Tag: imagery
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1,000 miles: step 30
Though recent temperatures spring forward to summer, let us not forget ’tis the season to be blooming. In other words, it’s spring time! One of my two favorite seasons—autumn being my favorite pick. All seasons bring a little magic. Autumn and spring bring falling petals or leaves. Flower petals aren’t petrified of gravity; instead, they…
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1,000 miles: step 28
My milestone says 4 days to go until the April 10th national immigration reform marches. Today I visited CARECEN in Washington, DC and helped with further mobilization efforts. Up until today my efforts have been making phone calls to immigrants in the DC community and sharing the march flyer with my local community. This famous…
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1,000 miles: step 25
Spring opened with snow this past Monday. How shocking, says everyone. If only people would quit dwelling on the wonder and ask about the blunder. Dear Earth.
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1,000 miles: step 24
One of the greatest pleasures of living is the opportunity to witness beauty. If the above glowing sun earlier this week wasn’t pointed out to me, I may have missed it. Or perhaps not. Sometimes, the sun is vain. When I think of the incredible radiance in this sky, I forget how cold it’s been…
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1,000 miles: step 23
Vase from the Chinese Porcelain collection at the National Gallery of Art (West Building). There’s that Claudia girl to the left. Taken yesterday in the company of a Russian mother and her adorable, beautiful and big-eyed baby.:) Up ahead: surviving midterms.
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1,000 miles: step 22
This school year, I’ve taken fewer calendar breaks. It’s the holidays that have kept me going until spring break, which is this week. This break is supposed to hold me together until classes end. A point in the future which is near, but not near enough. Break so far has been filled with more food…
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i am a Place
The context of these images come easier to me than it does for you, dear-reader. Unless you’re reading from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, but even then, you would wonder why the context of an image matters. First, Massachusetts, I miss you, but the star of this story is Memory and Place. Second, I came to the…
Claudia Rojas 