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The child inside us all

Eighty five and exploding with stamina
Eighty five and exploding with stamina~ the bund~ Shanghai

Every once in a while I meet an incredible human, and they remind me that aging is a natural process that only claims our physical body. The spirit is always effervescent if we allow it to be, the soul is only more experienced and our mind can only grow richer if we feed it in the right way. This lady I met this morning, early at sunrise was giggling while doing her morning exercise and very proudly telling my friends and I that she is 85 years old and still feels young and full of energy. She was infectious in her enthusiasm and bright spirit, light as a feather and innocent as a small child. She renewed my hope in life and its beauty and easily added herself to my list of unforgettable people.

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Day 15~ December 15th~ Guilin

pretty boy
styled and dreamy~ Guilin

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream” ~Gibran Khalil Gibran

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Day 22~ November 22nd~ New York

magnetic city

Manna-hata, the original name of Manhattan from the Lenape language, translates to the land of many hills, but I also heard it referred to as the island of drunkenness. Perhaps all that has happened on that small island if put together and condensed to one single film, it would be the strangest movie ever made. Magnetic city, it will always be that to me.

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Day 14~ September 14th~ Tuscany

curiosity

~Curiosity thrives behind half open windows~

Lucca~ Toscana

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life Photography street Vietnam

Day 15~ July 15th~ Vietnam

kindness

It is always in the simplest of people that kindness finds a home…

Hanoi~ Vietnam

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lebanon life Photography

Day Nine~ February 9th~ Lebanon

sun kissed

After leaving Lebanon, it took me such a long time to get used to the fact that the sun does not shine every day during the summer in other parts of the world! The sun is Lebanon’s soulmate, the are inseparable in the summer time and makes everything glow in a most beautiful warm shade. The stones, the water, the mountains, the trees, and the beautiful Lebanese women who love the sun back.

And once you meet the passion of Lebanon’s sun, you yearn to be back there every summer just to say hello.

photo: the beautiful Alice on a boat.

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life Photography

Day Three Hundred Forty Two, December 30, 2011

difficult goodbyes

Love between little cousins is pure, intense, joyful, effervescent, and everlasting. Every year the separation gets more and more difficult. We all live oceans and continents apart and holidays are savored and valued as times of reunion, re-bonding and the creating of fond memories.

Photo taken: Lea saying goodbye to her little cousin Monya, a process that took about 15 minutes of warmly hugging and kissing before our long drive back to Germany.

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Day One Hundred Ninety One, August 1, 2011

Shouly

Sincerity, humor, depth, intensity, creativity, loyalty, honesty, dignity, originality. The 9 qualities I see in her. Funny how we don’t get to choose who is in our family and we and they just arrive here together. Sometimes, we are lucky as I am with my little sister, an amazing person to know and be close to.

This is for you Shouly!