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Thinking Back to sunny times. The recent inclement and cool weather makes one long for sunnier and warmer times. We are almost at Mis Summer question is where is it.
From my little pincushion...to a big comfy cushion. I had one of those moments of excitment in which I felt I wanted to try a new idea.
Penso nele todos os dias.
Onde estará?
O que estará fazendo?
Será que tem lido?
Será que seu sorriso continuava o mesmo?
Quero tanto ve-lo novamente...
Sinto falta do dias de leitura ao seu lado...
Sinto falta de ve-lo corar...
Simplesmente sinto falta de te-lo ao meu lado.
Think about my holidays, think of rise
Think about dancing and singing in the waves now
Think about the time and the place where we met
Swimming in the sea, yeah I was all wet
Think about colours, think about sex
Think about your body, how it moved in that dress
Think about your touch, think about your kiss
Feeling like a kid again, total lots of bliss
Today notably is Walt Whitman's 200th birthday. These lines from "I sing the body electric" resonate for me whenever I re-read them. I re-read therm today:
"I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well."
Happy Birthday, Walt.
This is a scan of a very old photo (8x12 actually) I took in the summer of 2000, at the Pittsfield NH Annual Rotary Balloon Rally. You can even see fingerprints on the bottom of the image from the print. (I don't know why the map info says Barnstead when I clearly placed it in Pittsfield. Oh well.)
I'm already thinking about my summer. It's been a horrible winter here with at least nine feet of snow in my part of NH so far, and it's not over yet, we always get snow in March and April. Today it's raining, tonight it will freeze. There have been dozens of roof collapses in NH in the last couple of weeks. I'm hoping mine isn't one of them. You know those so-called ice dams? Well there's one over my bedroom closet that has been causing flooding in my room.
Yes, I'm ready for summer.
The Balloon Rally is one of the highlights of my summers here in NH. Held in a little old factory town the rally draws thousands of balloon enthusiasts from all over the country. In return the Rotary Club puts on one of the biggest fireworks display in New England for the attendees on Saturday night. Close to an hour of amazing fireworks, music, a great August night, fair food, good friends, it's really a great experience.
This year might be my last for a while. It looks like this is going to be my last summer living in NH which is at once exciting and bittersweet. I've been dying to get out of this state, my habits, my routine, but living here so long has afforded me frienships I couldn't possibly replace, friends I consider family, connections that run deeper than I could describe. These people have been there for me through the lowest point of my life. I know they'll support me in my next step, a high point, a great opportunity to move somewhere else. I will certainly have to try to make it back for the first weekend of August, for the Rally and for my friends.
This was a good 25-30 second exposure on Fuji 1600 speed film. I blew through a few 36 exposure rolls that night, and this is and always has been my favorite from ANY night glow I have attended. I love the woman selling glow-sticks in the lower right and the stream of light across the frame as she walked away after making a sale. The grain is amazingly tight for the speed and length of the exposure. The balloons? They weren't even lit at the same time. The balloon in the front, the reddish looking one, is actually red and white and th other side features a huge monkey. It wasn't even lit, the light is ambient, you can tell because you can't see the flame. PS- you can see more detail if you view it large.
My visit to Long Jetty yesterday gave me time to think about what i want and where i am heading. I was asked a few questions that got me thinking about the journey i have started and where i want it to end. Food for thought.
So thank you......
Any feedback or advice is very welcome and appreciated.
I watched this young boy talk on his cellphone for a good part of the sunset. Though i was some distance away, i could make out that he was talking to his lover..the way his head dipped with a smile, shy, full of expectations.
Wonder if she stayed at the other end of the Lake, in the mountains. Was she in the darkness somewhere, feeling the cool sunrays on her back, looking at the silhouette of a boy talking on his cellphone...
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we always take a day off for Saint Valentine's Day
and as always we went to Lago D'Orta, and we took a 6 kms walk!
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