Weekly Photo Challenge: Between #3


Solstice Greetings 2014! My First Contribution to this week’s challenge. My Second Contribution to this week’s challenge. Other contributions  Between these words! Bloggers Set For Solstice ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click HERE to read the first post. Click on the Logo below to find out more … … & click HERE to … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Between #3

Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra #2


When I took this pic of St. George in Akko, I didn’t notice  the little extra guy on the bottom left. Neither did I notice the fruit-juice seller behind him.  My first contribution to this week’s challenge  Everyone else’s contributions ♦♦♦ If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Read the first post! Click on the Logo below to find … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra #2

Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra


When we visited the Jezzar Pasha mosque, in Akko, recently we were surprised to find a little extra visitor there. This friendly little guy adopted us upon arrival & escorted us throughout our entire visit. He managed to get into just about every photo we took. Extra, Extra If you love art of any kind, you might love the new monthly feature on Khana’s Web. Click … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra

Share Your World – 2014 Week 7


Find out more about ‘Share Your World’ here … Cee’s Photography What is your favorite couch potato activity: reading, watching movies, watching sports, napping, anything on TV, computer games, play cards, or other? At the end of a working day & after all our post-class chores are complete, we like to settle down on the sofa for a good movie or  documentary, with some nibbles & maybe … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 7

Your Days are Numbered: The sacred & unutterable name of God


It’s January 26. Write a post in which the number 26 plays a role. In most of the ancient Semitic languages each letter also has a numerical value. This means that each word has it’s own numerical value formed by adding together the values of it’s letters. The study of the meanings of words as defined by their values is known as Gematria. The sacred … Continue reading Your Days are Numbered: The sacred & unutterable name of God

Share Your World – 2014 Week 3


Share Your World – 2014 Week 3 Find out more & read other contributions here … Cee’s Photography In what do you find the simplest of joys? Wind rustling in the trees, waves washing onto rocks, birds singing, animals, flowers, a good book, sunrises, sunsets, stars, the moon. Watching my husband sleeping, watching my children growing into adults, watching my grandchildren play. Dancing, singing, reading, writing, … Continue reading Share Your World – 2014 Week 3

Weekly Photo Challenge: Family


Family Trackbacks & Pingbacks FAMILY: APPLES, TREES, BRANCH AND TWIG | SERENDIPITY Three Trees at the Lake | I see beauty all around by rob paine ♥♥ Weekly Photo Challenge: Family ♥♥ | V A S T L Y C U R I O U S Weekly Photo Challenge: Family | Retired2Travel Weekly Photo Challenge: Family | Snapshots & Smiles Weekly Photo Challenge: Family | … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

The Luckiest People: People


I snapped this last time I was in Jerusalem … … I love the guy in the middle … … He looks like he’s really going somewhere. 🙂 The Luckiest People More Lucky People here … Olga and Masha making vareniki. January 17, 2014 | Vintage Photography Who are you. | Passionate Dreaming The Luckiest People | The Nameless One First Encounter: Meeting Abby | … Continue reading The Luckiest People: People

Do you Believe in Magic? Enchantment!


Happy New Year Everyone!!! 🙂 Do you Believe in Magic? “Enchantment” by Khana Spector is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at khanasweb.com. More Enchanted Bloggers here … First Wednesday of 2014 and I Totally Welcome it! | I am Shira I Am | A Teacher’s Blog from Land’s End The healer … Continue reading Do you Believe in Magic? Enchantment!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!


Yes, they’re all photo’s, albeit with a bit of digital editing … Let There Be Light! “Opening” “Star of Light” “First Candle” “Archery” “Neo” “Solstice” by Khana Spector are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licenses. Available as  prints from … Khana’s Web @ Society6. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.khanasweb.com. Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!

Fear Factor: Courage – A Festival of Lights


I had to wait until last night’s candle lighting to make this one. May your Hanukkah be full of doughnuts & your doughnuts full of jam 🙂 Happy Hanukkah to all!!! Hanukkah In the 2nd Century BCE, the second temple of Jerusalem was looted & Judaism was outlawed by the Greek King Antiochus. A Jewish priest named Mattityahu & his five sons stirred up a … Continue reading Fear Factor: Courage – A Festival of Lights

To Boldly Go…: Hitting the mark!


