Quezon city — What is time? A stranger walks in to inquire on a hot afternoon and everyone at the table laughs— until it strikes them that he isn’t kidding he expects an answer. It’s not linear one of them quips, ...
Parker — I want to put something up to immortalize that for this moment in time I’m happy. I might not be tomorrow, might not be next month, or even next year, but if I can remember that I am happy today, then...
Youngstown — It was because I dislike studio portraits. It was an excuse to get a new portrait length prime lens. It became a way to capture her as I see her. Of course she’s been beautiful in studio pictures, ...
Warren — Short, stout rod. Hard to get any distance casting. Added a bobber to the rubber worm on the hook for weight. Got it to the middle of the pond. First quick nibbles, then harder hits. Not much flex to ...
Changsha shi — 书卖得越多，受益的人就会越多；书的价值就会更大！不是为钱，我已与出版社商议，重印所得将全部捐赠给贫困山区的小学！
Changsha shi — 希望对于一些HR的新手有较大的帮助。
Aireys inlet — Ra, god of sun and sky, embraced that morning Ma’at, justice, tenderly. But was that sun rising, or setting? Was it a beginning or an end?
Normandy park — Last year, in 5th grade, we had to do a project for something called the “Science Fair”. We each chose a topic and went through the whole science deal (which I won’t get into, because I hate science),...
Normandy park — I remember this moment on Ellie (my good friend who moved to Camarillo, CA a year ago)’s 11th birthday in October last year. We went to a local frozen yogurt place called “White Cap Frozen Yogurt” in ...
Accra metropolis — A friend of mine, who has never lost any close relative to death, recently lost her father.. When I saw her, her demeanor was all too familiar. When one loses someone they love for the first time: it...
Zhytomyr — Я люблю різні експерименти, і більше інших пов’язані з текстами і мережею. Але весь час здавалося, для початку на hi.co чогось не вистачає — наскрізної теми, продуманості чи, скажімо, мови. Думав, мат...
Bochum — Es gibt so viel zu tun, denke ich noch vor dem Aufstehen. Ich so lang ausgeschlafen bis sich der Schlaf beim besten Willen nicht weiter in die Länge ziehen lies. Es ist Samstag, ich habe frei, alle ...
Normandy park — Spring is awesome.
New york — I moved to USA in August 2014 to do my Master’s. So, now, I’m in my final semester and about to graduate soon! So, my roommate’s parents are visiting us for the ceremony(Mine couldn’t make it). Well, ...
Shibuya-ku — These things take time — closing, opening, changing, editing. Everything I’ve ever worked on worth pointing to has taken 2-10x longer than expected to complete. Above, I’m with Chris, mid-Thai meal, ...
Chicago — I never thought in a million years I’d ever spend any serious amount of time in Asia, let alone Japan. I was just coming out of Africa and was desperately trying to lay roots in France. All my efforts...
Oregon city — My MacBook Pro’s in the Apple store getting repairs. It’s been there for quite a while, since Monday. They’re still not done fixing only the trackpad of all things to take forever to do. I don’t blame...
Praha 1 — The meaning and purpose of dancing is to dance. Like music, it is fulfilled in the meaning of its course. You do not play a sonata to reach its final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply e...
Olinda — I desire poems of pure breathing: gusts of puppy play roses exuding their perfume silent gardens and mountain meadows breathing in and out chestnuts respiring oxygen in hazy light carbon dioxide ...
New york — Chaos defines the realm of fate. Sea of endless confusion late. In an ocean of desperation. Lies an island of salvation. As the stars litter the depths of space. The grains of sand, populate with ...
Nakano-ku — When I was regularly contributing to hi.co, I was struggling with my depression. It was probably the worst period of my life. But writing for this site helped me get back to writing and drawing. That ...
New lynn — First they shimmy into wet suits that turn them into odd seal children, then they lie on their tummies, paddling their boards up and down the eel infested tributary river, before graduating to the oce...
Bend — where shy Mrs. Stubbs reigned supreme. Those were the days I would deliberately break my pencil so I could procrastinate assignments by standing in line to use the pencil sharpener. Today I found it i...
Oregon city — Hello. We are the humans. We are an ancient society inhabiting the planet of Earth. It is a habitable planet, with an adequate atmosphere and just the right amount of heat from our sun. We’ve been her...
