Category: parenting
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Choose carefully…
I was walking in a busy street in Shanghai looking at the thousands of people around me when a thought invaded my mind and grew into a dwelling on the subject of choice. Life is an infinite web of possible roads we can take and at any moment we are confronted with a choice:…
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Bubbles, bubbly bubbles!
Why bubbles, what is the magic of bubbles? Why is it the most selling toy in the world? Why do children love bubbles so much and open their eyes wide when they see them, chase after them, try to catch them, watch them pop, and they can do that every day! An amazing phenomenon of…
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Imagine a life so simple…
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Imagine a life so simple life in a little house on the lake it is warm enough not to need any clothes your toys are a little boat and a stick no television, no video games, no ipods, imagine that! your school is on a boat and it floats your playground is made of water…
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How do we unlock their future potential?
Photographs are funny things. They can capture the state that you and your subject were in when you clicked the photo, and each time you look at it again, you are magically transported to that moment and it all returns, the smells, the weather, the sounds, the colors, and your emotional state at that time.…
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Eyes that tell a story
A friend told me recently that when they see photos of children from countries like Cambodia, they cannot help but see the difference between their eyes and the eyes of western raised children. This is so true. And what is it about eyes? They are the first thing we meet normally in a person, the…
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More than one reason to smile…
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Sombath Srey Toch is a 13 year old girl who has been coming to the Cambodian Children’s Painting Project for two years. Srey Toch never smiled when she first started coming and she had no good reason to. Her mother died leaving her and her brother to the care or rather abuse of an older…
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So hard to leave you behind.. part 2
It is time again to take a trip for BY ART WE LIVE, this time to Cambodia. I will be meeting with underprivileged children who take refuge in Art. The project I plan to visit is CCPP (the Cambodian Children’s Painting Project) in Sihanoukville. http://www.letuscreage.org Last October I traveled for the first time without my daughter…
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So hard to leave you behind…
It is so exciting to be going on a trip like this.. going to an unknown place armed with my cameras, my dreams, my wish to try and make a difference. It is what I have always dreamt of doing, and what I promised myself I would do. But a big part of my heart…