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  • Taking your spirit for a walk~

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    I remember as a child getting very excited about the occasional long walks we took to our favorite monastery pocketed in the heart of the Lebanese mountain overlooking the valley of the saints. We walked for hours and felt the importance of our pilgrimage with every dusty step. It says so much about pilgrimages and…

  • Reading the runes of today~

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    In a world where impressions and information bombard us from all directions as soon as we open our eyes in the morning, how do we make sense of what is happening in the world? In a single day you hear of a president resigning, a new scandal unfolding with another president, a child shooting other…

  • Magic in the Simple Things~ Myanmar

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    Most of what causes in us awe and admiration is mostly based in the simple things: air, water, clouds, light, fire, nature, and how humans interact with these simple things. Aren’t clouds magical? And reflections on water? Colorful stilt houses on a reflective lake under white puffy clouds, a background of hills touching the sky…

  • Where has all the Faith Gone?

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    Where is our religion? Is it in the temples of Asia, or the mountain churches of Lebanon, the faraway tribes of Africa, or the monasteries of tibet? Is it in mosques? Is it with soothsayers? Is it with the self proclaimed healers and seers? Is it in the holy cities of our world? Is it…

  • Portraits From the Heart~ Myanmar

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    It is not enough to love your camera, to love photography and to love travel. Good portraits are about loving people, other humans, those that co-inhabit our earth. Looking at them with compassion, togetherness, curiosity and the wish to belong to this fascinating and colorful range of humanity.

  • As Close as it Gets to Heaven~ Inle Lake 

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     Some places on our planet are just breathtakingly beautiful, but with Inle it’s not just that, it’s people, the light, the birds, the gentle nature of the dream like landscape; they all come together to make a paradise you wish you never have to leave. All I can think of leaving it is how and…

  • Two Days in Bagan~

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    An echo of the great sense of awe that met me when I first saw the great pyramids of Giza back in 1996, Bagan enveloped me with an overwhelming wonder that will live in my mind as long as I walk and breathe. Thousands of beautiful structures spiraling to the skies scattered across miles of…

  • Unforgettable Mandalay~ 

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    Innocent, untouched, warm, human, uncorrupted, devout, kind, charming…. the people I am meeting in Myanmar. I find myself smiling constantly and feeling grateful to be experiencing a culture so rich, and I pray for the hands of our modern world to go easy in their inevitable plans of tourist invasions and homogenization.  Day 2~ Myanmar 

  • The Magic of Mandalay~ 

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    I have been in Mandalay less than a day and have already been enchanted. Almost everything reaches and yearns upwards to the skies here, the temples, the birds, the monks, the chanting, and the spirits of the people. After a magical sunrise journey this morning, I am blissfully eager to travel into my second day…

  • A bump in the road ~ Shanghai 

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    As it turned out, Myanmar was not meant to happen till December.  My passport vanished and when you lose a passport as a resident in China, here is what you have to do: File a police report at the local police station  Take the report to the exit/entry bureau and request a lost passport form…