Manzanita — He doggedly followed several gps tracking devices he had placed inside LCD tv’s before dropping them off to be recycled. The signals led him far flung places, including Hong Kong, Kenya & Pakistan...
Pune — My favourite part on any given day would be to get up early (not too early) in the morning, make a cuppa (or not) and sit on the stairs adjacent to my room on the third floor of the hostel, where the ...
Hong kong — morning walk and climb and run and up the stairs through ruins and moss to this unexpected voice of cooler highlands swelling in the green damp of the peak my heart bursting from the climb i ...
Oregon city — At 9:45 PM today, my phone got an update: Android 6.0 Marshmallow! Oh, how long I’ve waited for this! The boot animation was changed (not so much the visuals, but the audio) and it took a while, but b...
Sanford — Hello, people of future and perhaps past (also present). I am writing this as a message to the future and whoever sees this for whatever reason. I see it as my civic duty to be messenger of past probl...
Shibuya-ku — After being in a full train smelling last night’s yakitori garlic breath off several salarymen’s mouth – I had left my bike in Omotesando last night – I stop for a morning coffee and think of the dead...
Marblehead — Unicorns v. Narwhals
Normandy park — Seattle for me has been more than just a place to live, it’s been a home, with it’s loving arms stretched out welcoming everyone who wanders into the vast city and country.
Banff — And now post-published. Snow finished, mountains dusted. Clouds lifted. All the trees little matchsticks. A billion pins in rock. Not quite a billion words, but a few million, from this wonderful com...
New york — If you’ve considered what you’ll do after Hi.co closes, I hope you’ll join me for more Brief Reviews to come. I just launched Brief Reviews by V. Stimac where you can sign up to receive all reviews b...
Punta gorda — A Simple Sunrise Brings a Smile to my Eyes “Just another Day,” I say, In a Lovely Paradise. The colors of the Sky today, Promise clear blue Hues alright, With scattered Sheep floating up high. ...
Charlottesville — My friend Sheridan has written a book (not the first, not the last) and before I left Cyprus last summer he gave me a copy of it. It is about a traveling salesman obsessed with astronomy and telescope...
Lucknow — It breaks my heart more than just a little to know that Hi.co is closing. I received the word a few minutes back and somehow it broke me from my reverie of my forlorn thoughts and left me deeply sadde...
Normandy park — There is a quote that says, “Friends buy you a lunch. Best friends eat your lunch.” And I thought this related to my lunch life, because when some one at our table doesn’t have a lunch (or ate it all ...
San pedro — It was Perry’s first time out on the Hol Chan survey field. He was nervous. “You’re the expert.” He kept telling me. “I’m the student here.” I laughed, because what he said was totally true, I was the...
Graz — The Evolution of the Photographic Posture: Part 7 Since the beginning of photography cameras are becoming smaller, lighter and in terms of user-friendliness far more easy to handle. So what will be t...
New haven — To the man on the street: how are you? are you hungry? please come in. it would be a pleasure to have you. yet how? has anyone said that before? have they? your words can change your life you know. s...
Melbourne — The month of May has shyly brought a upon series of unexpected change and disruption to my usual calm and peaceful life. It’s not that the disruption is an absolute evil force, I sincerely believe tha...
Prescott — She is wild because she is free. She is that rogue daisy swaying in a field of nothingness. Never meant to be plucked only admired from afar. She cannot be tamed. She does not belong in a vase but rat...
Clinton — Peter Frederick Johnson, who is now almost 11 years old (!!!!!!!) was born on August 23, 2005, which was two days after my 2nd birthday. He is sooo annoying, and I remember him saying last year, “Why ...
New haven — I’m not saying that this is not true. But some people simply accept their being, without asking why. Why? That is the question. Next time you walk down the street, look around. Ask why, why to everyth...
Saskatoon — My first trip out of province was approximately a year ago. My friend HG, and myself, took a trip to Invermere BC. This trip led me to my first flight, my first sights in a big city, and my first step...
Udaipur — -rev but I am stepping forward once again to see to see a beautiful vision which is real .I walked through those woods and found myself lost in the thought of the formation of the track .After the nar...
Normandy park — This was on the day of the 5th grade’s ballroom dancing presentation, which we were all itching to be done with. However, this dancing with boys, holding their hands (EWWW! GROSS!), and learning to tr...
Normandy park — This is the beautiful beach down the road from my house: Marine View Park.
