Tracey-anne McCartney's Blog, page 18

'I write better than I speak'

Spoken versus Written Language "Does writing down what I think and saying what I think activate different parts of the brain and neuropathways?  I have an easier time writing than I do speaking." ~ Unknown

Written and spoken language can exist separately in the brain, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows. 
"Actually, seeing people say one thing and -- at the same time -- write another is startling and surprising," Johns Hopkins cognitive science professor Brenda Rapp told the website F...

Video Beauty ~ Visual Storytelling

Music "Lane Moje", Serbian composer Željko Joksimović
The woman in the video is Mumtaz Mahal and he is the emperor Jahan which built Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife. When she is on the boat she is dead(the pass rite) and she is going to Taj Mahal, her tomb. Persian princess by Mehran7fox Mumtaz Mahal (April 1593 – 17 June 1631) "the elect of the palace" was a Mughal Empress and chief consort of Emperor Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra was constructed by her husband as her final resting p...

Riveting Story Behind Striking Sculpture

Though Paige Bradley has a few “trademark” sculptures, the Internet came and fell in love with one particular one that’s causing people from all over the world to see her art for the very first time. It’s an incredibly beautiful sculpture of a naked woman with light bleeding out of her cracked body.
How did this piece, called Expansion, come about? The sculptor just shared with us her fascinating and inspiring story.

“I conceived of this piece when I first moved to Manhattan,” she says. “I was...

The Healing Property of Tears

7 Good Reasons to Cry New York Times reporter Benedict Carey referred to tears in a piece as “emotional perspiration.” In his intriguing article, “The Miracle of Tears” , author Jerry Bergman writes: “Tears are just one of many miracles which work so well that we taken them for granted every day.” Here, then, are seven ways tears and the phenomenon we call “crying” heal us physiologically, psychologically, and spiritually.
1. Tears help us see.2. Tears kill bacteria.3. Tears remove toxins.4...

Ben Hibon ~ Mirror Mirror

MIRROR MIRROR / opening sequence from Ben Hibon on Vimeo.
Beautiful fairy tale video 
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Happy New Year 2017

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A wonderful artist

JEAN MICHEL BIHOREL https://jmbihorel.myportfolio.com/flower-figures-n003
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The most romantic flower gardens in the world...

Husband plants thousands of pink blooms so people would come to see them and spend time with his blind wife so she didn't feel lonely. Toshiyuki Kuroki and his wife Yasuko had been married for 30 years when she began to have trouble with her sight. Within a week Mrs Kuroki, from Miyazaki Prefecture, had gone blind, after suffering complications from her diabetes. Mr Kuroki, a dairy farmer, had to watch on helplessly as his wife became depressed and withdrawn from the world. But he struck on t...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! :o)

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas. 
Love and light,Tracexoxo
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Of the stars...

Obsolete constellationsNon-astronomers are often puzzled by the concept of a disused constellation – surely, a constellation is either there or it isn’t. However, the patterns we see in the stars are purely a product of human imagination, so humans are free to amend the patterns as they choose – and astronomers did so at will during the heyday of celestial mapping in the 17th and 18th centuries. Former constellations are constellations that are no longer recognised by the International A...