Sakyō-ku — The guesthouse keeper told how to work the gas stove, showed how to lock the door and where the toilet was but there was no shower or bath. We were told we had to use the public bath only a 10 to 15 m...
Seville — In Seville, I found the secret to life. Life in Seville is lived in a beautifully slow pace. People savor their afternoons on the sunlit riverbank, Their four hour siestas, Their dinner with famil...
Saint pete beach — I am thankful for the built-in prompts for reflection in our calendar. I love the way they pull me in, sit me down, give me good excuse to rewind the tapes, remember, and say something. Many favorite...
Sevenoaks — Although we’ve had no snow yet (much to my wife’s disappointment!), it has certainly been cold over the past couple of days. While driving back from near Portsmouth yesterday evening, having spent th...
Berlin — In reality, it was the time difference between Berlin and home, but I’ll probably remember it as the snow calling us to see it fall together for the first time. For just a little while, we had the wh...
Ulaanbaatar — 100 Ail is an area in UB that sells building and home maintenance materials. It’s on the outskirts of the city center, bordering the ger districts, and has been identified as one of the areas with the...
Cloquet — I shared an important bit of wisdom with some friends on this morning, the Fourth Day of Christmas. You should expect birds from your True Love today. If you hum through “The Twelve Days of Christmas”...
Paris — I’ve never seen a real tomato. I never tasted real bread. I was only 5 when the last food production company went out of business. The top 1% were the only people in the world who could afford the old...
Parkes — Hi. Make that hello! Ganzfeld. I’m back in Canberra. I grew up in Canberra. If I go by the NY Times, I don’t want an easy life, because I always want to (and do) leave Canberra. Of late, and I admit...
Porto — Twenty eight kilograms. That’s 62 pounds, or 4.4 stone. It doesn’t seem like much, if we’re talking about twenty eight kilograms of cement, or even twenty eight kilograms of wood for the fireplace. I...
Aireys inlet — The yearly axing of millions of trees as a central part of the celebration of Christmas seems to me a morally dubious proposition at best, if not actually sacrilegious. I know that, for most folk, Ch...
Aireys inlet — For the past thirty five years I have walked by this bench several times a week, always thinking that some day soon I will take the time to sit down and do nothing but contemplate the sea. Yet to the...
Johannesburg — This is a little poem I wrote, this is my first time experiencing Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere: Baobab Christmas Tree by J. B. Duryea Far to the north winter bites. Wind and cold blur Chri...
Aireys inlet — My daughter’s Teddy Reindeer would like to send all my Hi pen pals his best wishes for the holiday season.
Wien — I wish you a wonderful time no matter where you are! Here in Vienna, it feels like spring, hot and sunny, but that doesn’t change anything to the Christmas spirit, does it!?
Kali — Hi from Kali. A vibrantly blue bodied-and-faced Hindu goddess; a Gaelic term for place to moor, or; something in Greek meaning ‘good’ (as in good day). Such were the notions for the name origins of th...
Lisboa — Just traveling, trying to find something into usual things.
Halle (saale) — 6 a.m. Be the early bird. Try to be at the superstore before the masses arrive. You know, it’s Christmas. People behave like stores are closed for two weeks instead for two days. You are clever and p...
Othis — Samedi 20 décembre 2014 Ca me dit vin. Sam divin. (Notes sur la graine plantee au café Beaubourg). D. diffuse ça. Et ça s’ouvre : Livre unique, Livre Atome, Le livre des particules ? Le livre parti...
Leeds — Our boiler’s broken. As the man with the parts is not due until the same night as the man with the presents, we have taken out the 12 Days of Christmas quid-a-day offer at our local gym, so we can at ...
Saskatoon — It’s finally Christmas break for me, after three weeks of waiting for exams to be scheduled, studying and not-studying, fending off the boredom and awkwardness that comes with having nothing to do but...
