posting via e-mail
just checking if it works
and with an attachment too
this old photo
a man meditating in Ocean Beach
i wonder where the e-mail
is going to attach the photo
in which position and size on the page
this happened, the man meditating episode
in what it seems
a long time ago...
where does the time...
all together go?
since i became 40
i seem to be able to hear
the time slipping by
every second, somehow
i feel the transitory/brief
state of life
i think i feel like this
'cause i enjoy the birds
and looking for the lost cats
i enjoy the sun, the light,
the early mornings with coffee
and the late nights with books
even if i am calmer lately
and i don't talk much or go outside
i do enjoy more life
and i feel it's brief
'cause i don't want to die
i do now realize
i like to be alive
i'd like to last for a while now
but without changes
just an eternal afternoon
seated on my patio outside
alone, with birds chirping
cats walking by
soft breeze on my face
and a Haruki Murakami book
with an endless story
a book that as i turn pages
seems to always grow...
5 comments:
Hallo Berenice,
May be you don't know it but you are just a bit happy, in a tranquil way.
Very good photo, very impressive. Makes me happy too. For a time.
Georg
Nice Bere bere! Many things here very nice and also it is quite hopeful that fresh vision of the 40s you're adopting, I like it!
The 'eternal afternoon' idea is superb as well the book with an endless story... Damn! This aging thing really gets the deepness arise, but it really is something to stop and think... Have you got a personal mission statement? A mantra you use to make your big decisions? I'm reading a book in which they talk about it and I think it is a good idea, to pull out your core values and put them on the table so you can see them all the time and will help you achieve your goals without tumbling from side to side...
If turning 40 does this to one, everyone ought to turn forty and soon; you appear tranquil and at peace with yourself, and that's more than what most of us can say about ourselves!
Hey you're "into the Wild" yourself...onto an 'endless journey' turning pages of a book 'the pages' of which 'seem to always grow'....now, that's a wonderful way to be!
Hola Berenice,
Hey, it turns out well, I think, posting from the phone. Great photo, too! The California coast on a warm and sunny afternoon really has a way of zen-ing you...
I was on a different part of the coast a few days ago... Down in La Jolla. Too many people and oozing seals about to reflect much on things, but there was a really reticent gull there that was doing enough of the thinking for both of us. Sometimes I wonder just what he and his friends think as they surf the ocean breeze along the coast. It almost make me want to believe in re-incarnation!
Hope your weekend has started well. Thanks a bunch for the links to your photos of Horton Plaza, too! Great perspectives! :o)
Smorgy
hola mis queridos amigos
sorry for the tardy reply, i guess i did extend myself with the endless afternoon and made of it the whole weekend, heh heh
@ herr Georg, yes! i think i've found, at least for a couple of hours, or days, that tranquil peace, so easy to disturb though nevertheless
@ dear beto beto, ground control! i think that idea of coming out with one's personal mantra / mission statement is great!! it does make sense, now the trick is to figure out your mantra, right? as you said, trying to be completely honest with yourself and the rest around you, that sort of 'emotional honesty', and the quest of that mission statement, i feel, might take a life time, defined by your decisions, but i looove your idea, and i am trying hard to figure out mine, how are you going with yours? this is rather interesting beto beto
@ dear Id, thank you! for your always wonderful poetic words, even your prose is a little poem of love, and yes, one good thing about aging is getting to know yourself and what gives you peace a little better, a little easier...
@ mister Smorg, thank you again for coming by and glad you visited La Jolla, and sure we are lucky to live in such a lovely town by the sea, and no wonder feels easier to be happy here, when there's always birds and sea waves to hear, hey! but if you believe in re-incarnation, then we must've done something cool in the past life, that we are allowed to be here now
take care my dear friends and face the Monday fiercely!! i might need much café for that myself ;)
receive a warm hug wherever you are and thanks for your words and thoughts shared!
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