Crossing Red (2025)
Posting too late today; so much sleep was needed! So, since nothing new, I'm again at the archive with discarded shots like this one here from February last year in a little night adventure just out of my neighborhood. I think I've shot this as a test for the shutter speed. The final image which I've made out from that night was actually a combination of shots merged together into one. This one though was not included in that shot.
It was a quick process done just few minutes before posting it here. Majorly a crop and color work to make the image vivid (the colors from the RAW were somewhat dull).
The driver didn't cross the red by the way, he just stopped in time ^_^
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Text des Liedes “Faithfully” von Journey
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https://daletra.top/journey/liedtexte/faithfully.html
See the lyrics for the song “Separate Ways” by Journey
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https://daletra.com/journey/lyrics/separate-ways-worlds-apart.html
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JEFF SCOTT SOTO On Being JOURNEY’s Vocalist For 11 Months – “It’s A Memory I Will Forever Cherish”
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New Stars in the Darkness — Silvio José Báez, ocd
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today we celebrate that Jesus is the Messiah and Savior of all humanity. That’s why today’s Gospel presents us with “magi from the East”—wise men who studied the stars, searching for some light to guide their lives. They were seekers of God—models for all of us who want to journey toward him. One day, when they saw a star, they sensed that something new had happened. They realized that this star announced “the birth of the king of the Jews” (cf. Mt 2:2). Faced with this sign, they didn’t remain still; they set out on a long and risky journey.
The magi teach us that life is a constant search. Only by seeking do we find meaning in existence, and only then are we able to change the course of history. Life isn’t an immense museum meant to be observed, nor is history an old book that only needs to be reprinted again and again. Life is an ongoing interior pilgrimage that calls for creativity and hope. We can’t resign ourselves to letting everything remain as it always has been.
The magi began their journey without knowing the exact route in advance. In life, uncertainty often discourages us, but we can’t wait to understand everything before moving forward. When an ideal is burning in our hearts, we don’t need all the details. Small signs are enough to show the way. The magi journeyed through the night guided only by a faint star; the dark sky became for them a kind of great map. In the same way, God lights up our nights with his light—sometimes discreet, but always trustworthy and consoling. With God’s light, there’s no darkness that can truly disorient or frighten us.
The magi’s journey was full of mistakes. They lost sight of the star, went to Jerusalem instead of Bethlehem, asked a child-killer about a child, and looked in a palace instead of a manger. And yet, despite so many errors, they didn’t stop; they kept going. People and societies make mistakes.
Making mistakes isn’t the tragedy; the tragedy is refusing to recognize them and remaining fallen. Our falls can teach us; life involves course corrections.
Our history as a people has known dark times and painful errors, but it’s always possible to begin again. The Lord is always kindling new stars to invite us to move forward. Let’s lift up our hearts to God with trust and humility.
The magi traveled in a caravan. They didn’t try to go faster than their strength allowed, they weren’t distracted by secondary things, and they didn’t let weariness defeat them. As a society, let’s learn to walk without obsessive haste. Great social changes are slow and require historical patience. Let’s not give up or diminish the intensity of the struggle. Let’s begin, even now, to live as the society we long for: freeing our hearts from petty ambitions, overcoming indifference, opportunism, and the messianic cult of leaders, and trusting in God who guides and sustains us.
The magi’s journey to Bethlehem wasn’t an individualistic one. Tradition speaks of “three” magi; the Gospel says “some.” They were a small group walking together. Each one didn’t go off on his own. The human journey is made with others—or else it drifts into selfishness, discouragement, or despair. The magi looked at the star, but they also looked at those journeying beside them. They teach us the value of solidarity, the need to slow our pace so no one is left behind, and the nobility of reaching out to those for whom the road is growing heavier.
When we walk together, God walks with us. Let’s journey as brothers and sisters, avoiding traps and fruitless rivalries. Legitimate differences aren’t the same as political cannibalism. Let’s journey together, looking one another in the eye, dialoguing, offering a hand, and giving the best of ourselves.
When the magi arrived in Jerusalem and asked about the newborn king of the Jews, “King Herod was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him” (cf. Mt 2:3). Tyrants put on a show of bravery and present themselves as arrogant and aggressive, but they live under threat, driven by fear. They turn others—even those in their inner circle—into rivals or enemies to be eliminated. Herod and his court embody the dark world of power where everything is justified, and anything goes: calculation, cynicism, lies, cruelty, and contempt for life. Still, ancient and recent history teach us that all tyrants eventually fall and stand condemned by God and history.