Lakewood — I love the simplicity of writing with an iPad, of working with an iPad. Even without a proper keyboard every two of the screens feels more intentional. More well though. I get less done on my iPad, b...
Shepherds flat — Not much of substance in the topic I suppose, but I enjoyed seeing the varieties of the coffee experience in the modern world. Not forgetting that the coffee house (along with algebra, the astrolabe ...
Fountain valley — A couple of nights ago, I remembered getting on a cold, cramped train at 2 in the morning. I saw myself there again, waking up strangers with my nervous steps as I looked for my bunk. I finally got my...
Trieste — Hi. Taking an inventory of photographs from the year, as one phone gets replaced with another. Images which have shaped the year for me (and had I discovered hi sooner, would have been featured here a...
Roissy-en-france — Vendredi 19 décembre 2014J’ai rêvé que je revenais d’une excursion. Je déjeunais dans un grand réfectoire, avec des tables en bois massifs et je sens le set de table sur lequel sont posés mes couverts...
Épiais-lès-louvres — Mercredi 17 décembre 2014”Je me conduisis comme une japonaise : je ris. Il me semblait avoir touché le fond. Même si le penser porte malheur. Le réel s’empresse toujours de vous montrer à quel point...
Campo — In Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Africa? Probably. Australia, for sure. There’s always something, little things if you will, that unite nations and cultures together. They’re not always easy to spo...
Nicholls — Hi. I was perusing my middle niece’s preschool class folio for the year, given that I’d been gone for most of it, and have a huge interest in their scholarly development. I came across this note (and ...
Saint-denis — Jeudi 18 décembre 2014 0620 Vous avez le bonjour du merle d’en face. Tout est recouvert d’une couche d’eau, comme des vestiges juste remontés du fond. J’aime cette saison pour les photos japonaises d...
Tübingen — I know it’s hard to believe, but you’re looking at blown glass. This is the work of Léopold and Rudolf Blaschka (father & son). They made it their lives’ mission to create and sell as many anatom...
Taguig — The Philippines has, reputedly, the longest Christmas season in the world. Whether it’s because we’re 90% Catholic or just love the holidays, I’m not sure. Probably both. Christmas songs start playing...
Gungahlin — Hi. The Queen (of England) owns “all unmarked, mute swans in open water”. Appears the ones who spoke up managed to save their down. There’s even an annual Swan Upping event if you care to take a look....
Daylesford — Today was a most productive day: I disproved the old theory that “all swans are white.” In the words of Karl Popper, “No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are whit...
Toronto — Sometimes random things conspire to look organized: a fluorescent arrow, a discarded orange glove, the dog’s rubber boots. Coincidence or that thing where you see patterns in chaos? Morning musings a...
Elena — Reminiscence of old times in the country, when small villages were full of life and children of all ages were playing in the streets. Unfortunately, hiking through the central Balkan mountains this s...
Mumbai — You stare at the sky and cry out joyously when you spot a colorful kite, flying high. Dogs are beautiful. You’ve cried like it was the end and you’ve been comforted by a warm presence of the dog you ...
Chitral — The phone pings. It must be time to get up. It’s still dark out but its winter and the alarm is meant to be early. It’s breaking news from the BBC app and not the alarm. I must change the setting. It’...
Saint-denis — Mardi 16 décembre 2014 -2031 J’ai appris que KAZE ça veut dire malade. “Comme le vent ?”. Ça l’a fait rire. 0813 Cuisinier athlétique brun gouttant sa casserole. 1414 “pourtant c’était très clair dans...
London — The air was cool and calm. Frank was having a pleasant walk home, much like the ones he normally had when the kids weren’t riding the bus. Kids would tease him over and over until they got to their ne...
Edogawa-ku — Today I lost my hat. Again. After I lost it the last time, I went back to the same shop in Ueno and bought it for the same 800 yen that I paid the last time. But today, I lost that very hat that I wen...
