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    Columbia Hillen
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    Mysterious Languedoc

    "To be happy, it is enough to think you are." ... an Occitan saying.

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Dec 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    The long road to creation

    "If you want to be a writer, you have to come to Paris," Sherwood Anderson.

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Mar 3, 2016
    • 1 min

    Forty four years today...

    Forty four years today I came into this world. A Drop of water from outer space, taking the shape I have now. The only intention I am awa...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Dec 23, 2015
    • 2 min

    The many shades of happiness

    Coming to the end of another year and I let  myself carried away with the wave of all the rush to remember everyone... Have we "bought so...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Nov 16, 2015
    • 1 min

    Food moods - Rainbow salad for rainy days

    It's been raining and the sky won't change its grey tones. Why not get a rainbow in my plate with this salad created as I go along. 2 car...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Jul 28, 2015
    • 1 min

    Once upon a time in Cnoc Fola

    Once upon a time, there was a girl who dreamt of a specific place by the sea. She did not know if the place was real, but that did not ma...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Jul 21, 2015
    • 1 min

    Concert for pots and pans

    Reminiscent of an invitation to dine within the inner temple of the kitchen in the Oitavos Hotel in Cascais, I have to thank Chef Sebasti...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • May 9, 2015
    • 1 min

    The way of the menhir

    I have touched the silent menhirs in Carnac, Brittany several years ago and I left with more questions than I came with. I needed to try ...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Apr 11, 2015
    • 1 min

    Instant perspective of heterotopias of time

    Airports can be such a contrasting combinations. On one side, they are cold, characterless warehouses, with no soul – we never spend enou...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Feb 15, 2015
    • 1 min

    Escaping reality in reality

    There is something comforting about hotel lobbies. Like being in front of a portal to a world where you are simply a guest. No commitment...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Jan 11, 2015
    • 1 min

    Je Suis Charlie: A thank you to all my diverse selves, wherever you are out there

    It’s no coincidence that I have been reading “Tomorrow’s God” by Neale Donald Walsch when the events in Paris happened. And even though W...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Dec 14, 2014
    • 1 min

    Conversations during Afternoon Tea

    I believe the initial idea of the afternoon tea was to feed the hunger and satisfy the thirst of those who were too passionate to convers...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Dec 3, 2014
    • 1 min

    That quiet place between two breaths

    I have my yoga teacher to thank for her gift: "try to find that quiet place between two breaths." I did not know how much I was looking f...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Oct 22, 2014
    • 2 min

    Halloween thoughts and autumn feelings

    At this time of year I always get asked the question: “Was Dracula real?” Growing up in Transylvania, in a small town in the mountains, w...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Oct 8, 2014
    • 1 min

    How does it feel to be YOU?

    I have left parts of myself in each corner of the world where I have travelled. The moment I stopped and fully realized I was THERE, a th...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Sep 29, 2014
    • 1 min

    Learning from the water how to master change

    "There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name "ev...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Sep 22, 2014
    • 0 min

    Hearts and souls of Vama Veche - the Venice Beach of the Balkans

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Sep 11, 2014
    • 1 min

    Learning about street fashion photography

    ...that's how I met Cristiana, who had just arrived at Vama Veche beach, on the shores of the Black Sea. ...and I asked her if she minds ...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Aug 31, 2014
    • 1 min

    Proud to be among winners at "Vama under Oscar lights" international photography festival

    After a hard-working week, a perfect ending, with my collection of seven photographs being awarded third place in the "Street Fashion Pho...

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    Columbia Hillen
    • Aug 25, 2014
    • 1 min

    Tapping on the core of street photography

    For the last two days I have landed in a sort of heaven - a week-long festival of photography on the sunny coast of Black Sea, in the vil...

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