Wilmington — Life. What a clean and simple word. So easy, someone from another country speaking another foreign language could learn it with a few tries. Oh however, if we were to really look into it, past the li...
Saskatoon — I fall into a deep slumber filled with the lost ember of a version of myself previously held aloft in a world so dear to me. My body, an object in the eyes I gazed into hoping to see some type ...
Alajuela — Inside a sealed box I inhale and exhale, wasting the oxygen with every breath I take. The walls are cold and I can’t see through the darkness. I miss my shadow. I’m afraid to move. I stay in the place...
Watertown — It has been 19 years. Not that I am counting consciously. Unconsciously, I am guilty of numbers floating by represented by days. No sadness. I try to support those who have lost their mothers. Try to ...
Aireys inlet — I love a good book burning: flames, shadows, licking at the sky’s brain (low-lying cerebro-nimbus). Oh, to have been in Alexandria or raging with the Nazis at Frankfort. This evening, I’ll settle...
Praha 7 — Photograph: Paolo Mussat Sartor. Poem below is my response to a traveling (one might also say ‘moving’) exhibition: A Beam in Thine Own Eye seen at Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Austra...
Normandy park — This picture is of when my family and I went to Hawaii when I was about six years old.
Normandy park — This picture is for all of the amazing memories that my bro(s) and sis contributed to my life. Thanks guys, you’re awesome.
Saskatoon — Once again, spring is here. Its sounds welcome me to a new home, again. Spring, in my mind, and no doubt in the minds of many, represents a certain renewal of the soul. I’m far happier when the weathe...
Los cerrillos — Each life on earth is ceaseless birth and death. Each day, elements unite and disperse. Self is recollection, convention and habit, proclivity, creation, coming together and dispersing. And final...
Biloxi — I have touched your face with often and near forgotten smiles. I have walked waist deep in every moment your body would give. I have lived inveterate days belonging only to you. Like an adolesce...
Normandy park — I remember waking up in the middle of the night to my parents whispers. My heart raced as I recollected that my mom was expecting a baby any day know. She was going to have my baby sibling, and so Amm...
Normandy park — I remember the day last year in the middle of January, when I got early dismissal from school so my family and I could drive to Issaquah to pick up our baby puppy. He was so small that he fit into my ...
Oslo — This garden is located on the grounds of the Natural History museum in Oslo. I took this photo in May of 2015 when everything was in bloom. I will say the museums on the grounds are not really worth v...
Aireys inlet — I woke this morning blue - really, really sad. Stepping out the front door to a deeply and utterly blue skyscape, I thought: I really can’t bear this moment, this life, this departure. Then, a touc...
Aireys inlet — I’ll fly with you Black Cockatoo. Up in the Blue. Only with you.
Bethesda — A wonderful performance with a magical meeting between a young girl entering the tweens and a time/space lost Amelia Earhart. Each looking for that one little bit of help in order to soar…
Oregon city — Questions I have questions. Quite a few, in fact. I don’t know whether they will have answers. They’ve been asked in so many different places, I forget where to find them. I only remember I asked onc...
Roma — I find myself at crossroads more often then I’d like. Mostly, the roads aren’t that radical and my choices would not define what I am to become. Every now and then however, I face contrasting routes,...
Prescott — Mi corazón me grita desesperadamente que mi lugar esta en tus brazos. Estar cerca de ti aun estremece mi alma pero tengo que detenerme. Lo mas lógico es no volver a quemarme con el mismo fuego que una...
Sevenoaks — As I sort through my father’s books, I’m certainly finding it interesting to see how many very old books he had (many dating from the 17th and 18th Centuries). But probably more fascinating is lookin...
Prescott — Love is not perfect, by any means. But it’s oh so worth it. Being in love makes us more selfless, happier, wiser. When the love is pure we grow with our partners. We see the world through new eyes, we...
Wilmington — It was only 8:35 a.m. The morning was new, the air was crisp, and she was ready for her real cup of coffee. Her and her dog sat out on the screened porch that faced her backyard. This was their favori...
Oregon city — To be honest, I created this image a long time ago, and posted it on Facebook first. But I’d like to share it with the Hi community, because I think it explains most geometric fonts. -LoganDark
Oregon city — Hello! I’m a non-professional web developer with my own website. I’d be happy to do web design work, logos, and programming in Processing, Lua, HTML, and CSS. I’m not very good with JavaScript yet I’v...
