Category: Photography
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Under the Fire Tree
Along my street, not too far away from home, there is a magnificent tree ablaze with bright, red flowers. I pass under it every day, and I look up each time – at its vermillion blossoms and outstretched branches offering shade to anyone passing by. It is the most striking thing on an otherwise ordinary street, and I often wonder how it came […]
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The Young Kids Club
At the start of summer, my 7-year-old sister, Dani, and her friend, Lovely, founded the Young Kids Club. As of today, they only have two members (you can guess who they are) and they spend each day thinking of fun activities. According to their brochure, these include: “Milo making, ID creating, mini golf, orientation, mini fishing, drawing, […]
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A Piece of Home
When you leave home, you go off expecting to find adventure, excitement, uncertainty, and amazement – words of travelers and explorers, who define each place by a myriad of colorful words that compel people to leave their chair, pack up their things, and seek out new paths.
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Counting Stars
I know very little about stars and constellations. “That is the North Star,” my dad would say, pointing to a speck in the sky – far brighter than the rest, sure – but a speck, like all the others, nonetheless. The sky has a marvelous but complicated language of its own, which always leaves me […]
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Finding Christmas in the Mountains
A few days before Christmas, I found myself on top of a mountain, covered in four layers of clothes and still shivering from the cold. Climbing Pulag in the rain was one of the most challenging things I’ve done this year (or maybe, ever) and I’ll share more about the experience later on, but for […]