Meguro-ku — リブセンス（Livesense）という社名は、「生きる意味」という言葉に由来しています。当社では、「生きる意味」=「幸せになること」であるという考えのもと、お客様にサービスをご利用いただくことで、提供する私たち自身も幸せになることを目指しています。こういった私たちの働くモチベーションは「幸せから生まれる幸せ」という理念として定義しています。また、当社は、新しい物の見方・行動の仕方で、世の中に常識と...
Roissy-en-france — Lundi 15 décembre 2014. 0648. “Hein ? Quoi? Ça va? Il y a eu un tremblement de terre ?” “Non je t’ai secoué, tu ronflais…” 0722. Elle est moche mais elle tient chaud. 0814. C’est parce que tu crois ...
Tübingen — As a matter of fact, it has ceased to be a problem. Seemingly, the absurdities of christmas can’t anger me any more, and you know the olde saying: if they can’t anger you, they can’t steal your time. ...
Bengaluru — Good leaders and good mangers are each vitally important to any system, organization, society as a whole. Both have management functions and jobs. Each help for the future to become reality. A leader ...
Cholargos — I came across this video yesterday: Experiment Ensam. It’s part of a televised (?) “scientific” experiment called Experiment Alone conducted by a Swedish gambling (!) company called Paf. They claim th...
Athina — Today, there was a Christmas tree waiting, with blinking lights and everything. A surreal note amidst the grimness, but it helps, if you ask me. I took the bed next to the door so that I could look at...
Singapore — now you must be like “pshhhh i doubt it” well i was….until now….i was a pretty dumb toddler when i was young and i have to admit it. I remember i stuck probably one million stickers on my body onc...
Paris — Samedimanche 1314 décembre 2014. -1133 Est ce que l’odeur de sauce tomate peut faire office de baume ? -1350 Kir barbu dans lequel on mettrait bien ses lèvres… -2143 Punch, champagne, vin italien a ...
Makati city — Not too long ago, I was looking at a similar view when I wrote about breaking up with Manila. But for better or for worse, this place is still home, for now, and life has been sneakily getting better ...
Ahmedabad — सच्ची कहानी … बीजेपी को बहुमत मिलने पर एक मोदीभक्त 16 मई को ख़ुशी के मारे बेहोश हुआ और सीधा कोमा में चला गया था। लगभग 6 महीने कोमा में रहने के बाद कल उसको होश आया। होश आने पर उसने अपने दोस्त को न...
Toronto — Old Towne Toronto. Muddy York. St Lawrence Hall, once seat of our city government1. The lights and towers in the near distance, past St James Cathedral, mark Yonge Street and beyond. Real gas lamps, ...
Issy-les-moulineaux — Vendredi 12 décembre 2014 “…Quelques balles perdues…” 0707 J’ai dormi hein. Mal mais j’ai dormi. Et j’ai rêvé de romans en tweets et de calques industriels que je transformais en tous-terrains ext...
Kutchan-chō — this photo is 4 years old when i was in Hokkaido. as you know i live in a tropical island so basically its summer all the way. only once in a while i get to visit cold countries ( which is japan yay!)...
Melbourne — It started quite ordinarily. I got up and prepped the children for breakfast, ate a quick egg & grilled bread with orange juice and ran out right after I sent my little ones to school. While on th...
Paris — Jeudi 11 décembre 2014. Carnet moleskine mis à jour du coup. [- tu aimes les vieux toi. - oui j’en ai besoin, ils sont prêts. et en leur parlant j’ai l’impression de me préparer aussi.] Déjeuné avec...
Toronto — I pass a man on Bloor Street, gleefully squealing into his phone. He bends down to pick up a handful of the freshly fallen snow, shoving it into the screen, like he’s giving someone a first taste of c...
London — Bedford Place is a great, er, place to visit if you want to see an almost unspoiled example of a Georgian street. Every property on both sides is Grade II listed! Built around 1815 by James Burton, ...
