Tag: parents
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 79/365
As long as I remember, when I still lived in Lebanon, my father would sit by the fireplace at our home at the foot of the mountain and on cold days continuously feed wood to the hungry fire and watch its raging flames and listen to its crackling sounds as it vanished into ashes. It…
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For the Love of People~ Yunnan
Attempting documentary photography and not feeling compassionate love for people would be pointless as far as I am concerned. I love feeling the humanity in other people’s eyes, to guess at what they are feeling, to lock eyes with them even for a brief moment, to be part of their world for the time I…
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Family Ties in the Culture of Yunnan’s Ethnic Minorities
In my journeys into the remote villages of China’s Yunnan province, I was moved by the closeness of the older generation with the children of the tribe. Physical proximity seemed to be an easement factor relied upon in raising the children and arming them with needed confidence as they developed. Parents and grandparents went about…
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Day Twenty, February 11, 2011
English, German, Chinese valentines cards delivered to us from our daughter and received by us in Arabic… this is life as an expat in a city like Shanghai! We realized that as a mixed nationality family , we sound like the tower of Babel at our dinner table: I speak with my daughter only English,…
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So hard to leave you behind…
It is so exciting to be going on a trip like this.. going to an unknown place armed with my cameras, my dreams, my wish to try and make a difference. It is what I have always dreamt of doing, and what I promised myself I would do. But a big part of my heart…