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Gong Yoo Kokulu Sözler #2

İlk yazıyı 31 Mayıs'ta yazmışım. Aradan epey zaman geçti. İkincisini de yazayım artık. İlk yazıyı okumak isteyenler Gong Yoo Kokulu Sözler #1 başlığına bakabilir. :) Sevdiceğinize hediye etmeyi unutmayın ;) 

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Ey gönlümün sol yarısı. Aklıma koydum seni, aklım almadı. Yüreğime bıraktım, Sana doymadı..! [Mevlâna Celâleddin-i Rûmî]

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Çay bardağında bırakılan dudak payı kadar bile...uzak kalamam gözlerine... [Sunay Akın]

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Aslında bütün insanları sevebilirdim, sevmeye senden başlamasaydım... [Can Yücel]

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Aklıma bile gelmiyorsun artık. O kadar kalbimdesin ki. [Cemal Süreyya]

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Bana "susacak kadar ben, konuşacak kadar sen lazım" diyorum. Sen olmuyorsun, ben 'sus' kalıyorum. Yoksun...Yok oluyorum... [Kahraman Tazeoğlu]

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Yokluğunun iki yakasını bir araya getirip, varlığını ilikler misin ömrüme?[Sunay Akın]

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Birini adam gibi sevmek; aldanmayı, ağlamayı hatta yalnız kalmayı göze almak demektir. [Murathan Mungan]

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Kim bilir kaç kişi ayrı yataklarda, birbirine sarılarak uyuyordur. [Özdemir Asaf]

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Ey alfabemin en güzel harfi yâr! Gönlüm seni gözümden, gözüm seni gönlümden istiyor. [Mevlâna Celâleddin-i Rûmî]

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Hem ben sana bişey söyleyim mi yavrum: " ben aslında seni görmek filan değil, düpedüz seni istiyorum! " [Can Yücel]

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Nur içinde yat kalbim, ben katilini çok sevdim... [Murathan Mungan]

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Koca bir ömrü harcamak dedikleri gerçeğin altını seninle çizdim ben. [Oğuz Atay]

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Bakarken kıyamamak mı, yoksa baktıkça doyamamak mıdır aşk? ( Özdemir Asaf )

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Erkek, ulaşamadığı kadını lanetler. Kadın, ulaşamadığı erkeğe "Aşk" der. [Dostoyevski]

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Var olan bir şey varsa, o da yokluğun senin. [Can Yücel]

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Life in A Day

The other day on the plane I watched Life in A Day, a documentary about one day around the world. The videos were taken by us, by amateurs, and were put together as a whole story. It was interesting to see how every day normal life is different in the different places around the world. They also asked the people doing the videos to answer a few questions:

What is in your purse/pocket/bag? What do you love? What do you fear? 

Some people had no pockets. Others had empty pockets.  One man, who was a diabetic, had syringes.

In my pocket I have an ID, $20 and an AMEX, because today I am not carrying a purse. When I have my purse, it is full of tissues, wipes, vitamins and coupons. It has gift cards and credit cards and frequent flyer cards. It carries my phone and my money, my (big!) camera and my ipod. I lug around a notebook and pens, gum and granola bars. I think my purse weighs 31 pounds. 

There were a lot of people who said that the thing they loved most was God. One woman said she loved it when things were dirty and you cleaned up and you got that feeling of accomplishment. She loved that feeling. 

I love that feeling too. And if it stays clean, I love THAT feeling even more. I love watching the sun rise. I love the ocean. I love a clear blue sky filled with a flock of birds. I love my friends and my family and the comfortable feeling I have with them. I love boats and starfish and giraffes. I love travel and bright colors and crisp days. I love the crunch of leaves under my feet. I love climbing to the top of tall things and running as far as I can. I love a challenge. I love a good book and a warm fire and a cat on my lap. 

One man, whose wife was sick with cancer, said that he was “fearless, because what he feared was that his wife would get cancer, and now she had, so he had nothing to fear anymore” (that kind of made me want to cry for some reason).

I am afraid of the people I love dying. I am afraid of failure. I am afraid of the creepy squishy things in the deep open sea. 

