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Tag: pool

  • Day One Hundred Eighty Seven, July 28, 2011

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    If I were to choose two things that make summers in Lebanon so special for me, it would be light and water. It never rains in the summer, so the sun shines gloriously everyday warming the place magically and forcing you to long for the water. And Lebanon is rich with water, a phenomenon in…

  • Day One Hundred Sixty Six, July 7, 2011

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    When the silvery day prepares to meet the golden night there is a moment of magic. It is like a desperate lover’s embrace, a holding on, knowing that they must soon  be separated again. And in that moment of passion, golden sparks fly, a stillness descends on all who witness this daily miracle. It is…

  • Day One Hundred Sixty Two, July 3, 2011

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    We love to draw lines in our modern world. We enjoy keeping order by creating clearly defined and fixed rules and regulations about what can and cannot be done. You must be 21 years old to drink (at least in America), you must be 16 years old to drive, you must be a male to…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Two, June 23, 2011

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    We, foreigners living in Shanghai are often found to be very annoying to the local people of authority. We are sometimes referred to as the ‘why people’. With the summer here now in full power, the pool is open in our compound, and with that come the strange rules. One rule is that you must…

  • Day Ninety Four, April 26, 2011

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    Just like that, unannounced, a day of summertime came today. The temperature rose to almost 35 degrees centigrade, the sun was shining, even the mosquitoes showed up to claim center stage. But this is Shanghai, a city of extremes, and so many times the gentle Spring is very short lived and is pushed over by…

  • Day Twenty Three, February 14, 2011

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    Living in China means taking on some things that are integral in the make up of the Chinese society: training, discipline and repetition. Swimming lessons have been a weekly routine in our 6 year old daughter’s life since she was 3. This was taken today during her swimming class.