Tag: bicycle
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Day Two Hundred Twenty One, August 31, 2011
Walking around the streets and alleys of Shanghai, I love to meet old people, the ones that represent the China that I had read about before moving here, the China of movies, of books and historical documentaries. And these people are still there, walking with their fans, with their tiny previously bound feet, with their…
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Day Two Hundred Twenty, August 30, 2011
Please meet this sweet couple. They live in a small room at the entrance of a construction site on a Shanghai street. The bikes behind them belong to some of the workers on the site. They were in their little home doing housework when I passed by with my camera, we exchanged smiles and I…
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Day Two Hundred Fourteen, August 24, 2011
Someone to sit with you in silence, someone to reflect back your thoughts to you, someone to be witness to the turns of your destiny, someone to have a special cozy spot for your secrets to live in, or simply someone to shelter you from the rain…
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Day One Hundred Two, May 4, 2011
Our little Lea will be 7 years old later this month, and it feels to me like only yesterday she was just a baby. She is the kind of child that has to have magic in her life all the time. Everyday she looks for something out of the ordinary to make her day more…
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Day Ninety Three, April 25, 2011
Bicycles are a staple of Shanghai streets. A big part of the charm of a city like Shanghai comes from its bicycle traffic jams, the multipurpose use of the bikes around the city as a means of transporting anything from a person, a small family, chickens, eggs, to sometimes a whole set of living room…
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Day Forty Three, March 6, 2011
It is Sunday, a family day in Shanghai. It has been raining since last night, the kind of rain that is gentle, the rain that allows you the choice of carrying an umbrella or not. I went for a walk with Lea in the rain because we love to do that. The promise of Spring…