Autumn is changing the landscape’s colors and soon we will be leaving. And for this I feel slightly melancholic. But the beauty is there just waiting to feed my eyes. And my heart.
In a world that has become so aggressive and full of hate, I need nature’s caresses to keep me from becoming cynical and without hope.
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”. Khalil Gibran
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Home is where the heart is and my heart is here.
This is the little wall where we sit to watch the sunset. I don’t know who put the slabs of marble there but it does give a poetic touch.
There was a man standing on a rock fishing. I was afraid he would fall. But seems he knew a lot about balance.
Thank you Petra and Terrance!
The sunsets come earlier this time of the year. No more sunset apertifs. Just sunset walks. We walk past Pandrossos and sit on the wall. And stay even after the sun goes down. There’s the sky that glows and the water that shimmers and shimmies.
No two sunsets are ever the same. Like people…nuances make us all unique.
I love to watch the ferries come in with all the lights on. The contrast of light and dark makes me shiver inside. Don’t ask me why. I don’t know. All I know is that they make me “feel therefore I am”.
The two of us sit together just looking at the sea and the sunset painted sky. Although wordless, just being there together is a dialogue. All I want is that “Be here now” will last forever.
Was it Nikos Kazantzakis who, in Zorba the Greek, wrote about living the moment? How, for example, when drinking a cup of coffee, you must simply drink the coffee and basta? No wandering thoughts, no selfies, no divorcing yourself from the moment you are experiencing. Just “Be here now”. “Ouch” I say to myself. How much of my life have I wasted trying to be there when being here was the place to be? How much of my life have I wasted trying to look out of someone else’s window instead of my own?
Tonight I have no answers, just questions.
Kalinikta.
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