Tag: project 365
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Day Thirty Six, February 27, 2011
Today I was having lunch in a Shanghai neighborhood where many expatriates reside. I was stunned to see at what a young age children are starting to smoke cigarettes these days, or was it always like this? These skaters looked so young, and so “cool” with the whole attitude of “look at me I am…
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Day Thirty Five, February 26, 2011
Lately, Lea, my daughter, seems to be stuck inside her contemplations of “what is beyond the beyond”. She asks, wonders, contemplates, reads, thinks, questions and is in awe of the biggest question that baffles us all. Today, our family day, we decided to make a little solar system. It was a fantastic process for us…
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Day Thirty Four, February 25, 2011
Today we drove by the huge sculpture on Century avenue in Shanghai they call “light of the east” and as it was sunset, the sun was peaking through the huge stainless steel beams (normally silver colored, but Lea and I decided to make them blue), so we just had to stop. As Shanghai sees itself…
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Day Thirty Three, February 24, 2011
Sometimes seeing a bigger problem has the power to make our own problems shrink so much in comparison… man with a bike load—Shanghai
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Day Thirty One, February 22, 2011
Today Lea and I were buying flowers for her (she still believes if she has flowers in her room all the time, a fairy is bound to come sleep in one of them), when we met this little Chinese boy. Ever since we moved to China five years ago I have enjoyed watching the interactions…
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Day Thirty, February 21, 2011
as above so below What a potent symbol, the circle! We live on a sphere, we receive daily warmth from a sphere, we have our nightly light from a sphere, we spin in our universe among other spinning spheres. And here on earth, you drop any liquid and it instantly forms itself into the most…
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Day Twenty Nine, February 20, 2011
Today, a very contemplative day, I return to a recurring thought… At every moment in our lives we are faced with a choice. We choose mostly out of habit, out of obligation, out of love, out of fear, out of conformity, out of comfortability… And with each choice our destiny shifts and is rewritten again…
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Day Twenty Eight, February 19, 2011
Can you imagine being all alone and homeless in a city of 20 million? Can you imagine having to live on discarded scraps? Can you imagine survival being your only obsession? unable to look the other way today…
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Day Twenty Seven, February 18, 2011
Today I was very overwhelmed with the state of the world, wars, revolutions, poverty, instability, pollution, global warming, solar flares, and a general sense of unsettlement. Then in the afternoon we had Lea’s twin friends over for a play date then sleep over and I watched them play, laugh, sing, dance and be in the…
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Day Twenty Six, February 17, 2011
Today the Chinese New Year festivities come to an end with a big boom! It is the Lantern Festival’s main celebration. I went to Yu Yuan (Yu Gardens) in Puxi to witness the festivities and now as I write this, the sky is on fire with millions of fireworks that are going off all over…