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Posts tagged ‘traditions’

on birthdays and candles left burning.

With that observation pointed out, as simple as it was profound, I realized how easy it is to take this world around me right now for granted. That differences like a candle left burning on a cake are always there; it’s just up to us to stay open and discover them.

the rhythm, the strength, the power: falling for flamenco in madrid.

Flamenco wasn’t on my list of things to see in Spain. But when a performance unexpectedly started at lunch one day in Madrid, I suddenly couldn’t imagine having left the country without seeing this.

photo friday: meeting pepi the potter in zadar, croatia.

His name is Predrag Petrović—Pepi for short, he tells me. A potter from the island of Iz, just off the Dalmatian coast, and I’ve traveled nearly a thousand miles to meet him.

“gift me your heart”: love locks across the rhine.

From the Pont de l’Archevêché in Paris to the Rialto in Venice, there is hardly a famous bridge that hasn’t been claimed by couples eager to profess their love to the world. An old railway bridge in Cologne is no different.

softstone carving as subversion: an unlikely rebellion in the south of india.

“Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.” –Margaret Lee Runbeck On a rainy Saturday morning outside Chennai, Tamil Nadu–India’s southernmost state–huge groups of students were arriving at DakshinaChitra. But one bus brought nine young women there for a different reason than a simple school excursion: [...]

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