Kelly Kearns

God. Family. Friends. Animals. Art & Nature. ✝️♥️ 🐾

[Music transcends @ngoclinh62w1]

A breathtaking piano duel unfolds in Paris between two exceptionally talented pianists. 🎹✨

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

A bald eagle skims the water, creating an almost perfect mirror image

📷: Steve Biro

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Once a year, the Sun assumes a perfect position, which illuminates the Yosemite Falls in California - this is what it looks like

[Kelly Kearns @KKearns79]

@MelGibsonstory ✝️🙏🏻

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a painting of the most loyal creature in all of literature. He waited 20 years for his master to come home, and what happens the moment he finally sees him is one of the most heartbreaking things Homer ever wrote...

Made in 1885 by the English artist Briton Rivière, it shows a scene from Homer's masterpiece: Odysseus has been gone from his home on Ithaca for twenty years, ten fighting at Troy and ten lost at sea. He finally returns disguised as a ragged beggar, unrecognizable even to his own wife and son, because his life depends on no one knowing him yet.

And as he walks up to his palace, he passes an old dog lying on a heap of dung and covered in vermin. It is Argos, the puppy he raised with his own hands before he left for the war.

The dog recognizes him instantly. Homer writes:

"When he marked Odysseus standing near, he wagged his tail and dropped both his ears, but nearer to his master he had no longer strength to move."

Argos cannot get up. And Odysseus, who cannot break his disguise even for this, even for the one creature who never stopped waiting, has to walk past his own dog, and can only wipe away a single tear so no one sees it.

And then Argos lets go. He had lived just long enough to see his master come home. Homer lets him die in the very moment he had held on for:

"But upon Argos came the fate of black death even in the hour that he beheld Odysseus, in the twentieth year."

[France Safety Travel @francesafetytra]

France has a law that controls how your baguette is made. Since 1993, the Décret Pain has set strict rules for what counts as pain de tradition française. It bans additives, preservatives, and frozen dough, keeping the process close to its roots.

Walk into a boulangerie and you will see it right away. No two baguettes look the same. Some are darker, some split unevenly, some a bit rough around the edges. That is not poor quality. That is a sign the bread was made fresh, by hand, without shortcuts.

There is a practical side to this that catches visitors off guard. A real baguette does not last long. By the next day, it is already firm. Locals expect this. They buy bread daily or turn the leftovers into toast or tartines. Nothing goes to waste.

There was even a time when Paris controlled bakery holidays to make sure people always had access to fresh bread. That says everything. In France, bread is not just food. It is part of daily life, protected down to the smallest detail.

[Beauty of the Catholic Faith @advoluntas]

♰ Fridays are Dedicated to the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ ♰

Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
-John 19:30

🇻🇦 Domine Iesu Christe, Fili Dei, miserere mei, peccatoris 🙏
🇺🇸 Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner 🙏

🎥 A creating a sculpture based on the iconic painting of Christ by Giotto di Bondone from 1310.
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[Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV]

"Bolt" from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport wins TSA's Cutest Canine Contest

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

“Beauty will save the day.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Either a medieval forger invented a technology we still cannot reproduce in 2026, or the most famous event in history left physical evidence behind. Science has spent a century looking for a third answer, and never found one...

It is called the Shroud of Turin, a strip of linen about fourteen feet long, and on it is the faint image of a bearded man, front and back, marked head to foot with the wounds of a crucifixion.

Believers say it wrapped the body of Christ, while skeptics say it is a clever medieval fake. What most people don't know is how genuinely strange it becomes the closer you look...

For centuries the cloth showed only a dim brown shadow. Then in 1898 an amateur photographer named Secondo Pia took the first photograph of it, and in his darkroom he froze: the negative was not a blur, it was a clear, lifelike, portrait of a man.

The image on the cloth behaves like a photographic negative, five hundred years before photography existed. No one has ever explained how a medieval forger could have conceived of such a thing, let alone produced it.

But it gets stranger.

When American scientists, the STURP team, examined the Shroud directly in 1978, they found no paint, no dye, no pigment, and no brushstrokes. The image is not painted onto the cloth. It exists only on the very outermost surface of the fibers, a scorch-like discoloration a fraction of a micron deep.

They ran five days of tests and left with the same conclusion everyone since has reached: they could not say how the image was made. To this day, no reproduced technique fully accounts for it.

