i’m not tan. 10 full days in the sun and i’m decidedly not tan. i’m not quite as pasty-white as before – and in the right light some might even say there’s a tad bit of a healthy glow (ok…maybe that’s a stretch) and definitely no burns - so, my dermatologist will be pleased… but really, it’s no fair living with a greek who instantly bronzes at the slightest bit of sun exposure. oddly, my stomach tanned more than the rest of me… but unless i want to wear my bikini top around town, not much good it does me. oh well. fewer wrinkles right? anywho...
enough of that. rather than do the same old same old (blogging about each day’s events) i thought it would be fun to post on topics and themes i captured in my journal. inspiration for this idea came from my beach reading: “the art of travel” by alain de botton. i’m not sure i would have appreciated this book had i just read it at home. reading it on the plane and in costa rica made it more poignant. his themes of the reality of travel vs our built-up expectations and anticipation, motivation & curiousity to explore, and beauty all struck such a chord with me. but i'll leave those details for my bookgroup - lets skip to the pictures :)
from de botton…
one of wordsworth’s poetic ambitions was to induce us to see the many animals living alongside us that we typically ignore, registering them only out of the corner of our eyes and feeling no appreciation for what they are up to and want: shadowy, generic presences such as the bird up on the steeple and the rustling creature in the bush. he invited his readers to abandon their usual perspectives and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? perhaps because unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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