Turns out, our youngest daughter Manna will be joining her two siblings in Paris, for a semester abroad in college. What a blessing, that all three of our kids will be living and studying in the "City of Light." Crazy, how the world turns. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Tadji Kretschmer©️

Béla Tarr's 1994 masterpiece, Sátántangó, based on the book written by Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. "His compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952. French classical pianist Alexandre Kantorow performs Mélodie de Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice, composed in 1762. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” ― Walt Streightiff 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Noémia Prada©️, Portugal

The MAGA Madonna, Raphael, 1512. Oil on canvas. 📷 @kalmantibs.bsky.social©️

We shall gather creative, artistic, sentient beings the world over, and dance on the crushed skulls of vanquished spambots, chatbots & robots, with plumes of smoke from burning AI servers rising on the horizon. Um, something like that. 🤔😊🤷🏼‍♂️ Dedicated to my brother-in-arms, @johnales.bsky.social.

"Nambucca Heads, New South Wales, Australia." 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Photo by Dave Gosling©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society

Latest White House upgrade... 'twas only a matter of time. 😳 📷 @kalmantibs.bsky.social©️

Eric Sloane, American, 1905-1985. November Wind, 1964. Oil on Masonite. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷Maryellen Brown | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art

"Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ Photo by Marlene Thomas©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society

"Give light and people will find the way." — Ella Baker, 1903-1986. Georgian classical pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs Liebestraum No. 3 from Franz Liszt, composed in 1850. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

I shared a few anecdotes about my family heritage yesterday, during visit to my late father's house in Tata, Hungary. Thank you all for the warmhearted responses. I've since removed these posts; a bit too personal to share in a public space. Appreciate your understanding. 🙏🏼🌞🕊️

With the abject *kneeling in fealty* to Trump by FIFA officials in the run-up to the World Cup, seems folks don't realize that FIFA has been roiled in corruption, scandal and duplicity for decades. The confluence of MAGA corruption & FIFA corruption is truly one for the ages. 💰

"Autumn woodland, United Kingdom." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Alastair Graham©️

All the feels, and the dizzying rush of history, when you visit your parents’ hometown of Tata, Hungary, which was first noted in royal documents in 1093, with a castle on the lake, still standing, built in 1397. We are just a speck of dust, in the big scheme of things. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Always enjoyed the train ride to idyllic Tata, Hungary, my parents’ hometown. Since my father’s passing, the visits have dissipated. I return today with a heavy heart, with the solemn task of preparing the house for sale, meeting with a realtor. Yet another chapter in life. 🕊️

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933-2020 Yesterday's election results was a glimmer of hope of a nation reconnecting with its founding principles, reclaiming its democratic norms. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952. French classical pianist Alexandre Kantorow performs Mélodie de Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice, composed in 1762. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

My condolences to former U.S. representative for Wyoming, Liz Cheney, known for her vocal opposition to Donald Trump, for the passing of her father. 🙏🏼🕯️🕊️

"Sixty-nine years ago at 4:15 am on November 4, 1956, Soviet forces launched a major attack on Hungary aimed at crushing, once and for all, the spontaneous national uprising that had begun 12 days earlier. Prime Minister Imre Nagy was executed two years later." ❤️‍🩹🕯️🕊️ #1956

"The beautiful Portland Japanese Garden, opened in Portland, Oregon in 1967, was originally designed by Professor Takuma Tono of Tokyo Agricultural University. It features five historic garden spaces that demonstrate different styles of Japanese landscape architecture.'' 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

"The Dunajec River on the border of Poland and Slovakia." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Kamil Fober©️

Billegetőcankó, Common sandpiper. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Péter Pázsi©️ | Erdei Utakon

Happy Birthday to the esteemed American realist painter, Jeremy Lipking, born on this day in Santa Monica, California, in 1975. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Virtual Art Museum

"The finale of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony accompanies our remembrance today. Let us be still together." — Conductor Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. 🕯️🤍🕊️ #AllSaintsDay

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.” — Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024 Icelandic classical pianist Olga Jegunova performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, composed in 1783. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"Misty November morning in the Hungarian countryside." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Gábor Barta©️

Born on this day, November 1, 1830. Werner Holmberg, Finnish painter, 1830–1860. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Virtual Art Museum

"Milan, Italy is ranked as the most walkable city in the world." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photos by Walter Pasquali©️ | Architecture & Design

This weekend is Mindenszentek Napja, All Saints' Day, in many corners of the world. In Hungary, it is tradition to visit cemeteries, tend to the graves of loved ones, bring flowers and candles in solemn remembrance. May all those who have left us, Rest in Eternal Peace. 💔🕯️🕊️

"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul." — François Fénelon, 1651-1715. Argentine classical pianist Martha Argerich performs I. Allegro affettuoso, Robert Schumann, Piano Concerto in A minor, composed in 1845. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"Uath Lochans, Inshriach Forest in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Damian Shields©️

"Panta Rhei... Everything flows." Kirkjufell, Iceland. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Piotr Meller

Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, Das große Rasenstück, 1503. Watercolor painting. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Albertina Museum, Vienna.

Gaetano Cellini, Humanity against Evil, L'umanità contro il male, 1908. Marble sculpture. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy.

In my incessant, unbridled obsession with holding down a day job and minding to banal, trivial affairs, I missed the fact that yesterday, October 29th, was National Cat Day. Love cats, particularly large, wild ones. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Will Burrard-Lucas©️

😂 📷 Tosh Soanes | History of the Witty

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilized the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion." — Georg Brandes, 1842-1927. Yuja Wang performs Frédéric Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 2. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"The magic world of the Dutch forests right now, full of little mushrooms." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️

Saddened by the death of esteemed Hungarian writer and philosopher, Péter György. He researched contemporary American, European, and Hungarian avant-garde movements, published numerous books, and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. May he Rest in Peace. 🕯️

Inherent human ingenuity is being suffocated by the onset of AI. We’re left with remnants of human creativity. Processing knowledge is reduced to Cliff Notes of science, literature, music, and art. We are being individually and collectively “dumbed down” against our will. 🚫🤖

"A lone birch rises through the morning fog in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, illuminated by the first warm light of day." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Joseph Rossbach©️ | White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA.

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." — William Wordsworth, 1798. South Korean concert pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs II. Andante, Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, composed in 1785. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"Cloudscape over Cobequid Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Patricia Wilkins©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society

"Ms. Larsson’s garden, situated on a postage stamp of land beside the Karlbergs Canal, is one of more than 7,000 garden allotments, known as koloniträdgårdar, in Stockholm. The gardens offer city dwellers access to green space and a reprieve from crowded urban life." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"A rainy afternoon settles over Amsterdam’s canal belt, where reflections of warm window light ripple across the water." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Sebastiaan Visuals©️ | Architecture & Design

"The Madagascar ibis, is a medium-sized, brown-plumaged ibis. It has bare red orbital skin, yellow bill, red legs, white wings and its head is partially bare with a dense crest of green or gloss blue and white plumes on the nape." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Jainy Maria©️ | Wondershots

"Housed in the Palais de l’Institut in Paris, La bibliothèque de l’Institut de France was founded in 1797 and serves its five academies. It preserves about 1.5 million works, more than 10,000 manuscripts, and countless prints, maps, and artworks." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 1000 Libraries

"October 30, 1956. Budapest. An issue of the revolutionary daily newspaper, Függetlenség (Independence) being thrown into the crowd from the Szabad Nép newspaper headquarters, with Corvin department store in the background." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Erich Lessing©️ | Szabó Attila

"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️