Seoul — I might say being sensitive and fragile is fine. You may not understand that you are. But when you realize and stick with them, it will make everything harder in every step. Every word can be seen as ...
Seoul — I spent two years teaching here at Hanyang University on a part time bases. It was a great chance to teach older students and lead to my next job at Kunsan National University. I’m very thankful for t...
Richmond — I’m always the last to know about these things, but today my aunt and father dragged almost all of my siblings to Richmond to see the “Rosie the Riveter” WWII memorial. One of my sisters was lucky to ...
Fushimi-ku — Kitsune1 (狐) faced Ema2 (絵馬), Fushimi Inari3 Shinto4 Shrine (伏見稲荷大社, Fushimi Inari-Taisha) Kitsune (狐) is the Japanese word for fox. Foxes and human beings lived close together in ancient Japan; th...
Douglas — Long ago in the way back time, my uncle lived across town from me in Laramie. I managed a gourmet candy store at the time, so as you can imagine, this time of year was busy. After the hell that is the...
Mexico city — When it rains, it pours. Rain isn’t something we’re expecting to come around until May but this year has clearly made an exception. Tuesday evening the city was draped over a thick blanket of gray clo...
Aireys inlet — And mowing the “lawn” into the bargain. It’s now the next morning, and they’re still hanging around at our place.
Helfaut — My son and I visited La Coupole on Wednesday, near Wizernes and Helfaut, just outside St Omer. The tranquil sunny day, with birds singing all around, was almost enough to fool us into thinking that t...
Cold spring — The latest research confirms the fact that materialistic people are more likely to be depressed and unsatisfied with their lives. The Baylor University study results indicated that those who focus on...
New york — I covered a poetry reading last night at Silvana, a Middle Eastern bar in Harlem. Rachida Madani, a Moroccan poet, was making the first stop on her American book tour for her collection Tales of a Sev...
Khumjung — On the edge of Ngozumpa, the longest glacier in the Himalayas. It was here I heard true silence for the first time. No people, no machines in valley nor sky; only the eagles soundlessly soaring above....
Los angeles — On his way out, the man threw a penny at me. “Keep your change,” He declared grandly, with a flourish. The penny landed with a clatter, bouncing on my tray. Our interaction had begun a few minutes a...
London — He slams the cage door closed, white fur catching and leaving a small tuft. His eyes glow read. “Follow,” they were told. “Follow the white rabbit.” And tonight, he feasts.
Seoul — Spring came too early and very short this year in Seoul. The sky are filled with foggy mood most of the time. Clear sky doesn’t seem to get along with April. But I glad it’s getting warmer…
Honolulu — I am so intrigued by doorways. But honestly, I am more intrigued by what lies behind them. A secret garden, a neglected field, a loving home, a broken family, dreams breathed to life, dreams deferred....
Saskatoon — Well, maybe not the “secret” exactly, but I’ve gotten way better at holding a conversation than I used to be. I’ve always been introverted, I think, although I have a very strange manic energy when I’...
London — Beautiful sunny lunchtime so a few moments for myself sunbathing in my favourite spot. I’m going to really miss this place when we move offices next year. And just home from visiting the patient, who...
Marconnelle — I love looking at details on old French houses - roof tiles, brick patterns, window shutters and catches, doors and door furniture and the like. I suppose that’s not really architecture as such, alth...
Marconnelle — But it’s the best sign I could find!
Audincthun — On our way to a museum near St Omer today we came to halt at a roundabout, initially with no obvious reason for the delay. After a few minutes though we understood, as a truck carrying a giant wind t...
Gorgier — I awoke to a small orange band in the east caught between the horizon and unyielding clouds; a small piece of the sunrise I had imagined. I set up my tripod and walked in circles, waiting for the sun ...
Gorgier — A couple of early-morning hikers reached my plateau, so I finished packing and prepared for the descent. Half a kilometre down the trail, I stopped again to take in the Val de Travers stretched out be...
Cold spring — Generating strong feelings of compassion, empathy, and love toward others, including our enemies, can have a purifying effect on the mind. By looking at the world with kindness, generosity, goodwill ...
新宿区 — Yesterday, I had lunch with a kindergarden teacher, who is also my friend. Once in a while, we get together to compare notes about our new tactics to struggle with low self-esteem. When we were small...
Steamboat springs — It’s difficult not to feel like I’ve been running in place for a decade. The people in my life who once seemed like they were on some distant, and not very interesting, path are now brushing by me re...
Midori ward — The Moon, that taciturn, imperfect satellite. She wonders if it ever felt lonely, if it is tired of being on its own. The moon doesn’t answer but she knows something for sure: It is so strangely beaut...
