Sunny Summer Days
The older I get the more forgiving I am towards youth's
follies ,nature's beauty and the passing of time.No , I still cannot forgive
war ,politics, ill intended religious
ignorance and stupidity, violence, women's repression, bad manners and ..bad
art. There is a limit to my acceptance, of course.
I used to think that worth young people ,should be
serious and well behaved ,the bright image of their future self, the pride of
their schools, parents and countries, on their fragile shoulders leaning the
future of the planet. Somehow I still do.
Nature's frail beauty was to me something abstract , the
picture perfect setting to more important things like science, culture,
goodness of superior intelligence .
Time passing was the most annoying things of all: only so
many hours a day, careers to build, children to be taken care of, homes to be
made spotless, art to admire and worst, create, on top of being somebody's
wife, somebody's daughter, somebody's best, second.. .friend.Too little time
for all this amalgam.
Rarely having time off , to watch plants grow after I
planted them, the sun rising between morning daily chores and speedy rides to
the other side of the city to work, or watching small insects or birds building
nests - the way I used to do when I was small, in rural Romania at my
grandparents vineyard, these were the things to do during short summer holidays
, or things to read in books, to watch in movies or paintings and photographs,
in museums, the way a tourist doesn't have time to enjoy the sites he visits ,
because he is too busy taking photos or filming what he sees- believe it, it
happened to me too.
Recently it occurred to me that the connection with the
nature ,we are about to loose now if we don't get up from our sleep, has to do
with everything: food, health, future generations, our whole well being.
Time is another dimension of our life , and youth , yes,
youth can be laid back, (not lazy ), cool, and not so stressed over the
future.The new generation seems that figured all out how to behave and go for it's share.
In a sunny summer day ,on my way to the studio, listening
to a pianist playing on an electronic piano ,the main musical theme from the
old movie " Zorba The Greek" (with Anthony Quinn ), while I was
carrying to my studio ,in a ceramic pot ,a beautiful sunflower , I finally got
it: Life is Beautiful!!!Why spoil it with endless worries of artificial things?
Today I will just listen to the soft part of my mind , enjoy good music ,
admire my beautiful sunflower and my bright orchids, , will only watch happy
birds nesting around on the crevices of old brick walls, in a balmy +28C , here
in Toronto!!
"Elephant Dub" Acrylic on Canvas 50"x90" by Bianka Guna(backgound )
Yes , and what about some chocolate in my
ginger lemon tea!!!!
Atta Girl!!!
