DAY 254

embodiment of summer

It´s time to photo-heart connection and this is my june´s contribution. This is not the best photo I have taken past month, yet one which is quite evocative and closes to my heart maybe because it gives a tangible form to what I love of summers: sharp light that creates interesting shadows, vibrant colors and  fresh rooms where protect ourselves from relentless sun; the opportunity of staying at home with windows wide open and nothing to do except reading, creating, experimenting with a cold drink aside... calmed mood, no timetable or goals and the feeling that days are too long:  relaxed manners, simple routines and time enough to attempt new (and sometimes arduous) things without being in a rush or even time enough to get bored, what a sublime pleasure!

When I was a teenager, I had this sort of summers and I loved them although a time came that I looked for something more challenging, intriguing, sophisticated or interesting... I wanted to fly away and didn’t want to live like my mother did

I didn´t know that this moment would pass and wouldn´t come back, not only because the society and our style of life was meant to change dramatically but because enjoying it requires a kind of naivety that we have usually left along the path...

I didn´t know that one day I would be dreaming of those childish summers, longing for that candid attitude, my frank and credulous heart, my unrefined, yet nice, life and my limpid gaze...

I didn´t know that I would want to feel that way one more time as a way to make it up with the person I was and to recover some of my own personality...

I didn´t know that time could be so important...

And I couldn´t even imagine, that I would be writing about them thirty five years later and trying to live by their spirit. But here I am

Of course, there were lots of underlying circumstances that were not so easy to deal with, but those simple-minded summers existed and were fantastic