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[SASSLA Clima @SasslaClimaMx]

#TenemosHuracán 🌀 | #Polo ya avanza a #BCS, hoy será el primer impacto. ⚠️

🇲🇽 Ubicado a 140 km al oeste de Cabo San Lázaro, #BCS, con vientos de 185 km/h y presión de 958 mb. Se mantiene como un poderoso #HuracánMayor de categoria 3.

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[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

There are times when I find myself wondering not when the world changed, but when we did.

When did we stop believing that everyday life deserved a touch of beauty?

There was a time when even the ordinary things were made with a certain grace. Railway stations were built like cathedrals. Libraries inspired reverence. Letters were written by hand and carried a little of the sender within them. Teacups felt elegant in the hand. Shopfronts had character. Cars had personality. A family meal was an occasion rather than a pause between distractions.

Not because life was easier. It wasn’t.

But because there seemed to be an understanding that beauty mattered. That craftsmanship mattered. That taking a little extra care with the details was not an extravagance, but part of what made life worth living.

Today, almost everything is designed for speed.

We move faster, consume faster, communicate faster. The world has become wonderfully efficient, yet strangely uniform. High streets resemble one another. Buildings are erected with little thought for permanence. Objects are replaced rather than repaired. Convenience has become king, and beauty is too often treated as an optional luxury.

In our pursuit of having more, we seem to have forgotten how to savour.

The old rituals have quietly slipped away. Writing letters. Polishing silver. Dressing for dinner. Lingering over conversation. Wandering through a bookshop with no intention of buying anything. Sitting in silence on a train and watching the countryside pass by.

Small things, perhaps.

Yet it is often the small things that give a life its texture.

The world itself has not become less beautiful. The evening sun still turns stone buildings gold. Gardens still bloom after rain. Old books still carry the scent of a hundred forgotten afternoons. Church bells still echo across quiet villages. A well-laid table still invites conversation. Beauty remains all around us.

The magic never truly left. We simply built a world that rewards haste and forgot that wonder requires time.

Perhaps the greatest act of quiet rebellion in the modern age is to slow down. To notice. To choose quality over convenience, presence over distraction, craftsmanship over disposability.

Because a rich life has never been measured by how quickly we move through it…Only by how deeply we experience it.

[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

La llamada de la naturaleza.
Ver un caballo bañarse en un río, es presenciar la libertad en su estado más puro, donde la tierra y el agua celebran la belleza de la vida salvaje.

Mérilver

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Haaland bought a rare manuscript that tells the story of Norway and their eventual conversion to Catholicism.

He bought the Heimskringla saga for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner (around £100,000 / $134,000) and donated it to his hometown library.

Written by the medieval Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson, the manuscript is a foundational text detailing the history and legends of Norway’s early Norse kings.

It includes the reign of King Olav Haraldsson (St. Olav), the monarch who historically solidified Norway’s conversion to Christianity

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

¡¡AQUÍ ES DONDE SONRÍE EL PLANETA FÚTBOL!! 🇯🇵❤️⚽

Japón no solo dio una exhibición de fútbol ante Túnez. También volvió a demostrar por qué es una de las selecciones más admiradas y respetadas del mundo.

Tras el partido, los jugadores dejaron el vestidor impecable y escribieron un mensaje de agradecimiento para Monterrey por el cariño con el que fueron recibidos.

Pero hubo más.

Antes de marcharse, Hajime Moriyasu se acercó a la afición, formó corazones con sus manos y dejó una frase que conquistó a todos:

🗣️ “Espero que nos sigan apoyando… salvo que algún día nos enfrentemos a México. En ese caso, lo entendería”.

Qué forma tan elegante de agradecer. Qué manera tan genuina de conectar con la gente.

Dentro de la cancha enamoran con su fútbol. Fuera de ella, dejan lecciones de humildad, respeto y educación.

Japón no solo gana admiradores por cómo juega. También por cómo se comporta. 👏🇯🇵

[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

The evolution of Airplane food ✈️🍲

© tatentater (IG)

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Un leopardo observa la puesta de sol, posado en lo alto de un árbol en Masai Mara, Kenia.

El arte de la naturaleza

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

"What shall I do with all my books?"
- Read them, or if you cannot read them, at any rate handle them, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open where they will. Read on from the first sentence that arrests the eye. Then turn to another.
Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands. Arrange them on your own plan, so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are.
If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
- Sir Winston Churchill.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

A beautiful film of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1930s.

[⊹ ࣪ pam ˖✦ @pamvonhadder]

London’s most famous Wisteria is so back! 💜🪻

[Alfredo Marquez T. @Perrosenlacalle]

Con todo mi cariño te comparto este bello video, si en verdad amas a los perros, por favor, no te lo pierdas Te garantizo que te va a encantar 😍❤️🦮🐶🐾🐾💯

[The News & Observer @newsobserver]

Undaunted by the winter storm, Buddhist monks continue their Walk for Peace on a quiet, snow-covered Raleigh road Sunday morning.
📹 @vizjourno
#WalkForPeace #PeaceWalk #BuddhistMonks #NorthCarolina

[Stephen Hough @houghhough]

Staggering, gorgeous Beato (Fra) Angelico show at the Uffizi. One inch is enough for an hour of contemplation

[Micaela @MicaDeJota]

A veces las redes sociales hacen magia ♥️🥹

[Rafael Navarrete @historiacolor]

En la Navidad de 1907, el pintor valenciano Joaquín Sorolla cenó con su familia y el momento quedó inmortalizado en dos fotografías que hizo su suegro, el fotógrafo Antonio García Peris. Un prodigio de composición, iluminación y técnica. Pero, ¿quién es quién en la foto? 🧵

[Muse @xmuse_]

Silent Night. Holy Night. Sung beneath the arches of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NY. ✨ https://t.co/eG2yy3owpU

[culturepub @culturepub]

"Pas facile de se faire des amis quand on les mange". Une magnifique animation crée par @Illogic_studios pour @intermarche, qui rend le grand méchant loup très attachant 😍🐺

Agence : @Romance_agency
Production : Divine Production

[Nick O'Brien @NickLovesSpain]

The plains of Iberia changed hands for centuries.

But in the mountains of the north, one kingdom endured.

And built monuments that helped paved the way for Spain’s greatest cathedrals... 🧵

[Los Árboles Mágicos ®️, (by Oscar Gaitan) @arboles_magicos]

A veces la vida se abre paso sin preguntar. 💚🌳