Tag: girls
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harsh realities~ Qibao
In Qibao, and old area of Shanghai, is a neighborhood(if you can call it that) of green lanes. Confronting realities wait there behind each door and in front of some where young women prepare to sell themselves for a living. As much as this practice is as old as civilization itself, it remains heartbreaking to…
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Day 22~ October 22nd~ Yunnan
Have you ever noticed how children can change expressions so fast without being hung up on the effects of each emotion they experience? We adults tend to carry baggage through our emotions that causes us to often hold grudges, feel anger, thoughts of contempt, attachment, jealousy, animosity… the list goes on. When children fight, they…
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Day 9~ October 9th~ Yunnan
One hour walk to school, school is on the other side of the mountain, one hour walk back home… so much effort for receiving a fraction of what our children take for granted.
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Hold back the future please~
Don’t you sometimes wish that our children could live in their age of innocence a bit longer? To stay protected from sarcasm a few more years? To remain connected to what created them a little while longer?
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Day 9~ August 9th~ Boracay
Childhood is the time when intimate conversations about the most innocent of things are of utmost importance…
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Day 12~ May 12th~ Cambodia
The children of the world are the only hope for its future if there is to be one… They are the ones who will carry on when we stop, who will live after we die, and who will break into the new realms that await the human race after we come close to giving up.…
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Day 24~ March 24th~ Egypt
Imagine having a makeshift hut or a tent for a home, knowing that your home is where your belongings are, it is not a place, it is a moving entity… Growing up in Lebanon I have always been fascinated by the lives of Bedouins. I watched their children play on dusty roadsides, barefoot, in and…
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Day 21~ March 21st~ Egypt
We live our lives in chapters and at some point each chapter has to end… One of the hardest things to do after being charmed by people and after the sharing of a small part of life with them, is the separation. On the trip to Egypt, I had to say good bye so many…
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Day Three Hundred Twenty Eight, December 16, 2011 (the post I forgot to publish)
As I got ready to post my final image of the project today, I realized that I missed posting the photo I took on December 16th! So before I end and to keep things tidy, here it is! Children looking at a graphic skyline, children who hold the future in their little hands, and the…