Duluth — Duluth’s 18th annual Homegrown Music Festival, featuring local musicians, begins today and runs for 8 days. Despite the strangeness and, yes, despair of much of our national politics, the Northeaster...
San francisco — I grabbed my fingerless gloves and flew down the stairs in a whoosh. I was so pumped up and full of energy that it felt like my blood was pure caffeine. Silently, I slid the sliding window open, stepp...
Montecito — April 25, 2015. 7:00pm. Me and my best friend stepped out of the car dressed in our skirts. We walked quickly across the street and into the warm building. It was drizzling outside. Our hair was wet....
Maumee — Today I am sitting in a church that isn’t mine, thinking thoughts that my mind doesn’t go to. My mind says that I have no idea what in the heck I’m doing or what I’ve ever been doing. Now, I don’t ev...
New orleans — A quiet unseen but felt from the ground up is muting our footsteps, tucking itself into the corners of rotting houses, tightening around reeds of Johnson grass that blanket a decade’s worth of blighte...
Wilmington — The next night. 11:15 p.m. She walked in but nobody noticed. She had bumped into someone on her way to put her stuff up who didn’t grant her the slightest acknowledgment; even though she’s sure she ...
Nairobi — In Sandman cities have dreams and it is entirely possible to get caught in the dream a city is having about itself. This is how I feel about Nairobi: that every time I go I get caught in the dream and...
Wilmington — He was known to travel but her eyes took him places he had never experienced; and after the first trip, he never wanted to let go. He wanted her. Sometimes he would find himself staring, looking for a...
Stockholm — To my beloved grandmother. Just like the beautiful dark starry night, warm and inviting, tend to remind me much of you. Speaking of which my beautiful grandmother whom always spreads joy & positi...
Huddersfield — Today was Janet Fisher’s funeral, in mad weather, high above Yorkshire in a fold holding a Quaker meeting room. One minute snow and sleet, then bright sunshine, grey roiling cloud, bright buds on the...
Alajuela — How did it all happened so fast? All the games and the fights. All the immature jokes and the embarrassing moments. I would like to watch my younger self play with his friends. I would like to watch h...
Bimini — Bimini, Bahama Islands. Huge stone blocks, laid out straight and level run nearly 2000 feet along the sea floor. With so many right angles and straight edges, it’s easy to believe this underwater stru...
Manchester — Cherry blossom, Japanese Cherry Tree or Sakura is a symbol of hope and renewal. This tree marks the arrival of spring each year and you can see it in it’s full beauty from late March to early May. Jap...
Aireys inlet — Honey bee buzzin’: buzz, buzz. Bottle brush blushin’: hush, hush.
Montecito — We think we are so important and that everything must revolve around us. We kill animals for food and clothes to protect our perfect skin, which we tend with various soaps and scrubs. We use green pri...
Anaheim — What if? If what? What does the word ‘if’ substantially mean in our generation’s existence? ‘If’ is a word that shows us late night thoughts, high dawn daydreams and kinky memories. Christ, ‘if’ shows...
North vancouver — We would need some sort of a deposit for these kayaks, – said a man behind the counter. Would a scarf in a bag work for you? – Dmitry Semenov asked earnestly. Sure thing, – was the answer. And off ...
Olinda — Now I lay me down to sleep, My promises I’ve tried to keep. When tomorrow dawns in glory, I’ll be there to tell my story.
Stockholm — I don’t know how to feel about it, life that is - constantly mixed feelings, constantly mixed situations. I must say it is what you make of it. Waste your time surrounded with negativity and doing thi...
Duluth — My doctor says I must start drinking! About 11:00 am today. So I brought along a mixture of water and apple juice on my daily 4 mile walk. Unfortunately, the concoction looks like urine or the water...
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Olinda — I see a dog, not a frog or a hog And certainly not a log. Just a dog.
Houston — I was looking at his face today. Examining it. Turns out he is not that ugly. I wish I did not have these feelings, and if I didn’t have them, I would think that I am a cold person, who is going to di...
Houston — I don’t like my own race I don’t know why. Maybe it is because of all the times I have been hurt by desi people or because the desi men belittle the women, and make them into a house wife. It is just ...
Aireys inlet — Cockie with a crest, yellow, yellow handsome, handsome, fellow, fellow
Big sur — Here the sky comes to meet the earth. The enormity of it brings us to silence as we crest the hill in old-worn pickups and the reproduced voices of Elton John and Queen, drops open our mouths and stil...