Hi Bloggers! Do you have to share a story or a short reflection tagged with the letter “T”? For example I’ve written about TRACKS (read below) and typewriters, Tacitus or Taiwan, T-shirts and tornados, Tunisia or Turkey, about terrorism and the Twin Towers, the Titanic and the East German car TRABI, about trains and tanks, Toronto and Thykydides, testosterone and translations, theology and tits, tractor rhythms and tango dancers, twitter and tumblr, trombones and trumpets etc. – I’m sure you’ll find an own story or a short reflection tagged with “T”! Feel free to add in the comments the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “T”!!!
TRACKS
Year after year passes – and we leave a track like this swan too, metaphorically. What is the result? And what is the sum of our parents and other ancestors? What will be the résumé of our lives for our own kids and grandchildren? Which of your footprints, prints, actions, decisions should be mentioned, when you are dead and gone?
Tracks photo by Shuggie / Karl Williams, click on the picture to enter her galleries on Flickr: P.S.: he told me: “it’s in much demand as a Christmas card – for the 3rd year in succession with a variety of publishers – not bad for a lucky grab shot!”
related:
“T” Photo Archive + “T” Challenge + “T” Galleries + ABC visualized: T! + Tracks
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Very poetic, Frizz. I like it.
Our featured photographer in GatheringBooks, Blanche Berzamin-Acabado, has chosen the theme T is for Tiny Traveler for your A-Z Photo Challenge. Here is the link:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/photo-journal-a-z-photo-challenge-t-is-for-tiny-traveler/
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hi Myra,
a wonderful gallery, introducing your tiny traveler’s growth!
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Dear Frizz,
This is a really lovely photograph, paired with a very poetic thought. I think it is an important question we need to ask ourselves again and again.
Here is a short thought about the Titanic from my blog, called “The Titanic Connection.” http://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/the-titanic-connection/
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my grandson liked me very much,
when I demonstrated the TITANIC accident:
more at
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Quite a photo. Hoping this is not your swan song. Ha. That swan, that duck seems to have the sense not to look behind, not to worry about his tracks. It’s us humans that bother with such thoughts. Of course these thoughts are interesting to us humans. At least when our past deeds are not fowl.
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If when I die
I go somewhere
I’ll betcha a dollar
you’re ramblin’ there!
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😉
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Hi, here is my letter T story!
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Here is my entry for this week’s challenge:
http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/story-challenge-letter-t/
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Wow!
Very nice shot!
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Here’s my entry, something I wrote a few years ago called Transmigrations of the Soul, a little salute to Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of my favorite writers.
http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/the-transmigrations-of-the-soul/
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lovely indeed
well seen and fine captured
and a hate the snow
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my part:
30 t
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/7349688030
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you have the focus on the 30 tons crane?
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Ha, ha, ha…..
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Now that’s a wardrobe malfunction…
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Which crane..?????
😉
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above the picture, able to carry 30 tons …
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Ahhhh now I see it… 🙂 😉
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Isn’t the swan photo superb!
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Tracks are irreversible, can’t go back, so I think the “trick” is, think before making the next step! That swan wisely looks forward …but we are human!
Nice theme, Frizz! 🙂
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Frizz..I love the pic…I have never seen a swan on the snow…I like the words as well…But who knows…May be our tracks will blow away with the first wind from the South ..
Looking for something for the challenge, I leave thou by now…
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Superb image Frizz!
Perhaps the wise swan is suggesting you measure your steps, so you will never need to look back 🙂
Here is my entry- the first instalment of the Takayama Autumn festival: http://theurgetowander.com/2012/11/13/the-takayama-hachiman-matsuri/
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Takayama Hachiman Matsuri is also a ‘temple car’ festival. Taking place annually on 9 & 10 October, this autumn festival, is considered one of three most beautiful festivals in Japan
P.S.:
as a thanksgiving ritual we yearly invite some friends to eat together a goose …
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Not as colourful 😀
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Takayama Hachiman Matsuri ‘temple car’ festival = wonderful Japanese lantern light effects – we have in Germany the yearly ritual of St. Martin who is riding a horse, followed by children with colorful lanterns – the finish of the street event, surrounding a big fire: knight St. Martin spends a half of his warm coat and some bread
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Beautiful and the swan is like a human beings.
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it’s such a beautiful photo and your challenge has allowed me to tap deep into my emotions.. thank you
http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/story-challenge-letter-t/
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you’ve created a thought provoking tombstone for your father!
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“You fled this world
Leaving behind
A trail of errors
With tormenting waves
That will ripple through time…”
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Today is for a post-Triassic T – please have a look at
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“Terribly large
are Terrifying Teeth
but Tiny are the arms
from which Those Taloned
Two fingers Trail;
Talk about a
Temperamental Tyrannosaurus …”
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you have T-creating machine!
