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“That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.” John Madden
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MetLife Stadium for Superbowl XLVIII
1. It’s the first time it’s being played in NY/NJ area
2. It’s the first one played in an outdoor stadium in a cold weather city.
3. Of the 48 Super bowls played, it is the fifth time two teams with animal names have played each other; Seattle Seahawks(15-3) and Denver Broncos (15-3)
4. Peyton Manning set NFL record for most touch down passes thrown in a season.
5. Seattle Coach Pete Carroll is in his first Super Bowl as head coach and is coaching his third team (previously, New Englang and NY Jets). This is a first for him. Go Pete!
Every year there is a Super Bowl game, we get endless lists of stats and predictions. It’s the ultimate Americana experience and almost everyone joins the fun. if you are from the NY/NJ area, you know already that this is huge for us: a first time Superbowl location for us. I’ve added 10 things to know… Add your thoughts to my comments so I can share more facts to my list. What would you add?
Weekly Photo Challenge: OBJECT
“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
OBJECTS of curiosity held by the Bronze Queen sculpture in a park in Copley Square, downtown Boston (In close up)
Objects in Collage of Bronze Queen sculpture in a park in Copley Square, downtown Boston
In our daily interactions, we are inundated by a stream of Objects; familiar and otherwise, that dance before our eyes. Some things make us stop and look and think, others flit by our eyes, victims of that old adage: familiarity breeds contempt. An Object, according to the Merriam-Webster, can be defined as: A thing that you can see and touch and that is not alive; someone or something that makes you feel a specified emotion; someone or something that your attention or interest is directed toward or something material that may be perceived by the senses.
I had to think about this one carefully because I kept imagining tiny objects as more fitting, even though the dictionary doesn’t specify size. I settled on a series of photos I took in a beautiful park filled with artistic installations in the Copley Square area of downtown Boston. The first shot was a close up of the items/objects held in the hands of a Bronze female sculpture; a woman wearing a crown, holding a scepter in one hand and a round object in the other.
I call her the Bronze Queen because of her garb… but who knows. What struck me as I uploaded the photo was that it shows an object holding several objects. The shot had me thinking about Goethe’s quote above – that there is always more to what we see; each picture tells a story behind the story being shared. She tells us hers. What is she telling you? The second shot is a collage of the Bronze queen in full length and close up. Do you recognize the work? Which objects do you recognize in the bronze queen’s hands?
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Reflections: Who Am I and Why Am I Here?
“What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.” Eckhart Tolle
I am a Peace Blogger just like the Lennon Wall Peace Image in Prague shows.
Today I signed up for the WordPress Zero to Hero daily challenge. Our first assignment is to write and publish a “who I am and why I’m here” post.
Who and Why? My initial reaction to the question was to wax philosophical and this is what came out: I am a child of the earth and, when the storms come, I return to the familiar; my faith and family. This is true but there are some facts about me and my blogging interests that might appeal to a new blog friend. My basic bio is on my About Page and I’ve been blogging for 5+ years. I started as a way to stay in touch with my agents and then it evolved into a personal lifestyle blog. As far as blogging is concerned, I call myself a Peace and Lifestyle Blogger. I’d love to add humor to that short list but I’m not quite there.
Why are you blogging, rather than keeping a personal journal? I blog because I enjoy the process of exchanging ideas, writing about topics that intrigue me and my readers, and purely for the joy of writing and sharing. Writing is hard work but the joy comes after each piece is born and molded into something readable. I keep personal journals too because my writing life doesn’t end here. I have two other blogs, several folders, and notepads of material accumulated over the years. What about you? More below!
