What a Month Holds
June. It's hard to believe it is nearly over already--we are almost a whole halfway through the year! Amazing where time goes...Amazing what we do with it.
I am learning to stay put again and find it does not come easily...particularly when it does involve going back of a sort. Back to the home of my family, back to a country I have known for so many years and lived in for only a part of.
Back to traditions which have no place in today, but hold tight regardless. Traditions not cultural, but more those of habit within one's self, one's family, and one's community.
How hard it is to allow for change!
But they come along anyways...
This last while has been busy, and internet has been down til now...
The basement flat my sisters and I share flooded, and the ruin of it all... what can be salvaged? What can I bear to toss away, to allow to be lost forever? I hate to think what it must be like for people whose entire home is destroyed by such whims of weather.
And weather we have had here! High winds that knocked down trees all across the city and moved people's cars around... Huge balls of hail crashing on the gardens, on the red tiled roofs... Rain--so much rain!
But sun as well. I biked the other day out of the city to a lake (only about 20km) and spent the day there with my youngest sister, biking back. How burnt we were from that adventure! It was so hot I expected sunstroke anytime... but today is so cool I wear long sleeves and still shiver with cold.
I have been in one country for two weeks now with no moving around in that country.
And I'm discovering that perhaps one of the reasons to be insistently busy is just to distract oneself from the one thing you can never leave behind.
Yourself.
posted by Lada @ 12:38 PM
1 Comments:
It is interesting to me to read a reluctance to part with traditions and then lament the loss of material things some of which only hold sentimental value. Isn't there a similarity between changing traditions and losing things of value? jgh
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