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Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Challenge: X is for Xerox

It’s Tuesday in our part of the world, time to join Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge. Letter this week is X – kinda tough, really, so I thought of sharing the theme Xerox, just to have a bit of fun. Here are a few photographs of me and my daughter around three years back in matching ‘xerox’ outfits.

Xerox

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” 
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.” 
― Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland

“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.” 
― Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

How about you, dear friends, what is your X photo for the week?

Myra is a Teacher Educator and a registered clinical psychologist based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she lived for eleven years in Singapore serving as a teacher educator. She has edited five books on rediscovering children’s literature in Asia (with a focus on the Philippines, Malaysia, India, China, Japan) as part of the proceedings for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content where she served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference from 2011 until 2019. While she is an academic by day, she is a closet poet and a book hunter at heart. When she is not reading or writing about books or planning her next reads, she is hoping desperately to smash that shuttlecock to smithereens because Badminton Is Life (still looking for badminton courts here at UAE - suggestions are most welcome).

4 comments on “Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Challenge: X is for Xerox

  1. awww so lovely ^^

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  2. you’ve introduced wonderful photos as a perfect illustration for
    “For in every adult there dwells the child that was,
    and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”

    ― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

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  3. That is a cool idea for your Xerox pictures!

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