Wien — Living in a busy city, rushing every day from one place to the next, I like to stop sometimes, just for a moment, and look around. Even the busiest crossroads can make us smile.
Paris — Mercredi 10 décembre 2014 Je me souviens que mon père a donné un bol de café au lait et une tartine beurrée à un junkie dans la cage d’escaliers d’où on habitait. La maternelle de mon enfance a pris...
Toronto — Why Go Outside? “I hate nature!” When you work, as I do, reconnecting children to nature, hearing a child say that to you definitely will not make your day. In fact, my heart sank as I stood listenin...
Hong kong — Tonight maybe it: the end of the protests in Hong Kong. Most people I talked to at the beginning and during the protests thought something like this would never happen. Hong Kongers are too polite and...
Duluth — No crèche or Santa for this household along my daily waking route. I believe the two winged piglets represent the ‘Ghosts of Christmas Past’ in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Nine months ago, in A...
Bagneux — Rêvé que je visitais New York. En bus a touriste et je passais à coté du WTC refait (qui ressemblait à la cocoon tower de Tokyo) et je me mettais en colère parce que ça prouvait que la première fois ç...
Tutume — You know you are in for a treat when you have to sign an indemnity form before you even set up your tents. The lodge is not liable for any damages the elephants may cause. In the middle of the Kalah...
Kruger national park — There was a mother and a father rhino with their baby and a pack of wild dogs continued to circle them. The wild dogs would approach from one angle and then the rhinos would chase them back. While t...
London — I realised today that I haven’t posted a sunrise picture for a while now, mainly because it’s still dark as I travel to work. But this morning, while sitting at my desk being thankful that the heatin...
Melbourne — Precisely fifty years ago, my friend Ralph and I, spent a couple of months roaming around Mexico in a little Austin A30, a gift from his estranged father on his 16th birthday. Surprisingly, our pare...
San antonio — Madre, Dad’s outfits were really bad. This should have been an indicator to all of us that he wasn’t well, but let’s face it, fashion knowledge, or sense, were not part of his skill set. I will forg...
Damascus — They were in a cardboard box in my mothers basement, thrown together with a rubble of things that once had held meaning to me but now seemed irrelevant: various books and articles I’d saved from my da...
Bagneux — Lundi 08 décembre 2014 On essaie de sauter de rondin en rondin sans trop se mouiller. Mais les températures baissent. Malgré le soleil. Comme si on avait été la même personne et que soudain on avait é...
Sunderland — Football (or soccer) in the United Kingdom is more than just a sport. It’s a community, a chance to draw closer to your community by focusing on rivalries, yet still a quaint way for everyone to exhib...
Brits — It was a lovely October morning in Pretoria. We had spent the night in a guest house not too far from the city center. We drove out of town towards the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre. The jacaranda tre...
Lucknow — I always wonder how just standing amongst the ambiance of trees calms me down. Even though life always stays busy, few moments and they manage to surge in the sense of love within me.
Hong kong — Rita Lee has lived most of her life in the small village of San Tin, a 5 minute bus ride to the Lok Ma Chau border with China. She talks about how the land in front of her small shop use to be green r...
Accra — She liked to dance and to walk; She’d been doing this since she could use her limbs; Now she has those beautiful legs, a full calf and strong thighs, to show for it ; And her hands , they are beautifu...
Aireys inlet — Gardens are many things to many people. Viewing this photo I suppose some would conclude that ‘garden’ is not the right word for what they see. Perhaps their cultivated European or Asiatic bones wou...
Accra — I have been working on magazine projects since the age 17. I haven’t come out with a successful magazine yet. This is the fifth magazine project I’m working on. Being 7 years down the line I realize a...
Accra — Coming home from work, I see this beautiful Sunset while I was about to cross the Bush Highway. My reaction : oh gosh I wish I had my camera. But then I was able to manage a shot with my LG E400 phone...
