Tag: yellow
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The Art of Containment~
Sometimes the world feels so vast, it’s people too many and the weight of it to heavy to bear. At those moments, and if you were a person that enjoys their own company with the endless mazes ripe with possibilities of self discovery, then the obvious result would be a self engineered containment. It can…
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The Way
I remember walking as a very young child in our small mountain village in Lebanon, and just as I passed the old movie theater that used to only play Indian tragedies, an English word popped in my head. At that time, English was quite foreign to me and my vocabulary was extremely limited, yet somehow…
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Day 5~ November 5th~ New York
Speed is definitely a word I would associate with New York, sometimes to the level of being dehumanized. I remember times when I received phone calls at work and hung up 2 seconds later because I thought the person on the other line was speaking too slowly. Other times when I called more relaxed places…
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Day 22~ September 22nd~ Tuscany
The sun favors places like Tuscany. It floods it with its warmth and the locals just mirror that by coloring their homes in tribute to the sun.
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Day 14~ September 14th~ Tuscany
~Curiosity thrives behind half open windows~ Lucca~ Toscana
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Day 14~ August 14th~ Boracay
Being alone in our world today is a luxury that my soul yearns for everyday. There are so many parts of ourselves that need us to check in with them that not doing so can cause so much undue stress. The alone moments I take for myself everyday cause such a great sigh of relief…
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Day 7~ August 7th~ Boracay
Sometimes it takes being in a far away place and simply gazing across a horizon to appreciate something so simple such as color. Color surrounds us and permeates our lives on this rich planet and a realization as obvious as blue and yellow making green can be so profound.
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Day 6~ August 6th~ Boracay
Do you ever go to a new place and feel that you want to attribute a color to it. Despite the crystal blue waters, the brilliant white sands, and the thick green forests of Boracay, the color that impressed itself on me after my visit was yellow. photo taken: rickshaw driver at night in Boracay
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Day 8~ April 8th~ Congo
Back in 2009, when I visited Congo, there were about 300,000 children roaming the streets of the country and categorized under the name “les enfants de la rue”~ children of the street. I interviewed some of these children in the CAJED center in Kinshasa, a Congolese non-governmental organization created in 1992 to lodge, care for and…