Many suspect the image was made by a sudden burst of radiation, because that is the only thing anyone has found that comes close. When Italian scientists at ENEA, the national research agency, spent five years trying to recreate it, they managed a faint, shroud-like coloration only with bursts of ultraviolet light from lasers that did not exist until the twentieth century. And to reproduce the full image across an entire body, they calculated, would take a flash of ultraviolet power on the order of thirty-four trillion watts, more than any light source ever built can produce.

Then there is the body: the wounds are anatomically correct in ways a medieval artist would have gotten wrong. The nails go through the wrists, not the palms, which is how Roman crucifixion actually worked, and which contradicts almost every medieval painting of the cross, where the nails pierce the hands. There are scourge marks across the back, puncture wounds around the scalp like a crown of thorns, and a wound in the side. The stains have been identified as real human blood, and pollen and dust on the cloth have been linked to the region around Jerusalem.

However, in 1988 three respected laboratories, at Oxford, Zurich, and Arizona, carbon-dated a sample of the cloth, and the result seemed decisive: the linen dated to between 1260 and 1390, right around the time the Shroud first appears in the historical record. On this evidence the case looked closed: the man of the cloth could not be Jesus.

But it did not stay closed...

Critics pointed out that the sample had been cut from a single corner, an edge handled and repaired over centuries, and later analysis found cotton and traces of a dye-and-binder coating there, present nowhere else on the cloth, suggesting the tested patch was a medieval mend rather than the original linen. Then in 2022 a team using a new X-ray technique measured the aging of the flax itself and reported that its molecular breakdown matched cloth around two thousand years old, not seven hundred. That study is disputed, and it is not the final word. But it means the date is no longer settled as the world was told in 1988.

And that is the whole problem: with everything we know today, we should be able to say plainly what this thing is and make another one. We cannot. After more than a century as the most examined object in history, the Shroud of Turin has not been explained...

Whatever you believe, you come away with the same unanswerable question the image asks of everyone who looks at it: is this a forgery so far ahead of its time that it is a miracle in itself, or is it not a forgery at all?

[Parisian Aesthetics @Parisianaes1]

That's part of the process

[Nature is Phenomenal @AnimalGeoLife]

Xingxing opened the coconut and when she tasted the coconut her eyes became even more sweet, and it looks very cute and beautiful 😍

[Nature & Animals🌴 @naturelife_ok]

Just a normal day in Peru

[Reunion Tower @ReunionTower]

This one is for the diva who showed us what it means to be an icon. 💖 Dolly Parton taught us to lead with heart, kindness, and sparkle. Our hearts are with her family, friends, and fans. Thanks for the music, memories, and magic. Dallas will always love you, Dolly. 🩷 - The Ball

[Kelly Kearns @KKearns79]

@MarioNawfal Sculpture with another dimension

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In the Louvre Museum in Paris, there is a marble sculpture whose wings are carved so thinly that when sunlight passes through them, the stone glows gold...

The sculpture is called Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss and it was carved by Antonio Canova between 1787 and 1793.

The story comes from Lucius Apuleius's Latin novel Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century AD. Psyche is a mortal princess so beautiful that the goddess Venus grows jealous of her and orders her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous creature on earth. Cupid disobeys his mother and falls in love with Psyche himself.

Their love is discovered. Venus, in fury, sets Psyche a series of impossible tasks. The final one is to descend into the underworld and bring back a flask containing a portion of the beauty of Proserpina, queen of the dead. Psyche is forbidden to open it.

She opens it. Inside is not beauty but the Sleep of the Underworld, and it falls upon her like a black cloud. She collapses on the road, lifeless.

Cupid finds her there. He bends down. He kisses her.

Canova chose to carve the exact moment her body wakes...

Psyche lies on a low rock, her body slack, her arms rising slowly toward Cupid as life returns to her. Cupid kneels above her, one hand cradling her head, the other against her breast. Their lips have not quite met. They are millimeters apart, and they have been for more than 200 years.

Behind Cupid, his wings rise into the air. Canova carved them so thinly that when light strikes them at the right angle, the stone turns translucent and warm as honey...

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[Kelly Kearns @KKearns79]

@Parisianaes1 Congratulations! 🍾 🥂

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

This watch by Pierre Jaquet-Droz is breathtakingly beautiful!

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@BiancoDavinci Stunning!