We really are experiencing a wickedly busy couple of weeks. Since Monday was a holiday, I thought well of it to take Sarah away. Well, out of Miami, anyway!Pretending to take her for a morning on Hollywood's pretty beaches, I booked us into a beachfront hotel and surprised her by picking up our room key instead of going to the car when we left.
Hollywood is the town on the Northern border of Miami-Dade County - Miami. It's mostly a retirement town, but there's beautiful oceanfront beachwalks and it was really, really good just to spend some time together, away. Change is as good as a holiday, right?
One evening we happened upon a strange little shop and had a wonderful talk with
the owner, a half-Opi Indian from Arizona. He was explaining Nature's rules to us, seen through his culture and highlighted with colorful animal tales. He said we should look and listen more, that we could learn much from Nature. Very similar to the tales of an old Xhosa man I had the privilege of conversing with one cold night outside of Umtata on one of my last Transkei-trips.
Aaah, the old memories. There's a life one sometimes long for, made from shards of old memory, an impossible life, thought full of adventure and ancient excitement.
Pascal wrote: " None of us are ever really living, but instead hope to live, and whilst we are always preparing to be happy, it is certain, we never shall be so, if we aspire to no other happiness than what can be enjoyed in this life."
Our future excites me.
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