Rio — From a certain age, I acquired the habit of reading. Read a lot . The enormous amount of time on buses at Rio de Janeiro gave me plenty of time to exercise this habit. So, as anyone who knows his work...
Aireys inlet — Over the period of the last ten days, we’ve only had a few performances rained out. All photos taken from the front verandah with my Canon point and click. 6 April 2014 7 April 2014 11 April 20...
Hapcheon-gun — I feel at peace. I feel calm almost in a dream-like state. I feel like everything is at one and I feel tired. For someone who thinks too much and has problems falling asleep all of these feelings are ...
Fairfax — It’s been five years since a silly little roleplay forum brought us together and it’s amazing we haven’t throttled each other for all the crazy we scream/shriek/squeal/forever capslock-text each other...
Tokyo — Chet Baker’s melancholy voice is felt as a comfortable hum in the air. I savour the last bitter remains at the bottom of my lukewarm black coffee. It is good to have access to such a sophisticated wor...
Aireys inlet — Remember when we went over to your Uncle’s after they got back from their big trip to Europe? Must have been forty years ago. A slide show with that little projector balanced on too tall a stack of ...
Cat hai district — Hạ Long Bay trip day 1 Saturday morning early wake up to be picked up at 7:30 and drive all the way to Hạ Long Bay across the murky, gray, drizzly north of Vietnam. We make a rest stop at a ‘stop ove...
Örebro — 19:36 marks the minute. The last of the sun makes the facades on the opposite side of the street look like they are set on fire and turned to gold. The shadows grows into tall horizontal giants outs...
Cleveland — At the Cleveland Airport, I was trying to decide between sandwiches or “Chinese”. The Manchu Wok man excitedly beckons me to look remarking, “I see you.” I caved and ordered my usual. He asks me where...
Huby-saint-leu — Went exploring the woods today. So many birds singing, but never quite close enough to record them clearly! The sun came out at times but the wind was cold so it wasn’t really the kind of weather to ...
Cold spring — There are two ways of breathing to practice mindfulness. One involves making a specific time of day in which you stop all activity, assume your posture of choice, and dwell for some time witnessing t...
Bentonville — “Fish tacos that you’ll never forget” he promised me. “Oh ya?” was my suspicious response. It was masked, but I left a touch of cynicism hidden in laughter. Just enough to get a rise. After all, w...
Surbiton — I’m a little distracted today and feel slightly helpless and out of control. But that is probably because I am. I hate it when a family member is in hospital and all you can do is wait. No matter how ...
Solna — Vreten Tunnelbana metro station on the blue line in Stockholm, with art by Takashi Naraha called Himmelen av kub (The Heaven of Cube). When exploring the metro with Dave Morrow, I discovered that som...
Ann arbor — It was near 70 deg. F last weekend. The trails finally got dry and I went for the first spring ride this season. And now we have this only a few days later…
Dubai — A letter to myself. Remember this day. Today is the day you stop loving him. Forgetting is hard, it will take time, but it gets easier through time. It is the end. Rumi asked, “Why be a worshiper of...
Khumjung — The colors of the five Buddha families can always be seen waving on the wind in the Himalayan region, over mountain passes, water crossings, peaks, and energy centers. It’s said that each wave of a fl...
Surbiton — Isn’t she a beauty? She’s my new bargain find in Crouch End, whilst out visiting my friend and her lovely 15-month-old daughter. We had a fun morning dancing around the flat, laughing and giggling wi...
Tokyo — It was an empathy test of sorts.1 See, a few hours before, I had gotten really sick on an overnight bus from Osaka.2Reeeaaaally sick. Sick enough to warrant an unplanned stop, several embarrassed bow...
Totonicapán department — No hay futuro visible cuando todo tiene color a montaña quemada [y ya no estamos en la edad de esperar retoños; [por nuestros hijos mantenemos el paso, [seguimos caminando, cumpliendo la misión en la ...
Totonicapán department — Los caminos huelen a hierba seca, a flor de muerto, [a polvo; el cielo está profundamente azul. Pronto los campos quedarán desnudos: [recogeremos el maíz. Dos meses más y se despedirá el año, [yo...
Duluth — Ah, Spring! Usually our Great Lakes freighters travel solitary paths. Guided by charts, lighthouses, buoys and global positioning they wend their individual paths from loading to discharge: Duluth, S...
Chicago — And so it snowed. Again. Just when you thought Spring had finally arrived. But I’m not complaining. I love snow. Having experienced snow meant a check in my bucket list, a wish granted, a dream come ...
Kamakura — Shonan is the small place that can escape from Tokyo. I played truant from the work of the afternoon on that day; and went to Enoshima. It’s the time required for people who live in a city, to keep a...
