Memories

The past is made of our memories.
However some people block out bad memories and forget good memories.

Barbra Streisand - Memory

Karma.
Karma is the accumulation of all past causes you have made which manifest in present day. How you react to the present, programs your future.
There is individual karma and shared karma; for example, your family, colleagues, crowds that you are in.
Karmic retribution may be lessened by deep apology within your life, courage, changing for the better, perhaps astral time travel, helping other people in our present lives.
The same problems arise until we face them, and change within.

Cat Stevens - Remember The Days Of The Old School Yard

My favourite era was the sixties, music, art, literature, fashion, a renaissance in time, with all the arts coming together….a period of optimism….Bell bottom trousers.

My happiest era was in the eighties when I became an artist achieving more than I could ever dream of.

La Gibigiana ©Lian

The Yardbirds - For Your Love

Music initiates memories of people and events, hence my choice of, ‘For your love’, by the Yardbirds. I met many music stars. Sometimes a piece of music may trigger happy or sad events. Enya’s music became the theme music for 9/11, that had been a favorite piece of mine.🥲☹️ I no longer play that piece.
When I think of my grandmother, she was amazed that man landed on the moon, she often made her memories live in my mind…she always talked of the past and cat whisker radios.

Then came the sixties with flashy American cars, the boogie-woogie, sugar stiff petticoats…a time of freedoms for the young: a great comparison to curtailments of lockdowns and channelling people in the present day. Architecture has changed enormously to high rises from the traditional, from dirt tracks to highways and flyovers.
We need a new, optimistic future out of the present-day doom and gloom.

Napoleon XIV - They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha Haaa!

What is your favorite era or time period of your life? Your favorite music, art period, or historical time you would have liked to live in? Who are your heroes?
What movies or books did you enjoy most, writers, film producers, which stars do you admire?
I hope that the new president will really change things for the better and that this is not an image sell. Britain is in doom and gloom with the new PM. Wars rage in the Middle East and Ukraine, borders have been breached, and cultures and people mixed.
This is the era of technology, is it good? It is IMO the era of intrusion into privacy, huge steps forward and technology, when it goes wrong, is a disaster.
Musk states he made the blind see, but he appeared to take risks and experiment to the detriment of some to achieve. We must remember we are human beings…not Gods.

Bon Jovi - (You Want To) Make A Memory

Post your memories in answer to the discussion, your plans for the future, music, memes, memory triggers, gifs, and chat with friends.

Enjoy…
Lian and Kieran

The Ice Age Cometh…Snow, Ice, Wind…Fire?

Buildings look so beautiful in the snow. Driving isn’t so enjoyable.
Maybe many more countries will build Ice hotels or houses.
Meanwhile, some advocate global warming. And temperatures soar to 46C.
We have storms at the moment. Lashings of rain. Even the Sahara had a snowstorm this year.

Istanbul is really beautiful in the snow, but one of the most beautiful movie scenes in a movie was the Ice Palace in Dr Zhivago. What a great movie!
The first ice hotel was in Sweden. Dress code: warm coat and gloves….not for me.
Ice beds with fur skins. Outside toilets. Brhhhh

The Ice Hotel Canada

Meanwhile fires rage in some parts of California.

So post trailers, memes, information on the theme, music and chat.

Have you, and would you stay in an Ice Hotel?

Enjoy the discussion.

Lian and Kieran

No religion or politics please

Deep Purple Skies, Wispy Clouds, And Orange Sky

Skies fascinate.
Why are skies blue when there is nothing there?
Starry skies and planets we all love, but the colors of skies have different meanings.
The most beautiful sunsets I saw were in Istanbul.
And mackerel cloud formations are called fluffy sheep where I live.
Strange weather patters and unpredictable weather abounds.

How many colors do you see? Are you one in a hundred or a million.

Different countries also feel differently about colors. Brides wear white for purity, whereas in China, red is the brides’ color bringing luck.
We wear black to funerals, and in China, white.
Wearing something blue and black cats bring luck. 🌈
But I love white or blue in the house and courtyard.

We don’t all see the same colors.
I like to surround myself with blue or white, but love other colors.
Rainbows and icebows fascinate.
A blue circle around the moon means rain.

Have you seen a purple sky?
Sometimes we have yellow skies here, that means a sand storm on the horizon, whereas a red sky in the morning usually means a hot day of sunshine. In the UK, it is a weather warning for the day.

The Danger of a Purple Sky

Nat King Cole - Orange Coloured Sky

First, we were informed of global warming and now it’s hurricanes and storms, and even a prophesy of a coming ice age! And the ozone layer is gradually repairing itself by 2050.
Weather seems to be upside down and unpredictable. Previously seasons were predictable in weather and temperature, but not any more.

Rihanna - Umbrella

Adele - Set Fire To The Rain

So it’s a multi-theme of color, skies and what color means to you.
Post memes, gifs, music, videos, chat with friends, no politics or religion please.

Enjoy 
Lian and Kieran

Happy Halloween

Halloween has been celebrated for thousands of years, as an end to the harvest and hard times ahead.
It is the night all souls rise from their graves.
Witches, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and ghouls are around, so if you go out, disguise yourself. So that they don’t spook you!
It’s a great time to dress up or party.

How would you choose to dress for Halloween?
I think I would be a ghost this year, and haunt a few people.

The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

The Doors - Riders On The Storm

The Doors - The End

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero

Eagles - Witchy Woman

Enjoy Halloween by posting memes, gifs, music, decorations for your house, posting music, and chatting with friends.
Remember no political or religious comments.
Most of all enjoy.

Lian and Kieran