Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
53 comments:
great series! love the details ...
happy WW!
such an interesting place! wonder what happened to it ...
great shots!
hmmm looks like a military base to me..happy WW!
Great shots! You did a good job taking these photos. Happy WW and thank you so much for dropping by!
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Great pics!! I love stuff like that. Happy WW and thanks for stopping by:)
That would make a lovely studio if someone would just glue the windows back together!
Where ever that may be or is, I dun think I wanna be there!! :P
Whoa, that is so cool. Excellent shots!
It is desserted and looks eerie. I won't want to go near it. Hope no one's hiding in there.
*shudder*
Nice photos. If we are voting, I would go for old military building, but there is a lot of glass. Wonder what it really was used for?
Very, very nice pictures. I don't know what kind of building would that be, but it looks intriguing...
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Could be a control tower at an abandoned airfield. Hmmmmm....
Not sure what this is, but doesn't look like somewhere I'd wanna really hang out. Great shots! Happy WW!
Looks like the prison is broken.
Happy WW! =))
uuhhh creepy! happy WW!
Excellent shot! Very nice!
Nice!Thanks! check out this one too sis! this one is a cutie :)
ouw...that was old building
My WW : Paris
scary building :((
My WW : Bali
Is it an abandoned airfield? Happy WW
these are kewl photos!
Isn't it astounding how many empty homes & buildings we have, and yet we have so many homeless families?
2G's Mom
Now I'm trying to recall...Is that really where Michael escaped from? Heheh
Looks familiar...but no, I'm not a convict. Smiles.
Cool pix! Hope you have a great day!
Interesting place! Great shot!
I'll be interested in finding out which. Neat to think of the life that went on there once. Happy WW.
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Great shots, Marcia! I can see it was getting dark by the 3rd shot! Great effect! Happy WW :)
nice shot...but the place look so scary. hmm I don't want to go in that place
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My So Called Life
Interesting photos... I wonder what it is??? Happy WW!
Looks like a place I wouldn't want to have to walk into.
those are great! It looks like a fun place to explore!
Good morning Marcia, someone had bad luck with that broken glass... great picture for today..thanks for your visit to my place. baba
I just love broken down old buildings.
Great perspective. I find old buildings interesting.
I agree to Robyn! And I like the third one the best because the sun is shining through one window. It's like a message...
Happy WW, Tina
great pictures!!
I have a fascination with old places like this. :)
I work next door to the courthouse/police station. It's a little scary at time when you hear the rumbles go on behind the scenes.
Those are great shots. I bet it was the guard tower at a prison??
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Wow, what neat photos! Thanks for visiting me too.
Nice photos!
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Livin' With Me
Great photos. I love ruins, especially when they seem more modern.
The pictures look like they have a story to tell...I would say Prison!
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Great photos! I am always curious of the stories of these abandoned places. If only they could speak! Happy WW.
It would look scary at night. Happy WW.
Looks more of a military base to me. Happy WW
Wow...great pictures! All I know is I wouldn't want to live in there! ;)
The beef looks a little nervous to me!
Neat! I think I might actually know where that is... could that be possible? Thanks for visiting my blog. Happy WW!
Makes you wonder that is for sure! Great shots. Happy WW.
Nice shots. WWII Internment camp?
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