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Communicator - Networker - Public Relations - Toronto/City-Kenora/Lake- #LOTW #bladdercancer #leukemiaAML survivor/thriver

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Jump Back Up July - Day 30: Reach out to a friend, family member or colleague for support https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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Jump Back Up July - Day 28: Think about what you can learn from a recent problem https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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last night’s moon a special sight as we move towards a full moon August 01

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when you’re smiling the whole world smiles along with you

[Suzi Day @suziday123]

Monday Friendly Reminder… Be the reason someone smiles today. 🙌😊 #KindnessMatters

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Jump Back Up July - Day 27: Write down 3 things you're grateful for (even if today was hard) https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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go gettum @AndrewONielsen https://t.co/I4hZCjZw7P

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Oh Canada !

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🇨🇦 Canada is home to over 2 million lakes, containing around 20% of the world's freshwater.

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Jump Back Up July - Day 25: Notice when you are feeling judgmental and be kind instead https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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Jump Back Up July - Day 24: Choose to see something good about what has gone wrong https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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a favourite combination !

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It’s National Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day!
#NationalPeanutButterAndChocolateDay #PeanutButterAndChocolateDay #Candy

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enjoy a scoop
today !

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It’s Vanilla Ice Cream Day!
#VanillaIceCreamDay #NationalVanillaIceCreamDay #Vanilla

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a fascinating story of a work of art worth sharing

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

I will never forget the first time I walked into St Peter's Basilica...

None of it is painted. Everything overhead that appears to be a fresco is a mosaic: millions of small glass tiles, cut and set into place by hand.

Michelangelo pierced the drum with sixteen windows, and beneath them runs a band of text, black on gold: TU ES PETRUS ET SUPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church."

From the floor it reads like an ordinary inscription but each of those letters is two metres tall...

Above the windows the dome divides into sixteen segments, and within them six tiers of figures rise in rings: the popes buried in the basilica, then Christ, the Virgin Mary, St John the Baptist and the Apostles, then angels carrying the instruments of the Passion, then the faces of cherubim and seraphim. Above all of them, a blue sky scattered with gold stars, and at the summit, in the lantern, God the Father.

The man who designed it, Giuseppe Cesari, was a painter. Between 1603 and 1612 he produced sixty-five life-size cartoons setting out the whole scheme, and every one of them was then translated into glass by mosaicists.

The reason is actually pretty unglamorous. The basilica was damp, and candle smoke and incense from centuries of liturgy were eating the pictures alive. So the Vatican began converting the building into glass, dome by dome, and from the end of the 1600s the painted altarpieces too, one at a time. By the basilica's own reckoning, around ten thousand square metres of mosaic.

The workshop that did all of this is still open: twelve artists work in the Vatican Mosaic Studio today, cutting tesserae by hand in nearly 28,000 shades and fixing them with a linseed-oil stucco whose recipe has been in use for four centuries. Earlier this year its director, Paolo Di Buono, described the work:

"We have the idea that we are working for something that is almost eternal."

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Jump Back Up July - Day 23: Remember that all feelings and situations pass in time https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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Jump Back Up July - Day 22: Find 3 things you feel hopeful about and write them down https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

[Shannon Hiers @HiersShann48838]

@Cam_Jourdan Rory is the biggest hypocrite on earth. He is either crying or complaining. No wonder he is so disliked in the US. Only a gutless ,classless ,jealous little tweerp would say this after he cheated in the bunker .

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Jump Back Up July - Day 19: If you can't change it, change the way you think about it https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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Jump Back Up July - Day 18: Let go of the small stuff and focus on the things that matter https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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Jump Back Up July - Day 17: Use one of your strengths to overcome a challenge today https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly

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Jump Back Up July - Day 16: Find fun ways to distract yourself from unhelpful thoughts https://t.co/EHfxvNbhBr #JumpBackUpJuly