Tag: black and white
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The gift that keeps on giving~
When you have your first child you become privy to the most well guarded secret: you have just signed on for the most important and permanent job of your life. It looks so easy. Everyone does it. Our parents did it. Our friends and neighbors seem to do it. And then your child arrives! I…
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In distant dreams~
I was going through my archives of hundreds of thousands of photographs as one often does, when I came across this image of my daughter when she was 4 years old running through the cedars of Lebanon and it made me catch my breath. She is now 13, and time has tricked us all again.…
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Breaking out of our self-made prisons~
It has been said that the chains that bind us are mostly self-manufactured by our own self-esteem and pride. Personal development is an uncomfortable journey upward and into the unknown, if only we dare. Day 54 of 365~ Image taken in the entrance to the old tea house in Kashgar, Xinjiang
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Love is life~
There are some who devote their whole lives to a self driven quest for the truth. Others live every day devoted to altering that truth for the sake of self gain. Day 51 of 365~ Image take on my last trip to India
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I don’t see what you see~
Are we living in a time where up is down and down is up? Has our value system transformed beyond recognition? Has the fine line between good and band become a highway? Isn’t it time for a reset? Or has it already begun? Day 50 of 365~ Image taken in Limburg an der Lahn
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Where do we go in sleep?~
Its a natural law, everyone must sleep. But where do we go when we sleep? We surrender completely to a process we know very little about and lay in a still state recharging as part of us travels to who knows where! And then don’t get me started on dreams! Day 49 of 365~ Image…
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A brief pause for self evaluation~
In the speed train that is our lives, it feels so good to make a pause, survey the terrain, look at where we have been, evaluate the journey traveled so far and decide on the direction of our next steps. These blog posts are my daily pause. What is yours? Day 44 of 365~ Images…
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The things we don’t talk about~
We get so busy with life that we ignore death. We celebrate distractions, the things that make us avoid the question of our own mortality on this planet and all the time treating something as natural as death as we would an avoidable inconvenience. I wonder if this great fear stems from our lack of…
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Finding your religion~
They raise their hands in unison, they chant all together with passion, they cheer in joy, they cry in despair, they fight disbelievers and they come back again and again, week after week to adore at the stadium of their favorite team. Day 41 of 365~ Image taken during a football (soccer) game today in…
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The spirit of winter~
It may be harsh, it is often brutal, it’s undeniably chilling but oh it can be so beautiful in its intricate unique and delicate form. Day 37 of 365 Image is a composite of cold frost and warm human~