Tag: story
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Morning Coffee Talk~14/365
Good Morning, I remember as a child playing with friends on terraced hills above my village in Lebanon, and we did this crazy thing of jumping from one terrace to the next (and these were high terraces), screaming something ridiculous in Arabic like: ‘my mother threw me and the Virgin Mary caught me’. We were…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 12/365
Good Morning, This post today is about a life changing moment, one of those that we have at a certain stage of our lives and they end up lodging themselves in our personal history, refusing to fade into the dusty halls of our memories, and maybe just maybe they were more significant than we can…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 9/365
Good morning, Some days like today, when the mind feels very busy like it is working overtime, thoughts flying here and there without any apparent rhyme or reason, I stop. Stopping is not as simple as it sounds. I remember as a 21 year old, taking a trip alone to India with a the sole…
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Living in Deep Freeze~
It’s always a good time to restart a blog, but there is something more compelling about living through: a global pandemic a general breakdown of norms as we know them an increase in conductivity (trust me on that) incredibly strange weather patterns varied degrees of lockdown measures living vicariously through my photographic archived memories becoming…
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Misplaced~
In Hongkou, part of the old city of Shanghai, was a set of grey narrow alleys that were a maze of tiny streets containing 2 or 3 story homes stacked side by side in a most claustrophobic manner. Hundreds of tangled electric wires dangled between walls that were decorated with phone numbers advertising services for…
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a process inside a process~ why do I edit my photos?
When I edit my photos, I set in motion a whole new process that allows me to see beyond the actual image. I begin to feel emotions and to imagine worlds that the image open doors to. So my initial photograph becomes a key, a starter and a catalyst to a brand new process. I…
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Day 30~ November 30th~ New York
With the last New York post from this month, I am realizing how much of it is still in me. It has been one of the most personal months in my blog so far, so I will end it with a photo from then, from the time I was 21 and celebrating every single second I…
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Day 26~ November 26th~ New York
Ask anyone who rides the subway for more than one hour a day and they will be sure to have some strange stories to tell you. I have a few. I realize that with this month’s postings a lot of memories and stories keep floating by, and that is because I left them there. On…