Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Fifty-Two Frames: Behind the Subject
Week 49: Behind the Subject Kinds on the Wall.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Abandoned
Week 48: Abandoned Tossed.
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Worth a fortune
It’s comforting to know that for decades, through wars, movements, periods of uncertainty… through times of prosperity and discovery and technological revolutions… throughout it all, kids are STILL making these.
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Nettles update: twenty months
We’re welcoming winter, Nettles, and because it involves warm frothed milk, it’s officially your favorite season. It’s also your first conscious dinovember. While your brother ponders the universe and your sister cheers them on, you have one reaction, every day, finger pointing: “Whoa. Whoooa. Whoa! Whoa.” You’re growing closer to your brother and sister, and…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Animals
Week 47: Animals Autumn. Look close, the snails are out.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Extreme Angle
Week 46: Extreme Angle From Inside View from inside the (thorny, ouch) bush.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Freeze the Action
Week 45: Freeze the Action Hi. After failing to capture something really high speed, I found a slower moving, head bobbing, tongue poking subject.
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Fifty-Two Frames: Emotion
Week 44: Emotion Smiling eyes.
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On rocks, Arabs, talking it out, conflict, and more rocks.
This, an hour after listening to the recent This American Life podcast on the way home from work; the one titled, #570: The Night in Question, the one about the Rabin assassination and associated conspiracy theories. “Listen, I want to talk to you about some stuff. Do your friends talk about Arabs in school?” “[My…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Mash-up
Week 43: Mash-up “Reading takes you higher” This photo won’t win any awards, but this theme is definitely in my all-time top 3 for learning a core skill in photography and manipulation! I had no idea about layers… and I only work on a smartphone. This is a game changer for creating art! Going to…
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Nettles update: nineteen months
A couple months in maon daycare, and you’re becoming a tiny version of a kid. Making ‘friends’ (well, maybe ‘petting’ potential friends/younger babies in your vicinity? Whether they like it or not?). Adding new words to your vocabulary (as well as using a million words for the same thing, like tzetzi and geegee for pacifier?…
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Who’s on first?!
“it’s very exciting! it means they won all the games they had to win so they get to the World Series.” “what’s world series?” “when they play the last seven games against the other team and the team that wins the most, which is four, wins the whole thing.” “why seven?” “I dunno. it’s best…
Questions? Comments? Advice?