Tag: huge

  • Day 13~ March 13th~ Egypt

    Have you ever wondered why entities that aim to exercise power over us are always large, imposing, overwhelming? Government buildings, houses of religion, temples, Egypt… The first thing that I registered when looking at Egyptian art is how large everything is, how oppressively daunting it is. The first reaction is to feel small in the…

  • Day 2~ March 2nd~ Egypt

    I went to Egypt with hundreds of questions and came back with thousands. Egypt lives in children’s imaginations as the world of fantasy, of pharaohs, of mummies, of pyramids, of kings, of power, of ankhs, and I am yet to meet a child who hears about Egypt without falling prey to its enchantment. Ancient Egypt…

  • Day Thirty Five, February 26, 2011

    Lately, Lea, my daughter, seems to be stuck inside her contemplations of “what is beyond the beyond”. She asks, wonders, contemplates, reads, thinks, questions and is in awe of the biggest question that baffles us all. Today, our family day, we decided to make a little solar system. It was a fantastic process for us…