Although Herod tried to deceive them, the magi—reoriented by Scripture—saw the star again and reached the Child in Bethlehem: “They saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they worshiped him” (Mt 2:11). They didn’t find a palace or signs of luxury worthy of a prince’s birth, but a child and his mother. They found the true God in that which is little; they recognized true kingship in the absence of power, and the Almighty in the fragility of a newborn.
God reveals himself in the humility of his love. He asks us to welcome him so that we may be transformed by him, who is Love. Finding God in Bethlehem also reminds us of the missionary dimension of life: enlightened by his love, we are called to bring the light and love of Jesus to those who live in darkness and to rekindle hope in those who feel disillusioned or powerless.
In the end, the magi fall down and adore the Child. To adore is to marvel at God’s unfathomable greatness and, at the same time, to savor his close and loving presence that embraces our whole being. To adore God, we must recognize that we are creatures—infinitely small before him, yet infinitely loved by him.
Adoration is wonder. It is love and self-giving. It is placing our very being in God’s hands and remaining in grateful, joyful silence before him, contemplating his mystery from our own littleness. Adoration gives us the strength not to kneel before any idol or power of this world.
Warned in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi “went back by another way” (Mt 2:12). They returned to ordinary life, transformed—enlightened by truth and changed by love. In the same way, when we encounter Jesus, we too begin to journey “by another way.” We keep seeking the Lord tirelessly in simplicity and tenderness, alongside victims and the poor, struggling for freedom and justice, never giving in to despair and never resigning ourselves (cf. Francis, Epiphany Homily, January 6, 2016).
May the example of the magi move us to keep seeking, to persevere, to journey in solidarity, and to adore with humility, trusting that God’s light always leads us toward truth and the fullness of life.
Silvio José Báez, o.c.d.
Auxiliary Bishop of Managua,
Homily for the Epiphany of the Lord
4 January 2026
Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: Galaxy NGC 6946, nicknamed the Fireworks Galaxy. Image credit: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center / Flickr (Some rights reserved).
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I AM Me ‼️🇳🇬✅👍♥️🌈♐🏳️🌈
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Home 🏠 coming
In peace I come🕺
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I wished setting up Ente was as easy as tapping “Install” on the Play Store — but my self-hosting journey taught me way more about stack quirks, 500 errors, and encrypted success.
https://kalvin.my/from-error-500-to-encrypted-bliss-my-journey-self-hosting-ente/
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15 years ago he made a New Year's resolution to run a marathon. He's still running them today
Brian Murphy began running marathons in his late-40s, starting in London and later running all over the world, including places such as Houston, Texas and Hamburg, Germany. He joined CBC's Ontario Morn...
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/15-years-ago-he-made-a-new-year-s-resolution-to-run-a-marathon-he-s-still-running-them-today-9.7031480?cmp=rss
Sehen Sie den Text des Liedes “Faithfully” von Journey
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https://daletra.top/journey/liedtexte/faithfully.html
I never change, I simply become more myself.
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Tom is now listening to Open Arms
https://open.spotify.com/track/2w4EpqGasrz9qdTwocx54t
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JOURNEY Guitarist NEAL SCHON – “For More Than Five Decades, I Have Been Fortunate To Create Songs With Musicians That Became The Soundtrack To People’s Lives”
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JOURNEY's NEAL SCHON: 'I Have Been Fortunate To Create Songs With Musicians That Became The Soundtrack To People's Lives'
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🌌 Personal growth is an ongoing dialogue
Between who you are
and who you’re becoming.
✨ TETRAOM helps keep that dialogue alive —
one day, one insight at a time.
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SF9’s Inseong to Release First Solo Album, Signaling a New Chapter in His Musical Journey #Album #Chapter #Inseong #Journey #Musical #Release #SF9s #Signaling #Solo
https://kpopnewshub.com/sf9s-inseong-to-release-first-solo-album-signaling-a-new-chapter-in-his-musical-journey/?fsp_sid=416
Tom is now listening to Any Way You Want It
https://open.spotify.com/track/71SvEDmsOwIWw1IozsZoMA
🌱 A new cycle begins
Not as pressure.
Not as resolutions.
But as awareness.
This is a moment to listen, realign,
and move with intention — not force. ✨
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Happy new year to you all. Keep moving if u think the present is a hell to you.
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