An ice hockey-themed crew in the 2018 Zaplyv festival of handmade inflatables in 300 Years of St Petersburg Park in St Petersburg, Russia on August 5, 2018. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)
Participants enjoy the “Color Me Run” festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 May 2016. The festival which was inspired by the Holi Festival from India, attracted thousands of teenagers this year. (Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA)
Girls sit inside an empty classroom as they pose for a photograph during a celebration marking the end of the school year in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria May 21, 2016. (Photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)
A woman scales fish by the side of a lake as she prepares for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 27, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)
Natsumi Hayashi is a Japanese artist known for her fixation with levitating. Two years, ago, the photographer began posting portraits online of herself floating in mid-air. The magical project – titled “Today's Levitation” – is the subject of a playful survey of her year-long obsession with flying.
A Lockheed Super Constellation “Super Connie” lands during the Air14 airshow at the airport in Payerne August 30, 2014. The Swiss Air Force celebrates their 100th anniversary with the biggest airshow in Europe this year. (Photo by Ruben Sprich/Reuters)
Mulan Jamilah, a 6-year-old Bengal tiger, kisses caretaker Abdullah Sholeh, 33, in the garden beside their home on January 20, 2014 in Malang, Indonesia.
"Thought for today" - Kopan Monastery, April 2011
The life as a monk is not one long struggle against oneself, a life of repentence and wishful thinking a partial or stunted life. It is full of rich and brings an inner tranquility comfort that far surpasses any other kind of comfort. I have known before or since..