My main goal for 2014 is to be more successful as an artist … … also, I will try to be more in tune with the Universe … … making it more likely that I will hit my mark!!! To Boldly Go… “Archery” by Khana Spector is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Available as a print from Khana’s Web @ Society6. … Continue reading To Boldly Go…: Hitting the mark!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected – The Four Marys


This was an unexpected procession that stopped me from getting to work one day … I think it was to celebrate the feast of the Assumption … Mary is believed to have been assumed, bodily, into heaven  … The procession proceeds through the streets of Haifa ascending Mount Carmel as it goes … I was given this picture while I was taking my photos … … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected – The Four Marys

The Weighing of the Heart


Horus oversees the weighing of the heart. The heart of the deceased is being weighed against Ma’at by Anubis. Ma’at represents Truth & Justice. She is sometimes represented by her symbol the feather. If the scales balance all is well & the deceased continues on to meet Osiris. If the heart weighs heavy the deceased is devoured by the ever-waiting beast, Ammit. Pencil drawing with … Continue reading The Weighing of the Heart

Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit


Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit Catch up on this weeks challenge here …. Related articles Weekly Photo Challenge: Dancing with Turkeys (piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (cardinalguzman.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (pangie0505.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (inlovewiththelord.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge–Habit (allresourceupdates.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (khanghuynhblog.wordpress.com) Habit – A WordPress Photo Challenge! (kmsraj51.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (windagainstcurrent.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit (unpopularutopian.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit

Sorry, I’m Busy: This is What I’ve Been Doing


I am, indeed, very busy & I’m sorry to have been neglecting my blog & everyone elses’s blogs, but this is why & I’m very happy to be busy with my art & photography … … My latest photo collage! Event Horizon by Khana Spector is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Sorry, I’m Busy More Sorry Bloggers next page … Continue reading Sorry, I’m Busy: This is What I’ve Been Doing

Everything Changes: Deity


Walking down the street, you encounter a folded piece of paper on the sidewalk. You pick it up and read it and immediately, your life has changed. Describe this experience. Photographers, artists, poets: show us TRANSFORMATION. The picture I posted yesterday was a dream of the final result. It has been transformed into this … … Deity Everything Changes More Changing Bloggers next page … Continue reading Everything Changes: Deity

Dream Home: As Luck Would Have It!


You win a contest to build your dream home. Draft the plans. Photographers, artists, poets: show us DREAMS. As luck would have it my stepson invited my husband & myself to accompany him, this very morning, to the last class of his summer architecture course. He has been attending every day for the last two weeks & today we went to see the result of his … Continue reading Dream Home: As Luck Would Have It!

Poetic Challenge: Judgement, Justice & God


In response to Iam Who Iam’s  weekly  poetic challenge for this week … I have made my very first attempt at ‘Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter”, aka  “Blank Verse”. I have been musing to my husband about experimenting with some classical poetic styles & this was the perfect opportunity to give it a try. You can read more about this specific style here … Poetic Challenge: Blank Verse, & read Iam … Continue reading Poetic Challenge: Judgement, Justice & God

Tagline: Mantra – For Your Pleasure & Delight


Often, our blogs have taglines. But what if humans did, too? What would your tagline be? Photographers, artists, poets: show us ADVERTISING. Mantra Actually the human equivalent of the tagline is probably the mantra, at least for me it is. For any one who has ventured down the road of mysticism, in any of it’s forms, the mantra is usually one of the essential items … Continue reading Tagline: Mantra – For Your Pleasure & Delight

In Good Faith: Discovering Hinduism


Describe a memory or encounter in which you considered your faith, religion, spirituality — or lack of — for the first time. Photographers, artists, poets: show us FAITH. Discovering Hinduism When I was about 8 my mother & sister took me on a shopping trip to Oxford Street in London. Both of them could shop for hours at a time in clothing shops. I didn’t … Continue reading In Good Faith: Discovering Hinduism