This is the third post in a series of photos entitled Faces and Places. I am using the tag #facesandplaces in all the posts in this series, and would love for you to use this same tag to share your photos and experiences.

Camera: Canon EOS 500D
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

Touring around her new school, Ayesha peeked curiously into the Montessori classroom from the outdoor terrace. She seemed to be captivated by all these little busy bees independently working on various activities in their environment. By the time I had taken my camera out and pointed it towards her, she had noticed me standing on her left, lost her focus, and gazed at me with a cheeky smile.

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Camera: Samsung Galaxy S4
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

On my bus journey back to the orphanage one day, I sat across this man looking out the window. Squeezed between four other passengers on a two-seater bench, I couldn't help but stare and envy his peacefulness. Judging by his facial expressions, he seemed to have landed the best spot on the bus - he had the window seat of course, also known as the "thinking" seat. To this day, I still wonder what his thoughts at that precise moment could have been, his expressions oscillating between light smiles and a general feeling of satisfaction.

There's something about "moving windows" that have always attracted me like a magnet. As we move forward, we get a sense of the outside world being left behind. Melancholy appears, nostalgia sets in. Motion reminds me of the impermanence of the universe. That things change, that everything is only temporary, that we are so infinitely small among this vast array of landscapes, not standing still but rather observing the outside world while contemplating our inside world.

_{Map Location: !steemitworldmap 27.7162695 lat 85.3355306 long - Nepal}

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Sylvia

“Learning is not a race for information, it is a walk of discovery” - Jane Healy