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Tag: tradition

  • Day 3~ June 3rd~ Xinjiang

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    To see a culture soaked in tradition, to walk the old streets and be filled with awe, to feel welcome at every corner, to get invited into homes of strangers and to be presented with their finest bread, nuts and sweets, to be amazed by exotic ways of life and to be deeply saddened by…

  • Day 25~ February 25~ Lebanon

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    Two arched openings in a stone wall with a colonette in the middle and a decorative motif on top, this is a Mandaloon. You see them in most traditional homes in Lebanon and the reason I am telling you about them is the story behind the name ‘Mandaloon’. Picture a young woman, 100 or so…

  • 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,…

  • Day 19~ February 19~ Lebanon

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    I don’t think I can remember a single meal at our home in Lebanon that did not include Lebanese bread. There is a saying in Lebanon “between us is bread and salt” which means that we are friends, we are close, we are on ‘sharing life’ terms. And as a child I remember that neighbors’…

  • Day Three Hundred Fifty Three, January 10, 2012

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    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…

  • Day Three Hundred Forty Three, December 31, 2011

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    Midnight of December 31st, the time that all around the world wait for, expecting something important to take place, a ball to fall on times square in New York, a kiss to take place with someone special, fireworks to burn into the night sky and greetings to be exchange all around after the pop of…

  • Day Three Hundred Thirty Three, December 21, 2011

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    One of the most beautiful celebrations in Germany during this time of year is the Christmas market (Christkindlmarkt). Traditional food stalls, Christmas decorations, fairy lights, mulled wine, carousels, singing, music, and a gathering of people in the town square after dark. There is something so hauntingly beautiful about this Middle Ages celebration, maybe it is…

  • Day Three Hundred Eighteen, December 6, 2011

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    Today was the day Nikolaus comes to see German children and they get ready for him by cleaning their boots (Nikolaus Stiefel) and setting them out at night to wake up to sweets and presents if they were good the past year or a tree branch in the boot if they were not. Lea lives…

  • 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.…