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Look forward to your alphabet inspirations every Tuesday!
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Love your tracks. Here is my entry. http://wp.me/p23TG1-1EZ
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Tumbler or Batpod – thank you for this amusing look into the future of macho-transportation …
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Wow … hey Frizz … what an awesome shot!!!
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Hello fellow A-zers. Here’s my take on this week’s T Challenge: http://stephenkellycreative.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/a-z-challenge-the-letter-t-transamerica-pyramid/
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the Transamerica Pyramid is most prominent – once an architect told me how she felt, when a little earthquake shook the building …
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I took this pic with my old Blackberry phone in the Summer of 2011 while hiking with two of my good friends
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good idea: for sure there’s a triumph in a tree’s soul when he reached 30 meters height!
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fellow tree in my neighborhood:
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Love the photo…couldn’t help but think of the Footprints in The Sand story
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I’m sort of late. I’m tracks like your goose above, train tracks: http://canoecommunications.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/train-travel/
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you’ve written a wonderful train tribute!
your words “the bright train light cutting through a still dark morning” gave me a flashback to a decade in my life, when I used a train very early in the morning to reach my job. the tracks followed a river. icy river in winter, foggy river mostly, in summer cormorants hunting fishes, canoes waiting on the shore for the next ride, once some cattle waited on the track for the train to say hello. the locomotive could not stop quickly enough …
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I’ve ridden trains in the winter past the frozen landscape, and watched people practice Tai Chi in a park in the early morning…and there so many fascinating moments when we ride trains, like the ones you shared. 🙂
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train track in Berlin, photo by frizztext
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Nothing profound from me – just tracking the daily lives of Londoners. When I think of the tracks I’ve left, retracing footsteps comes to mind!
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a perfect T-run: “twinned these two together on the theme of transport – taxis for the toffs at the Savoy and tube train for the thronging multitudes…”
http://eljaygee.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/story-challenge-letter-t/
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goodness, if i waited for two more letters, i could have had a full house of alphabet images!
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hi Lisa,
van Gogh for sure would applause to your wonderful TREE!!!
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thanks.. it’s not until i step back and eralize how much energy is in the paintings! that one is one of my favorites.
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from Denmark: trist / traurig
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Now we can see that swans walk like Charlie Chaplin… ‘hahaha’
Wonderful track image… 🙂
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Tracks. Interesting. I like it. 🙂
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Excellent photo and metaphor! You pose a very good and wise question…very creative thinking, Frizz.
Here is my entry…it is also a metaphor:
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hi Fergie,
you`ve commented: “…a female house finch receiving a defensive threat display from a female ruby throated hummingbird…” – for me a bridge of understanding to my latest post “Tumult in Tampa”:
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Hi Frizz!!!
A bit late….Difficult work to do…
Hope you enjoy it!!!
Hugs!
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fine illustrated vocabulary in your paper notebook!
greetings by
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Thanks a lot Frizz!!! That post of the Babel Tower is super interesting!!!
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I was surprised to find my BABEL tower project extended with photos and translations (even to Chinese) at
Aweather:
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http://twistedsifter.com/2012/07/rainbow-colored-stairs-of-wuppertal-horst-glaesker/
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Oh!! I have just seen it! And they did not tell you anything about it?
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the first did, he made an elaborated, supporting translation, the second gave no mail – but used freely all the photos – I’ll never become rich, I already knew this as I was born in an orphanage – but at least I have my daily electricity, desktop PC, food – that’s enough …
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No, I was not thinking about money…Just about knowing….May be it would make you happy, proud…These kind of things…
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Tired
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our cat sleeps at least 70 % of every 24 hours’ turn …
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That’s quite a stunning shot! somehow, I never imagined a swan on snow !
My entry for the week: http://perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/timelessness/
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you have your focus on
Tolkein’s Timelessness –
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and I have my focus on one tooth,
which gives some pain –
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peaceful time seems to be running out
like sand in an hour-glass …
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Time to go to the dentist?!
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not as long the fear
is
bigger than the pain …
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Great shot, Frizz! “Which of your footprints” is a good questions. We do need to think about it…
Here is my entry: https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/trajans-column/
Happy weekend!
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hi Amy,
carved figures depicting the story of Trajan’s Dacian wars
– thanks for sharing those details!
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Well, here in the U.S. it is now time for the Thanksgiving holiday. I hope you enjoy my “Thanksgiving Reflections”.
http://simplysage.org/2012/11/17/thanksgiving-reflections/
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happy Thanksgiving, Alexandria!
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Late entry for Letter T….. Taj Mahal. http://travtrails.wordpress.com
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amused by the camel queue –
thanks for your backstage report –
behind Taj Mahal’s front side …
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Great Idea!!! Thanks for the like / Reflections/Mirror Painting!
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