What’s in your pocket/purse? What do you love? What do you fear? 

**My friend Sarah posted about this as well. See her take on it HERE.**

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Nursery Bathroom Hardware

If anyone knows a better go-to place for decorative hardware than Anthropologie, please pass it on!  When you are looking for some fun hardware, especially in glass, Anthropologie is always my first stop.  I decided to purchase some fun knobs for the small portion of the Jack and Jill bathroom off the nursery.  These were my top contenders, before I finally settled on #5 (really wish #2 came in pink and white).  

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German Soldiers, German Army During WW2: ALL COLOR (LARGE) IMAGES

(PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE THEM LARGER)

(Image: Hugo Jaeger)

Heinrich Himmler in Warsaw. 1939

 German tanks in Russia

 Germans with a Pak 35/36 gun on the street of a Russian city

(Source: Bundesarhiv (Bundesarchiv) / 146-1970-018-54.)
Oberfeldfebel Rudolf Kruger (Rudolf Krüger), holder of the Knight's Cross He was awarded the Knight's Cross of October 5, 1941 while serving in the 6th company of the 32nd Infantry 
Regiment.

(Image by George Silk)

An injured German soldier in captivity

(Image By Andre Zucca)

German soldiers march through a conquered Paris. June 1939

(Image By Hugo Jaeger)

German army on the move in Europe. 1940

Afrikakorps. German and Italian military vehicles in North Africa on the move

The tank belongs to the 22nd or 23rd Panzer Wehrmacht. The photo was taken in the Kalmyk steppes to the north of Stalingrad, in September 1942 (Source: Bundesarhiv (Bundesarchiv) / 169-0367, 169-0368).

 A German paratrooper in full battle dress

(Source: Bundesarhiv (Bundesarchiv) / 169-0165, 169-0166, 169-0163.)
German soldiers socialise with Ukrainian women. Poltava. Ukraine. September 21, 1941 

 (Image: Hugo Jaeger)
Injured German soldiers recuperate in hospital

The Stuka Dive Bomber. JU 87.

When the German campaign in North Africa ended. German helmets.(Image: Eliot Elisofon)

 (Image: Hugo Jaeger)
Berlin parade in 1939 to celebrate Hitler's fiftieth birthday

 (Image: Hugo Jaeger)
Image of same parade

 (Image: Hugo Jaeger)
German soldiers in Bulgaria. 1941

 (Image: Hugo Jaeger)
Bulgaria. 1941

(Image: Hugo Jaeger)
Bulgaria. 1941

 This guy is an officer from the Waffen SS Totenkopf Division

 Russia. The Germans cross a stream

 Crossing a wooden bridge

 German soldiers firing a 37 mm Pak 35/36 anti-tank gun at Russian trucks. A town in Russia

Hitler would have frowned at this. A German war correspondent socialises with Russian women. 

 The initially dreaded German JU-87 (Stuka Dive Bomber)

 A German observation post

German sea plane Arado 196 A 3 touches down

 German soldier keep watch over a column of Russian POW. 1943.

 1943. New Wehrmacht recruits being given their kit

 German soldiers walk down the street of a German city

Morning toilet by Wehrmacht men at a railway station

 North Africa. German soldiers fire the MG 34 machine gun

 Hermann Goering takes salute from SS soldiers

 German airmen prepare to fly the HE 111

 Wounded soldiers being flown to Germany

 These German soldiers rest by the road side

 The two German generals have a conference

 Spanish volunteers in the 25th Division of Wehrmacht. Formed in Madrid, 24.06.1941, on 20.10.1943 they were sent to the Eastern Front and was later disbanded.

Motorcyclists from the 21at Panzer Division in North Africa

German soldiers pass a well in Russia

Germans move in Russia.

 Mass grave of German soldiers in Russia

 Winter. Late 1941. Picture taken from the turret of a German tank as the army column moves in the harsh Russian winter towards Moscow. The flag has been placed on the tank's turret so that German planes can identify them.

 German soldiers listen to the radio in Russia

 German soldiers gratefully warm themselves up at this bonfire. In Russia

 Ducking and moving in the trench

 Occupied France

A priest conducts funeral service at Stalingrad

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