Tag: care

Daily Coffee Talk~ 52/365

Good day,

I don’t think I have ever used the term ‘good day’ ever before. So here it is, good day to you.

I am still caring for my quarantined child on day 5, trying to come up with creative meals and snacks, getting used to washing my hands 25 times a day, running down my ‘to do’ list to remain sane and doing my best not to get infected with covid.

As I do all this my mind wander to thoughts about life, our state of the world, the planet, and as always, the future.

I wonder how much of what the future is trying to tell us goes unheard, undelivered and just plain missed. How do we tune to what is trying to speak to us? No matter how skeptical you may be, you know that sometimes, somehow, something is trying to tell you things, right?

Hoping ti have a better receiving system and wishing you a wonderful day.

Write you tomorrow!

Tags 365, blog, care, covid, future, life, mimo khair, people, photography, planet, quarantine, world

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Inking in priorities ~ Germany

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date January 2, 2017
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At this time, a permission is granted, to re-evaluate, to shed the extra weight of unnecessary stresses, to weed out unwanted obligations, to dedicate time and love to those who need us most…

Tags black and white, care, deutschland, germany, iphone, love, new year, parenting, resolution, shotoniphone7, value

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Gently Approaching the New Year~ Germany

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date December 31, 2016
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After a puzzling 2016 to say the least, when almost nothing conformed to the ‘norm’ of life as we expect it to be, from world affairs, to weather, and strange phenomena; 2017 approaches and I find myself moving towards it with caution, deep thought, care, apprehension and hope for a shift towards higher standards and a world with saner priorities.

Wishing you all a peaceful transition and a bright new year!

With love from frosty beautiful Germany~

Tags bird, boat, care, fog, germany, hope, love, mobile, nature, new year, photography, shotoniphone7, standards, water

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a bucketful of possibilities~ Yunnan

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date June 30, 2013
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Children, no matter where they were born, under which circumstances, hold the whole promise of a better future. In them are the seeds of what has not yet happened and through them the codes of originality and possibility for human development. They are our greatest asset, let’s treat them with care.

Tags bucket, care, child, children, china, fragile, future, girl, human development, life, lijiang, mimo khair, photography, responsibility, street, street photography, yunnan

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Day11~ December 11th~ Guilin

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date December 12, 2012
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It is so endearing in Asia to see how grandparents create a living womb for their grandchildren and how they care for them tirelessly, carrying them on their old backs, feeding them, singing hymns to them, and carrying them into adulthood on a fluffy cloud of love.

How strengthening it must be for the children and how infusing with confidence.

Tags asia, black and white, boy, care, china, confidence, feeding, food, grandchild, grandfather, growht, guilin, help, love, monochrome, noodles, parenting, portrait, tradition, yangshuo

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Day One Hundred Ninety Three, August 3, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date August 9, 2011
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Small things draw out our softer side. We see babies and we change our behavior immediately, we smile, we speak softly, we ‘ooo’ and we ‘aaaa’ at them. Babies and little creatures are simply so cute and we are programmed to want to care for them and protect them, most of us at least. And it is a very clever programming as you would expect from our maker for the benefit of the little people.

photo taken: baby snail on Lea’s palm

Tags 365, babies, baby, care, children, close up, hand, human, little people, love, macro, mimo khair, photography, protection, sepia, snail

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One Hundred Fifty Five, June 26, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date June 26, 2011
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We think we understand our children and know them back to front simply because they were created from our union and because we happen to raise them. But that is only their physical part, isn’t it? We may have been the airports in which they landed on this planet, and the waiting rooms where they gather strength to move on, but who are these little beings anyway? They come with their unique spirit, soul, mind, brain and their very own destiny. We certainly don’t own them, and we most definitely do not understand them really. We are programmed to adore them, care for them, love them unconditionally and they us until they are ready to stand alone. It is an honor to be a host for a new life, to do our best to give it a warm welcome to this planet and to help it fulfill its destiny. What better job can one ask for?

Tags 365, care, children, covered, destiny, dress, life, love, mimo khair, parenting, photography, pink, planet, unconditional, wall

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Day One Hundred Thrity Nine, June 10, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date June 11, 2011
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never ending rain — searcher in the rain

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, and other times a heavy downpour, but it keeps falling. We have not seen a blue sky in days and this has forced me to go internally with my contemplations because that is what rain does. It made me dwell on the search journey we each find ourselves in. Everyone is searching for something, everyone is on a quest, on a journey. Very few know exactly what they are searching for, but for the most, it is a sense of drifting in search for a purpose. How often do you ask yourself why you were born here on Earth, and how often do you have a satisfying answer…

Just a mystery ponder

Tags 365, bokeh, care, china, color, contemplation, drops, light, macro, man, mimo khair, patience, photography, purporse, rain, shanghai, sun, window

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Day Eighty Nine, April 21, 2011

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date April 21, 2011
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There is a special bond between a child and his grandparent that is most often glued by a strong tenderness, a powerful love and a kind of friendship that is only possible between these alternate generations. It is as though they are closer to each other being at each end of the circle of life, each yearning and longing to be with the other.

In China this bond is celebrated in almost every family, where the grandparents volunteer to become a very strong presence, care givers and friends to their grandchildren.

photo taken today: children with grandfather~ Tongli, China