Month: November 2011
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Day Three Hundred Twelve, November 30, 2011
I am not sure who was the first person to think it would be a great idea to create toys that mimic killing machines and to advertise them to little children. But they did and the toys are here and very popular. The other day a group of almost 20 boys were coming out of…
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Day Three Hundred Eleven, November 29, 2011
Fences have this way of drawing an emotional reaction from us when we see them. Fences are there to tell us we are not alone, despite the fact that they are created for the sole purpose of separation. When we construct fences, it is either to keep things away or safeguard things in, or both,…
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Day Three Hundred Ten, November 28, 2011
Shanghai, where fashion is taking hold and making a home at such a great speed, brand name stores are mushrooming everywhere you look and with that huge changes are happening with the local population. As a nation that is accustomed to and that loves following instructions, trends are just another set of rules to follow.…
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Day Three Hundred Nine, November 27, 2011
Little Lea has been working so hard on her Taekwondo, practicing with great focus and determination and today her first reward was finally attained, a new yellow/white belt from her teacher rewarding her accomplishments. She went through the ceremony shyly but ever so proudly. A great marker in the growth of a young life, where…
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Day Three Hundred Eight, November 26, 2011
Color, we marvel at it in the sky, in rainbows, in butterflies, in the ocean, in the trees, in fruits,… all around us. We use it in fashion, in style, in homes, in crafts, in food art, in painting, and it becomes part of our identity. But at some point, the use of color was…
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Day Three Hundred Seven, November 25, 2011
Another orbit around the sun is about to be completed yet again and I have the sense it is moving too fast. I don’t know if you measure the year like Lea and I do with events, important happenings, like birthdays, first day of summer, school beginning and ending, Christmas… But having these markers along…
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Day Three Hundred Six, November 24, 2011
What about this word destiny? Some believe it is already written, others are determined on rewriting it, some dismiss it completely and believe all is a haphazard series of coincidences… But aren’t we always changing the course of our destiny through actions we make and decisions we take? Isn’t blaming things on our destiny or…
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Day Three Hundred Five, November 23, 2011
We live at a time where most people have broken their connection to the land. What I mean by that is the connection that is born out of planting your own food, getting your hands dirty with soil, spending time daily in your garden, sleeping under trees, hunting for your food, the way humans were…