Tag: joy
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Day 12~ October 12th~ Yunnan
Do you remember the last time you laughed with all of your heart while shuffling papers at work in your office? Does the stress in our lives allow us the luxury of a real body shaking laugh? Simple people who lead simple lives have the precious access to simple happiness, the best kind of happiness…
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Day18~ September 18th~ Tuscany
Italy is one of those countries where you find yourself humming while you eat. Some places are just like that. In fact it is a place where you instantly decide you want to live if you had any choice in the matter. As soon as we arrived there, my 8 year old daughter asked me…
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Day 18~ July 18th~ Vietnam
When life is simple, even a little dog with a few tricks can make someone laugh with all their hearts, because the less complicated the life, the more room there is for happiness. photo taken: old man and dog in Hanoi~ Vietnam
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Day 27~ May 27th~ Cambodia
In the streets of Phnom Penh, this lovely young man was content selling drops of joy in floating balloon forms…
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Day 7~ May 7th~ Cambodia
There is a magical thing about children, which is the ability to use anything around them for creating a unique playground. I remember playing near our house in a Lebanese village jumping down a terraced field from one level to another hoping that no bones were broken, and making glue from tree sap and flower…
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Day 2~ May 2nd~ Cambodia
Every single place I have been to around the world has shown me that the local people are the tarot of that place. They are the ones who process its energies, who live with the angels of that land and who give expression to its unseen worlds. Whatever mystery and beauty radiates out of Cambodia…
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Day 10~ March 10th~ Egypt
When ‘joy’ is able to attend you, life takes on a brilliant glow… Imagine these simple moments of connection, when meeting some stranger’s eyes can cause you and them both to overflow with joy, with a contentment and a knowing that all is well and a great unexplainable happiness is present at the thought of…
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Day Three~ February 3rd~ Lebanon
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” Khalil Gibran Designed by the Italian sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati and placed in downtown Beirut in 1960, this statue stands witness to the horrors of the civil war in Lebanon with its many bullet holes that are left as a reminder…
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Day Three Hundred Thirty Six, December 24, 2011
For Lea, Christmas is all about cousins. The highlight of her whole holiday time away from China is spending time with her cousins (and she has quite a few!). It is about being silly, naughty, conspiring, playing games, sleepovers, trips to the forest, eating chocolate and simply enjoying every second of that time. It is…