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of-winter-and-summer reblogged
Valensole, France | Photographer: Daniele Bisognin
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of-winter-and-summer reblogged
“The French government conferred the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) decoration to Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama during a ceremony on May 30 at the French Embassy in Japan. Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is credited with popularizing manga in France. The series rose to popularity thanks to its anime adaptation airing as part of the Club Dorothée children’s television program in the late 1980s. French publisher Glénat localized the manga in 1993 and it quickly became a cultural phenomenon.” Yooooo, that’s awesome! :D
“We know this, of course. We know in our brains that nothing lasts. But that doesn’t stop us from just going about our lives forgetting about that reality. And then we get hit in the face by it… sometimes individually, sometimes collectively.
“What hits really hard in moments like this is that really… nothing is forever. The loss of history, of art, of creation, is real and deeply tragic. But what’s really itching at the insides of my chest is watching something I thought was forever suddenly not exist.
“A lot of us are feeling this now together… though at the same time, many other people don’t have such a visceral tie to Notre Dame. Which is why I’m doing my best to not be very angry at the “it’s just a building” comments. (Though, honestly, if that’s how you feel, be quiet.)
“But Katherine also reminded me that Notre Dame is not one thing… and while nothing lasts, the story of human culture isn’t of building things that last forever, it’s changing, growing, progressing, remembering, and /rebuilding./
"She reminded me that Notre Dame is history, but so is today. We don’t get to be separate from history. And we are not the first people to see beautiful things destroyed. Indeed, we’re not the first to see much of Notre Dame Cathedral destroyed.
"Much of Notre Dame is nearly 1000 years old. Some of it is 50 years old. The spire was built 150 years ago. The Rose Window is (was) from the 1200s. It’s heartbreaking.
"But in a moment when I’m reminded of how fragile things are, I also want to be reminded of how much we have created and preserved… and how much we have rebuilt. So that feeling is in there with the bad ones. It’s not bigger than the bad ones, but it’s in there too.”
- Hank Green after talking with his wife Katherine about the tragic fire consuming Notre Dame
of-winter-and-summer reblogged
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Eiffel Tower Sunset by Joshua Gunther on Flickr.
