Tag: rain
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Day Forty Three, March 6, 2011
It is Sunday, a family day in Shanghai. It has been raining since last night, the kind of rain that is gentle, the rain that allows you the choice of carrying an umbrella or not. I went for a walk with Lea in the rain because we love to do that. The promise of Spring…
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Day Forty Two, March 5, 2011
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” —Mark Twain Today was a day of looking at balances, re-arranging thoughts, deep contemplations, and searching for rhythms. There is a rhythm in the rain that can lull you to sleep if it falls gently, there is also rhythm in the…
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Day Nineteen, February 10, 2011
Today was a very cold and rainy day in Shanghai, so it was an indoor day for us. A friend brought us beautiful tulips in the afternoon and they were searched very thoroughly for any sleeping fairies. One ended up sleeping in L’s room, a tulip that is, waiting for a fairy to visit at night.
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so little can be so much- rain in Phnom Penh
Yesterday I was about to leave the guest house in Phnom Penh to make my road trip to Sihanoukville when suddenly the sky opened its floodgates and within minutes the streets in Phnom Penh were transformed into brown swimming pools. I was standing there with 2 cambodian boys trying to help me with my bags,…