#Nature; #Photo Contest, #Green Peace; #Geography;
Belong in Nature – Photo Contest
The Boy from the Sea – by Garrett Carr
| Garrett Carr’s debut adult novel is big-hearted and welcoming, opening with a collective voice that immediately sets the tone for the rest of the novel. |
| We were a hardy people, raised facing the Atlantic. A few thousand men, women and children, clinging to the coast and trying to stay dry. Our town wasn’t just a town, it was a logic and a fate. |
| The story is told through the “we” of the fishing town of Killybegs in Donegal, and it works brilliantly, filled with lovely, unforced colloquialisms that feel completely true to the place and the people. |
#Irish; #Novel; #Atlantic; #Killbegs, #Donegal – #storybook, #Literature;
The Religion of Truth (Monotheism/ Islam) will Prevail over all other Religions
Sahih International: It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion. And sufficient is Allah as Witness. – Surah Al Fath – 48:28
Sahih International: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], seeking bounty from Allah and [His] pleasure. Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration. That is their description in the Torah. And their description in the Gospel is as a plant which produces its offshoots and strengthens them so they grow firm and stand upon their stalks, delighting the sowers – so that Allah may enrage by them the disbelievers. Allah has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great reward. – Surah Al Fath 48:29;
#Islam, #Monotheism, #Faith, #prevail; #Religion;
Elllipsus – Online Writing App
About Ellipsus:
We’re building Ellipsus as a platform that prioritizes transparency, trust, independence, and creative freedom. Writers shouldn’t have to trade their privacy or their ownership for good tools. The rise of AI scraping and big tech overreach only made that more urgent for us. —Rex at Ellipsus
Whatever your attitude toward emerging technologies, we can probably agree it’s tough to be online these days. The tools available seem to be multiplying for some and dwindling for others—particularly for those who don’t want to use generative AI. A growing distrust of big tech is leading people to search for less exploitative options than Google or Microsoft.
Fortunately for them (and also me), new developers are creating tools that don’t push AI without the opportunity to opt-in. One of those new tools is Ellipsus, a writing tool created by a small group of writers who wanted better collaborative document options, and who are solidly for transparency, privacy, and writers’ rights to their own work.
What Makes Ellipsus Different
As a text editor, Ellipsus is a lot like Google Docs, but more focused on better performance for large docs. It’s got a git-style feature for better version control, richer permissions, flexibility, and creative customizations. It’s got a unique knack for supporting real-time collaboration, and is simple enough to start using right away.
How Ellipsus Addresses Concerns about AI, Privacy, and Access
Ellipsus has been very clear on their stance: no generative AI in the program, ever. They believe writers’ work shouldn’t be harvested to train models without consent. Generative AI, when built on creative labor, undermines originality, and they believe putting it inside a writing tool would be fundamentally counterproductive to fostering genuine voices. Ellipsus’s creators want it to be a safe space for writers, and are working on offering better encryption and privacy protections, too.
Things that Make Ellipsus Fun
Ellipsus has a vibrant Discord community of writers providing mutual support, betas, collaborators, and the opportunity to commune. Collaboration options in the documents themselves are pretty fun too—I love being able to create different drafts for different beta readers so no one has to feel put on the spot.
And another small but mighty feature is the variety of different skins you can apply to your program.
#Writing App; #Ellipsus; #App;
~ Allah Does not Burden a Soul beyond what it can Bear ~
Surah Baqarah 2:286
284. To God belongs everything in the heavens and the earth. Whether you reveal what is within your selves, or conceal it, God will call you to account for it. He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills. God is Able to do all things.
285. The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his Lord, as did the believers. They all have believed in God, and His angels, and His scriptures, and His messengers: “We make no distinction between any of His messengers.” And they say, “We hear and we obey. Your forgiveness, our Lord. To you is the destiny.”
286. God (Allah) does not burden any soul beyond its capacity. To its credit is what it earns, and against it is what it commits. “Our Lord, do not condemn us if we forget or make a mistake. Our Lord, do not burden us as You have burdened those before us. Our Lord, do not burden us with more than we have strength to bear; and pardon us, and forgive us, and have mercy on us. You are our Lord and Master, so help us against the disbelieving people.”
#Surah Baqarah; #Allah/ God does Not burden a #Soul beyond what not can bear; #Faith #Islam;
Gulag Archipelago
A Book about the Communist “Hell” (political prisoners sent to Siberia) – during communist hell – by the political prisoner and teachers Alexandr Solzhenitsyn;
EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did not write a book called Road to Siberia, but he wrote extensively about the Soviet penal system and his own imprisonment. His most famous works documenting the brutal labor camps include The Gulag Archipelago and the novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Key Details on Solzhenitsyn’s Exile and Works
- Imprisonment: Arrested in February 1945 for criticizing Joseph Stalin in a private letter, spending eight years in labor camps and subsequent internal exile. [1, 2]
- The Gulag Archipelago: A monumental three-volume historical investigation of the Soviet forced labor camp system, drawing on testimonies from 227 survivors and his own time inside. [1, 2, 3]
- Return to Russia: After the fall of the Soviet Union, he famously returned to Russia via a train journey from Vladivostok in 1994. [1, 2]
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”.[8] His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.[9
Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. At a young age he became an atheist and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exilefor criticizing Joseph Stalin in private correspondence with another field officer.[10][11] As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian.
