Tag: joy
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The Beauty of Stepping Into Another’s World
Meeting this group of Chinese women at the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi was a moment of unexpected joy. Dressed in colorful Arabic garments, they seemed to radiate an energy of transformation and playfulness, as if they were stepping into new versions of themselves. The sight of them brought a smile to my face—not…
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Exploring Muscat: A Photographer’s Journey into Flow
After a five-hour drive from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, Oman, the day was far from over. Upon arrival, we headed straight to the harbor and lost ourselves in the labyrinth of old streets and winding alleys of this ancient city. Muscat welcomed us with open arms, radiating its timeless essence through the people we encountered…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 77/365
Sometimes my mind goes back to when I was a small child and I can for a split second reconnect to a time of pure joy. Those were moments when all that existed was the present. Time had a different nature to it. It did not threaten me with the future or blame me for…
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Daily Coffee Talk~53/365
Hi again, Today I decided to create a small animation from a favourite photograph of mine simply to wish you a bright weekend, a better tomorrow, an a healthy year. This is especially dedicated to my beautiful daughter Lea, who sits in quarantine upstairs, and I miss her so much. The hand in the image…
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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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Where is your happy place?~
You often hear people escaping mentally to their happy places where they can reconnect with who they are meant to be for a moment; rewriting some chapters, rearranging some priorities and for just a short moment, just ‘being’. I found my happy place when I went to Myanmar. I could not stop smiling there, it…
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Slowing Down Time with Crafts
In a world of texting, emailing, and ‘elf yourself’ video cards sent around for Christmas, it is so amazingly soothing to go back to basic crafts and to spend hours cutting, coloring, gluing and handwriting Christmas cards for loved ones. I suspect that as we speed into the future, taking the time to be invested in…
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The child inside us all
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…
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We are born alone~
Alone (O-Lane), the planetary lane, the way of the planet, how we are born and how we die. These truths are what make human connections we build while alive so utterly important, otherwise life would be nothing but a long cold walk. Our friends make it warmer, infuse it with joy, with pain, with sadness,…