Tag: child
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Capturing Life: The Strange Art of Freezing Time
Imagine a world before photography—before the snap of a shutter could capture the smallest fraction of a second. To immortalize a moment, one would need the meticulous hand of a painter. Each brushstroke became an interpretation of reality. It was filtered through emotion and memory. And before that? Only the mind’s eye could hold onto…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 65/365
Hi everyone, wherever you may be, I hope that everyone is doing well in the midst of all the uncertainty that swirls around us on planet earth these days. At the end of the day, we all have so much to be grateful for. Here is my list of 10 for today: *whatever created me…
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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…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 63/365
Hi from another one of a series of gray rainy days in Germany. So many things keep drawing me back to the streets with my camera and we are now going on over 25 years! One of those things is a memorable moment, where everything comes together to encapsulate a memory. A smile, a story,…
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Morning Coffee Talk~50/365
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Good Morning, This image is one of my favourites that I have taken of my daughter and is both sentimental for me and expressive of her playful nature. I was looking at it today and thinking of how important it is to remain lighthearted and free. We get that bashed out of us as we…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 46/365
Good Morning, I have learned throughout my life to create bubbles to exist in when needed. These bubbles are unseen but they are as real as anything else that you may conceive as tangible. In your bubble you can permit only thoughts that want to have, feelings that you consider suitable at that moment and…
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Morning Coffee Talk~14/365
Good Morning, I remember as a child playing with friends on terraced hills above my village in Lebanon, and we did this crazy thing of jumping from one terrace to the next (and these were high terraces), screaming something ridiculous in Arabic like: ‘my mother threw me and the Virgin Mary caught me’. We were…
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The Art of Containment~
Sometimes the world feels so vast, it’s people too many and the weight of it to heavy to bear. At those moments, and if you were a person that enjoys their own company with the endless mazes ripe with possibilities of self discovery, then the obvious result would be a self engineered containment. It can…
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Wanderlust~
How gratifying it is to explore the spinning sphere we call home. Each time I plan a new trip, I feel a bubbling of excitement at the unknown that would undoubtedly meet, the amazing people who cross my path and the images my camera would capture. It is as soul nourishing journey when I am…
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Discovering the ladder of understanding~
This morning I was driving my daughter to her weekend Chinese class and we had a very interesting conversation. She was complaining about her inability to always find interest in continuing to learn Chinese whilst living in Germany and this took us to musings about the human brain and how we, humans have so much…