P&Ns middle name is and

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Tombstone1881]

 

[Sonikku]

not sure why but this makes me sad?

Perhaps because hopes and dreams gave way to reality and conformity?

 

[Victorian Gray]

Filipinos watch as a penitent is nailed to the cross during Good Friday rituals Friday in Cutud, Pampanga province, northern Philippines. Several Filipino devotees had themselves nailed to crosses to remember Jesus Christ's suffering and death, an annual rite frowned upon by church leaders in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. Aaron Favila/AP

A boy carries his belongings at a site hit by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Fardous district Thursday. Rami Zayat/Reuters

Tehran, Iran Iranians celebrate after Iran and six world powers reached a preliminary nuclear agreement
Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

one for the Canuckians

 

[IronWing]

Filipinos watch as a penitent is nailed to the cross during Good Friday rituals Friday in Cutud, Pampanga province, northern Philippines. Several Filipino devotees had themselves nailed to crosses to remember Jesus Christ's suffering and death, an annual rite frowned upon by church leaders in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. Aaron Favila/AP

I always wondered where they find folks willing to nail them up. I actually understand the desire to be a penitent better than I understand the willingness to crucify someone, particularly someone you aren't even in conflict with.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I always wondered where they find folks willing to nail them up. I actually understand the desire to be a penitent better than I understand the willingness to crucify someone, particularly someone you aren't even in conflict with.

Here's a story about a few of them. Some give their reasons.

http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/whats-it-be-crucified-501065

And from a different article:

"Painter Ruben Enaje, 54, was among half a dozen men whose hands and feet were rubbed with alcohol before locals dressed as Roman soldiers hammered sterilized nails into his flesh.

He has repeated the same act for the last 29 years as part of giving thanks after surviving a fall from a building."

 

[Victorian Gray]

An army officer writes a number on the arm of Thanompong, a 21-year-old transgender woman, during an army draft held at a school in Klong Toey, the dockside slum area in Bangkok, Sunday. Thai men over 21 must serve in the army. Those who volunteer serve only six months, but others choose the annual lottery, which goes on for 10 days in recruitment centers around Thailand. Only those not considered physically capable of service, the mentally ill and those who have significantly altered their physical appearance, such as trans women, are exempt. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

Primary school students in Red Army uniforms visit a Martyrs' Cemetery ahead of the Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Festival, in Yecheng, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. The Qingming festival, which falls on April 5th this year, is a day for the Chinese to remember and honor their ancestors.

Palestinian boys hold candles as they attend an Orthodox Christian Palm Sunday mass at the Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City, Sunday. Suhaib Salem/Reuters

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

1965

 

[Victorian Gray]

1954

 

[Victorian Gray]

In Syria: Four Years of War

A Syrian Kurdish boy sits on a destroyed tank in the Syrian town of Kobane on March 27, 2015. ISIS fighters were driven out of Kobane on January 26 by Kurdish and allied forces.
Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images

A general view taken on April 6, 2015, shows destruction in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp after ISIS seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP.
AFP/Getty Images

Dozens of damaged buildings are seen in Ain Tarma and Jobar in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, on April 5, 2015.
Diaa Al-Din/Reuters

Rebel fighters from Suqour al-Sham Brigade prepare a locally made shell before launching it towards forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in the Idlib countryside on March 18, 2015.
Mohamad Bayoush/Reuters

A homemade shell falls towards a building sheltering forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad, after being fired from rebel fighters in the Seif El Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo on March 28, 2015.
Rami Zayat/Reuters

more:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/in-syria-four-years-of-war/389781/

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

One for the Canuckians

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Tombstone1881]

 

[Victorian Gray]

A girl reacts at a site hit by what activists said was a ground-to-ground missile fired by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday. Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters

Golapi Supa Bhakat, who is pregnant, waits with her daughter (2nd r.) for a health check at the garden hospital in Amchong on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Tuesday. Tuesday marks World Health Day. Anupam Nath/AP

President Barack Obama waves with the Easter Bunny on the Truman Balcony during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington Monday. Thousands of children gathered for the annual event which features live music, cooking stations, storytelling and Easter egg rolling. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

An Afghan health worker gives a vaccination to a child during a polio campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday. Allauddin Khan/AP

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

one for the Canuckians

 

[Victorian Gray]

Disabled Palestinians play sitting volleyball during an event organized by United Nations at a UN-run training center in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The event was aimed at raising awareness on the impact of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW), officials said. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Sana’’a, Yemen A woman pushes a wheelbarrow carrying jerry cans full of water, collected from a philanthropist-provided water tap. The Red Cross and Russia have called for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire to allow medical aid to reach areas hit by fighting and allow residents safe access to food and water
Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

 

[Victorian Gray]

One for the Canuckians