A Summer Morning
As I sit down to write this morning, my mind feels like a nervous butterfly excited to see all of the flowers, not knowing which one to alight on first.
So much has been happening on our little side of the island: overfull online courses, overlong visa applications, and overloud vuvuzelas punctuating the sentences of our days. When we get a moment, G and I haul out for a coffee, a nibble by the sea, sometimes a relaxing hour or two on the beach. We talk to each other, we spend time with neighbors, we try to soak up what we can of this, possibly our last, summer in Greece for a while.
Outside our garden is growing into a small forest. Just the tomato vines alone resemble small trees, and the fresh tomatoes that are finally ripening, drip juicily down our chins when we pluck them and bite into their warm fleshiness. The cucumber bushes migrate over the ground on small feet and continue to produce more cucumbers than we could possibly eat, and the pepper plants put forth enough little offerings that we are constantly bagging up these goodies and presenting them to those we know. Life is fecund. Life is abundant.
Gazing through my French doors onto the back veranda and the flower garden beyond, my eyes fall on pools of green dappled light, a gift from the fig trees.
Over the past weeks and days, I have had more than my fair share of ideas to share with you. Posts that excite me and I feel would excite you, too. They will come. In their time.
But not this morning.
This morning is about you and me sitting and being.
Look out your window this morning.
Tell me what you see.
I would love to know.
With joy,
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This is really beautiful, CG. On many different levels…simply beautiful.
It’s dark as I write this, so there’s not really anything to be seen outside my window right now. However, I can hear the ducks starting to wake up (there’s a duck family that lives in the courtyard of my apartments), the sprinklers watering the lawn, and the community dryers running from someone’s early start to the day’s chores. I know that the sun is rising to the east, and will be brightening the sky very soon, and that the moon is setting to the west, on it’s way to light the night of loved ones on the other side of the planet.
I know that it’s beautiful out there, outside my window, just as it is beautiful outside yours.
Enjoy the moon.
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I could hear the ducks quacking and the sprinklers and the dryer. Thank you for bringing me to your morning; I felt like I was there. It is morning again as I write to you, so I will say to you, “Enjoy your moon and stars.” x
Carla what a vivid picture you paint. It’s like I’m actually there. Such beautiful use of words and imagery.
For me I see the future dawning out my window. The winds of change and the promise of brighter times calling. That and abundance as I look out onto open countryside. Life in full bloom and vivacious colour paying glorious homage to Mother Nature and Father Time. I see Summer but I feel a sense of forever. All is well indeed!
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Ooo, I love this: “I see summer, but I feel a sense of forever.” Timeless beauty indeed. You shared this wonderfully, John. Am looking forward to seeing where the winds of change blow you.
I see so much color my eyes can barely take it all in. We’ve had abundant rain here this summer, so the lawns are lush and the garden is a tumbling sprawl of vines and blossoms. No tomatoes here yet for about a month
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How wonderful that the view out your window is colorful and vibrant: just one more reason I love rain. Do you have any photos of this lushness?
Oh Lol Carla…Jay so does not know the sun is going is going to rise because my view is across from his..and I was just going to say:
Please may I look out my window later so I may describe to you the magnificent view I normally see..Because right now we are in June gloom..a heavy fog settles in the morning and stays until late afternoon/sometimes all day for days on end…
So, today it is completely gray outside, and I’ve just told my son perhaps it is our job today to put some color out there:)
I will focus now…through the grayness..I actually love this time of day here..it’s early morning so my harbor is still. the water is still, the air is still, the harbor is yet to feel the daily bustle. When I have the pleasure of experiencing this time of day, I truly feel in this stillness that anything is possibel. I also notice the beauty of all around me..boats tucked into their slips, the world stretching as it wakes..the day holds promise…it is my choice to see past the gray to all that I know and love….
And like John mentioned, I too see my future opening past my beloved horizon and all that I know to far more spectacular than I can fathom….
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I love the morning that you described, Joy. Most especially the stillness, the stillness that only seems to come in the morning on the cusp of dawn when everything is a promise. You shared your view with me beautifully and filled my heart with joy and gratitude for it. Thank you for this … Now I’ll await with you the beautiful future that’s about to dawn on your horizon.
You really have a wonderful writing ability that takes me into your world. I feel like I’m a ladybug on your wall observing and being there too.
I completely feel the challenge in deciding to leave Greece, it looks like heaven from my view over here. I have never been, but I feel like I have.
When I look out my front window I see a concrete street with houses and cars. I usually prefer to look out my back window where I see my electric garden that I’m trying to grow. the green grass, blue sky, roses, blueberries, oranges, and the park behind the yard. – but right now, I see your view. Thank you for painting such an inspiring picture.
Thank you for your kind, kind words, Aileen … and for understanding the bittersweetness of this move we are making.
I would love to see your electric garden with all those myriad colors and plants and fruits. It sounds gorgeous! Soak it up all you can.
You truly understand and live a life of abundance. Outside my window you would find bunnies and squirrels as they scamper through the freshness of the morning. You would see hanging baskets of purple and pink flowers that over flow and reach to the ground. You would find a red rose bush on one side of the garden and a yellow rose bush on the other side. You would see the shade of the morning provided by two trees that stand four stories tall, one covered by more ivy that you can imagine. You would see much of what you see and that is an abundant life.
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Oh, what a beautiful, vivid picture you paint, Mark. The bunnies, the squirrels, the purple and pink and yellow and red of bloom, the green of the strong trees — thank you. You are truly surrounded by life and abundance. It’s no wonder you can write as you do.
Carla,
I love your posts. I feel so close to Greece when you write. I can taste the peppers and the tomatoes…mmm…such fond memories of my summers in Greece when I was a girl. Sitting in a taverna eating foods served family style, and laying on the beautiful beaches overlooking that gorgeous ocean. Thank you for bringing these memories back to me.
I will be so sad to see you leave there….
xxxooo
Angela
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Angela, thank you for understanding, intuiting how we feel. This move is so hard: we know that Oz has what we need at this time, but there is so much here that feeds us on a regular basis (literally). ‘Tis a bittersweet summer.
You are so present, Carla. That’s a wonderful way to be. I agree with Angela. I feel like I visit Greece every time you write. My view is dark too. The night before Canada Day, a time when my city (the capital of the country) comes alive with people, colour, music and joy. I shall take the day off tomorrow and enjoy some time with friends. My view will encompass my backyard, my neighbourhood and my country.
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As I write this morning, it is now Canada Day (or will be soon) and you have a day of fun and friendship ahead of you. I hope it’s everything you want for it to be … and then some. Abundant in every way.
Thank you, too, for your kind words about my own words. x
Thanks for that peek into your world. Beautiful and a wee bit bittersweet right now it seems. I love that you can take a breath and just be with it all.
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Hi, CC. It is bittersweet. I hope that your weekend included some breathing and just being. x
I think my bird post, up and flew the coop
Therefore, we’ll leave this post at that
and let me wonder what’s the scoop
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This is a beautiful post. I felt like I was right there with you and your garden sounds lovely as does the way you are living fully in these last moments (potentially) you will have this summer. What a truly beautiful post and scene you describe. Now I have another place to add to my travel list if the entire place is as lovely as your garden sounds.
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Thank you, TE. I’ve missed you since you’ve been away!