Tag: strength
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The Weight we Carry~
Today has been a bit of a fog, the kind of day when clarity feels just out of reach. I’ve been slowed down by a heavy allergy, making even simple thoughts feel like they are pushing through mud. But in going through my photo archives, I found this image, taken in Yunnan, China, and it…
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Behind the screen windows of Shanghai’s alleys
Shanghainese women, famous for their strong personalities and their control of the household including their men have become a stereotype in China. The wife in Shanghai is known to make her husband hand in his whole salary at the end of the month and to only give him back a small portion as pocket-money as she…
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Day 4~ November 4th~ New York
New York, it rises from its ashes each and every time to prove time and again that ‘when there is a will there is a way’. And New York’s will is not like any other, it the combined strength of warriors that gather from all over the world powered by their vision and their wish…
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Day 17~ October 17th~ Yunnan
There are still places in this world, where hard labor is a way of life. The formidable Hani women build their own homes, plant and sow their own rice fields, slaughter their own animals for food and gather their own firewood for cooking. All the weight is carried on their backs and supported by their…
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Day 10~May 10th~ Cambodia
“To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss.” The horrific motto of the Khmer Rouge, the movement whose guerrilla forces lead a genocide killing and torturing one fifth of the whole population of Cambodia in the 1970s. Cambodia had the misfortune of giving residence to the monster of war that tours…
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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 One Hundred Seventy Three, July 14, 2011
They live in colonies, the communicate amongst themselves, they have the ability to solve complex problems, they have ranks, leadership, work ethics, they colonize new territories, they invade neighbors, they serve their queens… do they remind you of any other Eartlhlings? I spent a long time watching this group of workers with their leader as…
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Day One Hundred Thirty Two, June 3, 2011
This particular and ancient truth has been quite upfront lately in world affairs. Somehow this ancient lesson is being applied and demonstrated repeatedly in the last few years from events in Iran, to Egypt, to Yemen, and to most recently the current events in Syria. I am normally not someone who is drawn to writing,…