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"I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying. Suddenly, to see that the world was so large, the cosmos so black. The unbounded fascination of it, the unbounded loneliness… For the first time, these days, I was touching it with these hands, these eyes. I’ve been looking at the world half-blind, I thought."
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Ear stucked in the window of a small village closed bakery at 5AM. The baker was listening to the radio and it smelled wonderful. Birds were waking up.
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This Week
- I listed the perfumes I tried so far as I cross the perfume department on my way to the supermarket to buy groceries. That’s glamour.
- I had a morning as dense as chocolate.
- I heard the bell tower call 5:30AM when I was exactly passing by a church. I then heard it call 8:00AM from a strange bed.
- I celebrated Sant Joan, or the summer solstice, with a big amazing family of mine.
- I heard a young-looking 84 year old talk civil war stories, one compromising the life of someone I never got to meet that holds the key to my actual happiness.
- I struggled to understand, an ongoing battle.
- I stuck my ear to a window of a closed bakery at 5AM. The baker was listening to the radio and it smelled wonderful. I thought video didn’t kill the radio star.
- I felt insecure surrounded by crazy kids and adults firing fireworks with no fear. I fired my fear away and found the craziest were the ones standing aside.
- I found myself alone in a 4-story village house with my personal magician.
- Death scared me.
- We cooked coca de recapte, lasagna, orxata and a stunning brunch.
- I cleaned the floor of a bar full of vintage vinyls, gin-tonic in hand.
- I remembered how much I used to love the Orisinal games by Ferry Halim.
- I ate strawberries directly from a plant under a fig tree.
- I climbed the fig tree.
- I met a 4 year old girl with whom I almost share my name (except for one letter). She showed me her car and her scooter.
- I saw people eat raw sausage.
- I meditated.
- A fireman told me he just received a report from NASA of the weather to come in the next 6 months.
- I saw Robots again, and laughed at the same jokes.
- I ate nachos with friends.
- I received a present: lettuces, carrots, onions and a homemade oil for knocks made from verbena flowers.
- I had breakfast delivered to my bed.
- I worked hard.
- I watched images from the north and south poles, and it was hot!
- I didn’t sleep much.
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Professor Philip Zimbardo talks about the revolution in the perspective of Time. Different cultures, countries and even cities have different life paces. I’m past positive and present hedonistic, not sure what measure of each. What do you think you are?
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This weekend
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless”. Bill Watterson
- I deleted friday.
- I played golf in the living room. And lost.
- I bought sexy stockings.
- I played under the rain laughing a bottle of wine out.
- N called me on saturday and we had a long talk about starting relationships. A kidnapped me on sunday and we had a long talk about ending them.
- I celebrated my one-year marriage, although the celebration has been in fact daily since way before.
- I crossed the city vertically on the back seat of a motorcycle.
- I had a walk in a dreamy crafty market with L and met N there.
- I exchanged sleep for sun.
- I watched Annie Hall, again, and loved it. Again.
- I met S by chance and confirmed my innocent ruddiness about introducing people.
- I felt like girls just wanna have fun and let a drunk Q fly me on the dance floor.
- I saw loved people excited about being able to finally and at least, give an official opinion about the future of their country.
- I ate and enjoyed chocolate “xurros”, rice with foie and jabugo, emerald from bronte pistachio ice-cream, carpaccio, carrot-apple-ginger juice, the best cupcake ever and so much seafood as to produce a whole new stop-motion version of the little mermaid.
- I loved so much I could die.
- I travelled to the North and South Poles with my now more than official travel mate, A.
- I had conversations with strangers about bakeries, stickers and abandoned cellphones.
- I felt euphoric about my addiction to sensations and experiences.
- I thought I can, and could.
- I felt I’m back to me.
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Streets of Barcelona the day Barça won the 2009/10 league.
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A cocktail with a magic in it’s name is a must-try. Yum.
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