Ed Casabar @edcasabar@qoto.org

Letterman interviews Zelenskyy on Netflix. Inspiring, heart breaking, and a reminder that #Ukraine is not only fighting for itself, but for democracy. Very much worth watching.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81644272

#GloryToUkraine, #СлаваУкраїні, #RussiaIsATerroristState

Have a listen and share "Glory to Hong Kong".

Beijing is angry and pressuring Google to bury the song in search results. "Like" it on YouTube too.

Video of Glory to Hong Kong in Cantonese with 7.5m views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIDL4SB60g

English lyrics:

Why is this land flowing with tears again?
With rage, fears are crushed, in arms we stand
Keep your head high, refuse to stay silent, shout, scream
As we hope for freedom to return!

Why can’t this dread wither?
Why is it that our faith has never withered as well?
Our flesh sacrificed, our blood shall write this song
Free this land, stand with Hong Kong!

Stars may fall, and darkness may fill the air
But in the fog, a distant sound will heard

Defend liberty, gather all protesters
With courage and wisdom we are unbreakable

May a new dawn liberate Hong Kong
Band together brothers and sisters, for the revolution of our time!
May democracy and freedom reign eternally
Glory to Hong Kong!

Yay! First time fusion has been created in a laboratory. Not yet ready to save the planet from our dependence on fossil fuels and their emissions, but a huge step in that direction .

Live video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_y7Q3HrUYM

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 3 of 6

#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 2 of 6

#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 1 of 6

#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

Every year, about 100 of PNG’s tribes gather to compete in dancing, singing, and drumming. I photographed this event a few years ago, and it remains one of the most mind-blowing displays of humanity I’ve ever seen and in the top three of the most remote places I've traveled. Each tribe dances into the festival grounds wearing an incredible variety of costumes made from feathers, fur, shells, their faces often painted in elaborate make up. Each tribe having its own amazing costume

Although the festival has become well-known, I would guess that less than100 tourists were present to witness this incredible event. It’s hard to describe the intensity of the singing and visual impact it has when you first see each tribe enter.

Prior to the start of the festival, I was in a handful of tourists that was taken to view the make-up and costume preparation of the Hagan Tribe, which had some of the most elaborate feathers and even bird wings in their head dresses (see photos 2, 3)

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Our planet desperately cleaner energy.

Per Washington Post, a "major scientific breakthrough" in fusion energy is being announced this Tuesday from the US Department of Energy. I can't wait.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/11/fusion-nuclear-energy-breakthrough/

The #Japanese custom of having special birthday celebrations for kids at the ages of 7-5-3 (shichi-go-san, #七五三) is based on East Asian numerology. The numbers are considered lucky. Kids are dressed in elaborate kimonos and brought to shrines for special blessings.

I took these two photos at Nikko, #Japan ’s famous Toshogu Shrine, a #UNESCO world heritage site.

Two, 3-year old girls and their families happened to be there while I was walking around as a tourist. I particularly like the one in which the little girl’s father has to carry her down a set of stairs as we left the temple, because her father thought she might fall while wearing her tall, red, wooden clogs.

#travel #photography #日本