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  • Where do we go in sleep?~

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    Its a natural law, everyone must sleep. But where do we go when we sleep? We surrender completely to a process we know very little about and lay in a still state recharging as part of us travels to who knows where! And then don’t get me started on dreams! Day 49 of 365~ Image…

  • The gift of sleep

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    To be able to shut down, recharge, get rest, anywhere, in any situation, is the gift of sleep. My shutter click woke her up and I found myself buying water bottles as a form of apology 🙂  

  • Day 21~ April 21st~ Congo

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    For ‘les enfants de la rue’, the children of the street in Kinshasa, a bit of ground in an enclosed secure place can make a world of difference where their safety is concerned. These children roam the streets by night in search of food, opportunity and means and ways. During the day, a center like…

  • Day Three Hundred Thirty Five, December 23, 2011

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    Driving across country borders, getting cradled by the moving car on asphalt roads, watching sleepily as trees and electric posts  appear to be zipping by, it all can put us in a state of dreaminess and it allows us to  gently slip into a deep sleep. I remember still taking Lea for drives as a…

  • Day Two Hundred Eighty Nine, November 7, 2011

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    I remember riding the subway years ago in New York City on the way to work and back and doing what people end up doing on the train, watching other people. And I remember always how fascinating it was to watch people sleeping, because even the most seemingly rough person can look so peaceful and…

  • Day Two Hundred Seventy Three, October 22, 2011

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    At our local wet market where I buy our daily fruits and vegetables, the residents of the chicken stall were asleep. One temporarily and the others sort of permanently. This market makes me contemplate going vegetarian once again. The black chicken there is called Silkie, and it is a very much valued breed of chicken…

  • Day Two Hundred Seventy Two, October 21, 2011

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    A few days ago, we entered the sixth year of our expatriate life in Shanghai and I so wish I was doing a 365 project for every day of those years. Living here is in every way a thrilling adventure, looking daily at the strange canvas of what this culture of contrasts has to offer.…

  • Day Two Hundred Seventy One, October 20, 2011

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    Go to any Ikea store in China and you are guaranteed to find at least 10 people (I have once counted over 50 people) sleeping, lounging, chilling with shoes off, reading books, listening to music, on the sample furniture. They appear to come for their lunch breaks and just really shut down and take a…

  • Day One Hundred Ninety Five, August 5, 2011

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    Every night at the end of our day we are compelled to sleep. This is one law of nature no one has managed to overcome yet. And we trust; we trust that we will go into the unknown and that somehow we will be safe and we will wake up again. Our consciousness is dulled…

  • Day One Hundred Sixty Eight, July 9, 2011

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    For any parent, the most unforgettable and uncomfortable times are those spent with a sick child. You do everything in your power to comfort them, you pray to take away their pain into yourself, you worry, you call on all your reserve strength to be there for them completely and with all your senses and…