lamitchell99

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lamitchell99

lamitchell99

@lamitchell99

Lay Dominican interested in moral theology,bioethics,virtue,JPII,VCII,El Greco, science fiction.director of faith formation,as God wills. All views are my own.

Binghamton, NY Katılım Eylül 2008
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lamitchell99@lamitchell99·
"The reason I accept Christian faith is it enables me to interpret my life fruitfully and the world meaningfully thru the practices,categories, & language of Christian faith, so that I have a more authentic understanding of myself & a sense of wholeness to my life" #GKChesterton
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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
Laundry art [📸 Helga Stentzel]
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Everyone needs to hear this... Michael Caine on his defining philosophy for life: Use the Difficulty As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path. He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the scene. The actor's response: "Use the difficulty...if it's a comedy, fall over it, if it's a drama, pick it up and smash it." This idea became a defining mantra for his life. "There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty...if you can use it a quarter of one percent to your advantage, you're ahead, you didn't let it get you down." I can't stop thinking about this... How can you use the difficulty you're currently facing? How can you embrace the struggle? How can you find flow through the friction? As with everything in life, control the controllable: The difficulty is already there. You can't control it. But you can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it. Lesson: Difficulty is inevitable. Use it.
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Science girl
Science girl@sciencegirl·
Artist Andrew Scott brings art to life by making the frame part of the art 📹 andrewscott_art
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Dr. Lemma@DoctorLemma·
In June 2016, a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and could not climb out. The concrete walls were too steep and too slippery. A man climbed down to help. Then he could not get back up either. Strangers stopped. Nobody organised anything. Nobody was asked. One person grabbed another person's hand, who grabbed another, who grabbed another, until a human chain stretched down the wall to the water below. The last person in the chain reached down and pulled the dog out. Then they pulled the man out. Someone filmed it from the opposite bank. Nobody in the video was ever identified. Last week, on March 22, 2026, a bronze sculpture was unveiled on the bank of that same reservoir at the exact spot where it happened. It was created by Yerbosyn Meldibekov, one of Kazakhstan's most celebrated contemporary artists, whose work is held in museums in Antwerp, Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond. The sculpture shows a chain of figures holding onto one another. The hand of the last figure extends deliberately beyond the railing so that any passerby can reach out and take hold of it.
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