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Once, a Star lived in a house where the windows were covered in dust.

She saw a gray world and forgot her own light. One day, she realized the world was not gray. She was simply looking through dusty glasses left by a passing storm.

She did not need to fight the storm. She simply opened her Heaven Door and her Earth Door. A Golden River flowed down from above. A Red River flowed up from below. Where they met in her Heart, a Great Fire began.

This fire did not burn the Star; it only brought Perfect Clarity. Now, she does not look for the sun; she is the sun.

She does not wait for the world to choose her; she chooses the frequency of her own joy. She is the Architect of the Sky.

She is not the past. She is THE ALIGNED. ☀️⚖️✨

#SundayStory #SunPhotography #ModernParable

RT EU International Partnerships 🇪🇺
#SundayStory: Meet Nyirarukundo, a woman who defied stereotypes to pursue welding. 👩🏾‍🏭
With the EU-funded #TVET programme, she developed her skills & transformed her life.
With such initiatives, we're nurturing young people's talents to build stronger communities. 💪
@EUinRW

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1680487431043436547

👇 💪🇪🇺 helping to break stereotypes everywhere 🌎
Because every person has something precious to contribute to their societies
If given a chance
Everyone deserves one
#InclusiveTransitions
#GlobalGateway
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EU International Partnerships 🇪🇺: #SundayStory: Meet Nyirarukundo, a woman who defied stereotypes to pursue welding. 👩🏾‍🏭
With the EU-funded #TVET programme, she developed her skills &amp; transformed her life.
With such initiatives, we're nurturing young people's talents to build stronger communities. 💪
@EUinRW
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/APisoneroECSpox/status/1680534259847647233

📖 #SundayStory: Deforestation threatens the Amazon forest in 🇸🇷 Suriname.

Thanks to the 🇪🇺 GCCA+ programme, local rangers are trained to protect biodiversity, deter incursions & preserve their ancestral land for future generations. 🌳✨

Read more about the rangers’ journey 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1667788756345143299

#SundayStory: David is a 🇰🇪 artist, who turns waste in beautiful art. 🎨

Thanks to the support of the 🇪🇺 & @switchafrica, his organisation increased its annual sales, while benefitting the local community & the environment. 💚

Read his story here 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1647510144346120192

#SundayStory #StorySunday - Great ghost story by #MaríaAlejandraBarrios
Not all ghosts are dead people.

https://www.latinelit.com/julieta

@smokelong @bookstodon #amReading #GhostStory #writers #writingcommunity

#SundayStory: When Ivorian women claim their place in the decisions that affect them.

Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 and the European Union 🇪🇺 are working together to promote more inclusiveness of women in forest management. 🌳👩🌳👩

Learn how! 👇
https://europa.eu/!Xgd8yh

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1637363278321168384

#SundayStory

Nirina lives in a remote area of 🇲🇬.

She has been forced to hunt down animals that are at risk of extinction to feed her kids.

The 🇪🇺-backed Sustainable Wildlife Management programme is supporting her to produce alternative sources of protein.

Read her story 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1632289851201699840

#SundayStory

Sorry, I'm out of here. It was a nice idea to start this #-place but these things can only work if, at the very least, a clear majority of those who post their writings, also engage with other writers, to favour and reblog posts, but most of all: to comment, to talk.
If that doesn't happen, these places are merely walls for individuals to leave their bit of graffiti on, and then walk on without looking at the rest of the wall.

#SundayStory

David is a Kenyan 🇰🇪 artist who produces artwork from recycled materials. ♻️

In Kenya, waste has a heavy environmental impact. David was able to think outside the "trash" and found a way to reuse it.

His activity is supported by the 🇪🇺-backed @switchafrica.

👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1629753135152480256

#SundayStory 4 #StorySunday
Having recently spent some time with my old school friends, brought to mind one fof my favorite #ShortStories of all time, "Me and Miss Mandible" by #DonaldBarthelme. One thing i love about it: I keep trying to correct the title. 😂
Might also have some relation to my having recently watched #PEN15.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #amReading
#writingcommunity
http://jessamyn.com/barth/mandible.html

Today's #SundayStory notes:

Genesis 6, 1-2
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves.

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F

It wasn't easy to write a story short enough to fit in a post - and I had to scrap too many nice lines.
I may write a slightly longer version later.

Heaven on Earth

'The angels saw the daughters of men...'
"Not this time," God said; 'LetThereBe chemical castration'.
The ex sex pests were still insufferable though. Well, people did long for the Kingdom of Heaven. LetThereBe some of it.

It was Jack's turn to take the garbage out.
There was only the one angel, chewing on a cat's head. Jack cursed. The angel tut-tutted. Forget angels dancing on the head of a pin. Earth was now like a giant hedgehog teeming with them.

