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“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.” - Henry David Thoreau

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Ganvie

The lagoon of Lake Nokoue is home to the town of Ganvie, Benin. Ganvie developed as the lagoon provided a protected area from the brutal slave trade of the 16th and 17th centuries. Slave-trading tribes did not enter the lagoon, so local communites established a town—complete with homes, businesses, fish farms, and boat-based transportation system.

Photo: John Scofield for National Geographic

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From wikipedia:

The village was created in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries by the Tofinu people who took to the lake to avoid Fon warriors who were capturing slaves for sale to European traders. Making the shallow waters and islands of Lake Nokoue a haven, the Ganvie villagers are often referred to as "water men" and the area itself is often called the "Venice of Africa."

Originally based on farming, the village's main industries other than tourism are now fishing and fish farming. The only means of transportation to and from the village is through wooden boats.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. (1976)

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National Geographic Archive

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National Geographic, Tropical fisherman walks a moonlit path, August, 1962

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A pair of polar bears explore an abandoned Soviet weather station on Kolyuchin Island, off the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula. [ x ]

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© Sophie Metzler

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Time flies by in the yellow and green Stick around and you’ll see what I mean There’s a mountaintop that I’m dreaming of If you need me you know where I’ll be

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The endless thoughts that stream through your mind, like snow melting in the spring, as you stare back into your own eyes. Slow, steady, dangerous, yet hope can begin to appear.

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artist: mafalda vasconcelos

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Tom Ford Padlock Heels ❤️

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