Tag: myanmar
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The Shape of Adaptation~
This photo from Myanmar, taken in 2016, captures a child amidst vibrant surroundings, reflecting adaptation’s essence. The rounded Burmese script originated from the need to prevent palm leaf tears, symbolizing how environment molds culture and identity. Our continuous evolution highlights adaptation as both survival and a creative force shaping our lives.
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The Lines That Carry Us~
Two photographs taken years apart in two very different parts of the world. One in Myanmar, the other in Düsseldorf. What do they have in common? I didn’t see it at first, but as I was going through my archive today, I landed on the first image of a woman walking through a sunlit path…
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The Laughing Monk~
Today’s post takes me back to Myanmar, 2016, to a moment behind the monastery walls. I was lucky enough to wander past the formal areas into a quieter place, where the novice monks were bathing. Buckets of water, laughter, wet tiled floors, and the innocence of youth filled the space. I had my camera out,…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 72/365
There is so much that keeps me doing photography day in and day out for the last almost 30 years, but one of the most incredible reasons is the ability of a single photograph to take me back. An image has the ability to encapsulate the moment and keep it alive beyond our memories, past…
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Daily Coffee Talk~68/365
Today I spent a larger part of the day driving around with my daughter from home to school to extra activities, home and school again. We have come to call Monday the ‘fun day’ partly sarcastically because of all the driving, and partly because we never know how it will unfold. On the last one…
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Morning Coffee Talk~18/365
Good Morning, It is winter in this part of the world and everyone spends a large part of their day indoors, seeing the world through window panes. How much of our lives is actually lived behind such barriers, in our cars, homes, schools, offices, airplanes, buses… It feels like we see the world and the…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 16/365
Good Morning, Time and time again, I dwell on the concept of ‘time’. It’s time for ‘time’ one more time, and how many times are enough times.Well just maybe one more time. Time passes slow when things are difficult, fast when they are joyful, time heals our wounds and time can be endless when we…
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Morning Coffee Talk~10/365
Good morning, Balance is on my mind today. I am looking outside my window and seeing how on top of a very large pine tree a bird is standing gracefully on a single thin branch in the freezing morning air, gently looking around and scanning the quiet neighbourhood as the cold wind moves the tree…
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Morning Coffee Talk~2/365
This morning I woke up with thoughts of ‘repetition’. How life here on this spinning planet demonstrates this continuously, from the sun rising daily, to our constant heartbeat, the seasons, our in-breath and out-breath, day and night,… it’s all around us. I will share a short writing from a few weeks ago: We, humans are…
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The World on Lockdown~
This is day on of lockdown in Germany where we are currently living after the start of the Coronavirus pandemic and life has never been more interesting. Suddenly there is space, and at first, you feel like you don’t know what to do with all this time, you feel restless like you are forgetting something,…