Month: June 2011
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Day One Hundred Thrity Nine, June 10, 2011
It has been raining steadily for a few days in Shanghai. It is the kind of rain that is born of harmoniously grey overcast skies and the rain that calls on the essence of patience in us. Patience because the rain shows no signs of stopping soon, it just falls steadily sometimes just a drizzle,…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Eight, June 9, 2011
The moment temperatures go above 27 degrees Celsius, the men in Shanghai start doing what is called the t-shirt flip! In other words, they flip their t-shirts to allow their stomachs to be exposed in order to cool down. This guy was flipped happily sitting under a tree when I photographed him, and he reacted…
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Day One Hundrend Thirty Seven, June 8, 2011
Our most vivid memories come from events in our life that leave a big mark. I wonder how much this little girl will remember about having to move with her family from the neighbourhood of narrow lanes they have lived in for generations. She and her family happened to live in on of the condemned…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Six, June 7, 2011
Rain, we all have feelings and emotions about it. Some think it’s romantic, some get annoyed by it, some complain about it, it drastically changes the mood of some, some love to run in it, some love to sing in the rain, some pretend to love it just because they want to be special…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Five, June 6, 2011
To take time to be still, to wait, to listen to the music of the spinning spheres The Earth and the Sun give us so much So to listen, to learn, to catch the way of it Then to be the Sun and the Earth for the lives inside us To dance the sacred dance…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Four, June 5, 2011
We humans are very quick to judge whether a person we see is a success or a failure, we are also very harsh in passing judgement even on ourselves. But the truth is no one is qualified to call another a failure. We are the only ones who can truly judge ourselves and we are…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Three, June 4, 2011
Even the towers of the mightiest of kings can one day tumble and fall. It all has to do with what the tower was built on, what values, what principles, what the columns of its support are made of. It is a very simple law if you think about it, the stronger the foundation, the…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Two, June 3, 2011
This particular and ancient truth has been quite upfront lately in world affairs. Somehow this ancient lesson is being applied and demonstrated repeatedly in the last few years from events in Iran, to Egypt, to Yemen, and to most recently the current events in Syria. I am normally not someone who is drawn to writing,…
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Day One Hundred Thirty One, June 2, 2011
I am still very inspired by the early morning Tai Chi I witnessed yesterday in the street and I keep thinking of how important it is to create our own bubble, our space that we can be inside of when we need to think clearly. It is of course the most natural thing for…
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Day One Hundred Thirty, June 1, 2011
太极拳 Taijiquan or Tai Chi, is the internal martial art of China. It translates literally to “the supreme ultimate fist” and it is still to this day practiced daily and widely all over China. When you live in Shanghai like we do, you see Tai Chi being practiced on your street, in your garden,…