Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog: January 2011

Holy Heights, Colorado, USA

by Chadd Medina

Lest we forget the Mountain Majesty...

For all January 2011 photos: C2S January Photos.

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Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, Australia

by Omid Zargari

The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.

These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.

The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.

As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.

Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

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Out of Africa

by Janet Stursberg (on safari, January 2011)

"The lion is not as fierce as they paint [her]." George Herbert

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Winter Wonderland - Prospect Park

About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

Up from Earth's Centre through the seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate (Quote from Khayyam, courtesy of Omid Zargari)

After the storm, children play in open spaces. Caitlin Stiglmeier, a regular contributor to C2S, is a medical student in Brooklyn, NY. She and some colleagues took a few hours to play in the fields of the snow gods.

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Govindnagar Beach

by Ashish Goel

On Havelock Island, life's a beach (for the visitor at least)

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No Alien Land

by Ginny Tanji

“No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garland crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its woodland solitudes, I can hear the plash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago." Mark Twain (1889) reminiscing on his visit to Hawaii in 1866.

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