photo: Pohara, Tata beach
Archives par mot-clé : sun
#4196 Simple news
photo : Matai river, at 8 am. bliss
After a shaky start to the summer, the fine weather has settled in since the beginning of February. With climate change and La Niña contributing, the sea temperature of twenty degrees and above is still too high for me, and even though the children are back at school and the beach is quieter, I do not feel like going there. I go to the Matai River, at a place called « Dennes Hole, » where the water temperature is between fourteen and sixteen degrees in the morning. I go there first thing to enjoy the cooler water, which depends on the night’s temperature and warms up quickly. This is the view I have while dipping into the water in the silence of the morning, as the sun filters through the leaves.
#4153 If I had… a god
photo: Pohara, Golden Bay
If I had a god
it would be the sun…
I would thank him in the morning
for my hands warming
I would pray him in the evening
to return the the following morning
I would worry about his absence
and would ask him to come back
but not to burn my daily bread
I would write poems to praise him
while warming myself under his rays
#4220 poetry
photo : daily life along the tourists in Chefchaouen, Morocco
the night would fall, but not yet
for now the air was cool
and the light was sneaking in between
the story of the stones to protect
the children who were playing
#4143 selfportrait *
I prefer to swim in winter, first because the water temperature (around 10 degrees) produces a lot of endorphins after my swims, and secondly because I am often alone. I can then completely soak up the beauty of the place, the sound of the waves, the warmth of the sun on my face, while the rest of my body is numb from the cold. But even when I’m not alone, I like to be on the beach in winter because every walker gives off a sense of completeness, as if everyone is thinking: « how lucky to be here today ».
*as always, inspired by Edouard Leve