Kihei — Something about the shimmer in the ocean this morning. Something familiar. Compelling, beckoning. I would look away, and then look back at it after a little while, and see the shimmer still there. A v...
Wien — My washing machine broke down the other day and I had to do the washing like our grandparents used to -by hand. It wasn’t much fun really, until I realised that even this simple scene had beauty in i...
London — saying goodbyes have always been difficult for me for various reasons but this is probably the worst one yet. a week from now i’ll be back home. “home.” i’ve already written about my issues with th...
Atlanta — By now, Starbucks at the Oxford Road Building at Emory should be a mundane place for me; I come here almost every day, sometimes twice a day. But every visit is distinguished by what I’m working on t...
Tübingen — Riotous it was, but not very good. Unfortunately, the hard working guys of the Riot Brigade had nothing to offer but the time worn sounds and patterns of a dated youth culture. It could be called trag...
Esslingen am neckar — With photography, boldness is usually encouraged. Putting yourself into harm’s way is seen as a strategy to improve your pictures. I really don’t know. Rarely I’ve seen reward in doing something unple...
İstanbul — When people think spring break, it’s teenagers partying it up in Florida, getting drunk and skinny dipping or whatever it is crazy college kids do with a week to kill in a beach resort. My freshman ye...
London — Here is the ‘twin’ for the doorstep at number 24, although a quick glance will immediately tell you these are not twins of the identical variety! Unlike number 24, this design has more random element...
Bagneux — Jeudi 04 décembre 2014. Murs de gare orange saucisson à l’ail. Peut on m’expliquer cette passion pour les cerfs ? Manteau framboise. Étui de violoncelle framboise. Stagiaire dans le bureau. Du typ...
Brixen — Hi. When it comes to color, we apparently have what’s termed ‘poor color memory’ (citations to follow). We can’t accurately pick a color again after seeing it. Read: Good luck getting your wall the s...
Antalya — Everybody has a story but my story isn’t like the others.
Accra metropolis — Give your laptop a bigger screen. Connect the HDMI port to your LCD TV and voila you have a home theatre, a TV-desktop and much more.
London — Oh dear! Just along from the Celtic Hotel at number 61 Guilford Street is the rather derelict-looking number 67, formerly The Kingsway Hotel. This certainly deserves a place in my Delightful Doorst...
New york — Seriously? Not this again: Another police officer cleared by a grand jury for the chokehold death of unarmed Eric Garner. Protesters are weaving their way around Manhattan, the police are limiting acc...
Newtown — I think we do… I think I do… We expect that our partner will be caring, attentive and dependable. Our partner becomes the ‘other half’ of our soul and our living experience, as if we alone are no...
London — Situated on the corner of Herbrand Street and Guilford Street, this delightful doorstep sits outside number 61 Guilford Street. This building marks the start of a terrace of late 18th Century houses ...
Accra metropolis — Accra Does one ever get used to all the noise in central Accra. The busy crowd, that - I’m going about my business and get out of my way - crowd. You are pushed , pulled, hit …. all unintentional....
Saint-denis — Mercredi 03 decembre 2014 “Don’t be afraid, I think that is called life” “Anything can happen to you, lol” “You cannot go back” mais prononcé à la française. Maintenant jouant dans ma tête “Conditio...
Saint-denis — Mardi 02 décembre 2014 Rêvé d’un collègue, de la ville de mon enfance, de prendre à droite ou à gauche à un carrefour. 0709 Il ne faisait pas jour. J’étais juste en mydriase. Myosis c’est comme phimos...
Novacella — What the devil have I done? Two friends are coming up for a dose of Dolomite air and Brixen’s Christmas market. I’m taking them to a Krampus Party. Gladys is Chinese-Malay. Beatriz is Honduran. Good t...
London — A couple of weeks ago I foolishly said “I must start a delightful doorsteps database”. To which several people replied along the lines of “Please do!”. Well, I suppose I’d better do as requested, so...