Tag: smile
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Day 17~ April 17th~ Congo
They say that only when you come so close to losing something do you value it the most… That is definitely something I have witnessed in Congo and growing up in a Lebanon during the civil war. War can make you more sensitized to the value of life, so when you cry, you cry more…
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Day 14~ April 14th~ Congo
There is a great power in Africa which throbs in the land like a drum beat and then spirals up through its people, radiating from every pore in their skin and fashioning a most complex range of human expression… I look back at this photo of a girl in Goma and I see shyness, strength,…
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Day 3~ April 3rd~ Congo
Each time I hear parents trying to convince their children in our western world to eat more, to drink more milk, to eat just another bite; my mind goes back to the children I met in Congo. A glass of milk can have the power to transform a desperate little face into a bright smiling…
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Day 1~ April 1st~ Congo
At times when I hear myself grumble about my coffee not being the right taste or temperature, my mind goes back to this smiling girl and to her story… After months of living in terror, running from prosecution by militias, escaping bullets, rape, sickness and capture, this Rwandan child arrived in a UNICEF supported medical clinic in…
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Day 10~ March 10th~ Egypt
When ‘joy’ is able to attend you, life takes on a brilliant glow… Imagine these simple moments of connection, when meeting some stranger’s eyes can cause you and them both to overflow with joy, with a contentment and a knowing that all is well and a great unexplainable happiness is present at the thought of…
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Day Three Hundred Fifty Three, January 10, 2012
Happy faces and big smiles adorn the streets the closer we get to the Chinese New Year of the Dragon. The most important holiday of the year, the happiest day for many is around the corner. Celebrations start to manifest all around the place as more than 10 million people get ready to leave Shanghai…
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Day Three Hundred Twenty Three, December 11, 2011
You just know the world is getting slowly integrated into a harmonious world citizenship state of affairs, when you are like me Lebanese/American, living in Shanghai and meeting a Uyghur man from Xinjiang at the German Christmas market attended by more than 30 nationalities and somehow thinking it all a normal everyday event. I was…
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Day Three Hundred Five, November 23, 2011
We live at a time where most people have broken their connection to the land. What I mean by that is the connection that is born out of planting your own food, getting your hands dirty with soil, spending time daily in your garden, sleeping under trees, hunting for your food, the way humans were…
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Day Two Hundred Ninety Five, November 13, 2011
I walk the streets of the city almost daily doing what I love to do best : Street Photography, and each day I learn new things and gain new experiences, most of it having to do with other people. I am behind my camera lost in a world of images, patterns, colors and moments, that…