During the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He started writing novels about his experiences and repression in the Soviet Union. In 1962, he published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—an account of Stalinist repressions—with approval from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. His last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona’s Place in 1963. After Khrushchev lost power, Soviet authorities unsuccessfully tried to discourage Solzhenitsyn from writing. His novels published in other countries included Cancer Ward in 1966, In the First Circle in 1968 and August 1914 in 1971. The history The Gulag Archipelago was published in 1973. The last outraged authorities and, in 1974, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and flown to West Germany.[12] He soon moved to Switzerland and then, in 1976, to Vermont in the United States with his family. He continued to write and his Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990. He returned to Russia four years later and remained there until his death in 2008.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn
#Gulag Archipelago; #Communist “hell”; #Siberia; #Labour camps; #Political Prisoners, #History;
InkJot – Easy and Fun Writing App
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/inkjot-easy-fun-writing/id1603242665?l=en-GB – COOL APP for Beginners Writing and Note-taking;
First Idolatry – times of Nabi Nuh/ Noah – Quran Chapter & Hadith- Narrations
Surah Al-‘Ankabut (29:14): States that Nuh/ Prophet Noah remained among his people for one thousand years minus fifty years before the flood overtook them. [1]
Surah Nuh (71:5-7): Nuh explains to Allah that he called his people night and day, publicly and secretly, but it only made them run further away;
SURAH NUH- NOAH – TRANSLATION OF QURAN KAREEM
1. Verily, We sent Nuh (Noah) to his people (Saying): “Warn your people before there comes to them a painful torment.”
2. He said: “O my people! Verily, I am a plain warner to you,
3. “That you should worship Allah (Alone), be dutiful to Him, and obey me,
4. “He (Allah) will forgive you of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Verily, the term of Allah when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you but knew.”
5. He said: “O my Lord! Verily, I have called my people night and day (i.e. secretly and openly to accept the doctrine of Islamic Monotheism) ,
6. “But all my calling added nothing but to (their) flight (from the truth).
7. “And verily! Every time I called unto them that You might forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, and persisted (in their refusal), and magnified themselves in pride.
8. “Then verily, I called to them openly (aloud);
9. “Then verily, I proclaimed to them in public, and I have appealed to them in private,
10. “I said (to them): ‘Ask forgiveness from your Lord; Verily, He is Oft-Forgiving;
11. ‘He will send rain to you in abundance;
12. ‘And give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.’ “
13. What is the matter with you, [that you fear not Allah (His punishment), and] you hope not for reward (from Allah or you believe not in His Oneness).
14. While He has created you in (different) stages [i.e. first Nutfah, then ‘Alaqah and then Mudghah, see (V.23:13,14) the Qur’an].
15. See you not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,
16. And has made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?
17. And Allah has brought you forth from the (dust of) earth. [Tafsir At-Tabari, Vol.29, Page 97].
18. Afterwards He will return you into it (the earth), and bring you forth (again on the Day of Resurrection)?
19. And Allah has made for you the earth wide spread (an expanse).
20. That you may go about therein in broad roads.
21. Nuh (Noah) said: “My Lord! They have disobeyed me, and followed one whose wealth and children give him no increase but only loss.
22. “And they have plotted a mighty plot.
23. “And they have said: ‘You shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave Wadd, nor Suwa’, nor Yaghuth, nor Ya’uq, nor Nasr (names of the idols);
24. “And indeed they have led many astray. And (O Allah): ‘Grant no increase to the Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers, and disbelievers, etc.) save error.’ “
25. Because of their sins they were drowned, then were made to enter the Fire, and they found none to help them instead of Allah.
26. And Nuh (Noah) said: “My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers on the earth!
27. “If You leave them, they will mislead Your slaves, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers.”
28. “My Lord! Forgive me, and my parents, and him who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. And to the Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers, and disbelievers, etc.) grant You no increase but destruction!”
Narrated Ibn `Abbas (radiAllahu Anhu) :
All the idols which were worshiped by the people of Noah were worshiped by the Arabs later on. As for the idol Wadd, it was worshiped by the tribe of Kalb at Daumat-al-Jandal; Suwa` was the idol of (the tribe of) Hudhail; Yaghouth was worshiped by (the tribe of) Murad and then by Bani Ghutaif at Al-Jurf near Saba; Ya`uq was the idol of Hamdan, and Nasr was the idol of Himyar, the branch of Dhi-al-Kala`. The names (of the idols) formerly belonged to some pious men of the people of Noah, and when they died Satan inspired their people to (prepare and place idols at the places where they used to sit, and to call those idols by their names. The people did so, but the idols were not worshiped till those people (who initiated them) had died and the origin of the idols had become obscure, whereupon people began worshiping them.
حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى، أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، وَقَالَ، عَطَاءٌعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ صَارَتِ الأَوْثَانُ الَّتِي كَانَتْ فِي قَوْمِ نُوحٍ فِي الْعَرَبِ بَعْدُ، أَمَّا وُدٌّ كَانَتْ لِكَلْبٍ بِدَوْمَةِ الْجَنْدَلِ، وَأَمَّا سُوَاعٌ كَانَتْ لِهُذَيْلٍ، وَأَمَّا يَغُوثُ فَكَانَتْ لِمُرَادٍ ثُمَّ لِبَنِي غُطَيْفٍ بِالْجُرُفِ عِنْدَ سَبَا، وَأَمَّا يَعُوقُ فَكَانَتْ لِهَمْدَانَ، وَأَمَّا نَسْرٌ فَكَانَتْ لِحِمْيَرَ، لآلِ ذِي الْكَلاَعِ. أَسْمَاءُ رِجَالٍ صَالِحِينَ مِنْ قَوْمِ نُوحٍ، فَلَمَّا هَلَكُوا أَوْحَى الشَّيْطَانُ إِلَى قَوْمِهِمْ أَنِ انْصِبُوا إِلَى مَجَالِسِهِمُ الَّتِي كَانُوا يَجْلِسُونَ أَنْصَابًا، وَسَمُّوهَا بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ فَفَعَلُوا فَلَمْ تُعْبَدْ حَتَّى إِذَا هَلَكَ أُولَئِكَ وَتَنَسَّخَ الْعِلْمُ عُبِدَتْ.
Reference – Sahi Al Bukhari, Book 65, Hadith 440;
#Story of Noah, #Idolatry, #Monotheism, #Flood; #Quran translation; #Narrations, #Hadith;
Stylish text – &Font App
STYLISH TEXT – APP – O. GOOGLE PLAY:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theruralguys.stylishtext&hl=en-US&pli=1
Protest of the Bus Routes – Sault Ste Marie
Hebrew Alphabet – The Word in Hebrew
HEBREW ALPHABET FOR BEGINNERS – very Useful Lessons – as I tried some of the beginning letters and vowels lessons myself; with teacher Ayelet;
11 Every Day Words with Indigenous Roots
11 everyday words with indigenous roots
Published on November 15, 2025
Image: Zoshua Colah
English is a very welcoming language in the sense that it incorporates terms from many other languages from all over the world. And, as it couldn’t be otherwise, Native American languages have lent many of their words and terms to English speakers. Some traveled through Spanish or French before settling into English, and others arrived directly through early contact and trade, helping shape the way we speak today. Did you know about these 11 terms?
1 – CANOE
Image: Michael Niessl
The word “canoe” comes from the Taino term canoa, which was first used by Caribbean islanders long before Europeans arrived. Early explorers adopted it to describe the slim, sturdy boats they saw.
Over time, “canoe” became the standard English word for a small paddled craft. Today it still carries that sense of simplicity and closeness to nature.
- CANOE-The word “canoe” comes from the Taino term canoa, which was first used by Caribbean islanders long before Europeans arrived. Early explorers adopted it to describe the slim, sturdy boats they saw.
- BARBECUE – comes from barbacoa, another Taino term for a wooden frame used for cooking meat over fire.
- SKUNK – “Skunk” comes from the Algonquian word squnk, which means “urinating fox” (quite a fitting term, indeed).
- MOOSE – Eastern Abenaki, a part of the Algonquian family, where it meant “he strips off bark;
- RACOON – “Raccoon” comes from the Powhatan word arakun, meaning “he scratches with his hands.” (front paws);
- CHIPMUNK – comes from the Ojibwe word ajidamoo, which means “one who descends trees headfirst.”
- CARIBOO – comes from the Mi’kmaq term qalipu, which means “snow shoveler,”
- TOTEM – “Totem” comes from the Ojibwe word ototeman, which means “kinship group.” It described symbols representing clans and shared roots.
- COYOTE – “Coyote” comes from the Nahuatl word coyōtl, which was used by Indigenous tribes of central Mexico. Spanish speakers adopted it, and English borrowed later.
- AVOCADO – traces to the Nahuatl word ahacatl, which refers to the fruit and to a body part as well.
- CHOCOLATE – The last Nahuatl word and also the last word on the list comes from the term xocolātl, which describes a bitter cacao drink that was consumed long before Europeans arrived in America. The name traveled from Spanish to English.
#English; #Language; #Native Root- Words;