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  • Day 16~ July 16th~ Vietnam

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    A remnant of the French presence in a Hanoi suburb, a stamp of another religion that made its way East into Asia, this gothic looking church stood out so much from its surroundings and it begged to be photographed. Somewhere on the outskirts of Hanoi~ Vietnam

  • Day 10~ June 10th~ Xinjiang

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    They say when something is far from your eyes it is also far from your heart and mind… I wonder about our lives in this century so often and how much of our lives are spent in boxes both inside our minds and inside our homes. All we have to do to be awed by…

  • Day 1~ June 1st~ Xinjiang

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    Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, spanning more than 1.6 million square kilometeres in the north western part of China, borders Tibet, Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Kasakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It is home to different ethnic groups  like Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongol, Tajik and the Han Chinese. Only about 4,3% of Xinjian is suitable for…

  • Day 11~ May 11th~ Cambodia

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    The Bayon, an exquisite temple of great significance. Constructed in the 12th century to face exactly east and roads lead to it directly from the gates at each of the city’s cardinal points, this Buddhist shrine still vibrates with accumulated potency. I visited it a little before sunrise and found myself alone safe for the monks…

  • Day 3~ May 3rd~ Cambodia

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    Upon meeting the Khmer temples of Cambodia for the first time and walking between their columns and galleries, I felt as though time had become elastic, no longer confined to my usual linear perception of it… Angkor Wat, the largest Hindu temple in the world, now a Buddhist temple, still in use religiously, haunting with…

  • Day 22~ March 22nd~ Egypt

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    Places of worship continue to vibrate with the intentions of the people who built them and those who used them to utter their prayers… In the Egyptian desert, near Elephantine Island, is an abandoned coptic monastery that dates back to the 6th century. It is one of the biggest coptic monasteries in the world and…

  • Day 8~ March 8th~ Egypt

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      The journey to Egypt was more a journey of feelings, sensing and of connection than that of collecting brain information. There were places and things in Egypt that let me ‘feel’ so much more than others. One of these beacons was the tomb of Tutankhamun. The son of Akhenaten, king at age 9, reformer…

  • Day 4~ march 4th~ Egypt

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    Ancient Egypt has the power to hold your attention and point towards the laws of nature, the place where that power arose in the first place… To an inhabitant of the Earth, what is more powerful than the sun? The constant giver fo life, the provider of warmth and light, the great father. How much…

  • Day 21~ February 21st~ Lebanon

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    At about age 5 or 6, my sister and I used to love playing house games with the neighborhood children in our village. We had an unfinished floor in our home that was still cement walls and bricks and we created our own pretend little world there. We had a basket tied to a rope…

  • Day 20~ February 20th~ Lebanon

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    In a geographically small country like Lebanon, people of different religions live side by side. It is so difficult to explain how religions, tradition, cultural norms, rules, and social order organize themselves there. Within each religion are sects, groups, different belief systems, different dress codes and different tolerances. Having been born to a christian family,…