Chicago — It was the first spring rain and I decided that it was time to put my hardly ever worn rain boots to good use, so I headed towards State street, umbrella in tow. For someone who comes from a country...
Nempont-saint-firmin — It’s amazing how many fields of golden, pungent, oilseed rape we’ve seen here in Northern France so far. And all of it is beautiful in the glorious sunshine!
Saint cloud — The state of psychological stability and composure which is undisturbed by experience of or exposure to emotions, pain, or other phenomena that may cause others to lose the balance of their mind. The ...
Aljaraque — Cuando llegué a casa, dejé todas las cosas que había adquirido para arreglar la bicicleta: La cadena, los enganches, las cámaras de las ruedas… Después de comer, sobre las 15:00 o un poco antes, me ...
Curitiba — This picture was one of the first that I took after learning how to use correctly the focus points with my camera. I did a basic photography course and I liked a lot. And I realize that understanding ...
Étaples — We visited Étaples Military Cemetery today, which, like all Commonwealth War Grave Commission sites, is immaculately maintained. This particular cemetery is the largest CWGC site in France, containin...
新宿区 — Christophe, my friend from Paris, was in the city. After dinner, we visited “Shinjuku Golden Gai” to find a bar where Chris Marker used to hang out. Years ago, Christophe and I became friends through ...
Boise — There was a time when I would tell anyone who’d listen that I was an artist, not a designer. After a shift in my university major, from painter to designer, I would tell folks that, yes, I design thi...
Wellington — … and I think it says something like: “No luck talking with other people? Come talk to this guy.” I was eating lunch in Midland Park, a place very far away from work, with my takeaway meal like I ...
Olinda — Grandma Moses notwithstanding, much could be said about why creativity blossoms mainly in the young and then declines with age. To put it in several nutshells: increasing responsibilities at home and...
Fairfax — Second week at NHI. We got our textbooks on Saturday and I’ve been amusing myself with it ever since. It’s almost as thorough as Grey’s Anatomy in exploring the human body, but written specifically fo...
San francisco — When I took this photo on the first day of TypoSF design conference, I was not in the most positive of spaces (hence the “doubt” in the title). I’ve been in a bit of a funk design-wise and the thought...
Hong kong — New Lucky House sits at the corner of Nathan and Jordan Road on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. It is one of the older buildings in the area and reflects so much of the history and culture of the city....
Weehawken — This is a picture of my neighborhood as I rarely see it, from across the river in another state. I was in Weehawken today, after taking a bus under the Hudson River, then missing my stop (the first o...
White plains — On Sundays the house is eerily quiet, so quiet that I can feel the silence. What used to be a day of rushing to soccer games, running meets, church, the grocery store, and doing loads and loads of lau...
Marconnelle — The flowers here are beautiful. Here’s a selection that I’ve seen and photographed today.
Surbiton — I popped to the garden centre today, in the hope of getting some inspiration for my balcony gardening. But my happy trip was interrupted by a drunken man at the bus stop, spouting his racist opinions ...
London — I used to circle the London Book Fair like I was lost in strange water. There are more big fish in suits and power dresses there than in my small book pond. You overhear phrases like, ‘Of course their...
Saint cloud — Being “whole” implies interconnectedness, integration and completeness. We are born with original wholeness that is fundamental to our nature as living beings. Modern day life, void of heart and spi...
Marconnelle — It’s amazing how a roadside area of grass left un-mown can look so beautiful when full of dandelions and daisies. Especially when the sun is shining!
Rolle — A theory begins to form as to why I could immediately relate to the Suisse romande. They speak French there, in a country otherwise largely dominated by a Swiss brand, or several Swiss brands of Germa...
London — The weeks leading up to a speaking event my nerves will inevitably begin to shake; I bite my lip uncontrollably, my mood swings from ecstatic to horrified and back again, whilst sleep becomes entirely...
Manali — Accomplishment. Technically it means ‘achieving something successfully’, but is it really as simple as it sounds? Let me try breaking it down.. Accomplishment usually starts with an intent. Like mine...
Accra — .. captures how this small town lights up at night. I remember 10 years ago, this whole area was in complete slumber. The lights coming have brought a lot of things to life: pubs, marijuana parties, ...
Minoo — My heart is still fluttering. Goose bumps have yet to cease. I am flying high, so high, off the scent of wood. All kinds of wood. I can vividly hear the sanding, the hum of the chain saw. I want to bo...
Tokyo — 明治公園の東側（日本青年館側）に一段高くなっているところがあって、訪ねてきた人の格好の休憩所になっている。今、その一角に囲い柵が作られていて、番号がついた石がたくさん置かれている。すでに公園の西側（外苑西通り側）では、調査のための工事が終わっているので、その時に移動したものなのかもしれない。捕らえられ、番号を振られた姿は、石といえども痛々しい。 気をつけて見てみると、日本青年館の生垣にも番号がつ...
