ago. Built in 1885 it is listed as a Historic Site. 2402 Avenue L, Galveston, TX 

“James Moreau Brown (1821-1895), builder of Ashton Villa, erected this home in 1885 as a wedding gift for his daughter Matilda (1865-1926) and her husband Thomas Sweeney (d. 1905). Attributed to architect Nicholas J. Clayton, the Victorian cottage features angular dormer windows and a mariner’s wheel motif in the front porch balustrade. Judge Mart Royston, noted lawyer and civic leader, and his two sisters occupied the residence from 1911 until 1954.”

“Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1978”

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The Halloween pet parade is coming to Black Mountain soon! (Hopefully!)

Today's quote:

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Indoor Soccer anyone?

 A recently painted mural...I wondered why I hadn't noticed it before!

I don't know the last time the Grey Eagle Arena was used. The artist of this mural is Asheville resident, @ianthepainter, Ian Wilkinson.

I pass it when going to the Community Gardens. Of course I am not visiting on Saturdays, when there might be some indoor soccer happening.

Today's quote:

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Reading is for...

escape.
fun?
learning...
relaxation
diversion
laughs
inspiration

OK, most of those, and seldom learning these days, if I'm totally honest.

I like reading adventurous fiction, usually murder mysteries. (Hello Vicki Lane!)

Recently I finished a bunch of Sarah Paretsky stories of V. I. Warshawski, and some of Lee Child's many adventures of Reacher. They are enjoyable and affirming that the good guy wins against really awful and huge odds. I never imagine Reacher as being Tom Cruise, who played him in a couple of movies...the real Reacher was a huge giant of a man and Cruise just doesn't measure up.  So he's somewhat like Hagrid, (of Harry Potter adventures) but more nimble and less hairy, and acclimated to the US Army.

Last night I started a new audio book, from the library. It's a John Le Carre' novel...which means murder and mahem in a spy type venue. His real name is David John Moore Cornwell, born in 1931.

I have read a few of his more famous works, but this one was published in 2019.  So I was interested to see how he approached spying in the time of Brexit, tRump, and various changes in the British/Rusian spy adventures...but just before the Covid-19 pandemic. I'm sure he's already working on something about these times. Goodness, just look how old he is!

I found a few interesting facts about John Le Carre' on Wikipedia Here.

And I expect to find many terms that will have little meaning to me, not having the benefit of being British. But the real reason I'm reading this audio book is that it's being read by John Le Carre, a.k.a. David John Cornwell. His voice is pleasing without too much of an accent for my American ears.

It's only a bit over 9 hours of listening.

Today's quote:
You are the sky. Everything else -- it's just the weather. 
-Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author (b. 1936)