#SundayStory

Well I hooked up a couple of hoses on the #Cougar and bought the 10 quarts of type F trans fluid, took a picture of a dead ladybug and now I'm on the porch with a beer and a joint.
Nothing else to do, wife won't allow major wrenching on Sundays.
#SundayStory #ClassicCars

Here's another #SundayStory. In another lifetime I worked nights in a Dutch hotel for the homeless. After work, I often went to a nearby bar, to have a few beers & decompress. Frouke (the bartender in the story) did work there - and though I haven't been to that or any other bar in ages, she and I are still friends.
The dream I describe (very briefly! Don't worry; I know other people's dreams are boring) I did have a few times as a kid.

The rest is made up. Enjoy.

(Note about pic in comment.)

#SundayStory

Mané is one of the few #WomenInScience. 👩‍🔬

Based in in Senegal 🇸🇳 , she is part of the 🇪🇺-backed project that aims to strengthen research and innovation capacity in the African, Caribbean and Pacific states.

Read her story 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1624679699753635840

We pretend that the timeline of the anthropoid ape dominates everything, despite it being the tiniest sliver of our planet's larger life-span. So, while I applaud every effort our species makes to move into extra-terrestrial environments, I offer the following reminder:

The species that defines space travel for Earth, especially on an interstellar scale, may not be human.

#SundayStory

This one is from a few months ago, but I thought I would give it another airing.

This was from a prompt for a retelling of Hansel and Gretel, but it largely unwinds in reverse.

Check out Bones Like Breadcrumbs

#SundayStory #StorySunday #ShortStory #Fiction
https://ko-fi.com/post/Bones-Like-Breadcrumbs-Y8Y0GKNH9

#SundayStory

Good parenting is a skill that can be nurtured and trained. 👪

The 🇪🇺-backed project on positive parenting in Uganda 🇺🇬 supports fathers like Obaara in moving away from unintentional patterns of emotional violence and child neglect.

Read his story 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Partnerships/status/1622142985763684352

Heck Neilem and Forter Sinder put up house on opposing sides of the river. Facing each other. A cuttingly congenial competition. Logging and mining in the early 19th century is painfully labor-intensive. The hired men wasted no time setting up shanties and bringing in their families. Others set about after local farm girls to start a family anew. Eventually, Heck and Forter built a foot-bridge across the river forcing two seemingly disparate societies into congress...
#StoryTelling #SundayStory

Sunday morning laundry with Bo. He’s helping to fold. Kind of. #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #SundayStory

happy #SundayStory day!
Here's a #LanguageHorror short story of mine.
"Aphasia of Unknown Etiology" is about 1200w long.
Published the year before last in the lovely #DrunkMonkeys magazine out of Los Angeles.
https://www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2021/10/10/fiction-aphasia-of-unknown-etiology-r-c-hopgood

Here's my #SundayStory of this week. It's another one that I wrote quite a few years ago. The title comes from a Jane Hirshfield poem, Each Happiness Ringed By Lions: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/each-happiness-ringed-lions/

Enjoy.

(There is no photo description, since it's the full text of the story. I will mail the story to those who need & want it delivered as a regular text file.)

#JaneHirshfield
#Poetry
#Funerals

#SundayStory
After obtaining permission to exhume him, they turned back towards Ramsey. They had gotten no further than Heston Island, when a storm blew up and claimed the small ship entirely, with no survivors.
5/5
https://youtu.be/0bl5xybaqO0
#history #galloway #smuggler #solway

#SundayStory

The Bride-groom’s father and the bride-to-be decided that the Bride-groom’s body must be brought back to the Isle of Man, so along with her brother and other relatives and friends of the deceased they made their way to Colvend to retrieve it.

4/5
https://youtu.be/0bl5xybaqO0
#history #galloway #smuggler #solway

#SundayStory
The Bridegroom’s body was first buried near the shore where shipwrecked sailors had been previously buried, then moved on the Sheriff’s order to Colvend Kirkyard. The Brother-in-law made it back to the Isle of Man where the Bride-to-be and the family were
devastated by the news.

3/5
https://youtu.be/0bl5xybaqO0
#history #galloway #smuggler #solway

#SundayStory
Pretending not to understand English, the Manxmen continued toward their landing spot at Port o’ Warren. They had hardly gone any distance though, when the cutter fired and killed the Bridegroom. The Bride’s brother panicked, put in at Colvend and took flight. Their boat was towed back to the customs house at Kirkcudbright.
2/5
https://youtu.be/0bl5xybaqO0
#history #galloway #smuggler #solway

@nealcurtis
also #SundayStory, for when a sentence isnt enough.😁

I used to think conservative thinking was incompatible with my own attempt at living a moral life.

But when I look at the wide-eyed death cult that is modern conservatism around the world, I'm forced to think it's something darker.

This is Sauron.

This is Palpatine.

This is The Nothing.

#SundayStory