WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 https://youtube.com/shorts/NAvonizclhU?si=fpriylWKrPfULIlN  (Here you can see how fast the Dervish spin without getting dizzy.)  

 

A whirling dervish is a member of the Mevlevi Sufi order in Islam, famous for practicing a meditative, ecstatic dance known as Sema to achieve divine connection. Originating in 13th-century Turkey, these practitioners (or "turners") spin in spiritual ecstasy to relinquish their ego and focus on God, often symbolizing the rotation of the planets and the universe.

My photos show how colorful they are dressed today and perform mostly for tourists. 

  

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WEEKEND 

As usual the weather got on my nerves, it was too hot in the sunshine (which disappeared all five minutes) and far to cold to sit outside. We tried both but had to go inside as it was too cold outside, with these moody clouds. 

We played a very interesting game (again) we had to find out the meaning of jobs that no longer exist, and that we have long forgotten! These jobs were a little strange to us : lamplighters, human bowling pinsetters, knocker-uppers (who woke people up), switchboard operators, ice cutter, body snapper, etc  

As the jobs were different in French, please find out by yourselves what these jobs mean ! Body  snapper I learned in the Edinburgh cemetery. In earlier times, there were no bodies available for medical students to study. So, they would sneak into the cemetery at night and dig up the recently deceased! That's why many graves were protected with thick iron bars to prevent the theft of the deceased. 

I don't know if this existed also in Belgium. I don't think so, here the graves are just surrounded with stones and sometimes there is a marble cover on it. 

Sunday was Mother's day. I got a phone call from Isabel and later from my son. I was a bit disappointed that he hadn't sent flowers, but I should  have been used to it by now, that  at some point he stopped giving me little gifts. Probably when he became a father. I don't remember. I only hope that Toby doesn't copy him and my DIL will also be disappointed.

There weren't many of us today, most had gone to a restaurant with their children or had visitors. We "orphan" mothers played bingo with two grandfathers who kept arguing because each wanted to be right.

 

 Finally, we firmly told them to shut up and concentrate on the game. We women made fun of the two quarreling men, and so the afternoon passed quickly, and we had a good time.

 B I N G O !!!

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

This week nothing special happened, the weather was bad, it rained and we were locked inside. Fortunately we had our activities each day and that was nice especially when it rains outside.

My lovely neighbor arrived home on Sunday evening looking rather unsteady; she had been playing bridge with old friends and had drunk too much. It's a miracle she always makes it home without an accident. She does it on each Sunday and Monday she is sick. Rachel who cleans our rooms, always shows me the consumption of Geney's bottles ! This time it was 3 bottles of red wine and 2 bottles of Champagne ! No wonder that her daughters told her that she spends too much ! Probably she has to take a smaller room. 

Meanwhile, I've found a new hobby: working with AI! I tinkered around until I figured out how to do it, and then, of course, I was very proud of the result. Here are a few examples.

My paternal grandma and my mother. What is strange that the colors are mostly exact, 

here we are a young couple, not yet married

and five years later came little Dario

Here was my first school day. In Germany the kids get such a cone filled with sweets or little gifts this special day.

This is Piccola, my very first cat when I was 21. The background and grass I (or rather AI) added.

All black and white pictures were quite damaged as they were very old. But AI corrected everything and colored it ! As a beginner I was really satisfied with the result.

But then I discovered another thing. You can "paint" a picture only with words. So I typed blue sea, and a sunset. The result was this :

 and here I typed, green grass with daisies and a sleeping black cat ! this was the result ! Amazing !!

I still have a lot to learn (probably)  but with my first results I am already happy !  It's unbelievable that you can make a photo and probably also videos only with a description of what you want. Of course now I am very busy and while some find life boring for the moment it's rather exiting for me, and a wonderful replacement of my paintings as I can't paint anymore !

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