Colomba Gardner

@WilliamsKr88077 Amen❤️🙏

I will Praise you, Lord 🙌🙌💗

Peony Gardenia Oil on linen Mia Tarney.

"The world is beautiful when you look at it without a desire to possess it, and without a fear of losing it." ~Hermann Hesse. 🎨 by David Hockney.

Kate Larsson (born in 1946). Blue Iris on Olive Green 2021.

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” -Psalm 19:1

Eugène Conway Jumping across to Ireland now with two paintings by this artist He’s one of Ireland’s leading realist Landscape artists Creating the essence and beauty of rural Ireland .

Buttermere reflections

Being born again is more than becoming religious. Jesus explained in John 3 that it is a spiritual rebirth. It means God gives you new life spiritually. Your identity changes. Your desires slowly begin to change too. You may not become perfect overnight, but there’s now a genuine desire to know God, follow Him, and live differently. In Christ, you become a new creation.

Take a vintage carriage ride into the heart of Claude Monet’s masterpiece: "Water Lilies". This 8-minute visual poem explores the life surrounding the iconic pond.

When God wanted to make David a king, He didn't give him a crown, He gave him a Goliath. A lot of times when you feel like God's "breaking" you, He's actually BUILDING you for a specific purpose. I just know there is someone who desperately needs to hear this today.

@BeatriceCloake Your rose bush is beautiful, dear Beatrice.

When my garden produces all the roses needed for a painting or two☺️

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This is the best preserved medieval street in Europe. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, The Shambles in York, England has had shops trading on it for nearly a thousand years. It's older than the Crusades.

@HWarlow Those beautiful lights!

Kaoru Yamada Showing us the everyday beauty we love to see Back soon

@ducklord25 @9179797778_may So delighted to watch and listen to the interview with Mr Fiennes! Thank you for sharing!

LAWRELLINI IS OVER

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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The evolution of Bach's music, from 1707 to 1750. 0:00 - Tocatta and fugue in D minor 0:15 - Bourree in E minor 0:22 - Cello suite no.1 in G 0:35 - Brandenburg concerto no. 3 0:49 - 2 Part invention no. 1 1:18 - 2 Part invention no. 3 2:01 - 2 Part invention no. 13 2:21 - Prelude in C major 2:57 - Prelude 2 3:15 - Fugue 2 3:40 - Prelude in C minor preludios e fuguetas 4:02 - Jesu Joy of man's desiring 4:43 - Minuet in G by Petzold 5:23 - Minuet in G minor by Petzold 5:38 - Air in the G string 5:57 - Badinerie BWV 1067 6:03 - Goldberg variations 6:16 - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme 6:41 - Before your throne I now appear

Psalm 88:13