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This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make them all, but I’ll try. Here’s my second one. sad eyes on big face walking slowly towards me massive elephant Read more
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I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Direction Read more
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This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make them all, but I’ll try. Here’s my first one. big mountain over us it’s always there day and night watching us with love Read more
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In the past 2 weeks I took off from cold and wet Pacific Northwest, to bright and warm Atlantic Southeast. Crossed the entire country in a diagonal. Saturday we flew back arriving here really, really late, which means yesterday was a jet-legged-sleep-deprivation-hang-over day. Today things are better. I’m back to work, but there is almost… Read more
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Our technologized society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible. Honor Harger And these are only a few of the ones that came with us on our family vacation… This post was written in response to… Read more
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I admit being guilty… The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the… Read more
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Dear Abby, I’m 37 years old and I’m aware that I have a great friends, wonderful nephews I babysit sometimes, an awesome job on a great company. A good life, most would say. But somehow sometimes I feel everything is just plain wrong in my life. My best friends are irritating and do everything wrong,… Read more
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot &… Read more
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Cell phone reflecting the trees and sky (and a bit of the camera too…) This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Reflection and Shadows Read more
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Today is sort of a sad day at work. My good friend Michael is leaving the company and going to a competitor. I do believe the change will be great for him, as his new job will be more in line with what he enjoys and his position will be a better one. Salary will… Read more
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Big milestone today! 40! Not half a century quite yet, but, as as say in Brazil, I’m today ‘entering the house of the entas‘, from which we don’t leave until we turn 100 (what unfortunately is not as common as people would like ;)) In the morning, hubby woke up the girls really early so… Read more
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Have you ever seen a tree on wheels? This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Wheels Read more
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Vikram Seth written in response to the Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession Read more
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Today things were very easy at work. Very! So I decided to go for a walk and bring a camera with me. My initial plan was to take pictures o fall colors, but the weather wasn’t really cooperating and the light was not too good for nice colorful pictures. So instead, I decided to look… Read more
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It’s been a while since I last time I posted here. Almost a full month! But I haven’t been not posting, I was just busy writing about my experience with the Whole30 program and about getting into the Paleo diet. I also had the homework to create a site during the course break in September,… Read more
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Yesterday my friend and I scheduled a walk together for today at noon. But this morning was pretty rainy and my friend had no umbrella. So this is the little dialog we had on IM to agree on what to do. Gotta love emoticons! 😉 Read more
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“Who’s there?” “It’s Fall.” “Oh, I’m sorry mister Fall, but we’re closed for summer. Could you please come back on a couple of weeks?” “But I so wanted to come now…. Pleeease?…” “Well, sorry. But in a couple of weeks you can come and we’ll welcome you. Not today, though!” “Okaaaay. See ya in a… Read more
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I just need to take the step to leave… But already working on that. Slowly but going… http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/ With a written (on email) permission from Gavin, I copied the file and placed here, with the promise of providing the proper credits. So here you go: The words are copyrighted to Bill Waterson and the drawings… Read more
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This weekend we’re in Lake Chelan. The place is beautiful! Saturday morning, when I woke up and went to the balcony, I saw a duck on the deck having his cleaning morning routine. Read more
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Today a friend from work came back from vacations. Her brother came to visit her and they decided to go on a 2-week road trip, leaving from Redmond, Washington, going down all the way to Los Angeles, California, then from there to the Grand Canyon, Arizona, then Yellowstone, ID,MT,WY, and back from there. As usual, upon… Read more
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