Urubamba — Even though you’ve traveled to many beautiful places, there’s one place you’ll never forget, the wondrous ancient city of Machu Picchu in Peru, South America, an amazing archaeological site called the...
Vienna — When I was in middle school, I first read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. While a short and quick read, there were so many layers to it that I find myself re-reading it over the years. ...
Örebro — It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m too slow. I had thought of going to some café, eat a light lunch, while I could people watch and change the scenery without too much effort. Surprisingly I wasn’t the ...
Craik — But I am on a bus. A bus with wifi. (It’s sketchy wifi but it is enough wifi to post here). I’m on my way to Regina to show my work-in-progress: ossa ora. I get to stay with my friend T who I met whi...
Surbiton — A day full of happy moments, starting with breakfast on my balcony. A bit nippy but nice to be outdoors, amongst my plants and the ever-changing tulips (both shape and colour). Then I had yummy dim su...
Saint cloud — What do you see in this photo? Do you see the tree with the bark stripped from its trunk? Or do you see the young, vibrant sapling reaching up from the forest floor to find its place in the sun? Ca...
Tokyo — The nurse gave me a paper cup with an ice cube of anesthetic drug in it. She instructed me to put it on my tongue and let it melt slowly. Don’t bite, don’t swallow. After it is dissolved, spit it out ...
Folkestone — It has become something of a routine, if something that only happens once a year can be called a routine, that before we get on the Eurotunnel train and head for France, we get a drink in the terminal...
Bologna — Cosa succede se un gruppo di persone sceglie un libro da imparare a memoria, parola dopo parola, e decide di abitare una biblioteca per qualche giorno, in attesa che qualcuno gli chieda di raccontargl...
Tokyo — Every city has a beautiful moment that said “Tasogare” in Japanese. The sky will be blue to orange, and become the night. Every person can receive this moment, if they can recognize it. Of course, Tok...
Beijing — I have been living in the People’s Republic for a while now and when I want to sit down and write, I have two options. Train to my rented co-work space as the only foreigner and make do with slow inte...
Sherborne — You might also think that finally spending three years in one place would have allowed me to become properly acquainted with this place, with more than a tourist’s knowledge, but actually, it seems t...
Tokyo — Tokyo Tower was the adorable symbol of Tokyo life for me who came from far away from this town. Now, I can see this tower everyday. That’s my way of life? I don’t know. Maybe I can’t know eternally.
Portland — Once upon a… Once upon a Nevermore, there lived a Dreaming, a marvelous topsy-turvy multiverse where things as they were were never the same. each time we opened our eyes the dreams always offer us...
London — Some days you have a bad day. Some days just one person seems to close the world in on you. They pull down the stones and everything collapses till all you can feel is the cold echo of emptiness all a...
Los angeles — Go early in the morning to avoid a beating from the hot sun. Stroll leisurely along the dusty trail through the Cahuilla Indian canyon and discover some of their history. Stop to study the faded rock ...
Kingston upon thames — I spent the day with my darling nephew. We walked into town by the river, and he suddenly lay back in his pushchair and opened his mouth and let out a huge gasp. He was looking in awe at the clouds, a...
Portland — We arrived in Portland just over a week ago, and I feel different. Happy. Restless. Confused. Excited. Apprehensive. That’s all part of the deal, of course. Moving countries is not for the faint of he...
Saint cloud — From our single cell beginnings, to this very moment of breathing in and out, death has been a part of our life. Almost every cell in our body is replaced in just a single year of existence, so we li...
Cholargos — In the summer of ‘85 or ‘86, after I finished the 4th grade, my mom sent me to summer camp for the first time which was a tragic experience for a misfit kid like me. My parents were divorced which was...
Alfonso — Some mornings are perfect for a reason. This was one of those. I woke up wrapped in clean white sheets to the mellow chirping of birds outside our window and the soothing sound of flowing water. These...
Porto — In May 2012, I was invited to speak at Matosinhos School of Art and Design (also known simply as ESAD) in Porto, Portugal. An afternoon of progressive and theoretical lectures about web design had bee...
Cannon beach — I joined my Fictive Kin colleagues in Portland, Oregon for our latest work and play retreat. On the first day — eager to get away from the hum of thirteen laptops — we piled into two rented vans and h...
Florence — I awake to a beautiful Summer’s morning in the Boboli District. The heat has me out of bed unusually early and I find myself on our balcony garden, looking across the terracotta rooftops of Florence. ...