Comments on: day thirteen http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: leili http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-417 leili Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:46:40 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-417 This is one of my favorite sets of all. i love the benches. And the whimsical, gumball-marauding panda! manijeh, the warbly dappled stained glass is really lovely and atmospheric. And the lanterns ... is it the 50D? I am so excited that you did this. Also, about being with friends - i find that it is often the most social and unifying time of the year. and then, when Naw Ruz arrives, it truly feels like a celebration. Wish you were here for Naw Ruz ... Leila - love the daddy/baby shot so much. isn't it amazing how small we people are when we are starting out? This is one of my favorite sets of all. i love the benches. And the whimsical, gumball-marauding panda!

manijeh, the warbly dappled stained glass is really lovely and atmospheric. And the lanterns … is it the 50D? I am so excited that you did this. Also, about being with friends – i find that it is often the most social and unifying time of the year. and then, when Naw Ruz arrives, it truly feels like a celebration. Wish you were here for Naw Ruz …

Leila – love the daddy/baby shot so much. isn’t it amazing how small we people are when we are starting out?

]]> By: nemoDreamer http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-382 nemoDreamer Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:48:46 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-382 leila, you are brutal in your honesty, and refreshing at the same time. probably a lot of parents have felt this way at the beginning, and were just too scared of telling their friends about it... all i can offer is that ACTUAL hate would have felt different, or is that just me clinging to my illusions of parenthood? leila, you are brutal in your honesty, and refreshing at the same time. probably a lot of parents have felt this way at the beginning, and were just too scared of telling their friends about it…
all i can offer is that ACTUAL hate would have felt different, or is that just me clinging to my illusions of parenthood?

]]> By: leila http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-381 leila Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:26:45 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-381 nemoDreamer: if i'm honest, i have to say there were a couple of nights last week where i think i actually hated her. i mean i turned my back on her and wanted to ignore her forever. "annoyance" does not represent at all the feelings of my abhorrence for her existence in my life at those times. it's not just the fact that she's turned our life on its head and we're rearranging EVERYTHING for her, nor the fact that we both have had a ghastly lack of sleep for two months, or the fact that we spend hours---consecutive HOURS---of rocking, bouncing, shushing, singing, swinging, walking, and patting her to sleep, or the fact that we have to repeat endless varying constellations of these sleep-inducing methods, or even the fact that her endless crying is sometimes at the volume of a chainsaw next to our ears and is at the precise pitch calibrated to raise our blood pressure and induce a panic-response in our bodies, but it's all of these things combined that has the ability to hack away at my affection for her and make me detest her, if only for an hour or three. it's not my favourite reaction, and it's difficult to realise that i am one of only two people on this planet who's meant to have unconditional love for her, but there it is. people tell me it gets better. also, it bears repeating that i'm not a patient person and often feel as though i'm not cut out for parenthood. nemoDreamer: if i’m honest, i have to say there were a couple of nights last week where i think i actually hated her. i mean i turned my back on her and wanted to ignore her forever. “annoyance” does not represent at all the feelings of my abhorrence for her existence in my life at those times.

it’s not just the fact that she’s turned our life on its head and we’re rearranging EVERYTHING for her, nor the fact that we both have had a ghastly lack of sleep for two months, or the fact that we spend hours—consecutive HOURS—of rocking, bouncing, shushing, singing, swinging, walking, and patting her to sleep, or the fact that we have to repeat endless varying constellations of these sleep-inducing methods, or even the fact that her endless crying is sometimes at the volume of a chainsaw next to our ears and is at the precise pitch calibrated to raise our blood pressure and induce a panic-response in our bodies, but it’s all of these things combined that has the ability to hack away at my affection for her and make me detest her, if only for an hour or three.

it’s not my favourite reaction, and it’s difficult to realise that i am one of only two people on this planet who’s meant to have unconditional love for her, but there it is. people tell me it gets better.

also, it bears repeating that i’m not a patient person and often feel as though i’m not cut out for parenthood.

]]> By: nemoDreamer http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-380 nemoDreamer Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:00:24 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-380 anothe sweet set of pictures... amy: totally.. manijeh: i know what you mean with a clearer sense of "accomplishment" during the fast. days have a real rhythm to them. leila: love your thoughts on the physicality of prayer, and humans as annoying babies... isn't that how far it ever goes? annoyance, not hate? i hope so, in both sides of the example... anothe sweet set of pictures…

amy: totally..
manijeh: i know what you mean with a clearer sense of “accomplishment” during the fast. days have a real rhythm to them.
leila: love your thoughts on the physicality of prayer, and humans as annoying babies… isn’t that how far it ever goes? annoyance, not hate? i hope so, in both sides of the example…

]]> By: Elizabeth http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-367 Elizabeth Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:06:29 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-367 Love that shot of the benches. And the jewel tones of the morning window. Love that shot of the benches. And the jewel tones of the morning window.

]]> By: nineteen days at afnan-murray.com http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-366 nineteen days at afnan-murray.com Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:50:02 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-366 [...] Day 13. My turn to be the ‘guest photographer’. Filed under blog.  | var blogTool = "WordPress"; var blogURL = "http://www.afnan-murray.com"; var blogTitle = "afnan-murray.com"; var postURL = "http://www.afnan-murray.com/2009/03/15/nineteen-days/"; var postTitle = "nineteen days"; var commentAuthorFieldName = "author"; var commentAuthorLoggedIn = false; var commentFormID = "commentform"; var commentTextFieldName = "comment"; var commentButtonName = "submit"; [...] [...] Day 13. My turn to be the ‘guest photographer’. Filed under blog.  | var blogTool = “WordPress”; var blogURL = “http://www.afnan-murray.com”; var blogTitle = “afnan-murray.com”; var postURL = “http://www.afnan-murray.com/2009/03/15/nineteen-days/”; var postTitle = “nineteen days”; var commentAuthorFieldName = “author”; var commentAuthorLoggedIn = false; var commentFormID = “commentform”; var commentTextFieldName = “comment”; var commentButtonName = “submit”; [...]

]]> By: Ronnie http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-365 Ronnie Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:40:59 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-365 Wow! Great photos! Superb composition Amy....Love the D.O.P. through the curly arm rests! Wow! Great photos!

Superb composition Amy….Love the D.O.P. through the curly arm rests!

]]> By: Jasveen Ahluwalia http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-364 Jasveen Ahluwalia Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:32:17 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-364 Lovely pictures and thoughts amy and leila. I wish i could have been up at dawn today (switched the snooze button) and now counting the hours. Happy fasting! Lovely pictures and thoughts amy and leila. I wish i could have been up at dawn today (switched the snooze button) and now counting the hours. Happy fasting!

]]> By: Della L. Marcus http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-363 Della L. Marcus Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:21:28 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-363 Stunning photos yesterday, Amy. I also love Manijeh's top photograph. A feast for the eyes. Stunning photos yesterday, Amy. I also love Manijeh’s top photograph. A feast for the eyes.

]]> By: amysahba http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/day-thirteen-2/#comment-361 amysahba Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:32:14 +0000 http://nineteendays.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-361 manijeh - i adore that dawn photo, the soft light through the glass! leila - oh, your dawn picture is just so so so so sweet. you captured fatherhood as i imagined it. manijeh – i adore that dawn photo, the soft light through the glass!

leila – oh, your dawn picture is just so so so so sweet. you captured fatherhood as i imagined it.

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