Nice day

If I were part of the Government, I think some people would have a very tough time with me. There were fireworks last night until 11pm. I would have understood it's somebody's birthday and they have some fun at 9pm for 5 minutes, but it all started at 7 and every half an hour, we had a lot, all coming from different directions, so they were definitely involving several groups. If I could catch them . . .

But after that I must say I slept like a stone. It was raining a bit this morning but then it opened up and it is actually pretty warm, only wearing a T-shirt in the house with no heating. Well I must say my craft room is South so the sun is currently baking me and it is soooo nice.

There are some topics i am incredibly interested in and they all turn around Psychology and Criminal Psychology. I watch a channel called C.I. ( Criminal Investigation ) and sometimes when you think the movies or series exaggerate a bit their murder cases, I don't think they do. I have watched unbelievable things, of course they are all true stories, and this morning it was the case of a woman who poisoned her 2 husbands, then when the police started have some suspicions on her, she poisoned her 17 years old daughter and made up a confession letter saying she had killed both her dad and step dad. It was a miracle but the daughter survived, so the mother ended up in jail.
How about having the beginning of your life completely messed up ?

We then went to the park. I couldn't take many pictures because the gardener was on his tractor cutting the grass. With Rhea obeying so well, I didn't want to have her ending up below the truck so I needed to keep a close eye on her. This is the only picture I took. I could take pictures of this tree for ever. It looks like gold now.

Last night I got an email from the swimming Pool lady, asking me where I had left the cheque, because she couldn't find it. Oops, well, she couldn't have, it was still in my handbag. I need to buy a new brain one of these days !



Project 365+1 - Day 318 : Nostalgic

Our friend Google says :

Nostalgia :
- A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
- The condition of being homesick, homesickness
- describes a sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with
happy personal associations

To me, that's a very difficult word to interpret as if I rely on this definition, then I am the opposite of a nostalgic person.  I wouldn't like being 18 again,  I am not homesick,
I appreciate nice moments from the past but I don't long for them to come back.
I am just happy standing on my own feet here and now.

If you are into this kind of reading, there is a beautiful book from Eckart Tolle called 
The power of now . Dennis and I read it when we were in Borneo in 2003. We had just come back to the hotel after climbing the Mount Kinabalu. Our bodies needed a serious rest and our minds were in a very special high. I had taken this book with me and we both swallowed it in a couple of hours. It's one of the most inspirational books we ever read, because it applied so well to what we just had done. But that will be a story for another time.

I see this type of Nostalgia as a very traitorous feeling because it kind of prevents people from being happy or working out difficult situations in the present, by keeping them stuck in the past.  It's like wishing not to be old and get wrinkles. Each age is fascinating and we need to take what comes and do our best out of it.

I think in France, we might have distorded the meaning of the word, but it appears to me that Nostalgia is much more the enjoyment of looking back at something nice that happened in the past, but without the bitterness associated to it. That's what I will base my photo on ( or I wouldn't have one for today ). 

This photo was take in 2003 in our park. David was 10, Sophie 6 and a bit and Rhea only 7 months. Bubbles wasn't to be born for another 2 and a half years. It is our 1st family photo, the first time the children felt confident enough that we all appear in the same small space ( it took them a year ), so it's a very important one. 

It hangs in our living room and my plan is that in 2013, 10 years later, we will take the same photo, in the same spot, with all of us older and now including Bubbles.

Take care everybody, xxx