Category: inspiration
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 79/365
As long as I remember, when I still lived in Lebanon, my father would sit by the fireplace at our home at the foot of the mountain and on cold days continuously feed wood to the hungry fire and watch its raging flames and listen to its crackling sounds as it vanished into ashes. It…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 77/365
Sometimes my mind goes back to when I was a small child and I can for a split second reconnect to a time of pure joy. Those were moments when all that existed was the present. Time had a different nature to it. It did not threaten me with the future or blame me for…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 74/365
Sometimes it feels to me that I am cycling through my life in a comfortable pace and watching events happen around me as if on a movie screen. But every once in a while an opportunity for change and elevation shows itself and somehow because of being so comfortable on the bike, I choose to…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 72/365
There is so much that keeps me doing photography day in and day out for the last almost 30 years, but one of the most incredible reasons is the ability of a single photograph to take me back. An image has the ability to encapsulate the moment and keep it alive beyond our memories, past…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 71/365
A journey of self discovery… that kind of sums up to me what life is about. We arrive without recollection of why we came, where we came from, what purpose are we serving and who we really are. Then we begin to feel the great urge to learn, discover and find out the truth. And…
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Daily Coffee Talk~68/365
Today I spent a larger part of the day driving around with my daughter from home to school to extra activities, home and school again. We have come to call Monday the ‘fun day’ partly sarcastically because of all the driving, and partly because we never know how it will unfold. On the last one…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 67/365
Today this image of the ethnic woman that I took in China triggered in me thoughts of lightness and weight. As I live and get older I feel the weight of my history and all that has happened in it. I picture my life events as packages and bags that we have had to carry…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 66/365
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On November 13, 2019, I was in Tripoli during the height of what had come to be known as the October Revolution in Lebanon. During those months, Tripoli was given the name ‘ the bride of the revolution’, because its people rose with power, with hope, and with an undeniable spirit to right what was…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 64/365
Do you have time periods when your dreams become vivid , alive and filled with color? I am currently having those type last of dreams and they leave me wondering about where we actually go in our dreams and what part of our faculties is actually active? There are so many levels of dreams that…