Month: February 2011
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Day Twenty Nine, February 20, 2011
Today, a very contemplative day, I return to a recurring thought… At every moment in our lives we are faced with a choice. We choose mostly out of habit, out of obligation, out of love, out of fear, out of conformity, out of comfortability… And with each choice our destiny shifts and is rewritten again…
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Day Twenty Eight, February 19, 2011
Can you imagine being all alone and homeless in a city of 20 million? Can you imagine having to live on discarded scraps? Can you imagine survival being your only obsession? unable to look the other way today…
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Day Twenty Seven, February 18, 2011
Today I was very overwhelmed with the state of the world, wars, revolutions, poverty, instability, pollution, global warming, solar flares, and a general sense of unsettlement. Then in the afternoon we had Lea’s twin friends over for a play date then sleep over and I watched them play, laugh, sing, dance and be in the…
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Day Twenty Six, February 17, 2011
Today the Chinese New Year festivities come to an end with a big boom! It is the Lantern Festival’s main celebration. I went to Yu Yuan (Yu Gardens) in Puxi to witness the festivities and now as I write this, the sky is on fire with millions of fireworks that are going off all over…
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Day Twenty Five, February 16, 2011
It is the time for the lantern festival (Yuan Xiao) that falls 15 days after the Chinese New Year. In preparation, Chinese people hold different festivities around the place from dances, theaters, lantern watching, lantern flying, the eating of special rice dumplings that look like moons (tangyuan), and different sugar candies. The one above is…
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Day Twenty Four, February 15, 2011
Today was trampoline class day, which is about an hour of giggles, shrieks and the defying of the law of gravity! And naturally it was heaven for my Canon 🙂
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Day Twenty Three, February 14, 2011
Living in China means taking on some things that are integral in the make up of the Chinese society: training, discipline and repetition. Swimming lessons have been a weekly routine in our 6 year old daughter’s life since she was 3. This was taken today during her swimming class.
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Day Twenty Two, February 13, 2011
Today, another blistering cold day in Shanghai, I walked the streets with my friend Sabrina, who I am pushing to start her “365” project—soon it will work! I love it when special things happen like meeting a stranger who smiles at you with all their heart, you talk (in this case with my limited mandarin…
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Day Twenty One, February 12, 2011
Today was a beautiful sunny, crisp and freezing day in Shanghai. I impulsively decided to take the ferry across the river from Pudong to Puxi (literally east of river to west of river) and took pictures from the bund looking onto Pudong skyline. It was exhilarating to say the least to witness a rare clear…