I feel I am on repeat...
If I come to you with the weather conditions, describing the dull grey skies which decided to stay in that condition forever, you would say I am saying it over and over again. I don't even remember when it was sunny. Clouds, rain, clouds, Sahara sand, clouds, rain, rain, more rain, clouds, again sand... A never-ending circle of weather conditions conspired against my walks. How can I bring again sun to this place? To the Wednesday Walk community? When? But not just that is why I feel I am on the repeat, there is something else too...
You guess already, right? Instead of spending some days in a normal way, when the migraine visits me, those are just days in survival mode. Who would think of walks or anything "normal" when you are searching the mode to get throughout the day somehow. If I could only choose to live without it... but that option is not available in the variety of choices one can make. It is just my best and the most loyal companion thorough my life. However, it would be great to see the world through someone else's eyes in those moments. Go to other places, even if those places come to life in paintings.
I could also change my appearance, culture, age, mindset... I could be younger again, have playful eyes. No wrinkles either. I could hide or just observe. Wait for someone. Be shy or cheeky, it doesn't matter. Through someone else's eyes, I could feel another experience, in different places across our planet at the same time.
Yes, some of these eyes could be my windows to the world that Julia Serrano, Pepa Vázquez, María José Kaspers, Pepi Martínez, Carmela García, Olga Reinoso, Bippan Norberg, Manuela Gómez created in their pictures. The exposition of their work took place last year in November, in our local Cultural Center. It is the path where my and your mind can walk and imagine visiting for real the next places.
Let us see some fields, a sight that is bringing joy just remembering how my childhood was. Growing up between fertile land, this was the landscape that I was used to observing. But longing for mountains was not strange either. If we went on a journey, where I would see mountains and hills, I felt excited. What is this? Why the land is not flat? Seeing the sea for the first time was probably an awesome experience, but I do not remember it. I was too small and those memories are in the storage I can not reach now. They are hidden from my consciousness. Let us walk to the next destination...
We are walking again in some of my childhood memories. Poppies, a lot of them. I remember fields full of them, raising their red hats above the grain. As an ornament that gives an even more beautiful look to a rich field, one late summer afternoon.
Living by the sea came later in my life. I do see it through my own eyes too, however, it is good to see this image through these, someone else's eyes. The reality would be anyway just sea mixed with mud, all the mud that came from the flooded area that the river brought to the sea.
I would not skip visiting some smaller villages here in Spain on this walk. They have some special charm. Mostly narrow streets, stone houses to give a pleasant time during the summer heat. Once back in time, they knew how to build homes efficiently. Small squares could not miss either, where would the local people gather and have some stories to share. Or it was just a starting point to take a walk, as we are doing now?
Let's walk now to some bigger cities, Madrid and Lisboa. One is already visited by me, that was Madrid. A great time we had and I would visit it again and again. Not being able to do it right now, I have to be satisfied with viewing it through this exposition, walking in my still fresh memories.
However, Lisboa is just on the bucket list. It will maybe come one day to me or better said, I would have to go there in case I would like to have my feet on its pavements. To feel that charming place first hand. Seeing it with my eyes. Until then, we walked and observed the word and its corners through someone else's eyes.
It was a bit different #WednesdayWalk, but still, I hope you enjoyed taking it with me.
